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Back in the summer of 2009, a peculiar story circulated when two Japanese individuals were arrested trying to smuggle $134 billion in US bonds into Switzerland from Italy. The story quickly died down after it was subsequently reported that the bonds were merely fake bearer bonds. Nobody heard much about it since then. Until today, when out of the blue we get a new story which blows that one out of the water. According to Bloomberg, "Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that’s almost half of the U.S.’s public debt." From here the story just gets weirder: "The bonds were found hidden in makeshift compartments of three safety deposit boxes in Zurich, the prosecutors from the southern city of Potenza said in an e-mailed statement. The Italian authorities arrested eight people in connection with the probe, dubbed “Operation Vulcanica,” the prosecutors said. The U.S. embassy in Rome has examined the securities dated 1934, which had a nominal value of $1 billion apiece, they said in the statement. Officials for the embassy didn’t have an immediate comment." ...And weirder: "The individuals involved were planning to buy plutonium from Nigerian sources, according to phone conversations monitored by the police." ...And really, really weird: "The fraud posed “severe threats” to international financial stability, the prosecutors said in the statement." Ok great, however one thing we don't get is just how can $6 trillion in glaringly fake bombs be a "threat to international financial stability."

More from Bloomberg:

The financial fraud uncovered by the Italian prosecutors in Potenza includes two checks issued through HSBC Holdings Plc in London for 205,000 pounds ($325,000), checks that weren’t backed by available funds, the prosecutors said. As part of the probe, fake bonds for $2 billion were also seized in Rome.

HSBC spokesman Patrick Humphris in London declined to comment when contacted by telephone.

Phony U.S. securities have been seized in Italy before and there were at least three cases in 2009. Italian police seized phony U.S. Treasury bonds with a face value of $116 billion in August of 2009 and $134 billion of similar securities in June of that year.

The U.S. Secret Service averages about 100 cases a year related to bonds and other fictitious instruments.
As a reminder, total US debt in circulation is just over $10 trillion. So if the allegedly "fake" bonds were sufficiently threatening to put international financial stability at risk, just what is going on here?

Some more from the BBC:

US officials confirmed that the bonds were counterfeit.

Fake US securities have been seized in Italy before and there were at least three cases in 2009.

But this case is on a different scale to previous investigations as the fake bonds have a value equivalent to almost half of the entire US debt pile.

"Everything began with an investigation into mafia clans in the Vulture-Melfese area in the southern Basilicata region," said Giovanni Colangelo, the head of the prosecutor's office in Potenza.
Here is what the bonds look like:

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Why Were The Trillions In Fake Bonds Held In Chicago Fed Crates?

While there is precious little in terms of detail coming out of the latest and literally greatest "fake" bond story in history, the BBC has been kind enough to release the pictures of the boxes that the supposedly fake bonds were contained in. While we reserve judgment on the authenticity of the bonds, what we wonder is whether the boxes were also fake. Because while we can understand why someone would counterfeit the Treasury paper itself, what we don't get is why someone would go the extra effort to also create a "fake" compartment in which to store it. In this case a compartment that is property of the "CHICAGO FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM." Perhaps Fed uberdove and Chicago Fed President Charles Evans will be kind enough to explain why Versailles Treaty Chicago Fed crates are floating around in Europe (and filled with $6 trillion in supposedly fake bearer bonds)?

ORIGIN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
The Federal Reserve began on December 23, 1913. President Woodrow Wilson expressed grave concerns about theseriousness and the danger of what had just occurred -- the overthrow of the American economic system by a groupof private bankers.The first major spark to begin World War I occurred the following June, when Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heirto the Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated -- along with his wife.As we revealed in Section Two, World War One had been planned by Guiseppe Mazzini, the head of EuropeanFreemasonry, and Albert Pike, the head of American Freemasonry, back in 1871. Their plans were proudlydisplayed at the National Museum Library in London.In June 1914, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by a nationalistic member of a different country -- Serbia. Then,most likely thanks to press manipulation, the public was whipped up into a frenzy -- and they were told that this wasan act of war.Assassinations are very easy to stage. That appears to have been a key part of how Pike and Mazzini's plan to startWorld War One was realized in practical terms.The outrage from this assassination spread throughout Europe. The controlled press in different countries mostlikely contributed by manipulating their people into taking sides.Germany quickly sided with Austria and Hungary. Germany then declared war on Serbia and her ally, Russia,seeking vengeance for the murder of Archduke Ferdinand.
IT SOON SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL
Germany's declaration of war was on August 1, 1914 -- and very soon afterwards, the whole world began spiralingout of control.Germany invaded Luxembourg, declared war on France and invaded Belgium to have an attack point againstFrance. Britain declared war on Germany in defense -- and even Canada joined the fight.This all occurred in 1914,and the battle raged on until 1919 -- with several other countries getting drawn in alongthe way. Germany was crushed at the end of the war, and the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up to help rebuild theireconomy.By 1921, it was clear that nothing had really changed in the world. The rich still got richer, the poor still got poorer,and no one really "won" the Great War -- as it was called back then.Within the insider circles of the international community, much of the problem was blamed on the gold standard --for the reasons outlined in Adam Smith's
The Wealth of Nations
from 1776.The degree of atrocity that was suffered from the gold standard was sufficient to convince Emperor Hirohito of Japan to travel to the United Kingdom and sign a secret pact, in 1921, to create the Bank of International Settlements(BIS).The BIS was created by the founders of the Federal Reserve, which had started about seven years earlier. We willlearn a lot more about them -- and
read from their own official documents --
in Section Five.The BIS was intended to expand the powers of the Federal Reserve into a truly global reach...
and it worked.
HIROHITO ACCEPTS THE PLAN TO START THE BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS



