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Obama Receives Ricin Letter - White House Webcast At 11:45 EDT

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Yesterday Sarin for Senators, now suspicious substances sent to Obama? CNN reports:

  • LETTER WITH SUSPICIOUS SUBSTANCE WAS SENT TO OBAMA: CNN
  • SECRET SERVICE: SUSPICIOUS LETTER TO OBAMA RECEIVED YESTERDAY
  • CNN says letter was found at off-site mail-screening facility, substance is unknown, cites unidentified Secret Service officials.

It appears the "suspicious substance" was not a balanced budget, but sarin toxin instead, as the letter received in the Senate yesterday.

Suspicious letter addressed to Obama has tested positive for ricin (as did letter to Sen Roger Wicker (R-MS)

And then this:

  • Capitol police are evacuating part of Hart Senate office building (first floor) because of a suspicious package
  • SUSPICOUS PACKAGE FOUND IN THE ATRIUM AND SUSPICOUS ENVELOPE FOUND ON THIRD FLOOR OF THE HART BUILDING. FOX.
  • CAPITOL POLICE ORDERING PEOPLE ON HIGHER FLOORS TO GO INTO OFFICES. FIRST FLOOR OF HART EVACUATED DUE TO SUSPICOUS PACKAGE. CNN.

From the Hill:

Authorities have intercepted a letter to the White House that tested positive for ricin poison, according to multiple media reports.
The Secret Service has acknowledged the letter addressed to President Obama contained a suspicious substance but has not stated it was ricin, a deadly poison.

 

On Tuesday, lawmakers revealed that a letter addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) had tested positive for the poison.

 

The Secret Service said the letter was sent to Obama on April 16 and was discovered at a remove White House mail screening facility.

 

"This facility routinely identifies letters or parcels that require secondary screening or scientific testing before delivery," the Secret Service said in a statement. "The Secret Service White House mail screening facility is a remote facility, not located near the White House complex, that all White House mail goes through."

Our take home from all of this is that the USPS appears to still be in business. Amazing.

White House holds briefing on this 2001 flashback event which can only mean a major military escalation somewhere, anywhere is forthcoming:

 

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Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:08 | 3461283 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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bb's are going the same way as 22 lr.... 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:59 | 3461620 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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I can't resist........

3 brothers are making soup and looking for things to put into it. One brother finds a box of bb's and dumps it in the pot. They eat the soup and go to bed.

Later that night the first brother comes into his parent's room crying "MOM I peed bb pellets".

Second brother goes into his parents room crying "MOM I peed bb pellets".

Third brother goes into his parent's room crying. Mother goes "let me guess you peed bb pellets". He goes "no I was jerking off and I shot the dog".

Dadadum bang.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:23 | 3461363 Cynthia
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Actually, a laissez faire approach to terrorism would be a BANE, not a boon, for the defense and homeland security industry. So I doubt, despite what some in the MSM have suggested, that a laissez faire approach to terrorism will lead to a boom in the terror market, i.e., the war on terror. The war on drugs is a reliable template of this. The more we spend on the war on drugs, the bigger the war on drugs becomes.

Therefore, the most strategically sensible steps the US can take to ensure itself against terrorist attacks is to drag its arrogant military ass out of all other countries and to shut its yapping pie hole about how evil any other country is! These steps add nothing to the military and homeland security budget and are guaranteed to be effective.

And I know that hindsight is 20-20, but why didn't these world-renowned "security experts" make any efforts to secure a high-profile finish line? Just another reason why it's futile to waste a lot on tax dollars on combating the war on terror!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:21 | 3460958 Glass Seagull
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Gold crash, Boston bombimg, attempted political assasinations...

...everything is fine...everything is fine...everything is fine...everything is fine...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:24 | 3460994 bdc63
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The World Is Being Prepared For A Deluge Of Negative News That Will Coincide With A Controlled Demolition Of The Financial System
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-world-is-being-prepared-for-a-deluge-...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:40 | 3461106 gonetogalt
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Boy, this guy really sugar coats it...wonder what he really thinks?

