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Once? Happenstance. Twice? Coincidence. Thrice? Enemy Action.
A lone suicide bomber, on foot managing to catch unawares five "senior commanders" in Iraq where only the smartest and best organized insurgents are still alive to mount such action might be a three or four sigma event. A lone suicide bomber, on foot managing to catch unawares five "senior commanders" of Iran's Revolutionary Guard by waiting by the entrance of the complex where they were to meet local tribal leaders... that's a bit rarer still. Whisperings of western involvement in the incident are... still just whisperings.
One wonders, however, what strength Tehran will now have to divert to Sistan-Baluchestan near the Pakistan and Afghanistan to beef up security, where those forces will come from and what confusion the loss of senior commanders in the area will cause. All in all, rather an effective bit of work if you are in the force disruption business. Crude longs: take note.
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and then a different opinion,
And one more from the NYT:
Someone will have to get the blame here. either they start saber rattling at the US or they increase security at the border.
This is a real moral quandary. Do I hate the militants for their use of suicide bombing, or thank them for attacking the Revolutionary Guards?
I don't know. In either event, I think suspicion of US involvement is inappropriate at this point, and I am thankful that at least some of the militants are fighting the Iranians instead of the US.
wtf is wrong with you? this comment is just grotesque. you better wise up.
the missing link fairy is a cia hack....ignore
her....
Zerohedge has continually reported (SUPPORTED!?) its views that Iran is about to become the next target for a US attack. A lot of posts have purported that oil prices will increase and people (ZEROHEDGE!?) will be making money. A lot of content on here is very good, this I am afraid is neo capitalism, a lot of your 'fight' seems to be against the neo capitalists, why not this?
1. Who said anything about a U.S. attack?
2. We haven't made a call on crude.
3. You will want to review our conflicts and disclosure policy.
4. How are you defining neo-capitalism? We're capitalists. Aren't you?
1. Who said anything about a U.S. attack?
Ummmmn, you?
Attack on Iran... or Market Noise? (Noise, Probably).
2. We haven't made a call on crude.
No, but you keep up on the Iran agenda.
3. You will want to review our conflicts and disclosure policy.
I have read. When something smells biased and propagandized, it needs retorting!
4. How are you defining neo-capitalism? We're capitalists. Aren't you?
The New New capitalism, concentrating power and wealth amongst only the elite, the middle class no more and the working classes - I am sorry but the service jobs went to India and the manufacturing jobs went to Asia.
I am a socio capitalist, wealth through entrepreneurship, building business, and a part of the wealth for everyone.
You?
1. Who said anything about a U.S. attack?
Find the word "American" or "U.S." in there. Take your time. I'll wait.
2. We haven't made a call on crude.
Anyone watching energy better keep up on Iran... long or short. So would you like to retract your claim that we have called for prices to increase? Or do you just want to leave that hanging?
3. You will want to review our conflicts and disclosure policy.
Sounds great. Too bad you aren't doing that here. If you want to retort my posts feel free. However, it is better if you don't invent a new position for me that is easier for you to retort in the process. I haven't said any of the things you take issue with. Go argue with your phantom elsewhere.
4. How are you defining neo-capitalism? We're capitalists. Aren't you?
What, exactly, does any of this have to do with watching crude futures options and pointing out some screwy stuff is going on? Does that not meet with the approval of your socio-political framework? Sounds progressive!
Some work and pay for all. You're a socialist. Let's not mince words.
"Find the word "American" or "U.S." in there. Take your time. I'll wait."
Well anyone with a reasonable IQ would know that there only two (one) countries which would attack Iran - Israel/ US, one or two, undecided - (Obama vs Hawks so far).
"Anyone watching energy better keep up on Iran... long or short."
So you do agree with me, ZEROHEDGE is reporting on Iran on a weekly basis, mostly long so far but might go short in the future? Excellent.
"What, exactly, does any of this have to do with watching crude futures options and pointing out some screwy stuff is going on? Does that not meet with the approval of your socio-political framework? Sounds progressive!"
Hawkish views on Iran do not meet my approval, if you do not understand socio world structure, why reply?
"Some work and pay for all. You're a socialist. Let's not mince words."
