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Coldfinger
Mountain climber
Bethany, CT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 21, 2009 - 06:58pm PT
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Seriously off-topic, but has anyone heard any updates on the two Japanese men arrested by Italian police while attempting to cross border into Switzerland on June 17 with $124 billion in U.S. securities in a false bottom suitcase??? I don't think this is an internet rumor, as it appeared in "Truthout" with a link back to its source in Bromberg's Business News. This is a pretty wierd story, given that the U.S. is essentially bankrupt and the economy kept floating on loans from the Chinese, Russians and Saudi's (among others)and the future tax receipts of all of us. I have heard nothing else of this since it's posting last week.
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scabang
climber
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Jun 21, 2009 - 08:03pm PT
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Small potatoes! Zimbabwe introduced a $100 trillion dollar note which was the equivalent to US $300. A loaf of bread cost Z$300 billion! But Mugabe 's wife Sally does not bat an eyelid when she nonchalantly 'takes' US$80 000 with her on a shopping spree in Italy (Christ knows how many zeroes that amounts to!). To be fair they dropped 12 zeroes from their currency in Feb '09. But the tyrant is still in power albeit in a coalition government.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Jun 21, 2009 - 08:46pm PT
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scabang, unfortunately Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) is old, forgotten news. Kinda like Sudan, Somalia and the rest of Africa.
it sucks....
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 21, 2009 - 08:49pm PT
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Aren't enormous and unaccounted-for quantities of currency usually found together with Republican contractors in Iraq?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Jun 21, 2009 - 09:12pm PT
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yeah, they were probably Republicans, MH...musta been.
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