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ISIS Has Seized 88 Pounds Of Uranium In Northern Iraq

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With the mainstream media having moved on in the news cycle to Dow 'almost' 17,000 and the 'Border Crisis' Scandal, it seems The Islamic State (the terrorists formerly known as ISIS) have stepped up their game and come out swinging... by seizing 88 pounds of nuclear material (uranium compounds) from Mosul University. As Iraq's UN Ambassador warned, "these nuclear materials, despite the limited amounts mentioned, "can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction... or in combination with other materials in its terrorist acts."

 

As Reuters reports, insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

Nearly 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the July 8 letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

 

"Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state," Alhakim wrote, adding that such materials "can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction."

 

"These nuclear materials, despite the limited amounts mentioned, can enable terrorist groups, with the availability of the required expertise, to use it separate or in combination with other materials in its terrorist acts," said Alhakim.

The US is playing down the threat (for a change)

A U.S. government source familiar with the matter said the materials were not believed to be enriched uranium and therefore would be difficult to use to manufacture into a weapon.

 

Another U.S. official familiar with security matters said he was unaware of this development raising any alarm among U.S. authorities.

But, ironicaly, it is is Iraq that is most worried about the nukes...

"The Republic of Iraq is notifying the international community of these dangerous developments and asking for help and the needed support to stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad," Alhakim wrote.

 

...

 

"It also provides for expanded cooperation between and among states regarding rapid measures to locate and recover stolen or smuggled nuclear material, mitigate any radiological consequences of sabotage, and prevent and combat related offences," according to the IAEA.

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Another great addition to ISIS Annual Report and another potentially terrifying prospect for the rest of the world... all this as rockets from Gaza fall around Israel's Dimona nuclear facility also... Should be good for guaranteeing Dow 17,000 tomorrow...

 

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Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:02 | 4942219 DoChenRollingBearing
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Silly me!

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:13 | 4942329 chumbawamba
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My favorites are:

The Arabs want to push the Jews into the sea!

Palestinians are beasts that walk on two legs.

Obama is a nigger.

and especially:

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:19 | 4942400 Tall Tom
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"I am Chumbawamba" does not get you a downarrow. I have awarded you greenies many times.

 

But feeling self pity does.

 

LMAO

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:55 | 4941818 DoChenRollingBearing
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Tall Tom

OK, that's better, you are now at 27 up, and TWO DOWN!

 

You have a LONG way to go to catch "poopman" though, last I saw he was at -212 (reds) before getting booted out of ZH.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:01 | 4941843 Tall Tom
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Hmmmm...212 is the record???

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:04 | 4941852 DoChenRollingBearing
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Here, see if this works, got it from a Google search (but the search did not list the number of junks, maybe it will here though):

2487230

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:12 | 4941877 fonzannoon
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Dochen take a look at the comments section in that article. First thing that jumps out at me is I miss Slewie. Second thing that jumps out at me is the pure incredible hatred I had towards Max Fischer... however this one stings..."Unfortunately, everyone here was trumpeting some bizarre idea that if you go to your local coin store and overpay for some coins, you'll bring down a trillion dollar Wall Street bank and destroy the fiat money system. While that created an infinite number of small town bagholders, you could have thrown a dart at virtually any equity and had massive returns.  While all you doomers have been predicting the end of the world every two weeks, you could have increased your wealth significantly just by riding around on Bernanke's coattails."

I see robotrader was on that thread too...

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:44 | 4941998 DoChenRollingBearing
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Yeah, fonz, Slewie was great.  But, Yen Cross is a right good ol boy himself.  Max Fischer was quite the troll, but I agree with you, in retrospect, he was right on this one (at least up until now).  Hey, I bought (some) silver at $35 or even higher.

Robotrader was really something too, but I never felt any hate for the guy, he once dared anyone at ZH to come and buy his Monster Box at silver when Ag was near it all time high...

All these NAMES from the past.., was it REALLY that long ago?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:09 | 4941863 logicalman
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212F - boiling pont of water.......

Is this a coincidence?????