NO, 'some work and pay for all" sounds LIKE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHEN IT WAS A GREAT COUNTRY, not the country you! and other bankers (you have of course worked in the banking industry) BASTERDIZED IT!!!!!!!!. I will repeat my sentence, its not that hard to understand because it is what the USA used to stand for:
wealth through entrepreneurship, building business, and a part of the wealth for everyone.
So did you find "American' or "U.S." in there? It wasn't clear from your answer. Also, I notice you omitted Pakistan (the likely source of the latest attack). I suppose that Reuters has something other than a "reasonable IQ" since they don't seem to know that only Israel or the US would attack Iran?
I'm not sure we are reading the same website. Perhaps it is some strange bizzaro web filter, or a bridge between parallel universes or somesuch at work? Anyhow, your version sounds interesting. Let me know how the neo-capitalist long-short Iran position works out. (By the way, how are you shorting Iran exactly? Is there a 2x Bear Iran ETF somewhere?)
And you think Zero Hedge is hawkish on Iran (by which I take it you mean supportive of military action there) because we have observed interesting pricing in crude futures markets? Again, I'm not sure we are reading the same website. Your version sounds more... exciting though. I will give you that. Feel free to continue disapproving of Bizzaro Hedge, but please do it in Bizzaro Hedge's comment section instead. Thanks!
The rest of your reply devolves into "I'm not a socialist but let's make sure we redistribute a bunch of wealth," amid a lot of arm flailing. Given the prominence of CAPS in your post I can only conclude that some odd seizure attack or something took hold in the last two paragraphs (which explains the cognitive dysfunction evidenced by your socio-political confusion in that section).
Anyhow, thanks for participating.
Marla... may I be the first to suggest a 20 word maximum reply to 'Anonymous' posters?
And only worthy posts at that... clearly this clown is new around here. :-)
Let me tell you something bitch. One day the identity of ZH participants will leak out. I don't give a motherfuck if it's 50 years in the future. When that day comes you better invest in a Kevlar wardrobe. Your disinformation campaign will have retributions.
Interesting. Contrary wise, I have your IP address today.
That's my girl :-)
You said so much more with just 9 words.
Classic straw man attack on Marla that devolves into a personal attack when the lack of logic employed by the attacker failed to get a rise out of Marla. Perfectly played Marla. Perfectly played.
This is the brilliance of ZH displayed for all to see. The attackers anonymity doesn't protect him from his obviously flawed straw man attack. But Marla's anonymity allows her to stay on subject and not chase shadows.
Don't take the bait, stick to the facts, let the attacker collapse into a foaming-at-the-mouth example of the idiocy he is.
Bravo!!!!
"This is the brilliance of ZH displayed for all to see."
When you say brilliance of ZH... did you mean Head or Hedge... ?
Just askin'...
This is the brilliance of the Zero Hedge anonymous format displayed for all to see. And of course, the brilliance of Marla.
Zero Hedge has done more to publicize and openly question the ongoing crimes of countless individuals and entities than all the MSM outlets combined, principally because of its credibility.
In doing so, Zero Hedge has exposed itself to attack that its able to ward off because of the intelligence of its operators/contributors/commenters and its anonymous format.
But I like where you're going with the "zero head" title for the anonymous attacker.
... just a teensie bit to the right of my avatar... :-)
Damn it's underneath it now...
No no, you're ZerOhead, not Zero Head. Ack. Pbthhh! :>)
Besides, I always see you as Bill the Cat, not ZerOhead.
BTW I've never been the same since I stopping getting my daily dose of Bloom County. I can't believe it's been 20 years since the end. Berkeley Breathed created a masterpiece but I heard it took a terrible toll on him. Outland never did quite fill the void.
I'm not ashamed to say that at 50+ I still have my giant Opus stuffed animal an old girlfriend gave me 25 years ago. She's long gone but Opus is still with me. That probably explains a lot about me.
There was something about Opus that resonates with us all. And Bill was an instant classic... I just hope I don't get sued.
If you do get sued, we can get Steve Dallas to defend you. I hear he's available and he works cheap.
On the Internet, Marla knows you're a dog.