 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22 | 3460962 Stilicho
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Wow, this isn't like a total repeat of the anthrax letters mailed to politicians and media figures that followed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks or anything.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:30 | 3461046 dick cheneys ghost
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Last time this shit happened, we invaded and occupied 2 countries that had absolutly nothing to do with 9/11............

 

This is a neo-con super orgasmic wet-dream.....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:37 | 3461473 azzhatter
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Bill Kristol must be orgasming uncontrollably

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:41 | 3461511 dick cheneys ghost
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Kristol, Drunkenmiller and Krathammer are having a 3-way as we speak........

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:45 | 3461142 icanhasbailout
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Stop me if you've seen this false flag M.O. before

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:21 | 3460963 mdtrader
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Letter contained details of a balanced budget.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461306 forwardho
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That would raise it to the level of a full scale terrorist threat.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22 | 3460964 Inthemix96
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This means some poor fucking country is getting either bombed or droned in short order.

When justice is served barry, when justice is served.

This is beyond fucking imbecilic folks, this is trully the theatre of the absurd.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:41 | 3461114 Winston Churchill
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Pray, how would we know ?

Hard to name a resource rich country inhabited by brown  foreigners that isn't already

being bombed ,and droned by Obozo.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:51 | 3461175 Inthemix96
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Bit of sarc there Winston mate is all.

Something is going down friend, I dont have a clue what, but take care mate, we are in the final throws, I can feel and fucking sense it 'cos far to much has happened this past week.

Good luck to all of us, we are gonna need it.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:56 | 3461208 Winston Churchill
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Desperation.

They have run out of time, and know it.

SHF very, very, soon now.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:57 | 3461222 Inthemix96
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Spot.  On.

Godspeed mate.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:05 | 3461266 Winston Churchill
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Sure you don't want that Radlett info ?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:13 | 3461325 Inthemix96
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No thanks mate, but thanks for asking.

And thanks for keeping that in your mind.  I come from and live in an old pit village and have a few folk who can always be called up and help out, and just who happen to be right hard fucks.

Wish you the best mate and who knows, we may even have the pleasure to meet one day.

Lets give these cunts war though Winston, they deserve no less.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:28 | 3461360 Winston Churchill
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Good luck, we are all going to need it.

At least I can live off the land here , not sure I'd want to be in the UK

when the supply lines break.Have a house in Beds. if I ever get back there.

Haven't been back to the UK since my father died in 97.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:29 | 3461402 Inthemix96
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Its still quite rural here and the climate is shit.

You ever need a friend here though click on my name and I can give you my details, we will not face this alone mate, not by a long shot.

Geordies (like me) are nice fuckers in total and will help their fellow man, you take mate, I mean it.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:33 | 3461433 Winston Churchill
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I will bear it in mind.

Same goes for mongrels like me.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:36 | 3461465 Inthemix96
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I meant to write take care mate.

You aint no mongrel neither, I read your posts.

Its there if you want it though, and keep low friend.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:29 | 3461400 tip e. canoe
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US?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:49 | 3461166 akarc
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"When justice is served barry, when justice is served."

You mean Godot really isn't coming?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:57 | 3461216 Inthemix96
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He may not know it akarc,

But his card is marked.  If we all go down, justice is always served, and for you NSA cunts, I very much doubt inthemix will have fuck all to do with it.

Go back and eat some donuts or whatever the fuck we pay you for.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:59 | 3461231 Winston Churchill
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I'm sure Chick Sands got that.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:29 | 3461290 BigJim
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 ... and for you NSA cunts, I very much doubt inthemix will have fuck all to do with it.

Go back and eat some donuts or whatever the fuck we pay you for.

Goddamn, what a job! Get paid to read ZH all day - where do I apply???

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461315 akarc
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The absurdity of it all is "we the people" have allowed things to come this far.  But yes, something strange is happening. N. Korea falls off the front the page, markets looking like they could get real despite Ben, Boston, Ricin....... what are the odds of such odd events occuring at once. Atmospheric conversion maybe?  Grasping at false flags? 

The Ricin gig is almost a non story as who serious would engage in such an impotent action yet likes it's on the new like its a major threat. Fuck I sent a steak to Nixon once. Can't remember exactly why though. Something about the times. Never made the news. Damn

 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:17 | 3461339 Inthemix96
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They dont mate, never.

