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light299 on August 11, 2006 - 12:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I'd expect to see another attack close before the election... think about it; The Republicans are behind in the poles. A terrorist attack (or a thwarted one) is just what they to need to rally behind. After all, they are the party for security! On top of that, as you mentioned, a terrorist attack (depending on the type) would cause demand destruction, lowering energy prices (a weakpoint in the Republican platform). Finally, it would remind a few people "why" we are fighting the war in Iraq (or at least be able to be spinned as an attempt to justify the needless bloodshed).
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Darwinian on August 11, 2006 - 6:29am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Was this latest "Terrorist Alert/Airline Passenger crackdown" a response to the the Prudhoe shutdown? An overt attempt at rapid demand destruction?

I think it it tragic to see this list degenerate into a posting place for conspiracy theory nitwits.

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bjj on August 11, 2006 - 7:07am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Agreed.
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markincalgary on August 11, 2006 - 11:19am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The kind of manipulation of the media that MicroHydro talked about is well known, well understood, and plain to see. Timing press releases is taught to public relations people in school. My employer is small enough, and I'm sufficiently senior,  that I get to eat lunch with the folk that plan these sorts of things. It happens.

Given that, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to see other factors affect the timing of press releases. And at least this is a peak oil related theory.

But I agree that it would be nice if The Oil Drum didn't go to far down this road.

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wkwillis on August 11, 2006 - 3:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Point taken. I shouldn't have replied to that Coincidence Theory guy on the old news about the WTC.
Hey, Capone said "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action", but that doesn't mean he was right. Sometimes things just happen.
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AngryChimp on August 11, 2006 - 4:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Stop your crying Ron.  You need to expand your thought process a tad...

 "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
~William Blake

==AC

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mencial on August 11, 2006 - 9:34am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It could work the other way. It could remember people who put them in this war. You do not get more secure by killing people wantonly. People are not born terrorists. Check what happened in Madrid. We could have fallen into fear and bomb someone off the planet (or at least get Bush to do it). But we remained calm and sent Aznar packing, as we all wanted to do.

For that, you would need to educate people to actually get informed and think and not just swallow headlines whole.

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¡Think, organize, and fight!
But if you cannot think... ¡Organize and fight!
But if you cannot organize... ¡Fight!
  -- Anarchist slogan

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bjj on August 11, 2006 - 5:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
A series of if-then-else statements that defaults to 'fight'?  

That's mayhem, not anarchy.

Sorry.  I have anarchic moments.  But the default state is not one of violence.

Seriously, see if you can help convince your anarchic brethren to use the alternate algorithm below:

while (! $goodEnoughSituation)
{
 if ($Brain->thinking){
  return createConstructiveSolution($Brain,$Community);
 } else{
   start($Brain);
 }
}

Here's another take on how (not) to form governments:


DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around saying, "I was an emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me" they'd put me away!

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David JM on August 11, 2006 - 11:24am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Anybody recall how long airline traffic was reduced after 9/11? (ie, how much demand destruction for airline fuel consumption is their really going to be.  Especially if the result of increasing paranoia is a support for even more war...
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