I especially liked the seizure part.
So did your moms, she seized up during a game of anal invaders.
Go for it. And when you get back to ground zero you'll be surprise how many parties leave their wireless networks wide open. Talk about wide open is that your mom I see....
Suck a cock faggot.
you know, by this point even the dumbest of people would have had the epiphany "wow it sure seems like I'm a complete moron! I better quit before embarrassing myself any further." But no, there is a special class of stupid reserved for people such as yourself, as CD eloquently put it, the foaming-at-the-mouth kind. I already regret wasting time in drafting a response to your hate filled words so all I can do is simply shake my head in disappointment when I see through your example how far ignorance and hate can infest a wonderful thing that is the human mind. What a waste.
Actually, Dice, the problem is s/he is deeply humiliated and every time s/he gets at the keyboard they want to redeem it, and instead, they just make the humiliation worse. That's when they foam at the mouth. Now, however, both of us are guilty of feeding trolls.
Anonymous,
Why do you have to use swear words and call names. Can you not make your point in a decent civilised manner. Marla has a point of view and she writes about it. Calling her names is not going to make her retract, but if it is a reasoned argument augmented by facts, then I am sure that most people would stand corrected.
i'm looking forward to the post "Paranoid Commenter Goes Postal on Zero Hedge...Ends Up as Raj Rajaratnam's Prison Bunk-Mate."
Such a pleasuring reading. I think Hollywood producers should buy this story for FC II, even if this anon is a fake. (Congratulations if it's authentic)
I think this might fall under the classification of "terroristic threat." You are flirting buddy....not to mention your blatent disrespect.
A terroristic threat is a crime generally involving a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience. It may mean an offense against property or involving danger to another person that may include but is not limited to recklessly endangering another person, harassment, stalking, ethnic intimidation, and criminal mischief.
Oh, he/she is definitively in the criminal zone in most states. I already have a kevlar wardrobe though and I sleep with my p7m8, so he/she can feel free to visit anytime.
Marla + P7/M8 = ooh la la
then, I suppose it is safe to say you are sleeping "commando".
just a dirty old man...nothing here
Marla: H&Ks are nice for the range, but sleep with a Remington Model 1100. Squeeze and forget.
That's awesome.
Ugh, not a 9mm. P7M10 or an Ultra CDP II .45 ACP is better.
The p7m10 is a brick. No thanks.
9mm will do the job just fine provided you use good rounds and see 12" or better penetration.
Kinda like Marla just did in her post trying to tie the suicide attacks to "Western interests"?
Hey people, remember the stolen election (the Iranian one, not the Afghan one) and the brutal crackdown of demonstrators and the executions that went down there last week????????? Maybe, just maybe, this is the Iranians taking a little revenge on their oppressors and not some (whisper, whisper) UA-Israeli covert ops bullshit story
Uh, that's Iran who is tying it to the West, as reported by Reuters. I'm not "trying" to tie it to anything. As for conspiracy, considering the group with apparent ties to the West immediately took credit, speculating about some internal Iranian freedom fighters no one has ever heard of before as the source sounds like the "out there" theory to me.
You know, one really wishes people would at least be vaguely familiar with the issues before commenting.
What the heck is it with this weekend? Sheesh. How hard can understanding the topic of conversation be when it is printed in bold at the top of the page? You are producing far better work for a Sunday afternoon than I could accomplish. Thanks.
All The Best
I'd go with Iraqi Sunnis, maybe sending a "hands off" message now that the u.s. is pulling back. The Middle East is an interesting area when it comes to black ops.
Bitch, after you called her bitch, I'd step in here and fcuk with you, but fight club has rules. If the ref is fighting seems some one needs to do some splainin' to you.
1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB.
3rd RULE: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the fight is over.
4th RULE: Only two guys to a fight.
5th RULE: One fight at a time.
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes.
7th RULE: Fights will go on as long as they have to.
8th RULE: If this is your first night at FIGHT CLUB, you HAVE to fight.
Now anon bitch, are you limp? You sure sound limp. Did you tap out? Did you say stop? Cause I'll remind her of the rules if she is beating up on you too bad.
Now that would be your emotions talking Mizzy...