I am being fucking serious here, look after you and yours, we are being set-up, this could be the one we have been waiting for.

I dont like this one little bit, this is far too scripted so take care and watch out.

I have never been more nervous than this past week, and this shit is coming in daily now.

Godspeed folks.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:32 | 3461426 Jena
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No kidding at all.  The background hum is louder than it ever has been. Everything stocked.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:37 | 3461486 Winston Churchill
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Its like sitting in the eye of a hurricane(been there four times),Totally  calm,

but a roaring background noise like a thousand bomber  prop planes going on a

raid.Batten down, the rear eye wall is always worse.....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:05 | 3461682 Jena
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I've never been in one of those.  I grew up on the coast so I have a very healthy respect for the power of water.  I'll stick with my earthquakes. They're completely random but if you're on bedrock in a structure that has survived multiple large ones, you tend to trust that you'll survive a few more.  Waiting out a hurricane with the storm surge, on the other hand...

Best wishes, WC.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:15 | 3461732 Winston Churchill
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Give me hurricanes anytime.

Been in some very big quakes in Turkey ,and in  Iran.Luckily I was always out in the open.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:51 | 3461171 Overfed
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Even worse, we have sit through another fuckin' press conference!

The bullshit is reaching critical mass.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:34 | 3461450 tip e. canoe
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the first time tragedy, the second farce.  

for the sake of the innocent among us, let's hope that this one's heavy on the farce and short on the tragedy.  

as for myself, sequels & reruns aren't worth the price of admission.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:21 | 3460965 csmith
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CHOOM!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:41 | 3461505 azzhatter
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wonder how packs Soetero is smoking these days

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22 | 3460966 pods
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Awesome.  I still have my plastic and duct tape room!

pods

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:29 | 3461029 krispkritter
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Is that the one with all those funny smelling plants in it?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:51 | 3461181 pods
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Well they are organic?

Ixnay on the otpay, mmkay!

pods

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461311 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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hoarding or sharing?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:39 | 3461104 Agent P
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You don't by chance watch Dexter, do you?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:51 | 3461173 pods
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At times.

Along with your namesake show.

:)

Kids rock!

pods

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22 | 3460970 djsmps
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He received an anthrax tweet.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:21 | 3460973 Dr. Engali
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Gosh can they come up with something original to terrorize the masses? This theme is so last presidency. Okay citizen this is a code orange alert!  YOU HEAR ME? CODE FUCKING ORANGE! Run out and get your roll of plastic and duct tape!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:22 | 3460983 Cassandra Syndrome
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Hard copy of Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"?

Murray Rothbard's "The Mystery of banking"?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:24 | 3460984 Diet Coke and F...
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"Our take home from all of this is that the USPS appears to still be in business. Amazing."

LMAO

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:23 | 3460987 RSBriggs
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False flags flying everywhere.  Hedge accordingly....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:39 | 3461107 Schmuck Raker
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"Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!"

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:25 | 3461816 Hulk
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Bernanke, Krugman, and Liesman, oh my !!!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:24 | 3460991 Meat Hammer
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Suspicious substance?  Was it the Constitution?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:34 | 3461079 JohnnyBriefcase
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This is my favorite comment ever.

Bravo!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:37 | 3461096 Meat Hammer
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I was shocked that none of the other uber-witty ZH bitches busted it out before I could get to it.  My money was on McMolotov.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:08 | 3461281 forwardho
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Suspicious substance? What is Male bovine excrement?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:27 | 3461004 sangell
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Something is definitely afoot and the government is being awfully quiet as to what it is. A key electrical substation in Silicon Valley was put out of action yesterday by gunfire on a transformer and it caused CAISO to call for voluntary energy cuts. Then the American Airlines computer glitch that grounded its planes, ricin attacks in DC, the Boston Marathon bombing. Strange.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:29 | 3461031 Meat Hammer
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The Stock Act...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:33 | 3461072 IamtheREALmario
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Probably just more of Obummer's commie buddies causing havoc so that they can blame it on home-grown terroism. They never get tired of the same exact game plan ... but they think that people have forgotten Spain and Russia.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:38 | 3461075 Mark Urbo
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There is also an unconfirmed report about an attack (incident) on the Los Angeles Aqueduct around the Owens lake area.... But so much info is being shutdown [squashed], it’s weird.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:25 | 3461008 lizzy36
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Who wants odds that these letters orginated with a USPS worker ;)

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:06 | 3461280 BigJim
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, Langely VA branch

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:26 | 3461009 rosiescenario
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The substance was some sort of green chemical applied to a paper backing. The envelope came from Monsanto....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:27 | 3461011 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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"Spooge for Potus" ... could be the title for a short story.

