Everything suggests that the American bonds seized at Chiasso are real

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Official U.S. sources continue to say they are fakes, but there is no news that American experts have inspected them in person. Arrested for another matter, the director of a U.S. radio who says the bonds are real and Japan was trying to sell in Switzerland, not trusting the ability of the United States to honour its debt.

Milan (AsiaNews) – Four weeks have passed since American bonds were confiscated from two Japanese men who were travelling on a direct train to Chiasso, Switzerland, and while there has been clarification of some - very few -points, Italian authorities have remained silent on the rest of the episode.
 In addition, a strange coincidence in the timing of the arrest of a director of an internet radio who had made revelations regarding the incident ,increases the already strong oddities surrounding the case. This added to the revaluation of the fact that among the evidence seized there were "Kennedy Bonds", all points toward the authenticity of the items seized by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF) in early June.  
The major English-speaking newspapers ignored the story for a couple of weeks. They only started to report on it after the Bloomberg agency carried a story on  18 / 6, in which a spokesman for the Treasury, Meyerhardt, declared that the bonds, based on photos available on the Internet, were "clearly false." The same day, the Financial Times (FT) published an article whose title laid the blame for the (alleged) infringement at the feet of the Italian Mafia, despite the fact that the article failed to make even one possible connection with the episode in Chiasso. Nevertheless, the version of events as reported in FT was taken up by others as being "appropriate" (given that it is a very common cliché about Italy and it is a sequester that took place in Italy) and in the end "colourful." It’s a pity that it goes against all logic: that the Mafia tried to pass unnoticed in its attempt to dump fake bonds amounting to 134.5 billion dollars and moreover were to "stung" a mere step from their gaol,  is not very credible.
Most recently last week, 25 / 6, the New York Times reported on the story in particular, the allegations of CIA spokesman, Darrin Blackford: the U.S. Secret Service carried out inspections, as required by the Italian judiciary, and found that they were fictitious financial instruments, never issued by the “U.S. government”.  It is not clear, however, how the checks mentioned by Blackford were carried out and whether they were also are carried out via internet. In fact according to official Italian sources  the Commission of American experts, expected in Italy, have yet to arrive. Furthermore, the bonds were accompanied by a recent and original bank record. It is therefore unclear how the U.S. authorities can declare fake documentation that does not originate from the Fed or the U.S. Department of Treasury.
On the contrary, claims in support of the bond’s authenticity were made 20 / 6  on the Turner Radio Network (TRN), an independent radio station broadcast via Internet. On that date in a massive exposure, TRN stated that the two Japanese men arrested by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF) and then released in Ponte Chiasso were employees of the Japanese Ministry for Treasury. AsiaNews had also received similar reports: one of the two Japanese arrested in Chiasso and then released is Tuneo Yamauchi, is the brother of Toshiro Muto, until recently vice governor of the Bank of Japan. On its website, the creator and presenter of the Radio, Hal Turner, had also claimed that his sources had revealed that the Italian authorities believe the evidence to be authentic and that the two Japanese officials are from the Japanese Ministry for Finance. They were supposed to bring the bonds to Switzerland because the Japanese government had apparently lost confidence in U.S. ability to repay its debt. Japanese financial authorities therefore were trying to sell a part of the securities in their possession through parallel channels ahead of an imminent financial disaster, thanks to the  anonymity which, Turner said, is guaranteed by the laws of Switzerland.  

AsiaNews does not know to what extent Turner’s revelations can be held as credible, given that in this case too, it is difficult to believe that $ 134.5 billion would pass unnoticed anywhere in the world. It seems far more logical to assume that the bonds, if authentic, were directed to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, BIS, the central bank of central banks ahead of the issuance of securities in a new supranational currency. Turner had in any event added that as evidence to support his revelations he would have provided the serial numbers of the seized bonds. Before he could do so, however, was imprisoned. Hal Turner is the journalist who long ago first broke the news of a secret plan to replace the dollar, after a severe financial crisis, with a common North American currency, the Amero. In a dramatic phone call from inside the prison in which he is detained pending trial, relayed via internet, Hal Turner claims that his arrest is political and it is in relation to the securities seized in Chiasso, because the authorities are terrified by his revelations of the bonds’ authenticity. Of course, the allegations made against him have to nothing to do with the story and thus an already intricate story becomes ever more complex. Turner maintains that he did not personally formulate the disclosure for which he has been imprisoned. Although it was clearly his responsibility to remain vigilant, it is also true that blogs from around the world and the U.S. themselves are full of threats and provocations. The coincidental timing, the unusual diligence and the details of his arrest arouse  suspicions about the true motives of the American federal police. Indeed, this very arrest suggests that the evidence seized from GdF are truly authentic.
One more element in favour of the bond’s authenticity is found in the securities, which in the June 4 statement, the GdF termed "Kennedy Bonds” with photos provided. These photos reveal that the securities under discussion are not bonds but Treasury Notes, because they are securities that can be immediately exchanged for their worth in goods or services and because they are devoid of interest coupons. One side carries a reproduction of the image of the American president, the reverse side that of a spaceship. From confidential, usually well-informed sources, AsiaNews has learned that this type of paper money was issued less than ten years ago (in 1998), although it is difficult to know whether those seized in Chiasso are authentic. But the fact that the release of this particular State Treasury was not completely in the public domain tends to exclude the possibility of counterfeiting. It highly unreasonable to suppose that a forger would reproduce a State Treasury not commonly in circulation and of which there is no public knowledge. For this reason, it can be concluded that the 124.5 billion dollars divided in 249 bonds of 500 million each are authentic. These titles, although referred to as "Federal Reserve Notes" are actually bonds, because they accrue interest and are redeemable at maturity. But one question remains unsolved regarding them. It is somewhat hard to understand why the securities, which were from the outset indistinguishable from the original to the GdF, all have their coupons. Any ordinary investor, even a state, would have cashed in the interest coupon every year, so as not to lose purchasing power.