Did ya check out my last post back to you? :-)
Yes I did Kitty Head. I may need to post to you there, later. We are getting ready to have an epistemology/ontology debate. If I said I tend to be a postmodernist, deconstructionist type, could we head this off? Our discussion will be a long one, otherwise.
Regarding the above, there is emotion, but I also injected logic into my choice, too. Cut and pasted the rules of fight club, which this site is based on, and then I, for the most part, followed them. The fight is not mine, it is Marla's. But if we were at a party and the person called her a bitch in front of me, it would be difficult to restrain myself. That is emotion, but if I don't hit him/her (if it is a dude, I admit, I want to hit him bad) then I have subsumed my emotional desires to the logic of appropriate social interaction.
Consider the matter headed off...
Check out the Mercedes Benz article... have you seen the million monkeys?
Monkeez funny!
Coward Sachs, Zero Balls.
good lord, does everyone here model their lives on some Hollywood movie "hero".........
no wonder the country is going down the tubes........
Glenn Beck is that you?
Anon, you forget that here at ZH not only are there financial services people, there are lawyers both defense & prosecutors and law enforcement from all levels. Based upon my professional experience you may well have the capacity to carry out your threats and that, in my mind makes you a threat to yourself, others and to civil society.
+1
Miles Kendig = balls (no brag, just facts).
Anonymouse #102817 (and other numbers) = sad sacks.
No doubt MK!
Come on bro' never lead with your intentions. You are a glass jaw just waiting to get shattered.
BTW - Five Iranian generals killed, and, terrorists blown up in the process? what did I miss? It's all good.
You are drunk, right? So shut the fuck up!
hehe Marla when do we get to see his pretty face and pedegree here on ZH?
Not quite. You can see my pretty face and pedegree. Send me an email ned@iamned.com and I'll send you a mugshot.
So. Wouldn't be my first picture Barney.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e933-4SPMbI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JPliWh6G4
Just remember Barney, no professors from MIT gonna swoop down to save you since they're here and you already tossed those by threatening them, their friends & associates.
Happy trails.
send it to me please, i would be more than glad to visit you, oh, and include your address, but that is not necessary.
Can't we all get along? Take it from me:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bruce-wasserstein-dead#comment-99805
Let me tell you something bitch. You do that and I'll cut your liver out of your body and use it as sidewalk chalk to paint a giant heiroglyph of a finger with your bile and liver paste so you can see the fuck you as you die and ascend into heaven. If it's not large enough to show up on google maps. I'm coming back other organs.
Marla. Please do not spend so much time (wasting time) responding to anonymous people on here. You are much better than having to defend yourself to the idiots of the interenet.
meow... nice.
Listen clown Anon (#102762), are you even remotely aware of how many times John Bolton has stated that "Iran should be nuked by the U.S."?????
Has it slipped your memory that Kindasleazy Rice, when she was still secretary of state, under the Bush regime, called for and received billions in dollars for covert activities against Iran?
And it has been rather common knowledge that the "soldiers of God" group has been financially supported by the US, along with two other groups out of Northern Iraq (Kurds), and Pakistan, for quite some time.
i dont know if you are just one of Obamas little PR slave monkeys or are you from the AIPAC but you either read all the evidence floating around or shut the fuck up. It is a good thing that this forum is anonymous. little scared girls like yo can hide their scared little faces while the weep because your masters plan is out in the open. better yet, just go kill yourself, you will do humanity a big fucking favor my retarded little " friend ".
I'm all the way down the screen from the original comment...but I can tell you now that revenge begets revenge. Killing Revolutionary Guard members solves nothing. Sure Iran's security aparatus are all total rat bastards, but Iraq tried killing them by the thousands and it only made them more psychotic and parinoid.
#3 story on huffpo. interesting to say the least. thanks marla, look forward to more on the story. rahm appears to be talking tough on afghanistan this a.m.
Any relation to the futures options??!!!!Who knows?I can't see any viable reason for the recent run up in oil,beside Iran.But a question here is also significantly important:what happens to the green shoot "theory"if by the law of unintended consequences oilo get to the $100 level or more?are we going to see another collapse like last year(of everything including oil).......
