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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:16 PM
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A Very Scary Week Coming Up
Very scary week coming up.

With the likelihood of indictments by mid to late week pretty good the Bush Administration needs a diversion. Terror alerts and other theatrical side trips aren't working anymore and that is what scares me. They may resort to actually doing something. It could be very bad.

Try this on for size around tuesday: an unprovoked naval attack against a North Korean Naval vessel. The Navy sinks one of their gunboats and then Bush rapidly runs the resulting international event right up to the brink of nuclear war. They could do that easily you know.

Very scary week coming up.
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:19 PM
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1. I agree.........any terror training simulations planned?
You know the drill.........Simulate a terror attach and make one happen at the same time to maximize the confusion.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:21 PM
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2. Are you trying to
make me start sucking my thumb again? Because it is WORKING.
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jasmeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:21 PM
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5. Did you see the movie Thumbsucker? It was pretty good.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 10:13 PM
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21. When I saw the picture of Bush enjoying cake...
Edited on Sat Oct-15-05 10:15 PM by IntravenousDemilo
...during the Katrina disaster (it's on another thread somewhere), I immediately thought of "Thumbsucker", since he was sucking the icing off that digit.
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scarface2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:21 PM
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3. you mean past the brink of nuclear war!
i say we lose 10, 20 million tops! don rumsfelds reaction to nuclear attack on us by n korea.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:30 PM
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9. We need *him*

"I think I'll mosey on over to the war room"
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:38 AM
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27. I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed... nt
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:35 PM
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14. Let's talk nuke turkey
How much nuclear capability does North Korea have right now? I assume just about enough to wipe out South Korea.

So then WE erase North Korea which pisses off the Chinese, so we have to get them before they get us.

That fallout takes out the middle east, so basically our problems are over, right?

Sounds like a great plan, particularly if you don't like sunlight.

Nope, I think I am going to climb back into denial, thank you very much.
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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:21 PM
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4. My guess is bird flu 24/7 N/T
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Rockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:24 PM
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6. Possibly even a "contained outbreak" here in the US?
Let's see. What American city would serve best as the administration's "test lab" for a fake outbreak?
They will need a good ole white middle class white bread American values kinda place. Des Moines anyone?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 11:21 AM
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33. won't be contained. Mike Ruppert has been writing about this for years
see fromthewilderness.com
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:25 PM
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7. plus another letter from Al Qaeda #2
probably about how they're going to use the bird flu virus to bring down a nuclear vessel

or something like that
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:31 PM
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11. take Star Anise - anti Bird Flu
apparently reduces severity of bird flu. Similar to the antivirus

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article319716.ece
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:06 PM
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22. Nah, the media did that story to death last week. They won't pay
ony more attention to it until H5N1 hits the USA, either in birds or in people.

Bird flu is so yesterday..........
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:28 PM
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8. Will Cheney nuke Iran next week
well, anything could happen couldn't it? Pandemic in Canada?
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:31 PM
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12. Or Israel Could Zap A Power Plant for Us
Now that would be a new one, wouldn't it? Would a new mid-east war be distraction enough?
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:30 PM
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10. Time for another Osama video.....
Wonder who will play Osama this time?
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:33 PM
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13. or Saddam
by the way, that isn't Saddam Hussein - he was a fake (the one they dug up from the hole)
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:38 PM
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15. "What would a gang of desperate criminals do?" H.L. Menken
When asked by a colleague how he foresaw what was happening in Washington.
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 08:44 PM
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16. Naah, nothing that
serious. More like another missing white woman. Or murdered child. Something, while a tragedy to those immediately involved, shouldn't really matter to any of the rest of us, but has just enough of a hook to be covered 24/7, especially by Fox.
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:40 PM
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17. I wonder how may from the Million More March will come down
with tularemia or something like that. I had the feeling since the march sept 24th and the subsequent findings of tularemia they were gearing up for something big!
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:42 PM
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18. This could be really bad...you know something is up....
But the more predictions we have in threads, the better chance someone
someday will look back and unravel this evil regime....
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:53 PM
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19. Rumsfeld will be in China then...
I'm just saying...:shrug:
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 09:57 PM
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20. Perhaps Cheney will unveil his diabolical weather-changing machine!!!11
:eyes:
Stop buying into the great fear, people.
Seriously, I don't think much is going to happen, if anything at all. At the most a couple fluff pieces in the news to keep people distracted, like maybe some more juicy Katie and Tom gossip.
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Kailassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-05 11:35 PM
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23. Same old Story
Before IT happens, everyone who pointed to the possibilities was stupid.

After IT happens, everyone who didn't realise it was inevitable was stupid.
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:25 AM
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24. Another Potential Hurricane brewing.
That would help divert attention.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:26 AM
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25. Hey I thought Miller had Iran bioterror stories to report! Perhaps the
events themselves actually have to happen first in order for her to report it! Scooter told her so!
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:31 AM
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26. However, I think..
That most Americans have gotten hipped to Bush's tactics. Most thinking peope know that when the tough gets going for Bush, he pulls out the terror card.

I don't know if it's going to work this time. They were interviewing this one New Yorker about the so-called threat to New York's subways (which we know is now highly questionable). Anyway, this one guy said they (the government) are going to keep crying wolf and no one's going to believe them.

And I think he's absolutely right. When they might REALLY need us to believe them, we won't because they've used the terror card so much now.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:40 AM
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28. OMG, will a pterodactyl with bird flu fly up and cough in our faces?
:rofl:

In seriousness, like i keep saying, live life with a smile on your face while you can. You could die in an auto wreck on Wednesday. Worrying about driving is asinine and not just deprives you of life, it deprives you of what makes life worth LIVING.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:51 AM
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29. maybe another man made tsunami too
:scared:
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 10:53 AM
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30. I think their time is up
and they've run out of magic tricks.

Once the perp walks start happening, they better not pull any more bullshit. Everybody knows who the real terrorists are at this point.
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durablend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 11:10 AM
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31. I'm betting on suspicious bird poop
They'll find it on a presidential statue and "determine" that it's an attack on America by Iranian pigeons infected with avian flu.

Which will lead to: martial law as well as the start of the 1000 year Iran war.
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 11:17 AM
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32. Well even if they
are scheming megalomaniacs, hopefully they have lost most of the confidence that anyone has had in them, even their loyal followers. Thanks goodness this isn't China, where the government would just execute a bunch of people that were in their way.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-05 11:25 AM
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34. If they do something, two problems for them: leaks and backfire
The Pentagon and CIA are pissed enough at them that they won't keep their mouth shut. They will pull back the curtain on some element like the leak of the staged teleconference with soldiers this week.

Additionally, with all the anti-terrorist hype, even if it isn't revealed as fake, the public will feel they gave up civil liberties, schools, and endured record debts to fight terror for nothing.
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