Like "Flowers for Algernon" ...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:26 | 3461015 ebworthen
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10 to 1 the "suspicious substance" was the Bill of Rights.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:26 | 3461016 Mark Urbo
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Dreams can come true....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:28 | 3461020 fuu
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I'm sure that when UPS and Fedex are the official mail carriers of the US they will continue to provide this pre-screening function.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:27 | 3461021 Bicycle Repairman
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So what "color" is it today?  Can I go out?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:29 | 3461026 Quinvarius
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A roll of Silver Eagles?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:28 | 3461035 Schmuck Raker
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The President  was pissed he was upstaged by a freshman Senator during his Boston moment of leadership glory, now demands his own personal false flag.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:32 | 3461036 Edward Fiatski
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Three-letter Agency sends them out, FBI collects them. :)

Dog und Pony show. Hitler would know.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:30 | 3461045 FIAT
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I hope the nigger dies.

Lord knows no one from his shady past would attend his funeral.

There is no one.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461307 toys for tits
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Are you a democrat?

 

Couldn't resist since I just watched Lincoln.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:30 | 3461407 earnyermoney
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not sure of party affiliation but definately a provocateur from one of those alpha bet soup agencies

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:32 | 3461051 Inthemix96
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I have a horrible gut feeling we are on the verge of something terrible folks.

And I am being serious.

Two much has went on this last week for my liking, we could be approaching zero-hour.  And this stunt tops it off.  Take care folks, and keep your heads down arse up.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:42 | 3461115 Meat Hammer
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Agreed.  The timing is too perfect.  There is no way that the economy could collapse under Obama without it being blamed on something else....and the go-to option in the insovent-government playbook is always national security threats.  

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:46 | 3461136 Inthemix96
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Great minds think alike meat hammer,

This is far too convienient, something ill this way blows.

Stay away from crowded places friend, we are being played like a cheap fucking fiddle.  Take care mate.  These fuckers are capable of anything, and I mean anything.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:53 | 3461183 Meat Hammer
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When I look out the window I see cows...I'm good.  

Stay safe.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:54 | 3461194 Inthemix96
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We will prevail mate.

Bank on it.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:36 | 3461461 ross81
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there's not enough shit going down for me to get worried yet. A few isolated things but no 9/11 style global panic. Any major

events are orchestrated by the globalists anyway to cement their power. There's currently no existential threat to that power

that I can see or detect.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:31 | 3461052 mdtrader
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Looks like it's Kevin's market now. 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:32 | 3461053 IamtheREALmario
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A special substance from Reggie Love?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:32 | 3461060 Quinvarius
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He probably gets 50 of these a day.  But they want to turn up the heat now.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:33 | 3461067 GrinandBearit
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What is this 9/2001 all over again? 

As I mentioned in a previous thread... a terrorist act every day this week.  Distract... divert... with fear, fear, fear!

Huge stock market crash coming soon... believe it.

 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:14 | 3461324 toys for tits
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Their miscalculation though is targeting politicians.  

Too many will be sympathetic to the mailer.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:33 | 3461069 tuttisaluti
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Weed??

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:38 | 3461095 IamtheREALmario
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Nah ... Obumma has the CIA fly in the best weed for him on Air Amerika.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:33 | 3461070 RaceToTheBottom
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Was it Gold Dust?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:35 | 3461077 jjsilver
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Reality Check: Did the FBI know about Boston bombing beforehand? - Ben Swann

 

http://xrepublic.tv/node/2975

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:38 | 3461099 IamtheREALmario
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Somebody knew ... maybe it was the timetraveling ninja bag lady.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:40 | 3461111 jjsilver
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she's a government op, you're right, good catch

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:34 | 3461078 StarTedStackin'
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Yep,

 

 

No need for Americans to know that the Obowel Movement just sold 500 tons of America's Gold!