The "Crude longs:" story is more Goldman bullshit to scare investors away from shorting crude so Goldman can hit their $85 target.
Reminds in a way of the movie: "Revenge" that documents the retaliation over the events in Munich.
A suicide bomber is a very difficult state of consciousness to achieve. If the formula has now been successfully replicated it represents a huge paradigm shift no matter who is responsible.
Au contraire. Iranians are Persians. Baluchis are not. Civilization is tribal in this area. Memories are long. ( Ask an Arab about Mongol invasion. ) Everyone is stressed by economy. In a subsistence economy a 10% reduction =~ 10% less food = death. It doesn't take much assistance to help someone on the edge to strike 'back'. Nothing to loose.
Marla's goldfinger quote looks wrong. I think it is "once is chance, twice coincidence, three times enemy action."
Goldfinger was wrong.
Once. Twice. Thrice.
Duh.
Placing grammar over rhythm and meter is no way to go through life.
Too "Commodores" for me.
now that song is going to be an earworm all day
Oh GOD no.....not that. dh, horrible suggestion. Ahhhh. Quick, replace it with something.... Ahh... Once, twice, three times a la.....
A random attempt out of the deck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_IYe5JTZ4
Here try this!
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny
And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love
You have this coming for that and I am not thinking Good Will Hunting. Out of sync to boot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7N_IN7jQRk
All The Best :-)
Afternoon delight - Touche. The greatest ear worm song on earth- so I will go off planet now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEAjWX1IYvI
Oh wow...
At least it hasn't been overplayed...
100% true fact MsCreant.
I personally know a Buddhist monk who got Frosty the Snowman stuck in his head for three weeks. Everytime he sat down to meditate...
My unit went on a no notice deployment and we got stuck with 1 cd. Reminded me of the movie Applo 13. Except, get this is was Wilson-Phillips. To this day hearing "Impulsive" or "Hold On" makes me physically ill.
lol... that's perfect... too funny... no repetitive annoying lyrics in that song :-)
None.. Nada. zip.
Wow... you're still up :-)
I am at a level of chronic pain that makes sleep all but impossible. This time since Friday. The change is killin' me.
Sorry to hear that Layne...
Only the living feel it. :-)
mscreant...my rookie attempt at deviance, recognizing you as the master!
keep humming that tune "...three times a lady"
Don't know if you are familar with the movie Evil Dead. Bad ole' classic. I think I am going Hollywood to pitch another movie: Evildeadhead. You will, of course, serve as the model for the protagonist. :-D
Ya. Upstate, middle aged man and occasional trader turns into the the Evildeadhead....
Ha!
i'm willing to looking at the script....i can only imagine what mscreant could come up with lol!
here is another one for the other ear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS_VlIhKn6c&feature=player_embedded
One of the all time best in quality reference agrotera. Once more, for that other ear... After all, when it is all but over we finally realize that the best of things usually were with us all along, just waiting to be discovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5clofp30cUw
Peace
I prefer the Buckwheat version..
Please correct if I am wrong but your article reads "in Iraq" yet other sources place this event in southwest Iran.
Read again. Carefully this time.
Marla,
Your article has clearly brought out the haters and operatives. Amazing (and very interesting) what gets the dogs worked up. You're not baiting them for your pleasure, are you? :>)
I do know that I never wish to cross swords with you without my super duper magic armour. You may have a beautiful voice but your bite is so much worse than your bark.
I am really impressed with Marla's stamina... after jamming all night into the mid-morning... she still has the mental ability to take the anon head-on and skewer him/her repeatedly... Marla rocks...
Besides, we don't need no stinkin' kevlar vests....we murder from afar!
I'll tell you what... if I am ever in trouble I'm calling Marla or MsCreant... they both know how to take it on and not turn loose until the enemy begs for mercy :-)
Clearly those two ladies shoot first and ask questions later, after the bodies are sorted out. There is such beauty in watching a professional wordsmith dismantle an adversary without breaking stride.
Calm, cool and collected with that delicious sarcasm thrown in to boot. I read the exchange with excitement and wondered if Marla would REALLY take off on the dude and leave a bloody mess. You know it was a man from the way he resorted to threats after being repeatedly emasculated.
