Terror Group Boasts That Printer Bomb Cost Only $4200, Meant To Bleed U.S. Economy "Two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up to a total bill of $4,200," one article said. "That is all that Operation Hemorrhage cost us. In terms of time, it took us three months to plan and execute the operation from beginning to end." The magazine also revealed the attack was not meant to kill more than the plane's pilot and co-pilot, and was meant to force the U.S. government to spend billions of dollars on preventive security screening measures. The strategy, the magazine said, was "of attacking the enemy with smaller, but more frequent operations is what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. The aim is to bleed the enemy to death." http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-promises-us-death-thousand-cuts/story?id=12204726 Airport body scanners are 'just as likely to kill you as terrorist bombs' The airport X-ray scanner has been touted as one of the best ways to prevent a future terrorist attack. But now a leading scientist has come forward to say it is just as likely to kill you as a terrorist's bomb blowing your plane out of the sky. The bizarre warning stems from a statistical coincidence which apparently shows that you are just as likely to die from radiation allegedly emitted by the scanners as you are to die due to a terrorist bob on your flight. Peter Rez, from Arizona State University, said the probability of dying from radiation from a body scanner and that of being killed in a terror attack are both about one in 30 million, making body scanners redundant. He said: 'The thing that worries me the most, is not what happens if the machine works as advertised, but what happens if it doesn't. A potential malfunction could increase the radiation dose, he said. http://www.dail*****.co.uk/travel/a...ikely-kill-terrorist-bombs.html#ixzz15zgSjFtf
Posted in other forum. Planes will not be hijacked in person... the technology to take control of them remotely was about mature - well, around 9/11... to take over fighters in case the pilot passed out from g-forces and was headed for commercial aircraft in case the pilot had a heart attack or something... satellites have been hacked and their controls taken over... think about predators... now who has the keys? You are right - they already won but you are also wrong - it's never meant to end. It's the eternal boogey man.
TSA charges on average $10 per passenger. 2 billion passengers flying per year in North America = $20B business. Keep Fear alive... Airport Security Fees is a cash cow! Pass legislation for more screening technology and raise the security fee to $25 per passenger and $10 per piece of air cargo under the facade of national security. TSA subcontracts 90% of their work to a few influential corporations providing residual income streams of over $100B. States trying to fill their tax holes will enact a travel tax and tack on another 10%. This is big $ -- Captive Audience - Lobbied Legislation - Insane Profits.
Appears that's the recent theme. Lobby - legislate cartels - collect insane profits. Or, put a financial gun to the nations head > collect insane bailout cash.
Typical "gold bug". Always resort to the "you're a clueless sheeple" line as your argument. I'm quite secure in my understanding of capitalism and finance as I am a managing partner in a multi-million dollar company. When we need financing, we ask for $USD. When we sell our goods to customers, we ask for dollars. When we pay our bills, we pay with fiat. We cannot go to our vendors and pay with gold. It amazes me how much progress we've made in standard of living here in the US and around the world, post gold-standard. If you talked only to gold bugs, you would think that we went back to the dark ages, after the FED stole everyone's wealth, health, happiness and future.
That's a huge misunderstanding. A gold standard means payment is made in paper (or credit, or digital), backed by metal. It worked fine up until 1971 when Nixon took America off the gold standard, remember? To extol the progress we made since the FED...look at the progress we made before the FED. Most of the industrial revolution and railways were financed and capitalized with hard money. Arguing the merits of the FED based on the economic growth made in the past 100 years, belies a fundamental misunderstanding of how economies grow in the first place. It's not the FED or Government that drives economic growth. But the free market. Protected free market economies with private property and contract law incentivizes work, and thus, wealth creation. Not some fat ass banker entering ones and zeros on his ledger account. And if we're to extol the virtues of the FED based on the past 100 years, why not examine their failures, as well? Like the Great Depression - 1/4'er of Americans died of starvation. Stagflation of the 70's. And now. Todays crisis will be horrible. The dollar is few years away from toilet paper. This is what happens to fiat fractional reserve systems that aren't regularly policed. Huge asset bubbles form which suck in real wealth and blow the currency apart. I get the distinct impression you think this crisis is somehow over or insignificant. If your business targets American retail, I'd be very worried. And a precious metal standard is simple. Implement full reserve banking. Outlaw banks from issuing bills not backed by physical reserves, punishable with severe sentences (mandatory minimum 10 years). Vigilantly police banks via law enforcement and regular physical audits. Then interest rates are market determined and capital is volunteered, instead of stolen. The economy would grow RAPIDLY. Probably >5%, a year. That's great for your business and every working American. Also solves Corporate corruption because there's no printing press to bribe Congress for. Also solves catastrophic deficit spending because there's no printing press to finance it. Also solves asset bubbles because cheap credit is scarce and the market regulates itself. Also solves endless bailouts and moral hazard because there's no printing press to bailout these fucking criminals. Also solves endless wars because there's no printing press to pay for it.
Security FAIL: Mythbuster Says He Passed TSA Scan With 12-Inch Razor Blades Since airport security horror stories seem to be the prevalent news item at the moment, Eyeblast released this video Tuesday which shows Adam Savage speaking to an audience at an event called wOOtstock 2.0 in Seattle last May. Savage, of Mythbusters fame, claims that he accidentally passed through one of the new controversial full-body scanners carrying two â12-inch razor blades.â http://www.theblaze.com/stories/sec...he-passed-tsa-scan-with-12-inch-razor-blades/
Nonsense. Even flawless pat-downs and total strip searches won't find things hidden in body cavities. And even full body cavity searches of all passengers wouldn't catch balloon swallowers who could combine long flights with laxatives. So focusing on the contraband is futile and unnecessarily invasive to law abiding people. The focus needs to be on the terrorists, which means profiling, combined with reasonable and less invasive measures like bomb sniffing dogs, metal detectors, better screening of cargo, etc.
Glad to see Chertoff is having a profitable and happy thanksgiving with all the body scanners everywhere........ http://www.infowars.com/gop-lawmaker-full-body-scanners-violate-fourth-amendment/ http://www.infowars.com/rep-duncan-blasts-tsa-pat-downs-chertoffs-body-scanner-ties/ http://www.infowars.com/chertoff-linked-to-body-scanner-manufacturer/ The Globalist minion "handlers" love to make money off the GAME! :eek: