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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Ten
Yahoo News ^ | 6-10-04 | AP

Posted on 06/10/2004 2:28:29 PM PDT by JustPiper

Picture credit: TheCabal

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

LINK TO THREAD NINE

U.S. Charges Australian Linked to al-Qaida

WASHINGTON - An Australian held at the Navy's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will face a military tribunal for allegedly training and fighting alongside members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan (news - web sites), the Pentagon (news - web sites) announced Thursday.

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm


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To: Indie

You have mail.


901 posted on 06/14/2004 10:49:23 AM PDT by Lucy Lake
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To: Calpernia

I know you didnt address me, but there was power outage earlier this morning where I am located.


902 posted on 06/14/2004 10:49:29 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways)
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To: ClaimToFame

Count is now up to 5 unexplained explosions in widely scatered areas since June 11.

This is getting alarming.

IF, I repeat, IF these are all meteors, there's something really unusual happening.


903 posted on 06/14/2004 10:54:23 AM PDT by rickylc
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To: rickylc

uhm. . .gulp. . . 1/2lol


904 posted on 06/14/2004 10:55:32 AM PDT by bored at work (My God is the main course. . .not allah carte')
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To: ßuddaßudd

Thanks Budda!

That makes sense!

Is it resolved now? Or just your area? Or you don't know?


905 posted on 06/14/2004 10:55:54 AM PDT by Calpernia (When you bite the hand that feeds you, you eventually run out of food.)
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To: ExSoldier; All

IT IS *STILL* LOOMING GREATLY.

I *ASSUME* they DO have nukes.

I assume NYC, DC, LA AND maybe Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego

will be nuked.

IF DC and NYC and one major west coast port are nuked, the temptation for China et al to engage WWIII will be large.

I still do NOT believe it is THE LORD'S timing for WWIII to begin this year.

How far back from WWIII will God allow things to go this summer? Great question. Wish I had some answers.

I also suspect that the control the puppet masters exert over the Jihadi's is not as absolute at all levels as they would prefer.

And, it's POSSIBLE that satan is not as . . . 'honorable' with the puppet masters as they assume he is.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo . . . Alice in Wonderland, welcome to THE MATRIX.

NOTE TO ALL SILLY RABBITS: Dig your holes deeper! Lay in lots of carrots. Stay alert!

ABOVE ALL, PRAY.

I believe strongly that it is the earnestness, depth, intensity etc. of the prayers that are keeping things at bay as much as they are . . . and which will moderate the devastation when it comes.

And, will translate into God's orchestration of the responses and Bush's handling etc. of the aftermath.


906 posted on 06/14/2004 11:01:38 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: grizzfan

Author unknown - sentiment shared.

For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue On
the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the
actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and
fashion this minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre.

I heard some Arabs are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here:

I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and
sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims
(Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).

I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after
9/11. I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Arabs.

I am sorry that Arabs have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.
I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth. I am sorry that their
governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools.

I am sorry that Yasir Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high
jacked the Palestinian "cause". I am sorry that no other Arab country
will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those
same Palestinians.

I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial
supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame
the USA.

I am sorry that our own left wing elite and our media can't understand any
of this. I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out
of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk
suffered.

I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers
upon their death. I am sorry that those same bombers are seeking 72
virgins? I can't seem to find one here on Earth.

I am sorry that the homicide bombers think babies are a legitimate target.

I am sorry that our troops died to free more Arabs. I am sorry they
stopped the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents.

I am sorry they show so much restraint when their brothers in arms are
killed. I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any
other group.

I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of
Iraq and return it to a terrorist state. I am sorry we don't drop a few
dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.

I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site".
I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade
Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox
Church - one of our Holy Sites.

I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the
embassy bombings, etc.

I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village
in africa.

I am sorry the French are french?

America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those
responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for
all the world to see. We move on. That's one of the reasons we are hated
so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are
now demanding an apology.

Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we
were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners.
Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until
captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed
to wring our hands because a few were humiliated? Our compassion is
tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and
burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujans.

If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long
wait. You have a better chance of finding those 72 virgins.

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907 posted on 06/14/2004 11:04:43 AM PDT by Indie (There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world [Tho Jefferson])
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To: rickylc
Not to rehash this around again but keeping up with the comet timeline. . .