Yep... they are dandies... I want to be just like them when I grow up :-) And the funniest part is that Marla had to allow him into the ZH website because of the 'hold' they can place on anon's comments... so she was playing with him like a cat with a mouse.
Quite right, a cat with a mouse...it could have easily been avoided but Marla probably wanted the mental exercise, or in this case I would not even call it that. More like a stretch to limber up.
MinnesotaNice,
Ya see, I'm not sure I'm buying this whole nice thing anymore. It is you dear one, who notices the cat and mouse reality, not me, no one else here. Could be that training.
The real MinnieNice:
http://girlspy.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/svlafemmenikita.jpg
First Responder indeed. Great cover if you can get it-- Assassin!
You are so darn funny... you crack me up on a daily basis... lol
I think I like you... :-)
:-)
I love chicks with guns...
If we had sent 144,000 of those girls to Iraq we never would have had any problems...
Even the Iranians would welcome them in the streets with flowers as liberators... hold it... I remember that from somewhere... but where?
Today's word is pipeline.The oil business sure is fun.
I wonder if Brzezinski thinks this is a good idea.I wager he does.
When Iran tried to nationalize oil, the US imposed the Shah.That worked out well.Now that they are really tossing the dollar and have the temerity to open a bourse that won't take it at all.....well let's just say I think they are going to have a lot more incidents like this.Which highlights nicely the COMPLETE INSANITY of the idiots who are doing it!!!Nothings says we are screwed quite as well as our own operatives continuing to carry out polices which always go wrong...sometimes in apocalyptic fashion.Iranians who got to know the tender mercies of SAVAK (the shahs secret police/minions/SS etc) have not forgotten.And the mouth breathers here wonder why the Iranians are angry.Duh.
And energy going to the moon in value will help how?
Martyrdom at the behest of the Great Satan? Doesn't sound very enticing from the standpoint of a would-be martyr. I doubt that 49 virgins would be awaiting himl in the afterlife.
The folks at GIM had a great time with the "virgins-in-paradise" thing a few days ago. Here's the best post ever:
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showpost.php?p=1970582&postcount=17
That is funny stuff!
to learn more about Jundallah here is a helpful link:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jundullah
They are certainly connected to the US IMO and have been one of the pieces of the puzzle of the US's covert effort to destabilize the current regime.
We spent $400 million to destabilise Iran. I'm not sure how the money was spent but you never know...
Of course we would never support terrorist organisations... unless it was Bin Laden and the Taliban against the Russians... did we ever get all those extra stinger missiles back when they were done? How about the anti-tank missiles then?
Could you imagine the fun if China and Iran started supplying the Taliban with comparable assets? Ouch!
thank goodness judallah (or jundullah) is not on the handy list of foreign terrorist organizations the state department keeps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_Foreign_Terro...
otherwise, we might have been dealing with terrorists if, in the off chance, we were to support them in any sort of indirect fashion. Nothing to worry about here then.
Nice (non) find! :)
Yes thank goodness TD...
That makes them 'freedom fighters' then... just like Bin Laden and the Taliban were.
I feel so much better now.
"Were I to make a list of our dangerous radicals I should name, first, the Congress of the United States which treats with contempt the plain mandates of the Constitution."
- Massachusetts Congressman George Tinkham, 5 April, 1923
and the worst part of it all is that we vote the buffoons into office. however, I feel like if we prove (and I believe that it has already been done) that electronic voting machines can be and are rigged, then the people and the republic that is supposed to represent them might regain some legitimacy. But that is only after we start kicking out the traitors to our country out of office. Until then we have to rely solely on our military power for that legitimacy thing.
9/11, or should I call you Tumbling Dice-
Brilliant, love the witty sarcasm and source.
Apocalypse Now
Given all the influence of India in Afghanistan (road building, other construction, and protection of workers by Indian soldiers - which goes little reported, plus that $1.8 billion in aid to the Afghani gov't.), one might surmise the possibility of such a thing in the future, certainly by the Pakistanis, more so.....
Could you imagine the fun if China and Iran started supplying the Taliban with comparable assets?
