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Italian Town Printing Money for Migrants with Commie Icons
BBC ^ | July 15th, 2016 | Arlene Gregorius

Posted on 07/15/2016 10:49:55 PM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight

In a far corner of southern Italy, transactions in fake currency are not only accepted by local shopkeepers, they are positively encouraged.

The small Calabrian town of Gioiosa Ionica, population 7,000, is currently home to a group of asylum seekers, who are given the imitation bank notes, or "tickets" as they are known, as part of a voucher system.

The refugees can spend the cash on whatever they like, but only in the town, so that local businesses benefit.

Rather than featuring European architectural gems, they bear the likenesses of a collection of communists and leftist leaders - Che Guevara on the fake €10 note, Hugo Chavez on the €20 and Karl Marx on the €50.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: communism; hijrah; italy; migrants; money
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To: jessduntno

Your post reminded me of a line from the movie The Eiger Sanction:

George Kennedy: “He looks like he could change a nine dollar bill in threes.”

Sorta like Obama...


21 posted on 07/16/2016 5:16:10 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: stylin19a

That in a nutshell explains why we are trafficking Third Worlders here to the US; imagine the plethora of vacant homes these areas in Italy must have, as well as the dearth of schoolchildren to keep the government worker caste employed. The wealth transfers from the “central government” (read: taxpayers) are, as Pelosi would say, as good as a job...


22 posted on 07/16/2016 5:18:22 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: stylin19a

I see. The swindle/crash has been postponed for awhile.


23 posted on 07/16/2016 5:25:23 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: stylin19a
"The town hall receives €35 (£29; $39) per asylum seeker per day from the central government in Rome."

Which is why many so-called charitable organizations here in the US are so quick to welcome the refugees.

24 posted on 07/16/2016 5:27:19 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: VanShuyten
“The small Calabrian town of Gioiosa Ionica...” That’s where the Godfather came from, right?

From Corleone, Sicily!

25 posted on 07/16/2016 5:42:55 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: NowApproachingMidnight

Throw in a few rapes and murders of infidels and they’ve got the trifecta for a win-win-win for the town.


26 posted on 07/16/2016 6:22:59 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: NowApproachingMidnight
Wonder what the refugees would think if they knew what Che said about Africans in his diaries.
27 posted on 07/16/2016 7:11:35 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: BBB333

One of my favorite early Clint movies.

“In today’s world, the humor in “The Eiger Sanction” would arouse the ire of the NAACP, NOW, Anti-Defamation League, LGBT community, and any other assortment of political correctness enforcers. A black character named Jemima Brown, played by the late and beautiful Vonetta McGee, is the movie’s double agent and possible femme fatale. When she first meets Hemlock on a plane disguised as a stewardess (they were still called that back then) and introduces herself as “Jemima”, Hemlock responds that he’s “Uncle Ben”. Jemima: “I’m serious, that’s really my name. My mother was hooked on being ethnic”. Hemlock: “Or else turned on by a pancake. As long as we both agree that it’s too much for a black chick to have the name of Jemima.” Jack Cassidy plays the obviously gay Miles Mellough who keeps a small dog named “Faggot”, and of whom it’s said by George Kennedy’s character Ben Bowman: “He looks like he could change a nine dollar bill in threes.” There’s something refreshing – and laugh-out-loud funny – in one-liners from a period when sensibilities weren’t so . . . sensitive.”

http://www.teapartytribune.com/2011/08/08/eastwood-flashback-a-look-at-the-eiger-sanction/

Boy did they ever nail that.


28 posted on 07/16/2016 8:10:45 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: jessduntno

One of my winter favorites to watch.


29 posted on 07/17/2016 4:50:59 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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