June 8-9 Dust cloud begins to reach earth and darkening skies

June 18-20 1st impact

June 24-25 2nd impact

June 27-28 3rd impact of the “anomaly”

908 posted on 06/14/2004 11:04:56 AM PDT by bored at work (My God is the main course. . .not allah carte')
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To: Calpernia
The power was out approx 45 minutes here in the Milpitas area. I do not know how widespread the outage was or the cause at this time. But as you can see I am Logged In now.
909 posted on 06/14/2004 11:08:27 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways)
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To: ßuddaßudd

Thanks.


910 posted on 06/14/2004 11:11:34 AM PDT by Calpernia (When you bite the hand that feeds you, you eventually run out of food.)
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To: bored at work

I haven't noticed a darkening of the skies, however...

Meteors are usuually debris from the tail of comets, at least the predictable meteor showers are.

This debris is usually minute, though it lights up nicely when hitting the atmosphere.

If we are heading in to an asteroid field (this would be much different than a comet) then the size of the debris would be much larger.

This could explain the increase in low level meteors that have been noted since around June 8th. (larger debris would make it to the lower atmophere without burning up)

Heads up!


911 posted on 06/14/2004 11:29:24 AM PDT by rickylc
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To: rickylc; ClaimToFame; Rushmore Rocks; LayoutGuru2; liz44040; JustPiper; Calpernia; Sabertooth; ...
>> Count is now up to 5 unexplained explosions in widely scattered areas since June 11. <<

>> This is getting alarming. <<

Very much in agreement, this IS getting alarming. Could someone gather the locations of the 5 unexplained explosions? IMHO, this needs to be looked into.

Very strange and troubling. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If we can get the locations, maybe we could detect some kind of pattern.
912 posted on 06/14/2004 11:36:23 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
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To: ClaimToFame

Almost forgot....

Glad you joined us ClaimToFame and welcome to TM! Thanks for the report.


913 posted on 06/14/2004 11:38:26 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
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To: rickylc

Meteor crashes in to New Zealand home
3.27PM, Sun Jun 13 2004


A family living in New Zealand had a surprise visit this weekend when a meteorite crashed through the roof of their house in an Auckland suburb.

Scientists were initially sceptical, but have now agreed that the rock - weighing more than a kilo - came from space.

Home owner Brenda Archer said: ""There was just a huge explosion and we looked around and there was just dust everywhere and I thought 'oh no, there's been an explosion or Phil's got something on the roof and its fallen through'." ..........

http://www.itv.com/news/1236643.html


914 posted on 06/14/2004 11:39:52 AM PDT by 4thygipper
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To: JustPiper; Mossad1967; Indie; andysandmikesmom; areafiftyone; bigfootbob; Ecliptic; El Sordo; ...

TINFOIL ALERT TINFOIL ALERT TINFOIL ALERT TINFOIL ALERT

I don't know how much of the following is:

1) Disinformation/distraction/misdirection
2) Dellusional fantasy
3) Some variation of truth
4) Warning parable

But I don't recall seeing it hereon before. And, I believe that prudent THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX *MUST* include SOME level of prayerful consideration of such outlandish stories.

My own ASSUMPTIONS are along the lines of . . .

SOME variations on the following themes will follow the peak of the terrorism activities.

IF the terrorism activities produce WWIII, SOME of the following spheres of 'reality' [whatever THAT is! LOL] will likely be involved AT LEAST covertly in WWIII.

Regardless, shortly after, if not in the midst of WWIII, black ops technologies and/or some variations of the following will be introduced on the world stage with even greater pressures toward the world government.

Either some variation of the following--my larger expectation--or The Lord's supernatural work--will essentially remove the Jihadi's as a significant factor on the world scene. I suppose it could be a combination.

Part of me doesn't expect The Lord to near wholesale remove the Jihadi's as a factor until after Armageddon. But I don't really have much of a clue about that. It just doesn't seem to be the 'lay of the land' in my sense of things. I believe thousands of Moslems will be supernaturally saved and brought into the Kingdom of The Lord as 100's have been through visions, dreams and other miracles in recent years. I just don't expect it wholesale where the majority of Moslems are converted--at least not in the earlier years of these end times.

