TERROR ALERT RAISED

[Lunatic Fringe]

Just breaking on CNN

[judicial meanz]

The jarheads are probably doing urban warfare training. They rotate around from place and train in urban warfare a lot.

I'm really watching Alex ( and soon to be Bonnie too)for a shift to the west. If that happens, we will get slammed. If it continues NE, I'm good.

Either way, I'm heading out for a few hours to do some "hurricane proofing" preps because the next Tropical Depression has formed down south and it looks to be heading this way by next week.

I'm stocked up and ready for it, but my yard isnt tied down yet..LOL

See ya later this PM.

[HipShot]

Stay safe.

Bring some dry wood in if you have a fireplace. Your better half might appreciate the dry heat and air.

[tob2]

Go, pigs, go! ROFLMAO

[Chemist_Geek]

kinda makes you wanta max out your citi bank card doesn't it?

I have no doubt they have a back-up set of data ... they'll be sure to find me to pay off that card debt.

OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to lose my payment on said card :)

Precisely! The debt data are well-protected and dispersed. Payments, on the other hand, only go to one place...

This is one reason I either use Certified Mail, or, electronic payment.

[Chemist_Geek]

Must go purchase my bottled water, dry and canned goods, duct tape and plastic sheeting. Did I miss anything?

Supply checklists from the DHS.

[happygrl]

I feel so dumb.

Thanks for the Rest of the Story.

[Capriole]

You know what? This sounds very do-able in this day and age. I'm betting that if things get any worse we would have very little trouble recruiting patriotic Americans to do this sort of thing. Liberals would stand in our way, of course--they'd do anything to stop this country from defending itself--but if we can manage al quaeda we can manage liberals.

[Gorzaloon]

Must go purchase my bottled water, dry and canned goods, duct tape and plastic sheeting. Did I miss anything?

On the basis of a nightmare I had last week, batteries for the Geiger counters, and fresh Nuclide-rated respirator cartridges.

But that's just me. No data, or anything, just a dream. Really.

[Don Joe]

I've seen your posts before, and have recently started paying VERY close attention to your insight.

As far as the timing of the new alert, please remember that the information was not from a single source.

The information gained from the computer gave us places to look at, while current chatter gave us the timing. I don't understand why these news outlets would ignore that aspect, except for political purposes.

Having said that, I'm in no way diminishing what you are on to, but giving you food for thought.

As far as the heavies, we do have a category 2 hurricane on the east coast right now. I certainly hope that's what it is about.

Please join us on the Threat Matrix thread. Your input would be quite welcome.

Thanks, I have been trying to nose through that thread, trying to skim, it is difficult because it is such a high-volume thread and I am modem-bound. (Where I live it is impossible to get any broadband unless my pockets were to get lined with gold to the tune of whatever it cost to run a T1 out here. The telco will never run DSL this far out into the pickers, and there's no cable TV, and, satellite, even if I could afford it, is from all I can determine not viable due to the latency.)

So, I'm stuck with the modem. :(

On top of that, my health is the pits (heart and spine) and I do not have a whole lot of "quality time" available on any given day. :(

Anyway, I've been nosing through the thread off and on today, I left a few posts, and I'll try to dig through it some more tonight.

Regarding the stuff I mentioned above, I really don't know very much at all. I sold something to a guy on ebay (some photographic stuff; my hobby is photography). He emailed to say that he'd suddenly been called to Miami on a personal matter for a few days.

I didn't know if I was about to get stiffed, or if the guy was on the level, so I looked into what I could find on him to see what I could see, and in a nutshell, what I could see was that he was a former airline pilot who works for an "aviation major" with a large presence in Miami. They are involved in various "support" roles for "the industry" (and IIRC, for gov't too). I don't want to say much more (not that I know much more) because I don't want to say anything that might help anyone ID the guy. I don't want to violate his privacy. I don't think anything I've posted violates his privacy (I don't think it IDs him or gives enough for anyone to ID him), but I don't want to say anything more about him.

I will repost this on that other thread in response to a post I read that's asking for this type info, and see if anyone knows anything. (Again, not anything to do with this person, but anything to do with sudden "measures" going on in that region.)

I'll ping you to that post too.

Regarding the topic in this thread, I'd add that I'm still kinda stunned by the stuff that was said by way of validating the seriousness of the previous alert -- now, suddenly consigned to the memory hole, as if it had never even happened. I'm talking about stuff like Tom Daschle being visibly shaken by what he'd heard in the classified briefings, and making it crystal clear that the stuff was so serious that even he could not possibly consider that it was politically motivated -- and this was in reply to a direct question specifically asking him if he agreed that it was politically driven.

Now, that was probably the most serious warning/alert since 9/11. And it was certainly presented as such at the time -- and "the time" was at most two weeks ago.

Now, it's just gone, in some Orwellian "who controls the past" style memory sweep!

It's been erased out of the "newsspace".

This is surreal, because when you consider that we're NOW being presented with another "most serious threat since 9/11" incident, you'd think they'd at the very least take the effort to mention the previous alert, which happened DAYS ago. (what was it, ten, twelve, fourteen DAYS ago, give or take?)

Like I said, surreal.

So, what I'm thinking is that when they take the effort to NOT "connect the dots", the one thing that's probably "certain" (as "certain" as these things get) is that "the dots" ARE "connected".

Any time they say "don't look THERE!" my inclination is to "look there". Hey, I'm human. :)

So, IS there a connection between the last alert, which was widely reported to involve a number of tactical nukes IN the USA?

I have nothing to go on but my hunches -- which are shaped by the strange way TPTB are acting, INCLUDING their psychotic "forgetfullness" about the very recent alert preceding this alert -- but, my hunches are screaming yes, there is a connection between the two alerts.

So, there's my two cents.