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:47 | 4942004 DoChenRollingBearing
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212 is an approximation, my best recollection of the impressive number of reds he got for trashing Zero Hedge.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:33 | 4942146 bunzbunzbunz
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Nooob..you have to disagree with the arrogant, ignorant opinions of the commoners here to get downvoted. Watch and learn.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:40 | 4942167 Hugh G Rection
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You must have got here after "Million Dollar Bonus"

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 08:04 | 4942675 BigJim
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.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:50 | 4941747 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Only problem is that plane went north and that little Australian boating excursion and 'pings' were the most likely locating and removing Russian and probably Chinese under water fiber cable taps along with them installing their own at the same time.

With that said I wouldn't put it past Obama to provide them with a close enough replica that no one can trace after they explode it somewhere.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:39 | 4941755 CIABS
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Somebody keeps leaving stuff right where ISIS can get it.  Half a billion dollars' worth of money, and now uranium.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:55 | 4941784 ChanceIs
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Don't forget the HummVees.

And the APCs.

And tanks.

And the Black Hawks.  Gee Whiz.  I hope that ISIS changes the names of those choppers so as not to offend the American Indians.  Maybe we should call the next version the Towel Head.  Yea.  That's it.  We can win over the Caliphate with taunts.

Edit:  I just consulted the racial slur dictionary.  I think that Danny Snyder should change the name of the Washington, DC NFL team from Redskins to Night Club Bombers (after Bali)

http://www.rsdb.org/race/muslims

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:34 | 4941958 Whoa Dammit
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ISIS does seem to keep winning The Terrorist Lottery. If this keeps up, someone might say the game is being rigged in their favor.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 08:05 | 4942681 BigJim
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They're on a mission from God!

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:25 | 4942112 CIABS
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Yeah, you're right, all that good equipment.  Everything!

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:48 | 4942179 Real Estate Geek
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I'm no fan of those having vapors about the Redskins.  But I'd support Snyder changing the name to the Washington Tyrants.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:41 | 4942368 RichardP
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Since most of the players are black, why not the Washington Blackskins?  That name wouldn't offend anybody worth worrying about, right?

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:07 | 4942227 IndyPat
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...not to offend the American Indians...

Dude, I believe Native Americans is the preferred nomenclature.

Unless it's injuns.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:03 | 4941848 WhackoWarner
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Shite.  Where are the psychiatrists?  Where is the excuse? Where are the anger-management groups?   Where are the science fairs for channelling?  Where are the politicians who created this?  Where F are the bankers who perpetrated both sides of this?

My vote?  We head to media ignorance.  followed by politician silence to WHAT???

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:33 | 4942144 Toronto Kid
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That's it. I'm liquidating the RRSPs, buying that watch I always wanted, a new SUV, and living it up while I can because if that lot have uranium, we are done.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:50 | 4942192 MsCreant
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Why the watch? Why not prostitutes and blow or H or something?

Never understood the watch thing.

Or my gender with the jewels and shit. 

For the end of the world, I would want some good LSD or mushrooms maybe...A good steak dinner...some awesome sex with my husband (who would do the acid with me later)...

But not a watch...

 

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:19 | 4942240 Toronto Kid
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I can't wear most watches that I can afford because the back of the watch gives me a rash. But one of those all-gold jobbies ... I might be able to wear one of them.

Alcohol is my drug of choice. Blow and H are overrated in my opinion, except if you have some painful terminal disease. I don't understand the mindset of those who think heroine should not be provided to those in terrible pain and are dying anyway.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:19 | 4942338 MsCreant
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Got it on the watch. 

That is what our posts are about, comfort and fun at the end. Maybe for me some insight with the LSD. I agree they should get whatever meds make them comfortable. Someone I know went to a rehab facility to wait for a space at hospice (this was three weeks ago). He was sick but not sick enough, had 2 months left. They told him not to do all kinds of things, talk on the phone, walk, make business deals. He did it all. He had a blast arranging his own funeral and the party afterwards. Bought stuff for folks he loved. It killed him sooner (he was gone in a week and a half), he never made it to the hospice. But he loved wheeling and dealing. I think if he had done it their way and was very, very, careful not to kill himself, he would have spent his last days very sad. 