 

 

 http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:57 | 3461217 forwardho
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Great article, thanks for link

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:35 | 3461085 Dr. Venkman
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Candy-gram for Mongo

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:03 | 3461255 X86BSD
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Damn! Now I have to watch that today!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:37 | 3461092 jmcadg
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Was it bullshit?

Most of this stuff is.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:38 | 3461097 jjsilver
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Interview With Boston Marathon Eyewitness Confirms Bomb Squad Drill

 

 

http://12160.info/page/interview-with-boston-marathon-eyewitness-confirm...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:39 | 3461103 Savvy
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If it's suspicious at least it has substance, unlike the potus.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:42 | 3461113 FIAT
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Maybe it was his birth certificate from kenya or any one of his 33 s.s. cards

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:45 | 3461130 sudzee
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Time to load up on a bit of extra phsical cash.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:45 | 3461133 bluskyes
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Just a distraction for the sheople. A false pretense, if you will, to usher in martial law.

Do you really think that DHS needs 2 billion bullets for target practice?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:49 | 3461157 icanhasbailout
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With the marksmanship of your typical badged goon? They gonna need 20 billion bullets to get those guys to shoot straight.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:50 | 3461164 PGR88
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Are we sure it wasn't cocaine from the Choom Gang?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:49 | 3461172 somecallmetimmah
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:59 | 3461232 Dr. Engali
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That's some pretty interesting sleuthing there.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:50 | 3461177 Bicycle Repairman
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So how dangerous is a "ricin letter" to Obama?

He has a food taster, for Christsakes.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:56 | 3461196 Fiat Burner
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All mail items soon to be opened and inspected prior to acceptance by a new government agency: the Mail Security Adminstration (MSA).

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:11 | 3461305 El Hosel
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Long letter openers. (LLO)

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:56 | 3461201 foodstampbarry
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Ban Mail! Ban Pressure Cookers!! Ban Marathons!!!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:05 | 3461269 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Got me Under Pressure"  - ZZ Top

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:54 | 3461203 Dapper Dan
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When I think off all the money we spend now and what will be spent in the future to protect us from threats that we really cannot be protected from, this quote comes to mind.

“He who defends everything defends nothing”   

Frederick II

 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:57 | 3461220 John McCloy
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Always been one of my favorites

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:45 | 3461542 Bicycle Repairman
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"“He who defends everything defends nothing” "

All they had to do in Boston was defend 10 blocks for 6 hours.

These guys are defending the border 24/7?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:54 | 3461204 virgilcaine
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Sniff it.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:56 | 3461214 alien-IQ
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The Bullshit Meter just exploded.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:56 | 3461218 Smiley
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Guess the Post Office is REALLY fucked now...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:58 | 3461225 Debugas
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i had a new dream (the previous one was about gold melting in my hand) - this time i am forced to write blind-folded and sign the following text -"I never had and will not have any gold in my posession..."

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:58 | 3461227 Rustysilver
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I am very confuse: after 9/11 we created a number of agencies.  We were told that nothing happen since NYC attack because everyone was doing a very good job.

Now, what is all this stuff: Can someone explain this to me?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:04 | 3461265 El Hosel
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Don't confuse the number of agencies with the potential for attack. Plenty of sleeping agencies were around for 9/11.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:57 | 3461229 Never One Roach
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I get "suspicious" letters all the time...from AMEX, VISA, the mortgage company, car loan company and hospitals and doctors' offices. I 'm afraid to open them.....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:02 | 3461253 creeko
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hahaha...!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:58 | 3461238 seek
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If it was actually sarin and not ricin, this would be a whole 'nother ball game. A bit more, erm, aggressive, and would be pointing to state-level actors.

