The Italian Mystery

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Strange Inconsistencies in the $134.5 Billion Bearer Bond Mystery

“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 dollars 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.”..........

On March 30, 2009, the US Treasury Department announced that USD $134.5 billion remained in its Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP]. The stated amount of seized bearer bonds was $134.5 billion. Coincidence?

At the end of the movie Contact after the James Woods character had seemed to all but destroy the idea that the Jodie Foster character had made an intergalactic trip, he was privately confronted with the fact that the video with Jodie was 4 hours long of recorded static to which he replied,

Now that is interesting isn't it!

Seems his words have application to the above as well!