So late last night I read the news about the Pentagon's "Terror Market", which the LA Times reported, The war on terrorism has come to this: The Pentagon is setting up a commodity-style market to use real investors — putting down real money — to help its generals predict terrorist attacks, coups d'etat and other turmoil in the Middle East.
Under the program, revealed Monday by two of its critics in the Senate, investors with knowledge of the Middle East would be lured — by the prospect of making money of course — into using their expertise to buy and sell futures contracts on world events.
And the Pentagon would be able to study the collective wisdom of the free market on such weighty questions as the impact of U.S. involvement in Iraq and the stability of the monarchy in Jordan.
This delightful plan was brought to us by disgraced Admiral John Poindexter, he of Iran-Contra, later to bring us everyone's favorite slice of Orwell pie, Total Information Awareness (awe, how cute, they changed their logo so it didn't look like the fucking Masons had taken over the fucking world, not that the new logo, which kind of looks like the bastard of child of Bohr's atomic model and the biohazard symbol doesn't look any less fucking frightening).
That was at like 9:00 this morning although a google search found the first articles around 2:00 AM. By noon they were abandoning the program.
What a load of goddamn malarkey. Our troops' imminent danger pay is being cut, and veteran's benefits are being cut. I don't even have to make links to back up the assertion that firefighters, police, and rescue teams are running on shoestrings thanks to the Bush economy, and that funds promised were never delivered. this is a matter of fact. And now some fucking corrupt bastard political appointee who should be permanently banned from participating in government at any level is proposing a plan to gamble with all our lives? Like people are some kind of fucking stock option??? Give me a break. No, give me a bottle and get me Moe Howard so he can break it over your stooge head and poke you in the eye.
Treasonous republican child molester scum...
Under the program, revealed Monday by two of its critics in the Senate, investors with knowledge of the Middle East would be lured — by the prospect of making money of course — into using their expertise to buy and sell futures contracts on world events.
And the Pentagon would be able to study the collective wisdom of the free market on such weighty questions as the impact of U.S. involvement in Iraq and the stability of the monarchy in Jordan.
This delightful plan was brought to us by disgraced Admiral John Poindexter, he of Iran-Contra, later to bring us everyone's favorite slice of Orwell pie, Total Information Awareness (awe, how cute, they changed their logo so it didn't look like the fucking Masons had taken over the fucking world, not that the new logo, which kind of looks like the bastard of child of Bohr's atomic model and the biohazard symbol doesn't look any less fucking frightening).
That was at like 9:00 this morning although a google search found the first articles around 2:00 AM. By noon they were abandoning the program.
What a load of goddamn malarkey. Our troops' imminent danger pay is being cut, and veteran's benefits are being cut. I don't even have to make links to back up the assertion that firefighters, police, and rescue teams are running on shoestrings thanks to the Bush economy, and that funds promised were never delivered. this is a matter of fact. And now some fucking corrupt bastard political appointee who should be permanently banned from participating in government at any level is proposing a plan to gamble with all our lives? Like people are some kind of fucking stock option??? Give me a break. No, give me a bottle and get me Moe Howard so he can break it over your stooge head and poke you in the eye.
Treasonous republican child molester scum...
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