As it stands, they can blame lone wolfs. I still wonder what the specific legislative end goal is, beyond more police.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:59 | 3461246 El Hosel
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Excuse for a "Market" correction of more than a few hours.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:04 | 3461273 FIAT
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goldman mailed it after stealing the world's paper gold

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:00 | 3461241 Blazed
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Just like I said with the "Saudi National" BS, Oh freaking PUH-LEASE! It's on like donkey kong with the police state agenda.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:00 | 3461247 hannah
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anyone that could access ricin would also know the history of mailing shit to congress. they would know the letter would go thru the processing center.....so the real question is....why would someone do something they know will be stopped....?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:02 | 3461251 Unprepared
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FORWARD IT, COMRADES

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:00 | 3461252 creeko
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The booga-booga index (bix) is rising steadily. 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:03 | 3461264 RaceToTheBottom
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Begin Whack a Mole

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:10 | 3461293 thismarketisrigged
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why did they intercept it exactly?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:11 | 3461304 Fred123
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This entire admin is full of liars and crooks. I believe nothing these scumbags say.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461309 The Fonz...befo...
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Holy shit same moves from the dog ear 2001 playbook...first attack then all those suspicious packages....then
Patriot act passes then it all stops...

Wtf are they gonna try to ram through this time....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:26 | 3461382 Bicycle Repairman
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Gun control, immigration, CISPA, whatever is on their "forbidden wishlist".

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:13 | 3461310 The Duke of New...
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Is this how the TPTB have decided to let the stock market crash?.... next up should be the resserection of Tom Ridge (or his modern equivalent) and some color-coded fear placards - that read "BOOGA BOOGA".

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:18 | 3461341 Quinvarius
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There was some DHS informant guy saying the crazy stuff would start after the gold dip in the spring.  Need that link again.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 16:52 | 3463133 Cathartes Aura
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dunno if this is the link you're referencing - your post led me to a search, this came up.

“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant

nothing alarming in the post, pretty much what's being said here, and elsewhere on the 'net, and it's from May 2012, aimed at "something" happening before the election. . .

but yeah, I'm looking at the month of May, middle weeks in particular, to ramp up the noise. . .

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:12 | 3461316 fijisailor
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Why would anyone want to poison bozo the clown?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:13 | 3461322 IridiumRebel
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_DEAD_ANIMALS?SITE=AP&SEC...

Seems China's productivity is being a terroristic towards it's most innocent....the animals, again. 

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:16 | 3461330 Quinvarius
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Late again.  Cripes.  Why did we elect a dude who has never been a responsible enough postion that he was required to be on time to anything?

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:18 | 3461348 Dr. Engali
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That's funny... You think he was elected.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:17 | 3461334 djsmps
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You can grow very old waiting for a White House briefing.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:17 | 3461335 Bingfa
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Senate vote nears, background check bill in peril...

" A bipartisan effort to expand background checks is in deep trouble as the Senate approaches a long-awaited vote on the linchpin of the drive to curb gun violence. As the showdown draws near, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows ebbing public support for tightening gun control laws."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130417/DA5N58O80.html

Big vote today....

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:16 | 3461338 Yen Cross
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     Should have sent him a criminal subpoena...

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:18 | 3461343 FIAT
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Look at this lying asshole

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:19 | 3461349 ebworthen
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32 minutes late; where are the Adults?

Don't announce a time if you can't make it.

You're FIRED!

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:20 | 3461357 FIAT
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Practicing his straight face.

 

Couldn't get through it the first 15x

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:20 | 3461351 earnyermoney
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Suspicious packages and envelopes? Must have been void of cash.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:19 | 3461353 Papasmurf
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This doesn't make any sense.  Everyone knows Senators don't open their own mail.  The return address is scanned and a canned reply unrelated to the topic is sent by return mail.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:24 | 3461367 ebworthen
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Honestly, can you idiots in network news stop showing that stupid clip of the bombing OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN?

It's a White House press conference, we've seen the footage 100 times of the bombing.

Run some footage of Obama drone strikes on kids in Pakistan for a change.

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 16:55 | 3463147 Cathartes Aura
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dude, standard teevee procedure - remember the towers?  I didn't even have a teevee then and I remember the repetition factor.

repetition guarantees memory. . . meme-ory guarantees belief. . . belief guarantees control.

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