The plan Hirohito accepted was also secretly agreed to by several other nations in the 1920s. It took time, but aconsensus was reached within less than a decade -- and they eventually went public about their new alliance.Whether voluntarily or involuntarily, all the most significant supplies of gold and silver in the world were turnedover to the Federal Reserve and Bank of International Settlements and "blacklisted" -- that is, taken off-market.The idea was obviously not to destroy all the gold and treasure -- that would be a stupid and needless tragedy.Instead, the various leaders were told they merely had to put all their gold on deposit.
Secret
deposit.Everyone still got to keep their gold -- only the public would be told it was missing, or it had never existed in thefirst place. The Asians certainly hadn't gone public with how much they really had, so that whole story could beeasily kept secret.
BONDS WERE ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THE GOLD
Each country that handed over its gold -- and / or had its gold forcibly taken -- was given certificates of deposit, or
bonds,
in exchange for what they gave up.The bonds were issued by the Federal Reserve, through their various banks in major cities of the United States.These bonds were considered to be as valuable and as redeemable as cash.The problem was that the Federal Reserve printed
vastly, vastly, vastly
more money in these bonds than existed inthe open, honest economy -- trillions upon trillions of dollars' worth, beginning in the 1920s.Remember -- the amount of gold that
actually existed
was much greater than anyone could have ever imagined,since the Asians had kept it all very secret.Had the public found out how much gold there really was, it would have created a massive economic shock. Goldwould have become practically worthless overnight.The world leaders needed to know that the gold they put on deposit was still worth its actual value in conventionaldollars. Otherwise, they would be really pissed off about not getting "fair market value" for what they were"depositing" with the Federal Reserve.
EVERYTHING WAS PACKAGED VERY NICELY -- AND VERY SECURELY
The bonds looked very sexy -- and had huge numbers on them.There were 100,000-dollar gold certificates, million-dollar gold certificates, 100-million-dollar bonds and evenbillion-dollar bonds.That's right. Single sheets of paper were allegedly worth a
billion dollars
in some cases.I am aware of how crazy this sounds, but the intel on this is very good -- including pictures that David and MackieHutzler may have given their lives for us to see.As an investigator, my job is to pass along the information to you. I cannot assume that I know everything, or thatevery piece of data is correct. However, when I have multiple, totally independent sources tell me the exact samethings, I listen.Though there were several different types of storage containers, many of these bonds were put into 8.5x11-sizedboxes carved out of a single piece of durable wood -- about two and a half inches deep, making them almost as bigas a typical ream of 500 sheets of paper.

I then emailed Neil Keenan, the principal in this trillion-dollar lawsuit, with the information. Less than 15 minuteslater, he sent me an avalanche of pictures that looked
exactly the same
as what I had just described -- even though hehad never met my insider.Bear in mind that I'd already been in contact with Keenan for nearly three weeks by this point. There was nopossible way he could have moved fast enough to create fakes that matched what my insider had just described.I never thought I was going to do this, but since there are already two other online sources that have leaked verysimilar images, here are some of the pictures Neil Keenan sent me.
NEIL KEENAN / DRAGON FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS OF BONDS
This is the world debut of these photographs -- exactly as they were sent to me, a mere 15 minutes after I wrote Neiland told him what my insider said they should look like.I was absolutely shocked at how perfectly they fit the description. Many of these images are larger than they appear,so you can save them to your computer and zoom in on them with various programs.

Benjamin Fulford February 20, 2012 - A March 31 Deadline By The Gnostic "Illuminati" Faction

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as a result of this 6trillion confiscation all these

monies have been written off the global financial books

more major arrest including members of the

freemasonic P2 monte carlo lodge and other major

bankers further more arrests happening right now..

vatican members/bankers implicated and imminent

arrests of these to come

enjoy the show

bodhisattva