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Faux Crisis - Meet Lack Of Waste: Gibbs Issues Official Statement On Suspicious Packages

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Fresh from the White House:

Statement of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

Last night, intelligence and law enforcement agencies discovered potential suspicious packages on two planes in transit to the United States. Based on close cooperation among U.S. government agencies and with our foreign allies and partners, authorities were able to identify and examine two suspicious packages, one in East Midlands, United Kingdom, and one in Dubai. Both of these packages originated from Yemen. As a result of security precautions triggered by this threat, the additional measures were taken regarding the flights at Newark Liberty and Philadelphia International Airports.

The President was notified of a potential terrorist threat on Thursday night at 10:35, by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism. The President directed U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security, to take steps to ensure the safety and security of the American people, and to determine whether these threats are a part of any additional terrorist plotting. The President has received regular updates from his national security team since he was alerted to the threat.

PETA is happy to announced that no previous administrations were disparaged (yet) in the disarming of this "potential terrorism threat."

 

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Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:08 | 686538 Uncle Remus
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Oh I'm sorry - did you say something?

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:09 | 686541 Cdad
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New spin:

Regarding no volitility in markets as of terror threat...markets are "much more mature now."  I just threw up in my mouth...a little.

How many generations before Average Joe ever buys a Wall Street product again?

 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:12 | 686548 Takingbets
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Oh my, this must be one last effort too keep the incumbants in office. They have to be running scared knowing the sheeple want them out.

Lets scare them into keeping the crooks in Washington so they can feel safe from evil.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:21 | 686565 Cdad
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President to speak after market close.  Great! 

More chaos, marxist media message control, loose cannon comments, Govt lying, terrorism attempts, escorted commercial jets with packages...woot!

 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:31 | 686585 Bob
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I'm on the edge of my chair.  Guess it's time to fire up the old boob tube.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:23 | 686566 SheepDog-One
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BAH leave me alone....Im busy watching my new DVD boxed set of Jersey Shore and playing with my new Iphone 4! 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:34 | 686592 surfsup
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If one studies the actualities of terrorism it would be silly to give them any air time for you are:  

1.  Encouraging it

2.  Showing that any little thing done will at once get the spotlight shown upon it thus the perps KNOW there will be coverage which will thus magnify the terror.

If the idea is to discourage acts of terror that last thing you would do would be to give it unlimited air time.   

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=UPPT1owM8TIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=reagan+terrorism+media&ots=WP-2UnUY5L&sig=s2RfctWqHEEsNxFm4o1MFP1Zt9U#v=onepage&q=reagan%20terrorism%20media&f=false

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:55 | 686636 Bob
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So this would only make sense as an action of TPTB in their War of Terror on the US citizens?

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 16:52 | 686758 Milton Waddams
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My guess is this type of "terrorist activity" is constantly happening. The world is in no way short of idiots and sick people who get their kicks in strange ways. The activity is usually concealed for precisely the points you make. Occasionally, for political and general herding purposes, it is allowed to float to the surface.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:34 | 686593 Fearless Rick
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I mean, furreal, this is by far the lamest attempt at a false fag event ever. If they know about the packages coming from Dubai, why didn't they stop the plane in Dubai? Hmmm... isn't that where Cheney's old company, Halliburton, is headquartered.

And they knew about this last night, but we didn't hear about it until about 11:30 am ET? I think somebody really botched this, or else they actually believe that 97% of Americans buy into this shit... oh, sorry, they do.

But, I'd like to see something blow up or somebody arrested or something other than a UPS plane on the ground, just sitting there, while my package of porno tapes is probably somewhere in there, being "quarantined" - in other words, those DHS goons are probably jacking off to some juicy Peter North-Lisa Lipps scenes and all I've got is ZH. Life is truly a bitch. 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 19:41 | 687148 The Alarmist
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You still order tapes? Get a dvd player, dude.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:39 | 686603 Heroic Couplet
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Halliburton was down like a rock yesterday. Maybe Cheney is propping up his assets? Last night I was watching the evening news, all channels, and listening to "Iraq" and "Afghanistan," and "Yemen."

Ok, do we have covert operations going on in Yemen? Iraq is an area the size of California, and you can Google the size of Yemen on your own. If the US isn't safe by now, then Bush, Cheney, and Petraeus are incompetent.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:48 | 686608 Fearless Rick
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That dipshit CNBC bitch Trish Regan keeps droning on and on about how packages are never inspected. Get ready for major price increases on cross border small packages, already ridiculously high. Just another crack on the back of small business in the name of "security."

