Wow, if the stuff in that post is real, she's probably fucked herself real good. What's the penalty for being found guilty of treason? And based on the number of females operating the landing apparatus on aircraft carriers set to attack Hormuz, how hard is it gonna be to find her?

It doesn't seem to make any sense... why would she destroy her life just to give away a secret when nobody can do anything to stop it?

And newberry, thanks for the market info. I don't think the economic story will be fully evident until the Christmas shopping season, but we'll see...

i can't find any link, but some investment banker dude was telling me the US, Austrailia and a bunch of other countries that were involved in tsunami relief ran the biggest military excercise in the pacific since vietnam. somewhere off the coast of china.

while we've been dicking around in iraq and afghanistan, china has assembled a powerful military that in troop numbers and technology is probably in line with our own-- or maybe our government is overstating china's military prowess in order to justify more military spending. i've read stories that suggest both.

but wasn't it china that sold iran the specs to build their nuclear program? is china looking for a reason to launch an imperialistic campaign?

at the same time though, using military force against Iran has been discussed for over a year now and nothing's happened. possibly because china would ally with them?

scott wrote:if the stuff in that post is real...

It doesn't seem to make any sense...

I'm going with "bullshit."

Rick Reuben wrote:

scott wrote:Wow, if the stuff in that post is real, she's probably fucked herself real good.

Hmm... maybe Maccabee and his friend in the service realized that. The blog entry is now gone from Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527
"Sorry. I can't seem to find that story."

...or some internet dipshit that's read too many Tom Clancy books and is desperate for attention made it all up.

Terror plot foiled?

also, today the UN is supposed to announce that US economic growth "will fall behind the rest of the world in '07"

according to drudge

i don't know why i continue to read drudge's site, like a trainwreck or something like that, but here are a few headlines he's got up right now, with the siren and all:

Russia Tests Superstrength Bomb
Putin Dissolves Government
Nuke Sites Spotted in Syria
FOXNEWS: US Offiicials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan
UK troops are sent to Iranian border...
RECORD LOW: Dollar Fades Against Euro...
RECORD HIGH: Oil Closes In On $80 Barrel...
8.2 MAG QUAKE SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA...


get back to work. there is nothing to worry about. everything is as it should be.

dunno if this was in another thread but some news outlets are claiming Israel consulted the US before launching the double top secret attack (pilots weren't even briefed until they were in the air)
and some defense analysts think it was a prep for a strike on Iran.

the thing about the pilots not being briefed until they were in the air makes me think something similar was going on with the plane that flew nukes over the U.S. If you're decomissioning nuclear fucking warheads, would you mount them in the missile bay? Can people in the military really be that stupid? Why is nobody challenging that bullshit story? Those nukes were meant to decimate somebody. It was some kind of elite level plan that somehow got leaked and called off. fucking gutless journalists.

but then, I honestly don't know if I should embrace religion and start praying or if fear mongering is just a precise and predictable science to the people with the power to illicit reactions from us.

my friend said today "We're all going to die some day. Why not in the heat of a thousand suns?"

older generations have been pointing their fingers at me my whole life saying "you haven't seen anything in your lifetime."

haha. here it comes.

hogrot wrote:my friend said today "We're all going to die some day. Why not in the heat of a thousand suns?"

Actually, the sun is something like 25 million degrees. it's much hotter than nukes.

The nuke shit is really insane. I really hope they are not entertaining any notions of using them in Iran. I suppose most sensible people share that hope. They might also have let it leak to try to scare Iran, like it was completely staged to get them quaking in their boots. It's really incomprehensible that there are politicians who view nuking anything as a viable option in any situation, especially in a "pre-emptive" bullshit situation.

As for signs, didn't see if anyone posted it yet, but here ya go:

1 Euro = 1.41 US dollars
1 US dollar = .9999 Canadian dollar (first time since 1976 that the two currencies have been equally valued)

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financia ... PRC4O0.htm

More details on the Israeli attack on the (alleged?) Syrian nuclear facility.