Two Japanese Men Caught at Swiss Border With $134.5 Billion in U.S. Bonds

http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15456&size=A ^

[Cementjungle]

The main difference though is that 65 years ago the world was involved in a bloody war, which is not the case today.

Obama's fixin' to correct that situation.

[Diggity]

Japan has stockpiled enough enriched uranium to make approx 1000 Nukes

[advance_copy]

When I first saw this story, I didn’t pay much attention to it. After reading some of the thread and linked in news articles, I’m starting to think it could be HUGH and SERIES.

[smokingfrog]

G8 Finance Ministers meeting in Italy.

coincidence?

Geitner meeting with Japan/Russia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSN1151467420090611

The finance ministers' session will aim to set an agenda for a July 8-10 gathering of political chiefs in Italy, where U.S. President Barack Obama will join other world leaders.

Russia said on Wednesday it would reduce the share of U.S. Treasuries in its reserves and buy bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund.

[justa-hairyape]

My guess is that they paid off the usual suspects within the Italian government, but got screwed by another faction within the Italian government. Happens all the time. One government departments says okay, another government department says not okay. Besides, the Italian government gets a large percentage of that confiscated bondage if it is real. That motive is very clear.

[Trajan88]

What does a "US Federal Reserve bonds worth US$ 500 million each" look like? Can I fold 3 or 4 up for walking around money?

If so, that would be cool... to think how impressed the ladies would be here in Dallas ;-)

[Kevmo]

This will be easy to cover up. The owner of the $ will just send a few thousand $ to Snopes.com and push out the cover story that this is an urban legend.

[MaxMax]

Knock Knock,
Who's there?
Two Japanese Men Caught at Swiss Border With $134.5 Billion in U.S. Bonds

[truemiester]

THOSE ARE MINE!

I had them in the backseat of 1988 toyota tercel. When I left the ‘Fall and Crawl” tavern, I noticed the back windows smashed out. I did not think anything of it then. When I sobered up, about 20 miles down the road, I though WTF! Where is my Billions of dollars in bonds?!?

(So, do I fill out fo form or somthing to get them back, or what?)

[Rocky]

No, they’re mine. I had them stuffed in a mattress. My daughter threw it out and surprised me with a new mattress.

Where do I go to reclaim them?

[dersepp]

Hmmm. Maybe Don Johnson should have tried to help...

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139648,00.html

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Do they have the full delivery package?
As I said, I would doubt if they did NOT have nuke capability, or at least all the parts that just need to be assembled.

[Malesherbes]

Not mentioned in the article is that they also had 500 copies of BO’s birth certificate.

[ModelBreaker]

I agree the whole thing stinks. But if it were a nation-state with an embassy in Switzerland, why send the money across two borders in suitcases? Diplomatic pounch works a lot better.

So the candidates are: (1) nations without swiss embassies; (2) bad guys. We may get an answer. But we will probably never know the real answer.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I agree, the diplomatic pouch makes more sense. The only reason I can think of not using that means (if it were Japan that set this in motion), was the logic that if they got caught, they'd rather it be two people that would take the fall as “rogues” and that would exonerate Japan.

Let's hope this is the far-reaching of my overly active imagination and that Japan was not behind this. If they are, it spells something ominous.

[mad_as_he$$]

Or someone moving money out of the US.

[mad_as_he$$]

Goobermints move this stuff in diplomatic pouches, no risk.

[mad_as_he$$]

I've impressed vary good looking ladies in Dallas with a $50.

[GOPJ]

The fear of counterfeit bonds and securities has spread across Asia with the result that real securities are also considered with suspicion.

Doesn't this have an odd feel to it?

[GOPJ]

Are the Japanese dumping our debt? What’s going on here?