But I do expect the puppet masters to increasingly up the ante toward the satanic world government. And we know that eventually, NO other religion will be tolerated but worship of the AntiChrist.

Toward that end, the following sorts of themes, forces, critters, influences will, no doubt, to my mind, play a significant part.

I believe they are somehow at least linked with, if not part and parcel of THE GREAT DECEPTION that The Bible speaks about--that IF IT WERE POSSIBLE--the deception will be so great that IF it were possible, the very elect of God would be deceived.

I certainly believe that various black ops and puppet master forces involved with such ET type stuff have been wholesale deceived.

Whether because of terrorism and/or mixes of terrorism and the following kinds of things . . .

I believe that even just to

KNOW WHICH END IS IN THE *DIRECTION* OF UP,

we will HAVE TO KNOW BECAUSE WE KNOW BECAUSE WE KNOW BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR MASTER LORD JESUS' VOICE

that we are His and He is ours.

Otherwise, for tooooooo many, it will just mean that they will join the increasing throng whos 'hearts fail them because of fear,' as The Bible says of the end times.

Blessings, Qx




From:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=39442





Rumor Mill News Reading Room Archive

JOHN LEAR'S DISCLOSURE BRIEFING FROM THE 11.2 ART BELL

Posted By: Rayelan Send E-Mail
Date: Sunday, 9 November 2003, 5:38 a.m.

Note from Rayelan:

Rumor Mill News has been getting TWICE the number of hits for the last few days. We are up to over 600,000 hits each day!

Two days ago we had so many hits that it shut down the Reading Room.

I figured that John Rappoport from

http://www.newsmakingnews.com/

had been on

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

and had talked about us. But tonight I decided to do some more research and see if I could find out WHERE all these new people were coming from.

In my statistics for the webpage, I have a list of "referrers". These are sites that have links on their pages to Rumor Mill News. I discovered that coasttocoastam has sent us over 12,000 new readers in the last few days. I decided to go to

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

to see if I could find out WHY all these new readers were coming to Rumor Mill News.

I discovered that an old friend of mine and of Gunther's, John Lear, had posted a story which is still on the front page of

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

At the bottom of his article are the web links Lear provided in support of his data. Rumor Mill News is on the list!

I guess I am going to have to join coast to coast so I can listen to their archives.

Here is the page that has John's interview.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/

You must subscribe in order to listen.

The only time that I remember mentioning John Lear on Rumor Mill News is in an article I wrote about the "soul catcher" structure that is on the moon. Here is the link.

IS THIS A PICTURE OF A SOUL CATCHER?

There are more comments on this addendum to the article. This page has a link to

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/

where you can see some of the photos from the moon.

IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL CATCHER

If you haven't read the article about the Moon's Soul Catcher, you should take the time to read it. It is WELL worth the time!!

Here is the article that John wrote! He didn't give a specific link to the articles on RMN that he used in support of his data. Which ones do YOU think he used?

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2003/11/02.html

Aerial Revelations
John Lear, a Lockheed L-1011 Captain, known for his revelations about aerial phenomena and UFOs, caught up with Art for the full 4-hour broadcast.

Related Articles
John Lear's Disclosure Briefing
As presented on the 11/2/03 show:

Art Bell: Let's say the government chose me. They were going to use me as an outlet to release this information. Let's just say they did that and they took me to a briefing. Then what John?

John Lear: They whisk you to Washington, DC, you get limo-ed to this building, beautiful building, you go up into this room. They say, 'Art, you're the guy and if you give us the go ahead, we are gonna release everything we know to the public. If you decide to go ahead, all major networks will be provided with information on all aspects of the cover up and no type of information will be withheld. Because of the deal for immunity for all participants of the cover up provides that nothing, no artifacts, no piece of information be withheld.'

So here's what happened, Art. We'll use some videos and stills. Our first UFO recoveries were in the late '30s. We made a couple in the beginning of the '40s and then came Roswell, which the public found out about. We got 2 live aliens from Roswell. One died shortly there after and one lived till 1956. And we found out so far there are 18 different alien species that we know about monitoring Earth. Some are good and some are hostile, most are indifferent. We found out that we are the experimental product, if you will, of an alien race who we never met and we don't know who they are.