A SURGE IN ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS…

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This is a strange story, and many people sent various versions of it, so I decided to blog about it, because as one might expect, I have a rather different high octane speculation "take" to offer than the usual conventional analysis. But let me select two versions of this story, the first shared by Ms. C.V., and the second by Ms. K.M. The story concerns a sudden surge in U.S. $100 dollar notes in circulation:

What In The World Is Happening This Week?

There's been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation, possibly linked to global corruption

Now, you'll note that in the Corbett Report version of the story, the hypothesis is advanced that the only prior time there was such a surge in $100 notes in circulation was prior to 9/11:

That’s right, for those who remember the story of Federal Reserve whistleblower William Bergman, a sharp increase in money supply was something that caught the attention of Fed researchers in the wake of 9/11. When he began looking into that spike, and why the Federal Reserve Board of Governors had issued a non-routine supervisory letter warning Fed banks to be vigilant in monitoring suspicious activity reports in August 2001, he was told that he had committed “an egregious breach of protocol in calling the Board staff and asking the question.” Needless to say, Bergman was eventually ousted from his position.

So there are many possible reasons for the increase in $100 bills, and surely all of them have at least some part to play here, but we have to at least suspect that there may be an even darker cause for this as-yet-unexplained development.

In fact, as the article also points out, there are now more $100 notes in circulation than $1 notes, and that, according to the story, presages some "catalyzing event", i.e., another false flag like 9/11 perhaps.

But then there's the second story, which has a rather different take:

Generally, economists believe the surge is related to people around the world wanting to hoard cash, a similar force that's driven the interest in cryptocurrencies. High denomination, high value currency notes have historically been a preferred form of payment for criminals, given the anonymity, lack of transaction record and relative ease with which they can be brought across borders.

Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, has been down the "rabbit hole of a topic" for more than a decade. He said the growth in $100 bills in circulation is a signal the world is relying on them as a store of value — and still using them for international crime.

In this version people are simply hoarding the notes as a "store of value"; call it the "cash in the mattress" hypothesis. And as the article also points out, large denomination notes are the favored means of transaction of criminals. But there's another possibility: more and more people are waking up to the hideous nature of "surveillance capitalism" and are conducting transactions in cash. Perhaps I am projecting my own behavior here, for like many people, I do shop online and pay by card. But I've tried to curtail this as much as I can, and in local shopping, I have tried to increase my use of cash, have declined enrollment for a "rewards card" at several local businesses, and still pay all bills by check. So I suspect at least some of this increase may be due to more and more people preferring cash as payment.

But there is, I strongly suspect, yet another possibility here, and it's of a very disturbing "high octane" speculative nature. We may call this the "Raymond Reddington" hypothesis, though it might equally be called the "A-Team" or "Operation Bernhard" hypothesis. And what I mean by that is that there have been in television, movies, and books, the theme of actual and official U.S. $100 note plates being in "circulation" and "use" by various independent criminal groups, by "rogue" regimes, and so on. In the well-known American television series Blacklist, the international criminal Raymond Reddington acquires such plates in season three, and promptly turns them over to the government of - here it comes - Venezuela. In the movie The A-Team, such plates were secretly shipped to Iraq by the U.S. government, only to be stolen by an American general for his own purposes. And recently, there was a book by an Italian author (Supernotes, by Agent Kasper and Luigi Carletti), which was one of those "works of fiction" that one has to wonder about, for it has that "feel" of authenticity about it. In the book, an agent for Italian intelligence is contracted by American intelligence to investigate the use of such plates by  - here it comes again - North Korea.  reading the book, I was left with that sickly nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach that the "novel" had the ring of truth to it. After all, it was the Italian Guardia di Finanza police who first apprehended those two Japanese gentlement carrying absurd amounts of bearer bonds into Switzerland from Italy. The Guardia are rumored to be some of the best "finance intelligence" people in the world, so from that point of view, the novel made sense.

I recall also the World War Two Nazi counterfeiting operation known as Operation Bernhard, which I wrote about in my book Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations. As I maintained in that book, Operation Bernhard was essentially a state-sponsored project of very unconventional counterfeiting in the sense that the Nazis attempted - quite successfully as it turned out - to reverse engineer the entire process of the printing of British pound sterling notes.The result in some cases were counterfeit notes that, for all intents and purposes, were genuine to the extent that banks could not distinguish the real ones from the "fake" ones. In essence, the Nazis simple set up the unauthorized production of British pound sterling notes. One would be hard-pressed to argue that a similar process could not be done with the $100 note, given enough time, investment, and technical know-how from "rogue actors", be they nation-states or otherwise.

And there is the final possibility, and it goes once again to my "hidden system of finance" hypothesis, for lurking behind the "Raymond Reddington/A-Team" idea is a disturbing implication and eventuality: that someone, at some time, stole the plates to begin with (and perhaps, using those, replicated more plates). That would require access to them to begin with... just the sort of "covert operation" certain intelligence actors could conceivably pull off. After all, if one was running a hidden system of finance, the easiest and most obvious method to do so would be to set up shop somewhere "unreachable" (like, say, North Korea), and just print the money as needed, and give the North Koreans a share of the cut for doing "business."

The simple and bottom line for the sudden surge of $100 notes in circulation is simply that someone is running the printing presses. The not-so-simple-and-bottom-line is, who is actually doing it, and where? And the answer may be that it is not simply the U.S. Mint doing it.