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MicroHydro on August 11, 2006 - 1:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Even giving the UK government the benefit of the doubt - assume actual terrorists with a credible threat - the government admits this situation has been under observation for months, so the public disclosure date was elective and the degree of hysteria entirely by choice and inappropriate for a well neutralized threat.  I suspect this incident served several agendas:
  1. "Leverage the xenophobia" as the pentagon said in its internal documents re: Zarqawi.  As the dictator screamed in the movie V, "REMIND THE PEOPLE WHY THEY NEED US!!!
  2. Get Lamont defeats Lieberman out of the news cycle
  3. Get dead Lebanese children out of the news cycle
  4. build momentum towards UK ID cards
  5. Get people accustomed to martial law
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Maybe oil demand destruction is a peripheral motive also
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Oil CEO on August 11, 2006 - 2:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Weren't you touting your credentials as a surgeon and an investor quite recently? Now you're gonna be our head radical? Chief Conspiracy Theorist? Spot's already taken. Savinar's effectively given up the Alpha-Male position, I suppose you could apply for that.
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MicroHydro on August 11, 2006 - 3:26am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Much of my recent success as a peak oil investor has been based on the assumption that all governments and all media outlets have their own agendas and lie constantly.  Just like drug addicts lie to hospitals to try to get their fix, this is merely human nature.  No theory involved or needed.  Good thing that I wasn't so trusting as to believe the public "cheap oil in 2005-2006" lies of Daniel Yergin, Michael Lynch, and Steve Forbes.
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smekhovo on August 11, 2006 - 4:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Don't bother paying attention to the nitwit. School's out, so annoying kids like ceo are underfoot.
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AngryChimp on August 11, 2006 - 8:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"Now you're gonna be our head radical? Chief Conspiracy Theorist?"

Where can I send my application for this position?

==AC

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SelfAggrandizedTrader on August 11, 2006 - 8:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You've got my vote, Chimp.
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tstreet on August 11, 2006 - 9:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
So, therefore, the government was endangering its people for months by not checking for liquids.
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