You know, "Haha - they have bazookas in their hands but they're actually fighting for peace".
The next scene isn't a scene where Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg shoot bazookas on the surface of the sun while a million exploding coins punch each other in the face.
His aim is to persuade them that the real security threat in South America comes from drug-financed insurgents and their allies, not the United States.The Colombian army found the anti-tank bazookas last year but Sweden only recently confirmed that it had sold them to the Venezuelan army.
This week he ordered a halt to some car imports and vowed to find alternative suppliers for other Colombian products.He also claimed that the bazookas had been stolen from a Venezuelan naval base in 1995, though provided no proof.
But after a rise in the consumption tax in April, the economy slowed and in September core inflation dipped to Mr Kuroda's threshold.In this section Welcome back to Washington Temple madness Marijuana milestone Big bazookas How to lie with indices ReprintsThe BoJ was right to move boldly.
A panoply of federal laws to curb the marijuana trade remain in place; and in recent months the Drug Enforcement Administration has raided cannabis dispensaries in California that are operating under state licences.In this section Welcome back to Washington Temple madness Marijuana milestone Big bazookas How to lie with indices ReprintsThe cannabis industry is now in a legal no-man's-land.
Smarting from evidence that Swedish bazookas sold to Venezuela had turned up in a Colombian guerrilla camp, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, cited the base plan as a reason for imposing trade sanctions on Colombia.
Monetary policy may still have ammunition but it consists of broken pool cues and aluminium bats, not bullets and bazookas (can you tell I've spent the week in London?).Many will protest that both monetary and fiscal policy have plenty of options left.
"A lot of navies are looking for something to do—and there are many ships in the world prepared for big naval war, which isn't going to happen".But some naval types say tackling barefoot Somalis with bazookas is not the best use of large warships.
Worse, some indices are pointless or downright misleading.In this section Welcome back to Washington Temple madness Marijuana milestone Big bazookas How to lie with indices ReprintsAs easy as 1, 2, 3Which to trust, and which to ignore?
In messages dated January 2007, Iván Márquez, a guerrilla commander, writes that he met three Venezuelan officials who promised him "bazookas" and later says that he received "85 millimetre anti-tank rockets".Mr Chávez dismissed the e-mails as fabricated.
