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City of Sheboygan Unemployment 12.7%

Tour of America’s Dairyland  will bring bike racing to Sheboygan Thursday.

The good people of Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin celebrate their independence by marching through the Village Square.

Do Not Panic! This is not LIVE!!!

The rough winter has dampened the Villager’s spirits and it is unlikely that they will declare their independence until the Fifth of July this year.

Truckloads of beer, bratwurst, cheese, cigarettes and even hard liquor have been stockpiled in the region and people that looked like they were with a band have been spotted at local watering holes. One thing is for certain, July Fifth is Independence Day!

Goldfinger and Bond

Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge: William Pesek
June 17 (Bloomberg) — It’s a plot better suited for a John Le Carre novel.

Two Japanese men are detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. Details are maddeningly sketchy, so naturally the global rumor mill is kicking into high gear.

Are these would-be smugglers agents of Kim Jong Il stashing North Korea’s cash in a Swiss vault? Bagmen for Nigerian Internet scammers? Was the money meant for terrorists looking to buy nuclear warheads? Is Japan dumping its dollars secretly? Are the bonds real or counterfeit?

Read the rest of Williams piece on this very real news story over at Bloomberg

offshoreinn.com runs with William’s story and adds the following tidbits.

1. According the Dow Jones Business News, “An official at Japan’s Consulate General in Milan said Tuesday that Italy was still investigating the case, adding it wasn’t confirmed that the two men are Japanese.”So are the alleged smugglers/counterfeiters Japanese or aren’t they? And if they aren’t, why did the press reports say they were?According to Dow Jones, the Japanese have “sent a letter asking for further information to the Italian tax police as well as prosecutors.” But why the delay?

1. A breaking report from Joe Weisenthal at The Business Insider, snatched from Japanese TV, says the “Japanese” bond smugglers are now missing. If this was a simple case of counterfeiting (albeit the biggest in history), it’s highly unlikely the Italian and US authorities would have let the men carrying the bonds simply slip off into the night…
2. The amount seized should ring alarm bells. On March 30 2009, the Treasury Department announced that $134.5 billion remained in the TARP. The stated amount of seized bearer bonds was $134.5 billion.
3. According to JS Kim of investment research company SmartKnowledgeU, “The two well-dressed Japanese men opted to travel to Chiasso on a local train normally full of Italian manual laborers commuting to Switzerland. If they were really intent on successfully smuggling these bonds, counterfeit or real, why would they not take more care to select a travel route in which it was literally impossible for them not to stick out like two sore thumbs?
4. The bearer bonds were discovered in a hidden briefcase compartment after a customs inspection. As Kim also points out, “If the bonds were indeed authentic and owned by a nation state, they could have been transported in a diplomatic pouch exempt from customs searches that would have guaranteed transport without detection.”

Click your way over to http://offshoreinn.com/investing/how-the-bearer-bonds-saga-could-bring-down-the-us/ for the biggest story never told in the USA, it’s way good.

Ike at Coralville Resorvoir

Sheboygan Quarry opens today.

Information for Everyone

It’s time for action, friends.

We (finally) have a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that will require legislation to be made public 72 hours before it is considered by Congress. Now we need to make sure it passes.

Right now, Congress doesn’t actually read the legislation they vote on, and just as bad, we don’t have the time to make our voice heard before a new law affects our lives. The status quo is wholly unacceptable, and now we have a way to start changing it.

http://www.readthebill.org Read the rest of this entry »

tom schwanke ts@verizon.net 71.186.105.141 Submitted on 2009/01/26 at 3:25 PM

what exactly is the purpose of all your internet bling? is it news, if so, the sheboygan press need not worry too much. hope you find a claim to fame other than the fact that you look like sammy hager.

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Amazon has e-P1 with 14mm f/2.8 pancake lens available for pre-order for $899

Olympus will show you why this thing is awesome if you click this.

“Pencroft: ‘And what will they burn instead of coal?’

Harding: ‘Water. But water decomposed into its primitive elements… yes, my friends, I believe that water will some day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it… will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light… Some day water will be the coal of the future.’”

Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, 1874.

Operation Red Dragon-Homeland Defense Training Exercise will invade Sheboygan’s Aurora Medical Center at 10AM this morning and last until noon.

A simulated large scale chemical attack will bring 100 soldiers and countless imaginary victims to Aurora to prepare for the dreaded Red Dragon scenario.

The Red Dragon is:

a) Kim Jong il’s missile program

b) One of Godzilla’s buddies

c) Our governments desire to promote Asia as a threat

d) You tell me