Iran (shia sect, hazara/persian-ethnicity) does not really get along with the Taliban (radical sunni sect, pashtun ethnicity) - so it is unlikely that Iran will supply them with anything.
China supplies, on the other hand, already get through to the Taliban via their local launderer/proxy - Pakistan.
While most people here would like to relate everything to the financial markets,one has to be a bit broader in his thinking(don't fall in the same trap that most here accuse the general public off which is limited thinking). The Balochis(the region where the blast occured)are sunna,do have grievances with the current Iranina system. Many of their leaders have been excuted or imprisoned. The problem here is that this entorage of revolutionary guards was there obviously for reconcilliation(my assumprion),and the operation don't make sense from a tactical stanpoint for the group that carried it.
I find the timing suspicious, too close to the announcement of the end of Forex trading in Dollars as linked to the Euro being the only acceptable currency for oil purchases.
Also the direct link between the US and the Jundullah is the ribbon that ties it together.
When Iran says this was western backed, with all of these factors part of the same picture I have to agree with them.
Iran must tread carefully here; if they ramp up the Great Satan rhetoric, then the next attack on U.S. soil will be linked to them as a retaliatory strike for this killing, and the war with Iran will begin in earnest.
I expect a measured public response from Iran.
Not that any scenario involving a conflict with Iran will end well, but if Iran is not "proactive" their ability to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz will be all but neutralized. A first strike by US/Israel will quickly undo any "war" premium in the oil markets as their prime target will be the Tunb islands and associated threats to the Strait. The administration's delays in addressing the Afghan situation could well be related to an impending operation against Iran.
(and as for the "Martyrdom" comment above - who's to say it wasn't a drone or some poor soul simply delivering a package)
Conspiracy this; conspiracy that; blah blah blah
A little comeuppance for the Revolutionary Guards is a good thing ...
Definitely doesn't fit w/ Obama's / Hilary's little diplo dancing waste of time, so best look elsewhere.
No, but it fits perfectly with the CIA's long running programs in Iran.
Yes, it certainly does.It is a non related coincidence that the heroin from Afghanistan flows through that area of Iran like a river.And we all know the CIA has nothing to do with drug transshipments or distribution.That would be crazy talk.
Next, Cistercian, you might start mentioning how cocaine processing was swiftly declining in Panama, until Geo. H.W. Bush decided to invade back in the early '90s, then it shot straight up. Remarkably similar to Afghanistan, how the poppy is profuse since the US began occupying some it. And then I recall Vietnam....
Nope, all crazy talk, Cistercian...next you'll be mentioning the relevant historical fact that Iran hasn't attacked anyone outside of their borders in thousands of years. Stop all this crazy talk.
(End sarcasm.....)
Excellent.+1000
oh now don't go bringing up that barry seal,
mena airfield, bill clinton, george bush iran
contra stuff which was published in the wall street
journal years ago or you're going to rile up a bunch
of hysterical cia hacks accusing you of being
unamerican and a constitutional terrorist....
and dare we say anything about the cia drug
running during the vietnam war to fund ops against
communists? and how dead americans were stuffed to
their eyeballs which heroin, cocaine, and other
groovy chick 1960s drugs?
the amerisheep aren't really ready for all of this
information as it steps on their immaculate
conception of the cia and the plutocrats who they
want to be when they grow up....
Which is really the problem isn't it?We allow a depraved group of insane sociopathic torturer/murderers to run amok.The intelligence community is a clear and present danger...and they are operating with so little oversight it is no wonder they have devolved to so low a state.THEY are un american, they are traitors, and they need to be dealt with.I won't lose any sleep over that being imminent, however.
Land of the free...HAH. More like the land of the closely scrutinized wage slave robot.If only 10 percent of sworn Federal enforcement officers actually upheld their oath, it would be a different world.
I really wonder if the movie Syriana had it right about CIA. Ineffectual hasbeens, politicos. I wonder if it is these mercenary groups (Xe, or Chai or something) that do the nasty covert stuff now. That way it stays off the books and does not show up in papers 30 years later.
