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June 18, 2009

The Mystery of the Bearer Bonds

On June 3, what appeared to be United States securities worth $134.5
billion were confiscated by Italy’s financial police at the Swiss
border. Two weeks later, the mystery still remains. Are they authentic
or counterfeit? What’s the story behind the story?

By Selwyn Duke

It sounds like the beginning of a Tom Clancy novel. Two men, alleged to
be Japanese nationals, are traveling from Italy into Switzerland.
Dressed like businessmen, they are carrying a briefcase. And in that
briefcase is a secret compartment — containing $134.5 billion in U.S.
securities.

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June 16, 2009

FOX News: 134 Billion Dollars in US Bearer Bonds Seized at Italian Border
http://youtube.com/v/BHpL2J-azUo
This video is about a huge and very interesting story that is being all but ignored by the mainstream media. Here's what happened: Two men, alleged to be Japanese nationals, were detained by the Italian Financial Police while trying to cross the border into Switzerland. Why? They were carrying $134 billion — yes, that's billion — in what appeared to be U.S. bearer bonds. Are they authentic or counterfeit? There's no official word yet, but, either way, it's a story any respectable news organ would be covering.
June 16, 2009

Last Week’s Savage Nation Appearance — Sugar and Spice and Nothing Nice

https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-sugar-and-spice-06-12-09.mp3 Sugar and Spice and Nothing Nice: The Girl Scouts’ Hard Left Turn – 06/12/09
June 16, 2009

Guest Piece: What Happens When CBS Goes Bankrupt?

By Bruce Walker

Government
ownership of business will cause – as history has shown so many times – gross
mismanagement and inefficiency. We can expect that, of course, but
those are recoverable calamities. What worries me more is what
happens when CBS goes bankrupt? The network news audience is dropping
like a rock? http://newsbusters.org/node/29019/hmtl.
What happens when USA Today goes under? The only major
newspaper which has not lost readership, according to the latest audit, is the
relatively conservative Wall Street Journal. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-newspaper-circulation-sees-apf-15039695.html.
Will Obama sit by idly while the workers at these companies lose their
jobs? Are these companies institutions which have to be kept from
dying a natural death?

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June 16, 2009

Putting Hollywood in the Hallowed

By Selwyn Duke

First there were “inclusive language” Bibles, which extended a
bizarre form of chivalry to feminists with lexical peculiarities such
as “Our Mother/Father who art in Heaven.” Now, there is something
equally bizarre: a Bible illustrated with pictures of celebrities who
supposedly exemplify goodness and compassion. Writes Beliefnet.com:

Last year, a Swedish ad man named Dag Soderberg published a Bible made in the image of Vogue magazine. Called Bible Illuminated: The Book, it featured glossy images of models and artistic contemporary photography, and it caused quite a stir….

Now, a New Testament version is being
published in the U.S. featuring modern do-gooders Angelina Jolie,
Nelson Mandela, and — I’ll give you one guess — Bono.

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June 13, 2009

O'Reilly and Slate.com's Joan Walsh Go at it Over Tiller and Late Term Abortions
http://youtube.com/v/6Z-zl-exifk
I don't know if any of you caught this O'Reilly segment last night, but Joan Walsh of left-wing e-rag Salon.com epitomizes everything that is wrong with the media. I'm not sure if she's worse than that odious foreigner Arianna Huffington, but she certainly gives her a run for her money (which, incidentally, Huffington has a lot of).

Walsh is a truly dishonest, vile, annoying woman. I feel sorry for her husband.
June 12, 2009

Home Bible Study Threatened in Bonito, Calif.

By Selwyn Duke

If the Chinese need any help with their crackdown
on the Falun Gong religious group, perhaps they should try to recruit
San Diego County bureaucrats. Because if a recent attempt on the
municipality’s part to stifle Bible study in a private home in Bonita,
California, is any indication, there are at least some in its employ
who have missed their dark calling.

Reporting on this, The Washington Times writes:

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June 12, 2009

Governments Abroad Moving Right . . . Right, Left, Right . . .

Some journalists are saying that while the left currently holds sway
in the United States, it is collapsing in foreign lands. Yet, what is
the left? What is the right? Do we really know our right from our left?

By Selwyn Duke

It has long been observed that the easiest way to be a giant among
men is to live in a land of Lilliputians. You see, so many things in
this world are actually relative: a big mosquito is quite a bit smaller
than a small donkey, and a big donkey is quite a bit smaller than a
small elephant. Yet they are all thought “big” in a certain context.
But because we understand those contexts, we don’t expect a big
cockroach to knock over the refrigerator. This perspective, however, is
sorely lacking when the matter is political parties.

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June 10, 2009

Schooling in the Third Millennium: Bible Out, Sodom In

By Selwyn Duke

If anyone needs more evidence as to how we live in a topsy-turvy age
of moral turpitude, two recent news stories provide it. One is out of
the Marple Newtown School District in suburban Philadelphia, where a
school decreed that a Bible couldn’t be read during show-and-tell.
Then, across the country in Alameda, California, there is a mandatory
new curriculum that draws an equivalency between normal marriage and
the faux variety.

Now, I could mention how Scripture told us there would come a time
when good would be called bad and bad would be called good, but then
this piece would be rendered inappropriate for school reading.

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June 10, 2009

Savage Appearance: Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009

https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-critics-rebuke-pope-benedict-5-22-09.mp3 Critics Rebuke Pope Benedict XVI — 05/22/2009