It's better to burn out than to fade away, cause rust never sleeps (Neil Young).

Never did H. Too scary. But I would try it if I was in pain and terminal. 

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 07:03 | 4942540 Tall Tom
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I agree MsCreant...

 

Flypaper (You eat it then you fly) or those fungi may be fun. Just make sure you eat food BEFORE DOING IT. It is not a good idea to try to eat when you are frying...not a good idea.

 

Ahhhhh....For me??? I grew up and left that behind.

 

I will rather see the end in sober. Just my preference.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 12:29 | 4943724 MsCreant
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I haven't dosed since my early 20s. While ago. It was good for insight, vision quest, I found. Though not every time. You need to approach it with some reverence to go there.

I think you might be right on being sober at the very end. I would hope that fear would not grip me so that I could see clearly.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:44 | 4941772 Hugh G Rection
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Anyone that still believes the fear-mongering, Israel butthole-licking media deserves to be afraid.

Lying about Gaza? Say it ain't so!!!

http://zionismsucks.com/2014/07/10/abc-lying-about-israeli-missile-attacks/

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:50 | 4941795 Seek_Truth
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and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up. - 2 Peter 3:10

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:54 | 4941813 Hugh G Rection
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Is that Peter predicting the next Mossad false flag?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:10 | 4941868 Tall Tom
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Possibly...Quite possibly.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:15 | 4941885 Seek_Truth
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No it is Jesus telling what will occur:

"I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars--I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you." - Revelation 3:9

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:22 | 4941917 Hugh G Rection
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Considering he only lost his temper once, at a certain group of money-changers; I guess I shouldn't feel bad about my emnity for the neo-Pharisee Ziopaths.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:42 | 4941986 Seek_Truth
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Amen:

12Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13“It is written,” he said to them, “?‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’e but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.

14The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

16“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“?‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise"?

17And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night
. - Matthew 21:12-17

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:38 | 4942157 Dublinmick
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I believe Peter also said, one day the universe will melt and all in it will understand everything.

I would say that is about the only way to fix the American educational system.

Crazy horse said about the same. One day a great light will come. It will purify the waters and even penetrate the stones.

He promised  ”There shall be a shifting, a great shaking and all things shall be touched, even the stones, and in a moment there shall be a newness in a great swelling of light that will fill the heavens and block out even the light of our own sun in its brightness…and the worlds shall split as will the heavens… in a moment.  And in that moment you shall be where your heart is for time as we have known it shall be no more.”

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 06:14 | 4942508 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Little bit fatalistic don;t you think. Does the bible predict anything nice for the future?

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 07:05 | 4942542 Tall Tom
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Heaven for the believers. That is how the book ends.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 10:10 | 4943069 BringOnTheAsteroid
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I've thought alot about the concept of being conscious for eternity and it just doesn't gel. In fact I suspect it is a fundamental law of the universe that nothing lasts forever. Not even the universe itself.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:48 | 4941775 BLOTTO
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On July 8th they report 88 pounds taken by ISIS...Whose helping Isis? - Osiris and Horus? Lot of ancient names and numbers are being throw around lately...

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Imo, sounds to me like they are symbolizing again their hidden, in plain sight, message to those 'in the know'...

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:56 | 4941822 Whoa Dammit
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"The killer awoke before dawn

He out his boots on

He took a face from the ancient gallery

And he walked on down the hall"

The End by The Doors

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:40 | 4942166 Dublinmick
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I would say ISIS wants to "Break on through to the other side"

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:57 | 4941824 Hugh G Rection
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Wait a second... 8=H (8th letter of alphabet), 88=HH (Heil Hitler)

Maybe they are trying to tell us that the Notsees are going to nuke us!!!