I know nothing though.
the cia is a psychotic organization filled with
both "good" guys and bad guys and everything
in between....through careful compartmentalization
it can create as many personalities as cybil...
it uses it chameleon capabilities to confuse
and distract....but at its heart is the soul of
satan and the body of mammon....it has a rich
and incongruous collection of agents, assets,
operatives, and scum to do its bidding...
until its masters are destroyed it will continue
to wreak havoc....that is why the plutocrats must
be shorn of power - they are a cancer who have
nearly complete control over us....next up is
martial law and suspension of the constitution....
it is much much closer than you think....
lol...Chai !
Unfortunately I feel like Syriana makes it seem more romantic if anything, it's probably much worse if you ask me.
And the CIA's and chai's existence is unfortunately necessary in terms of strategy and competative advatage aspect of it, which is not something likely to change anytime soon.
You are spot on about the mercenaries.They do plenty of zero oversight/plausible denial type work.They are also greedy swine...the companies like Xe are making cubic money, while the ordinary troops don't get what they need.That makes my blood boil.Xe recruits very highly trained special forces troops, pays them big bucks, gets cubic money for it...and they are totally outside the UCMJ.(uniform code of military justice)It is just obscene.Gee, if we took the money used for the mercs and gave it to our service members, I wonder if that might be better?
And don't worry, there are plenty of CIA people still doing "work".The mercs do add one more layer of deniability , as well as enabling well connected owners of the firms to become as rich as kings.Not one of America's exports I am proud of...
americans basically abdicated self rule when
they conceded to the income tax and federal
reserve system....post-war politics is way too
complicated for most folks who are waiting to hear
the announcement of the next socialist give-away...
besides, when you have a controlled mass media it is quite
easy to impose one's will on the sheeple....
the cia reports straight to rockefeller / rothschild
axis of evil....read former hud under-secretary
catherine austin fitts about being over-ruled
by "higher authority".
the cia is a bankster tool used to conquor overseas
and at home....we need another frank church and
then some to root out this terrorist organization....
eisenhower spake sooth when he warned of the
military industrrial complex and the perverts
who rule it....the cia though is the nexus between
the oligarchs and the sheeple...the oligarchs
must be destroyed.....even the cia is a distraction....
ps... and let's be careful with language...yes
these traitor-freaks are unamerican and sociopaths
but many are quite respectable....and this is
quite the crux of the problem.....they are the
pillars of society which is why they are so effective....
it isn't just a bunch of unhinged rogue elements -
magnificent confusion cultivated to perfection
by cia-psyops and incredulous minds....
no, the sociopaths include democrats and republicans,
"liberals" and "conservatives".....
for example for every lyman lemnitzer there was
a mcgeorge bundy who worked hand in hand to destroy
american government...the control which these
people have is unbelievable...until the plutocrats
are purged we are slaves...
On foreign involvement (as Iran defines it). Perception is reality and Iran wants revenge. This is why they have proxies all over the Middle East. And they have many proxies. And they are well armed. There will be escalation.
Watch Bahrain, Yemen, and the crowd favorite Lebanon...Saudi if shits gonna get real.
lebanon-syria is where it will happen first.
it looks like the cia won't let go of that "lone gunman, suicide bomber, madman" trick....seems to work every time thanks to brainwashed sheep....
With prices up here an attack on Iran, no doubt would be the news the market sells like mad (remember the bombing of Bagdad !) as well as benefiting the USD.
Regardless the owners of oil in the ground gain nothing, and only risk revenue, by failing to get it out and to the market. In fact unstable regimes have even more incentive to export.
Hi Marla
Do you see anything that might be similar or reminiscent of the "Bin Laden" trades on the airlines prior to 9/11?? Apparently a high up retired CIA guy made a killing on those trades. Thanks
Biff
Biff, I love you, but you have to lose that debunked nonsense.
Not sure exactly what you think has been "debunked." I've read all of the "debunking" from the corporate media on this topic, which amounts to hand-waving, appeals to authority and arguments absent supporting facts.
Here is an academic paper on this topic:
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/poteshma/WorkingPapers/UnusualOptionActivit...
"Consequently, the paper concludes that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to September 11 which is consistent with investors trading on advanced knowledge of the attacks."
This paper has most certainly never been "debunked."