All we know is that the Greys are cybernetic organisms, glorified robots if you will, who work here at the behest of their employers monitoring us through abductions. We were never able to find out what the experiment is all about except that we have been externally corrected about 65 times. And they, the aliens, refer to us as "Containers." There's been speculation that the souls our bodies contain is the reason for the experiments. But nothing's been proven or determined.

Since 1938 we've lost over 200 aircraft due to UFO hostilities and thousands of soldiers in all kinds of different actions with aliens. Since that time several hundred thousand civilians have disappeared with no trace. Several thousand of those were eliminated by us because of their chance encounters with the aliens which we could ill afford to have publicized.

A slightly more frightening phenomena known as "human mutilations" have occurred on a regular basis and are similar to "cattle mutilations". In that the human or humans are taken from the street, so to speak, and returned to the same area about 45 minutes to an hour later with their rectums cored out, their genitals removed, eyes removed from their sockets, and completely drained of blood.

In all cases it appeared that the mutilation procedures occurred while the persons were still alive and conscious. One of our scientists speculates that apparently the human specimens had to be alive for the samples to be worth anything. Abductions occur on a daily basis throughout the United States to at least 10% of the population.

When we were first made aware this we protested to the little grey being we had held in captivity at the YY-2 facility in Los Alamos, but a deal was struck that in exchange for advanced technology from the aliens we would allow them to abduct a very small number of persons and we would periodically be given a list of those persons abducted. We got something less than the technology we bargained for and found the abductions exceeded by a million fold than what we had naively agreed to.

In 1954, President Eisenhower met with a representative of another alien species at Muroc Test Center, which is now called Edwards Airforce Base. This alien suggested that they could help us get rid of the Greys but Eisenhower turned down their offer because they offered no technology.

At this point it became apparent to all involved that there was no such thing as a God, at least how the public perceives God. Certainly some form of computer recorder stores information and an occasional miracle is displayed by the aliens to influence a religious event.

This so unnerved Eisenhower that he had "In God We Trust" put on paper money and coins and put in the Pledge of Allegiance to reaffirm the public belief in God. Shortly after this it was determined in meetings between the US and the Russians that the situation was serious enough that a cold war should be manufactured as a ruse to divert attention of the public away from UFOs towards some other scary threat like the H-bomb. It was also decided to keep the ruse secret from any elected or appointed officials within both the US and Russian governments as it took so long to vet these officials and the ruse was easier to manage if the top people didn't know about it.

In the late 1950's NASA was formed to compartmentalize, containerize, and sanitize information from all space platforms and vehicles. We sold NASA to the public claiming that all information would belong to them but they got very little and even that was highly sanitized.

Our first efforts were to keep the public from learning about Venus. A very similar planet to Earth and it's population is very similar to us just technologically advanced. We have learned a lot from them starting with the Russian Venera 1 and US Mariner 2, we made Venus look like a lead melting, volcanic surface, spewing sulfuric acid into a pressurized atmosphere 90 times that of Earth. And as often the case we over did it and we wondered why nobody asked how a parachute survived a descent into 800-degree air.

We set up operations in Pine Gap, Australia to preclude any prying eyes figuring out what we were up to. We regularly eliminated through extreme prejudice anybody who was part of the operation and made the least little tiny threat about disclosure or dissatisfaction with the operation. Any space mission that included Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Mariner, Voyager, Clementine, and all the rest. All data initially came transmitted to Pine Gap then it was relayed to JPL or wherever after sanitizing. We had a little trouble with amateur radio operators but we figured out how they could intercept these signals but we managed to deal with that.

When the Russian threat began to fade we introduced Vietnam which kept the public occupied for over ten years. The cover up and personnel to run the operation began to get bigger and bigger and required more and more money. We were forced to inflate the defense budget, which soon not enough. Then we got into the drug business which was still not enough. We were the ones that looted the savings and loan industry and Wall Street to boot. It is so out of control now most people want immunity and want out.

But there is so much secrecy and so many double and triple blinds in place that it's unlikely that this thing can ever be dismantled. And even if you give us the go ahead to spill the beans to the public it's unlikely they will get anything more than "yes, we recovered a flying saucer and yes, there was an occupant" but that's all we're gonna tell ya.