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:15 | 4941886 Buck Johnson
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This is almost a plot from a movie, seriously.  A terrorists army that has become unstoppable and taking territory.  Weapons taken and used, chemical and nuclear material in their hands.  The only thing missing is them attacking some western nation.  The US can't be this dumb, either this was intended or we have gone to far as a fallen empire.  Also in regard to that missing Jet, I agree.  But I also think they wanted someone off that plane or something.  Ask yourself this, the economy is getting closer and closer to implosion and the only thing keeping the markets going is the computers and algo's (just ask that company that has one person and not income that went from 1 billion to 3 billion via a 57,000 stock exchange).  When it implodes and hyperinflation happens because the dollar won't be worth anything the people will want to blame someone.  If a terrorists uses a WMD that could be used as cover to pop the bubbles and blame those guys and those people for your loss of money and wealth.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:49 | 4942183 Flagit
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This is almost a plot from a movie, seriously.

 

There could be a good reason for that.

http://variety.com/2001/biz/news/feds-seek-h-wood-s-help-1117853841/

It would have been a shame to let a good scenario(crisis) go to waste sitting in a file cabinet.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:16 | 4942235 IndyPat
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...This is almost a plot from a movie, seriously....

That's because it's been the plot of a billion movies to prepare you for it. Kinda nudge your noggin to the conclusion they want you to arrive at.

The "Mandarin" runs this ISIS show. Neato, huh?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:58 | 4942038 crazzziecanuck
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Dirty bombs are a joke.  They're the boogeyman used to frighten the idiot population so they can be manipulated easier.  The effects of these things are pretty much nil aside from the fact entities like DHS and have unnecessarily encouraged a frightened population.  Or to be used in some kind of FBI entrapment scheme to frame a bunch of idiots to be trotted before the press as if it was a blow against terrorism.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:21 | 4942247 IndyPat
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Glad it looks funny from the great white north.

I'd rather keep my hair and teeth and not have my balls rot off, if that's ok with you, eh. Pretty sure your burb is low on the dirty B list.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:34 | 4942269 Toronto Kid
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No, there are a few groups up here who'd like to blow things up. Luckily for us the FBI keeps an eye on things and tips off CSIS and the RCMP when they hear of anything.

Yes, I'm being serious; all of the wanna-be terrorist plots up here have been detected by the US security folks first.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 05:34 | 4942481 Gavrikon
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What????   Materials for Weapons of Mass Destruction in IRAQ?????

Holy Shit!!!  We should invade!!!! 

Oh, wait a minute.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:20 | 4942101 Van Halen
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So let's get this straight. Obama knew for HOW LONG that 88 pounds of uranium was up for grabs over there and he did nothing.

And why the hell is there... 88 pounds of uranium in the first place in... IRAQ?

And we're all expected to believe everyone else with power in the world DIDN'T know this and sat on their asses too, just waiting to see what would happen?

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:52 | 4942380 RichardP
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You know they took the Uranium from a University, right??  Universities do science and research things.  Could be that, or maybe they just had the space to store it and the resources to guard it.  Until now.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 05:35 | 4942482 Gavrikon
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Is uranium anything like "yellow cake?"

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:43 | 4942175 Cornfedbloodstool
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The world is ending! F this site for ever.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 04:24 | 4942447 luftmensch
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Strangely, when they say they are "minimally concerned", it scares me even more..90 lbs is "very limited quantities"?!

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 16:16 | 4944806 docmac324
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So the Bush's (X2) unilateral invasion(s) wasn't about WMD's there, it was about going there and leaving some, then a decade later it provides provaction, to be used against us, so we're going back again...  What a visionary, what a visonary.

 

SARC.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:25 | 4941708 booboo
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Just wait until they find some yeller cake and....and....well I forgot the storyline.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:29 | 4941719 Tall Tom
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We support ISIS...when they are in Syria. Remember? They are the good Al-CIA-Duh.

 

LMAO.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:38 | 4941748 IPA
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If isis doesn't go mainstream i will begin to worry. If it gets a ten o click mention i will know it is all for the war on terror or have we always been at war with east isis? 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:42 | 4941766 Tall Tom
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We have always been at war wit EastISIS. WEst ISIS is good Al-CIA-Duh.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:42 | 4942171 Dublinmick
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You mean kind of like east Germany and West Germany, yeah now I understand.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:14 | 4942396 Tall Tom
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I wish I understood...

