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My home is the "sanctuary residence" for my firearms.
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/...y-seized-at-border-in-northern-minnesotaU.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized $900,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency discovered last month in a commercial rail shipment crossing the U.S.-Canadian border near International Falls, Minn. The agency announced Saturday that officers flagged a rail container for customs inspection on Dec. 14. "During the examination, CBP discovered 45 cartons of possible counterfeit currency in the form of $1 bills with a total face value of $900,000," the agency said in a news release. Secret Service officials confirmed the money was counterfeit. The shipment originated from China. “CBP officers strive every day to protect the United States from a variety of threats,” said Jason Schmelz, Pembina (N.D.) Area Port Director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Those threats don’t always come in the form of terrorists or narcotics, but also in the form of counterfeit currency and other goods that have the potential to harm the economy of the United States.”
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My wife gonna die if I show her that! Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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So they found *one* shipment. Likely there are several more. This is a direct attack on the U.S. economy, an attempt to devalue our currents in the hopes that trading partners around the globe will drop the dollar as the world's reserve currency and use the Chinese yuan as the world's reserve currency. This would have disastrous consequences for the U.S. economy that you can research on your own if you want to learn more.
Time for U.S. trade barriers against China to increase - substantially. In fact, given the current virus situation, we should stop all Asian imports. The naysayers will whine that would collapse world trade. Of course they said the same thing about President Trump's tariffs against China to begin with..
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It’s kinda concerning how the container made it all that way. It’s no telling what they have smuggled in.
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$900K in ones.................
that's a lot of paper.
Test run to see if they can get some $20 bills in?
Benjamins next?
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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This is an economic Pearl Harbor. And I'm not exaggerating one bit. Time for the U.S. to put our big boy pants on and deal with China the same way we dealt with Japan.
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What kind of idiot counterfeits ONE DOLLAR BILLS?????????? Jerry
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Slumlord: That is funny! He-he. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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They check just about every bill down here over 5 bucks. Run through a machine.
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The ones are easier to pass.
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They check just about every bill down here over 5 bucks. Run through a machine. That might explain why this Chinese attack is using dollar bills. Also, since this attack was likely orchestrated by the Chinese government itself, my guess is the bills are so good it would be extremely difficult to tell the real and the fake dollar apart.
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Those bills probably look fine, but I guarantee they break down when you use them.
@jameslavish
If you work 40 hrs/wk: at 5% inflation and after 5 years, you need a 28% pay raise or to work 44 more hours (*one full extra week* per month+) to make up the difference.
This is inflation
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On the way to the Clinton Money Laundry Service no doubt.
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China is big into this sort of thing, to include fake gold and silver bars and coins, not to mention fake Swiss watches.
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China is big into this sort of thing, to include fake gold and silver bars and coins, not to mention fake Swiss watches. The Chinese make counterfeits of everything from Gucci bags to Muck boots
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What kind of idiot counterfeits ONE DOLLAR BILLS?????????? Jerry
The kind that hangs out at strip clubs?
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