This government sucks. Best to just ignore them.

Please don't ever vote again. It does only encourage the ass-holes.

Watch what happens next. More security inside the US, allowing Postal Service to inspect all parcels. I never use UPS - too expensive - but I think you have to bring packages to their offices open so they can inspect them. At least that's how it was in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.

My best guess is that about 15 banks are going under later today and this is their way of hiding the fact that America is Land of the Glee and Home of the Knave, and that your bank will be closed on Monday.

Maybe, if we get really lucky, they'll use this ruse to cancel the elections. Ah, crap, that means we'll have at least another two weeks of those damn political ads.

Crap, crap, crap. Give me Liberty or give me shit. Guess we all are getting it.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 15:52 | 686631 liberal sodomy
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She's the sue herrera for a new generation.

Interesting past that little whore has:

http://gawker.com/160130/blind-item-guessing-game-revealed-unclassy-network-anchors

 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 16:18 | 686687 Uncle Remus
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Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 17:19 | 686838 knukles
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How the fuck does she know whether the fucking packages were fucking inspected?  How the fuck else did they find and take pictures of them?

Oh, and BTW, them pictures showed up real fucking quick after the first hint of the "threat", didn't they, I mean like, just about an HFT moment after.........
Nah, don't go there, Knukles, it's not good for you..... 

 

Agggrahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
(Primal Scream Deluxe)

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 16:27 | 686705 Raymond K Hessel
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Does anybody else miss the Cold War?  Give me my moment of weakness.  I say nuke'em or stuff.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 16:34 | 686721 Fearless Rick
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Maybe they're trying to cover up the fact that the markets are broken and there's nothing to report. I was just posting to my blog, the point moves for the past week on the major averages. Pretty dull.

DJIA: HIGH: 11266.30,LOW: 11033.87, TOTAL POINT MOVE (from 10/22 close): -14.07

S&P 500: HIGH: 1196.14, LOW: 1171.70, TOTAL POINT MOVE (from 10/22 close): +0.18

NASDAQ: HIGH: 2516.20, LOW: 2470.12, TOTAL POINT MOVE (from 10/22 close): +28.02 WINNER!

NYSE: HIGH: 7615.23, LOW: 7417.42, TOTAL POINT MOVE (from 10/22 close): -9.56

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 17:08 | 686808 Stuck on Zero
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The important thing is that every $5000 terrorist plot is followed up with $50 billion in U.S. government response. 

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 17:11 | 686818 Arkadaba
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This is just too convenient on a number of fronts. Pre-election machinations, distraction from domestic economic issues and thirdly demonizing Yemen (which will help make the  US geopolitical aims easier to sell to the domestic audience):

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17402

Once again - I miss Project Mayhem.

Fri, 10/29/2010 - 18:01 | 686936 No....we cant
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The funniest thing for me is to watch the press corps reaction to this.

Chip Reid in all Bush pressers - You are a liar.

Chip Reid in Obama presser - Are you concerned about more explosives??

The whole WH core lapped this up like a good bottle of Heitz vintage cabernet.

 

NOT A SINGLE CRITICAL QUESTION ON HOW THE CIA STOOGE COULD NOW THERE WERE EXPLOSIVES AND HAD PICTURES OUT THERE HOURS AFTER THE 'STING' WITHOUT DOING ANY TESTING.

I used to get pissed off, but now I just laugh with my wife about it. 

The real question is why the false flag. Do people think that it was more about John Stewart appearance, the midterms, or the first salvo of the re-election campaign.

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Fri, 10/29/2010 - 19:47 | 687158 Triggernometry
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Who discovered these packages and how? Surely we don't have intelligence agent examining packages in flight. What was so suspicious about these packages? Militants excel at hiding IED daily, did they forget, or were they perhaps drunk?

AP is now reporting these packages originated in Yemen, interesting indeed. Reports they were addressed to Jewish organizations add another twist. The packages will have contained dirty bombs by this weekend.

This whole thing wreaks.

Sat, 10/30/2010 - 11:48 | 687952 Tense INDIAN
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No U.S. Commercial or Private Plane left Yemen to the U.S. over last 48 hours; Yemeni Official

 

http://www.yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=2707&MainCat=3

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