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:28 | 4941718 Seize Mars
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Oh no! Fox News said we should all be trrified of trrsts!

Trr!

ERMAGHERD!

Step 1 - Fuck the CIA and their phoney bullshit.

Step 2 - See Step 1

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:22 | 4941919 Yes_Questions
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FOX is a terrorist.

 

any of you who have to deal with an old age US pensioner who gets ALL of their info from FOX knows this.

 

Fuck you Roger Ailes!

 

fucking Karl Rove butt-slamming fucker

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:26 | 4941929 Hugh G Rection
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Most of my family watches Fox News...One of these days I'm going to bite my tongue off.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:28 | 4942127 Yes_Questions
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How many FOX Fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:38 | 4942277 Tall Tom
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Only one if he autofellates.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:29 | 4941722 Seize Mars
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The nuclear threat is a hoax. They can see "hot stuff" from space satellites. I guaran-damn-tee that they know where every single ounce of everything interesting is on Planet Fuckall.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:43 | 4941768 stacking12321
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really? i would think the hot stuff could be carried around in lead casing without anyone knowing.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:45 | 4941999 GooseShtepping Moron
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Mars,

I'm not being impolite, but I think you are mistaken. You can detect a nuclear detonation from space via the characteristic double flash signature, but no satellite could detect a few pounds of "hot stuff" simply sitting around. The only way to "see" it would be to interact with the decay products, and none of those would ever reach the satellite, which is hundreds of miles away and in orbit.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:31 | 4941727 TeamDepends
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The 88 pounds* was handed them by Bush Jr. Jr., Jeb.

*The levies could not protect the mudskins

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:31 | 4941728 Gringo Viejo
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Not good. Not good at all.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:24 | 4941923 Hugh G Rection
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Nope.  You better pray for a hedge of protection over your beloved Israel.

Oh wait...Why would they attack their boss?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:33 | 4941729 Circle of DNA
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They were clearly allowed to seize them. Dick Cheney and Obama told us about upcoming nuclear attack on America. This is it! No surprises here.

False Flag of enormous proportions is just around the corner

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:41 | 4941761 Tall Tom
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Yeah. But where?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:11 | 4941876 Tall Tom
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And all of the evidence of the Financial Fraud burns up. How convenient.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:17 | 4941895 Yes_Questions
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oh please, may all of the student loan files go up in flames!!

 

(while no-one is present of course.  no deaths/injury in this Hoping)

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:31 | 4942262 IndyPat
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...and will kick off about 30 million raging two week keggers all south of the Mason/Dixon

I may be able to muster something approaching a mild...ambivalence.

Junk away. Fuck em. My only question...

Will 88 be enough yield to gank Jersey and Mass too?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:12 | 4941878 Ignatius
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I'll tell ya where it won't be.

Put it this way, if Cheney or Rummy or Neocons are walking by, grab their leg and don't let go.  You'll be safe.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:31 | 4941730 alien-IQ
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This story smells like 88 pounds of pure bullshit.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:38 | 4941754 Greenskeeper_Carl
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I was thinking the same thing. This mess stinks of the early 2000's. Spuds like an excuse to re- invade, and start this whole trillion dollar broken window fallacy shitshow up all over again.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:51 | 4941797 Tall Tom
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The "problem" is that we will have to be hit first before the public buys into it. Then the Government will say, "See...We told you so. So you need to give up your guns"...or some Bullshit.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:03 | 4942221 Thought Processor
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No the problem is that the US Gov. has lied REPEATEDLY to both the citizens of the United States and the people of the world for decades.  

 

The solution is to not trust the US Gov. any more.   Most have already stopped trusting.

 

It's what comes next that is scary, because when people wake up and find they can no longer trust their own Government then they take matters into their own hands.  It's just a matter of time.

 

People are waking up.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:43 | 4942281 Tall Tom
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The solution is not to trust ANY GOVERNMENT as they all are ruled by psychpathic Crime Families.

