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29 Jul 2003 04:10:23 PM |
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OT: Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan |
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
By KEN GUGGENHEIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while heading
to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out
about it, but it is being terminated."
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said in an
interview that he received assurance from the head of the Pentagon
agency overseeing the program that it would "stop all engines on this
matter today."
Warner spoke by telephone with Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon's
Defense Research Projects Agency, after consulting with Intelligence
Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Appropriations Chairman Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska. The three agreed "that this should be immediately
disestablished," Warner said.
Warner said that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications of
the program."
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of traders
was to begin Friday.
The article continues at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Terror%20Market
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "Marc Fleury" |
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30 Jul 2003 10:12:02 AM |
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Does anyone know the address of the website that was set up? All the
news stories I've seen mention that the site is still up, but they
don't give the address.
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Marc.
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| User: "johac" |
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31 Jul 2003 01:37:41 AM |
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In article <a0ofiv87effknsnm9hfqucddnftgam4ot2@4ax.com>,
Marc Fleury <marcfleury@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Does anyone know the address of the website that was set up? All the
news stories I've seen mention that the site is still up, but they
don't give the address.
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Marc.
I gave it yesterday:
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/FutureMap.htm
It was up last night about 11pm PDT, but I checked this morning and it
had already been taken down.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed,
miracles ceased; but in those parts that are barbarous and ignorant,
miracles are still in vogue." -Letters of Ethan Allen to Thomas Jefferson
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| User: "Apostate" |
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30 Jul 2003 01:50:25 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:12:02 -0400, Marc Fleury <marcfleury@sympatico.ca> wrote in alt.atheism:
Does anyone know the address of the website that was set up? All the
news stories I've seen mention that the site is still up, but they
don't give the address.
What are you planning to bet on?
The smart money is watching.
--
/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by vernon; NEW! IMPROVED! plonked by Lani_girl
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| User: "Elroy Willis" |
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30 Jul 2003 06:18:58 AM |
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Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
By KEN GUGGENHEIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while heading
to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out
about it, but it is being terminated."
I thought placing bets on which celebrities will die this year was in
bad taste, but this is magnitudes worse.
"Game Boy" regime is good description indeed.
--
Elroy Willis
EAP Chief Editor and Newshound
http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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30 Jul 2003 05:12:55 AM |
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Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message news:<3F26E2BF.9E433EC2@serv.net>...
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while heading
to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
It's not the first time Shrub and his cronies have tried
something like this. Read my post from May 7th, titled
"OT: More fuel for the firing lines".
http://www.google.com/groups?selm=4fa573de.0305070846.777c8926%40posting.google.com&output=gplain
Money matters more to these people than human lives.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out
about it, but it is being terminated."
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said in an
interview that he received assurance from the head of the Pentagon
agency overseeing the program that it would "stop all engines on this
matter today."
Translation: "We got caught this time, so we'll stop.
(And be more careful not to get caught next time...)"
Warner spoke by telephone with Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon's
Defense Research Projects Agency, after consulting with Intelligence
Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Appropriations Chairman Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska. The three agreed "that this should be immediately
disestablished," Warner said.
Warner said that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications of
the program."
No *****, sherlock. (I mean Warner; not you, GG.)
This describes the entirety of Shrub's administration.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Liz" |
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29 Jul 2003 07:25:12 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
in news message <3F26E2BF.9E433EC2@serv.net> wrote:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
[-----]
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of traders
was to begin Friday.
Bread and circuses. <shakes head sadly>
The article continues at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Terror%20Market
Liz #658 BAAWA
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the
belief that the gods are on the side of the government.
-- Bertrand Russell
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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30 Jul 2003 09:09:50 AM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:17:16 -0700 in alt.atheism, Gregory Gadow
(Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Liz wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
in news message <3F26E2BF.9E433EC2@serv.net> wrote:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
[-----]
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of traders
was to begin Friday.
Bread and circuses. <shakes head sadly>
And if I recall correctly my college western civ classes, "bread and circuses" was one of the
early symptoms of the Roman Empire's fall.
Nah. Bread & Circuses kept the Roman Empire in business for ages!
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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30 Jul 2003 09:59:57 AM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:17:16 -0700 in alt.atheism, Gregory Gadow
(Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Liz wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
in news message <3F26E2BF.9E433EC2@serv.net> wrote:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
[-----]
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of traders
was to begin Friday.
Bread and circuses. <shakes head sadly>
And if I recall correctly my college western civ classes, "bread and circuses" was one >of the
early symptoms of the Roman Empire's fall.
Nah. Bread & Circuses kept the Roman Empire in business for ages!
As a friend of mine used to say, "You don't prop up a healthy tree."
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "Apostate" |
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29 Jul 2003 05:41:01 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
I only first heard of it on "Morning Edition", in the present tense, I think.