So go ahead and roll the tape for Mr. Bell. What you see here are what human mutilations look like. That one was a male about 27 years old. That one is film of dead aliens being pulled from the wreckage of a craft that crashed in Olancha, California in the '50s. That craft you see over there was over 250ft. in diameter and had to be buried on the spot. That site is in Utah near Dugway Proving Grounds. The object you're looking at now is the as the Kecksburg Acorn which was brought to Wright Patt in the middle '60s. There's Frank Drake trying to force information out of a being tied down to a stretcher. He was supposedly from Tao Ceti.

These pictures you're looking at now are structures on the Moon. That's the tower in Sinus Medii and it's over seven miles tall. And that thing over there is what we call the Colossus of Oguram(sp) in Mare Crisium. We don't know what it does but the machine itself is bigger than Brooklyn, New York. Now those are videos of the domes covering the craters. As you can see, some are in a very advanced state of decay.

These are 5 second slides of the 18 different alien species we are looking at. That one there is the most gruesome looking. The guards at one facility are carefully indoctrinated over several months being shown pictures similar to but not exactly like the alien. Only when he'd been acclimatized, so to speak, of the horrible looking beings are they allowed to stand in security positions. Before these acclimatizations were done, we had two guards die of a heart attack as the aliens came down the hallway unexpectedly.

And this last clip is of the Kennedy assassination. You've heard of the second gunman theory? Well, this is the second camera that recorded exactly what happened and we had 4 gunmen. And the bottom line was that Kennedy had to go. He insisted on releasing what little alien information we had told him about and he was trying to withdraw troops from Vietnam which we were using as a diversion for the public. After Kennedy we never told any President anything. Nixon knew because he was briefed as VP in 1952. That's how we knew where to take Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base to see the alien bodies we had in storage there.

And that's about it. What say you Art Bell? Do we brief the public? Yay or nay?"

--Special thanks to "Spaceprophet" of Fantastic Forum who provided this transcription.

Here are the web links that John Lear provided in support of his data:

http://www.vgl.org/

http://www.rumormillnews.com/

http://www.keithlaney.com/

http://www.lunaranomalies.com/

http://www.astrosurf.com/


915 posted on 06/14/2004 11:46:50 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: All

Here's 3 of the locations...

New Zealand

Pewaukee WI

South Florida near Wellington/West Palm Beach


916 posted on 06/14/2004 11:51:17 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
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To: JustPiper

SOBERING.

THX.


917 posted on 06/14/2004 11:51:20 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: appalachian_dweller

I had not been following the "mysterious explosion" reports, at least not up to now, but they now have my attention. Can anyone post a brief summary of what has happened and the various theories?


918 posted on 06/14/2004 11:51:25 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: bored at work; milkncookies; Indie; All

An old article, but still relevant.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Armageddon asteroids 'best kept secret'

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 02/15/03

A scientific adviser to the United States government has suggested that secrecy might be the best option if scientists were ever to discover that a giant asteroid was on course to collide with Earth.

In certain circumstances, nothing could be done to avoid such a collision and ensuing destruction, and it would be best not to tell the public anything, said Geoffrey Sommer, of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

"When a problem arises with high uncertainty, there is an opportunity to spin the problem to avoid global panic. If you can't do anything about a warning, then there is no point in issuing a warning at all," Dr Sommer told the association yesterday.

"If an extinction-type impact is inevitable, then ignorance for the populace is bliss. As a matter of common sense, if you can't intercept it and you can't move people out of the way in time, there's nothing you can do in terms of reducing the costs of the potential impact," he said.

"Overreaction not just by the public but by policy-makers scurrying around before the thing actually hits because we can't do anything about it anyway ... to a large extent you are better off not adding to your social costs," said Dr Sommer, who is also an adviser on terrorism.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is conducting a 25-year survey of the sky to find asteroids wider than a kilometre which could have a devastating impact if they collided with Earth.

So far they have determined the orbits of about 60 per cent of these objects and none so far have a trajectory that threatens the world within the next couple of centuries, said David Morrison of Nasa's Ames laboratory in Moffat Field, California.

"There are, however, many things out there that we know nothing about," he said.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/843541/posts


919 posted on 06/14/2004 11:52:06 AM PDT by Lucy Lake
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To: ExSoldier

THX

BIG.


920 posted on 06/14/2004 11:52:36 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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