 

Yes people are beginning to awaken...in droves...not just in the USA but Worldwide. It is amazing what a little hunger can do.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:41 | 4941759 i_call_you_my_base
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"The Republic of Iraq is notifying the international community of these dangerous developments and asking for help and the needed support to stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad,"\

Yeah, and in any case, fuck off and have fun.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:49 | 4941792 Eyeroller
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Where are those pesky UN observers when you need them?

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:34 | 4942270 IndyPat
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Packing their blue suit cases for Rio Grande duty.

Betcha.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:32 | 4941731 RaceToTheBottom
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ISIS Syndrome, coming to a country near you.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:34 | 4941733 Son of Loki
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Will they drag Condee Lice and Colon Powell out again to scare us? After witnessing the BS the last 14 or so years, i have more belief in Rodney Dangerfield or Jack Benny [may they RIP].

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:42 | 4941764 surf0766
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You forgot "But Bush". 

Were these found in Iraq?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:32 | 4941734 Goldilocks
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Donald Rumsfeld Unknown Unknowns !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk (0:34)

Rumsfeld hands (best version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5YIo48j5rQ (1:37)

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:12 | 4941874 Yes_Questions
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Rumsfeld and those he works(ed) for are the reason this is even a remote concern.

 

FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKER STRAIGHT TO HELL.

 

that fucking hubristic fucking fucker!

 

known unknowns..

 

fucking slack jawed fucking shit fucker

 

fuck

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:06 | 4942068 bilbert
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Al Swearingen? - Is that you??

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:32 | 4941735 infinity8
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anybody else stream "Archer"?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:33 | 4941738 Smartie37
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Looks like it's GO TIME !

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:33 | 4941739 Quus Ant
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So if a nukey bomb goes off in Damascus or Tehran it definitely did NOT come from Dimona.  Got it.  Thanks.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:48 | 4941786 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Sounds about right but if I was anonymous I would be hacking some 'contractors' email accounts right about now.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:25 | 4941927 Quus Ant
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I was just being silly.  Everyone knows Israel don't have no nukes.  They put their faith in the good lord above.  He's never let them down.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:46 | 4942182 Dublinmick
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You can't lose when God's driving the tanks.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:38 | 4941751 MrTouchdown
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Now Obammy can Nobel Peace Prize the iRack! f0rward!

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:39 | 4941752 Colonel Klink
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The coming false flag is going as planned.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:41 | 4941758 surf0766
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How long until ISIS does #SaveTheKidsonBoarder

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:43 | 4941769 Otto Zitte
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Bullshit

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:44 | 4941770 Duc888
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Maybe they can melt some more granite / bedrock on Manhattan.

 

oh, I forgot, that was Jet-A fuel

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:58 | 4941827 Yes_Questions
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Your Fusion Center called..

 

I declined the tolls, so don't know what they wanted.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:46 | 4941777 Seasmoke
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OK well then give them a map to Israel. Then I might believe this. 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:47 | 4941782 SubjectivObject
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I'll go with unadulterated BS.

IS is a CIA affiliate.

I'm content to let happen what ever false flag is comming.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:48 | 4941788 SmittyinLA
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I suppose the US govt was funding Mosul University?

physics.....priceless the whole country could be run on hydro, and we fund a physics program

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:50 | 4941794 TinF0ilHat
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88 pounds of nuclear material.   See you in New York.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:06 | 4941859 Yes_Questions
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wait, is that code for CUNY?

 

 

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:52 | 4941799 Yes_Questions
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I swear I sense some of the people around me thinking thoughts like this at alll times:

 

“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.”  (~Huxley)
Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:51 | 4941800 logicalman
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False flag in 10  9  8  7  ........

Cross EVERYTHING and hope the city you live in is not the target.

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:54 | 4941807 22winmag
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Sounds like bullshite.

 

If ISIS could get it's hands on it, Israel would have already raided and "liberated" the uranium... or bombed the shit out of the university.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:39 | 4942279 IndyPat
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You'd think, right?
Wonder why they didn't....