It was history by the time I booted my browser to my headlines page.
As it ought to be, sez me. What's to say? My appalled glands are over-strained
lately, while my surprised glands have atrophied. Seems like a good day,
any time this admin doesn't either pull off a theft of civil rights at home or
an invasion abroad. Count our blessings, sez I.
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
By KEN GUGGENHEIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while heading
to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out
about it, but it is being terminated."
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said in an
interview that he received assurance from the head of the Pentagon
agency overseeing the program that it would "stop all engines on this
matter today."
Warner spoke by telephone with Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon's
Defense Research Projects Agency, after consulting with Intelligence
Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Appropriations Chairman Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska. The three agreed "that this should be immediately
disestablished," Warner said.
Warner said that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications of
the program."
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of traders
was to begin Friday.
The article continues at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Terror%20Market
--
/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by vernon; NEW! IMPROVED! plonked by Lani_girl
I doubt, therefore I might be.
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| User: "August Pamplona" |
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29 Jul 2003 07:38:36 PM |
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"Apostate" <Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org> wrote in message
news:entdiv8do0lv8ekjomn267ragte2v4rgej@4ax.com...
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
wrote in alt.atheism:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so
typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and
mayhem.
I only first heard of it on "Morning Edition", in the present tense, I
think.
It was history by the time I booted my browser to my headlines page.
As it ought to be, sez me. What's to say? My appalled glands are
over-strained
lately, while my surprised glands have atrophied. Seems like a good
day,
any time this admin doesn't either pull off a theft of civil rights at
home or
an invasion abroad. Count our blessings, sez I.
Yeah, it's apalling, moronic, near voodoo, a waste of time, etc..
However, if it keeps John Poindexter out of trouble (ie. busy enough
that he doesn't have a chance to come up with worse *****), I'm all for
it.
August Pamplona
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"No, jew. Your jew opinion doesn't matter no matter what, jew. Your
writings deserve no comprehension, merely scorn, jew. You are jew."
-Lysis on m.f.w.
a.a. # 1811 apatriot #20
To email replace 'necatoramericanusancylostomaduodenale' with
'cosmicaug'
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
By KEN GUGGENHEIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while
heading
to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find
out
about it, but it is being terminated."
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said in an
interview that he received assurance from the head of the Pentagon
agency overseeing the program that it would "stop all engines on this
matter today."
Warner spoke by telephone with Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon's
Defense Research Projects Agency, after consulting with Intelligence
Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Appropriations Chairman
Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska. The three agreed "that this should be immediately
disestablished," Warner said.
Warner said that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications
of
the program."
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on
the
Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events in
the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A Web
site promoting the plan already is available and registration of
traders
was to begin Friday.
The article continues at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=115
2&slug=Terror%20Market
--
/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by vernon; NEW! IMPROVED! plonked by Lani_girl
I doubt, therefore I might be.
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| User: "johac" |
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30 Jul 2003 01:21:23 AM |
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In article <gsEVa.1917$mr1.1882@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"August Pamplona" <necatoramericanusancylostomaduodenale@mail.com>
wrote:
"Apostate" <Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org> wrote in message
news:entdiv8do0lv8ekjomn267ragte2v4rgej@4ax.com...
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
wrote in alt.atheism:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so
typical
of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and
mayhem.
I only first heard of it on "Morning Edition", in the present tense, I
think.
It was history by the time I booted my browser to my headlines page.
As it ought to be, sez me. What's to say? My appalled glands are
over-strained
lately, while my surprised glands have atrophied. Seems like a good
day,
any time this admin doesn't either pull off a theft of civil rights at
home or
an invasion abroad. Count our blessings, sez I.
Yeah, it's apalling, moronic, near voodoo, a waste of time, etc..
However, if it keeps John Poindexter out of trouble (ie. busy enough
that he doesn't have a chance to come up with worse *****), I'm all for
it.
FWIW, here's what the NY Times had to say about Poin(tyhead)dexter:
http://tinyurl.com/ihc6
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Poindexter's Follies
The time has obviously come to send John Poindexter packing and to
shut down the wacky espionage operation he runs at the Pentagon. The
latest idea hatched by Mr. Poindexter's shop ‹ an online futures
trading market where speculators could bet on the probabilities of
terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups ‹ was canceled yesterday
by embarrassed Pentagon officials. The next logical step is to fire
Mr. Poindexter.
In testimony before Congress yesterday, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy
secretary of defense, disowned the futures project. The insensitivity
of the idea boggles the mind. Quite apart from the tone-deafness of
equating terrorist attacks with, say, corn futures, the plan would
allow speculators ‹ even terrorists ‹ to profit from anonymous bets on
future attacks. The project's theoretical underpinnings are equally
absurd. Markets do not always operate perfectly in the larger world of
stocks and bonds. The idea that they can reliably forecast the
behavior of isolated terrorists is ridiculous.