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:53 | 4941808 TheBird
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Er.. stop the stupid OMG posts. Natural Uranium is only toxic if absorbed in significant quauntities over time as a dust - because of metal toxicity. Nobody is going to glow in the dark and its use as a dirty bomb would be again, next to useless once the panicers (like you guys) realized there was no danger.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:04 | 4941854 Yes_Questions
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uh, its

OMFG!!!!

 

and if not for this, what, fucking FUTBOL!?

 

I'll stick to panic in the streets, thanks.

 

;)

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:22 | 4941914 Tall Tom
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Uranium is easily pulverized into Uranium Oxide dust by fire.

 

Explosions are generally very energetic events (FIRE).

 

Now I really want you to tell that seriously to Gulf War Veterans who were marched through that shit and ended up suffering from Gulf War Syndrome (Radiation Poisoning).

 

Most soldiers came home from that conflict severely disabled.

 

Yeah. You need to get your ass kicked. Go tell your bullshit to a Gulf War Veteran.

 

What a Penis Breath? Have you been autofellating again you spineless piece of protoplasm?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:22 | 4941918 Global Hunter
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but somebody could detonate an existing nuclear weapon and then blame it on the nuclear material from Mosul University...and because most of the sheeple aren't as smart as you Bird they'd believe it.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:51 | 4942016 KingTut
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If you know what knid of Uranium this is, then tell us.

 Low grade ore (yelow cake) is harmless. Depleted Uranium is also harmelss.   Powerplant grade is another story.

The hardest part of enrichment is getting it to powerplant grade (3%?), from there to weapons grade is much easier.  This is why Iran's nuclear power program is such a joke.  Once you can make powerplant grade Uranium, you just keep going with wame equipment to get wepaons grade.  Better that nobody has the equipment.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:44 | 4942283 IndyPat
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..Depleted Uranium is also harmelss....

Wow. Really shining the cold dim glow of stupidity on the issue, bro.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:54 | 4941812 Peak Finance
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Wait, I am confused...

I thought there was NO WMD stuff in iraq, right?

If so, then we kinda put it there later? So somebody was like, "Ok Iraq is liberated now, lets ship some Uranium stuff there and let them do research??"

WTF?

No way it's weapons grade anyway. We're talking dirty bomb which is a terror-weapon but not really destructive.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:24 | 4942402 thamnosma
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One helluva terror weapon I don't care what the "destructive" power is.  Detonate some pipe bombs loaded with uranium dust in Malibu or the Hamptons and see what it does to property values...

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:55 | 4941815 logicalman
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235? 238? Ratio of 235 to 238

Important questions

Niether are good, but too much 235 is a big problem.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:41 | 4941948 Tall Tom
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You want to know the percentage of enrichment? Hmmm. A little moot depending upon the expertise available.

 

A Dirty Bomb is not an Atomic Bomb, after all.

 

Neutron enriched Uranium 238 transmutes into Plutonium 239. Now that is some toxic shit there.

 

Even if you got a Transmutation of .001% efficiency it would yield about 0.4 Grams of Plutonium 239. Pulverized that would be enough to take out the entire population of New York STATE. (Or did I miss it by an Order of Magnitude...I am doing this in my head.)

 

Neutron Guns are not that hard to construct. A Neutron Source inside of a Beryllium lens should do the trick.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:14 | 4942085 bilbert
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+10

First time I believe I've seen "moot" spelled correctly this year.

 

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 06:08 | 4942502 kurt
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shush, i'm thinking.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:07 | 4942125 Thought Processor
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"Neutron enriched Uranium 238 transmutes into Plutonium 239. Now that is some toxic shit there."

 

PU 239 is one of the most poisonous elements on earth.  And very small amounts can, if spread somehow, create quite a bit of carnage.

 

From Wikipedia:   It has been estimated that a pound (454 grams) of plutonium inhaled as plutonium oxide dust could give cancer to two million people.[5] Therefore as little as a milligram would be quite likely to cause cancer in a person. As a heavy metal, plutonium is also extremely toxic.

 

Bad stuff.

 

It's in MOX fuel as well as regular Nuclear power plant fuel though at lower concentrations.  Think Fukushima.  Then ponder how much of that crap got blown into the atmosphere, or how much is in the waste water they are flooding the place with.

 

It's a wonder we humans still exist on this planet.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 05:47 | 4942492 The man with po...
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And building 3 exploded and the spent fuel pool was on top of the reactor, and building 3 was loaded with MOX. God help the Japanese.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:24 | 4942403 thamnosma
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Maybe that's why the Islamic State has been putting out calls for engineers....

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:14 | 4942087 Seek_Truth
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Since you doubt it's efficacy
, why don't you gulp it down and volunteer to have TPTB document the effects

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:56 | 4941817 blindman
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yellow cake party, ask chilabi.
i knew technology and refinement would save
mankind in the end. homosapien sapien, get that
double sapien part?
.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:58 | 4942212 Oh regional Indian
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Never did BM, why is Sapien squared?

Curious.....

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:55 | 4941821 p00k1e
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After a few dirty bombs pop the larger U.S. cities, it’ll be a mad rush to the countryside.

In other words, within the first two days have offers in on multiple acreage lots.  You can sell the contract later. 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:56 | 4941823 NickVegas
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"Nearly 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University." No one finds this strange?

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:59 | 4941832 blindman
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i find it as odd as a yoga mat at a chili cook off.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 21:58 | 4941829 boeing747
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Welcome to USUL (United States of Undocumented Latinos) formerly known as USA.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:18 | 4941894 p00k1e
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Reagan conceded the Southwest decades ago.  We now live in the consequence. 

The Southwest has fallen.    

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 23:32 | 4942139 Ban KKiller
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The lower you are the less you have to fall...when the defecation hits the rotary oscillator. The rich will fall the hardest while the dumb farmer lives almost the same. Poor is ok...

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:50 | 4942014 Wahooo
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Fuck that. You blame them for coming here? Fucked up.

Blame the spineless pussies that run our government for not having the balls to decide who gets in and who stays out.

I'll correct your attrocious spelling: USFS United Sheep of Fucking Stupidity

 

 

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:26 | 4942404 thamnosma
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I prefer Illegal Latinos.  We're facing IS in Iraq and IL in Texas.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:00 | 4941836 Yes_Questions
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I wonder how much of this stuff was recovered by the University in the form of D.U. Shells from a former, occupying force.

 

what a shitshow.

 

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:05 | 4941856 teslaberry
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IT IS A TOTAL LIE THAT YOU NEED ENRICHED URANIUM TO MANUFACTURE A SUBSTANTIAL KILOTON WEAPON. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon

I'M NOT TALKING DIRTY BOMB. LOOK UP "TRITIUM BOOSTING". ALL YOU NEED IS A TINY AMOUNT OF TRITIUM TO HELP DETONATE LOW GRADE ( POWER PLANT) URANIUM TO DENONATE A HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED URANIUM BOMB. 

 

this isn't a 'fusion' bomb. it's a fission bomb that uses hydrogen isotopes commonly used in attempts at making fusion happen, but if you put them in a conventional fission bomb, that happens to use low enriched non-weapons grade plutonium. you can still get a substanial fission---a nuclear explosion kiloton yield.

 

THE PROBLEM OF COURSE IS IN OBTAINING THE MICROSCOPIC AMOUNTS OF TRITIUM. BUT ONCE YOU HAVE THAT (WHICH CAN BE SMUGGLED IN INSDIE A PILL SIZE OBJECT, YOU HAVE A KILOTON NUCLEAR BOMB DETONATOR. 

 

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:45 | 4942000 Tall Tom
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Wonderful. Thanks for the source.

 

Now where is there a Nuke Reactor around Iraq so they can obtain Heavy Water...Oh...yeah...Iran.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 02:16 | 4942397 RichardP
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ISIS = Sunni; Iran = Shiite.  Probably won't get the heavy water from Iran.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 07:18 | 4942564 Tall Tom
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And you think that there is not a Sunni insurgent minority in Iran?

 

Okay.

Wed, 07/09/2014 - 22:46 | 4942001 Wahooo
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I want one.

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 00:52 | 4942294 IndyPat
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There are microscopic amounts of Tritium in Trijicon ACOG rifle scopes.

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