The "Policy Analysis Market" would actually have opened for business
on Oct. 1 had Senators Ron Wyden and Byron Dorgan not blown the
whistle. Despite Mr. Wolfowitz's pledge to kill it, however, the
problem of Mr. Poindexter remains. He is a man of dubious background
and dubious ideas. A retired rear admiral, he served as Ronald
Reagan's national security adviser and helped devise the plan to sell
arms to Iran and illegally divert the proceeds to the rebels in
Nicaragua. He was sentenced to six months in jail for lying to
Congress, a conviction overturned on appeal. He resurfaced under the
Bush administration at the Pentagon. His first big brainstorm
post-9/11 was a program known as Total Information Awareness, designed
to identify potential terrorists by compiling a detailed electronic
dossier on millions of Americans.
Congress agreed earlier this year to subject that program to strict
oversight and prohibit it from being used against Americans. In light
of the revelations about the latest Poindexter scheme, Congress
obviously did not go far enough. It should close his operation for
good. The Senate recently agreed to do just that, adding an amendment
to a Defense Department appropriations bill that would terminate funds
for the program. The House must now follow suit.
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The URL for the betting site, if they haven't taken it down yet is:
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/FutureMap.htm
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed,
miracles ceased; but in those parts that are barbarous and ignorant,
miracles are still in vogue." -Letters of Ethan Allen to Thomas Jefferson
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| User: "Dr. Smartass" |
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29 Jul 2003 07:07:48 PM |
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Apostate <Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org> wrote in
news:entdiv8do0lv8ekjomn267ragte2v4rgej@4ax.com:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
wrote in alt.atheism:
I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so
typical of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder
and mayhem.
I only first heard of it on "Morning Edition", in the present
tense, I think. It was history by the time I booted my browser to
my headlines page. As it ought to be, sez me. What's to say? My
appalled glands are over-strained lately, while my surprised
glands have atrophied. Seems like a good day, any time this
admin doesn't either pull off a theft of civil rights at home or
an invasion abroad. Count our blessings, sez I.
From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
By KEN GUGGENHEIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz said he learned of the program in the newspaper while
heading to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out
about it, but it is being terminated."
Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said in an
interview that he received assurance from the head of the Pentagon
agency overseeing the program that it would "stop all engines on this
matter today."
Warner spoke by telephone with Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon's
Defense Research Projects Agency, after consulting with Intelligence
Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Appropriations Chairman
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. The three agreed "that this should be
immediately disestablished," Warner said.
Warner said that DARPA "didn't think through the full ramifications of
the program."
The little-publicized Pentagon plan envisioned a potential futures
trading market in which speculators would wager with one another on
the Internet on the likelihood of various economic or political events
in the Middle East, including terrorist attacks or assassinations. A
Web site promoting the plan already is available and registration of
traders was to begin Friday.
Don't those bastards make enough money from being shower buddies with Chimp
'n' *****?
--
Dr. Smartass
BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
"And the knowledge that they fear
Is a weapon to be used against them."
--Rush, "The Weapon"
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| User: "Fear gan dia" |
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29 Jul 2003 06:36:53 PM |
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Verily verily I say unto you, it is written by Apostate <Apostate.invalid@yeehaw.org>
in <entdiv8do0lv8ekjomn267ragte2v4rgej@4ax.com>:
# On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:10:23 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism:
#
# >I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned this yet. It seems so typical
# >of the Current Regime's "Game Boy" attituded towards murder and mayhem.
#
# I only first heard of it on "Morning Edition", in the present tense, I think.
# It was history by the time I booted my browser to my headlines page.
# As it ought to be, sez me. What's to say? My appalled glands are over-strained
# lately, while my surprised glands have atrophied. Seems like a good day,
# any time this admin doesn't either pull off a theft of civil rights at home or
# an invasion abroad. Count our blessings, sez I.
#
# >
# >From this morning's Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
# >
# >Tuesday, July 29, 2003 · Last updated 11:35 a.m. PT
# >
# >Pentagon cancels terrorism betting plan
# >
# >By KEN GUGGENHEIM
# >ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
# >
# >WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a
# >futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly
# >predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.
[snip]
# >The article continues at
# >http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Terror%20Market
Remember when right after 9/11, there was a story that someone
or some group bought an abnormally large number of put options
on airline stocks a few days before the attacks. Then the story
abruptly vanished from the media! Why - did the clues lead in
an unexpected direction? Away from Osama bin Laden and towards
some well-connected players here in the US? Just speculating.
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Fear gan dia ### http://goddamliberal.blogspot.com
Director, EAC Division for Leaving the Toilet Seat up.
Dump the chimp! Re-elect a Democrat in '04.
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