"the calm before the storm"

This is it.
New world order.
Those god damn conspiracy theorists put too many bad ideas in Dubya's head.

There's a difference between congressional martial law and regular martial law.

Like what? Less concentration camps?

More on this:

Leahy Concerned about NorthCom’s New Army Unit

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx100708.html

NSPD 51 defines a catastrophic emergency as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function."

Notice the use of the word “or” above. In our current circumstances, it might be more relevant to read the definition this way: "any incident . . . that results in extraordinary levels of . . . disruption severely affecting the U.S. . . . economy."

President Bush could declare a catastrophic emergency today. And he’d have the 3rd Infantry, First Brigade Combat Team, well trained from its years patrolling Iraq, at his disposal here at home.

in b4 pro-pedophilia activists.

The only way you can get CP is if you actually SEARCH for it on purpose, with the sole intent of acquiring it. If you're found with CP on your computer, you're a paedo. NO EXCEPTIONS. Two Words:

Gary Glitter

>>8937

>If you're found with [incriminating material] on your computer, you're a [criminal]. NO EXCEPTIONS.

You obviously failed to understand that Roger Rabbit was not in fact Marvin Acme's murderer. Hence the word "framed" in the title of the famous 1980s film adaptation?

But I guess people are never framed in your world. No, slip a Bible in the man's satchel and he's as good as Christian, isn't he?

>>8937

>The only way you can get CP is if you actually SEARCH for it on purpose, with the sole intent of acquiring it. If you're found with CP on your computer, you're a paedo. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Really? So visit ii/b/, see CP, and you must've searched for it?

While moderating a board, click a link to see if it's trully relevant, find out it's a CP site, and you searched for it?

Search for Nozomi Kurahashi's name on google image search, come up with various images including when she was a child model, click on them, and you searched for it?

I rest my case.

'End of the World in 2012' faggots go 'BAAAAAWWWWWW! Our precious prediction was to no avail!'. Similar sheep-like faggot makes unfounded end of the world claim for 2013.

Film at 11.

>>8886
What the hell mentality do you think all of these private investors who are pulling out represent? America already lost its reputation as a safe investment ages ago, so like the man with nothing left to lose, America is in a prime position to throw in the towel and say "fuck this."

Not that it will, but you seem hellbent on convincing us that China has a one-sided relationship with the US when nothing could be further from the truth. If China has us by the balls, then we have them by theirs also. That's all I'm saying: it's an economic and political stalemate between two world powers who both owe one another and who both have the power to eliminate one another.

And for all your talk of "If America defaulted, then nobody would trust them ever again," what the fuck do you think would happen to China's reputation in the world community if they tried to force America into repayment and made good on the threat of military force if America defaulted? The day China clenches America's balls in its mighty red fist, so to speak, is the day that every other superpower bands together to find a way to prevent China from getting too powerful. It's the #1 reason why the Americans and Soviets, who didn't have any crucial economic codependency in the 1960s the way that America and China do today, who didn't have that blessing in disguise of a mutually-suffocating economic leash, abstained from attacking one another full-force. If the Soviets and Americans never went at in full because of the ramifications eradicating a world power would have on future prospects in the world community, what makes you the Chinese would, or even could, given that they need us?

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>>8891

this guy is my hero

"China could attempt to conquer America by force and absorb the territories held today by the US government into the PRC"

Someone has lost from view the relative importance of military forces here. In spite of grunting noises and "concern" from relevant US authorities (i.e. The Condi and Mullen) about the Chinese military, fact is that they are only "concerned" because China might achieve in some foreseeable future a force strong enough to COUNTER with some success an US military intervention in Asia or maybe get a bite at Taiwan. There is no way that "conquering USA" is possible or even on the table.

But now: the way of the US to get "out of debt" is of course: inflate the money supply (simply by going into debt nationally). Prices go "up" and prices for imported goods go up even faster. After some time, it's like "you know, you can still get a coffee at starbucks for the gazillion dollars you got in your coffers, trader".

Creditors will thus look early (like, now, or yesterday) into getting ahold of "solid stuff", like gold, real estate, US companies or a few F-15 Strike Eagles and associated maintenance contracts, he hee.

...one would have to add that if a "small country" did this to get out from the IMF thumb, a sudden "popular uprising" would emerge from its US embassy. But there is peon country, and then there is USA...

>>8896
Are you implying that conquering the United States is only on the table if the conqueror cares to and is capable of launching a full-scale invasion with immediate access to all conquered lands? Because I was implying by "conquering" that a nation might remotely launch devastating attacks via ICBMs, smuggled-in bioagents, etc, even if that rendered the conquered territory unusable for quite some time.

Nahh, for for scale planet-blow with subsequent gigadeath, the anger level and dogmatic retardedness will have to be much higher than they are now, and being out of cash isn't a good enough reason to strike out in a deadly embrace (nations never went to war over cash problems).

>>8903

>nations never went to war over cash problems

O rly?

Wasn't a cash problem, Jim.

Gulf War 1:

Saddam: Uh, you know, I want to suck Kuwait back into the motherland...
USA: We will consider that an Iraqi internal affair.
Saddam: GRAB!!
USA: NO! BAD SADDAM! LINE IN THE SAND etc.

(millions of dead later)

Gulf War 2:

Neocons: We gotta get a new foothold in the Middle East and open up oil for safe handling by non-Saudi multis. Also, Israel.
Condi: Gwana-gwana Mushroom Cloud gwana-gwana

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>>8912
You might want to read up on Iraq's relationship with Kuwait preceding, throughout, and immediately after the Iran-Iraq War, then. It's clear that you don't yet know or appreciate what Iraq was to Kuwait and why Iraq invaded in 1990 the very country they agreed to defend from invading Iranian troops less than a decade earlier.

In brief, Iraq took most of the casualties, both in terms of men and in terms of infrastructure, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. When the Iraqi government approached Kuwait and asked for financial assistance, Kuwait responded with "We've done all we can," an answer the Iraqis rejected.

Furthermore, the reason for US involvement in the Gulf was a) that Kuwait's oil fields were in danger and b) that their Saudi friends' oil fields were also in potential danger of being taken over. So again we return, fundamentally, to money. America was not there as a friend of Kuwait, but rather as a superficial friend of an Emir and his people who were ready to sign lopsided oil deals with their military saviors.

If that's not a war for money, then you tell me what is.

>>8915

I concede this argument.

>>8859
Just like there are no Turks in Germany, right?

>>8853

Good. One less subhuman Hitler-lover free to spread his poisonous lies. I say all Neo-Nazis should be publicly tortured to death. Good people died in the last war to eliminate Nazis & their way of thinking. The fact they're allowed to breathe the same air as the rest of us (and the survivors of WWII, who fought to eliminate these inferior subhumans) is an insult to them.

>>8865
Is this a troll or do you just not see the irony of that viewpoint?

>>8865
I mostly agree. However, I think that every Tuesday ought to have inforced political incorrectness. Just to spice things up, because legalised political correctness would get kind of dull on its own, you know? Especially since you couldn't even ask why, as that would imply you were a non-believer and thus be likely to get your head on the chopping block. Anyway, we could also have like a weekly "Funniest Videos" show that focuses on all the people who are going to be executed because they forgot Tuesday was political incorrectness day and it was caught on tape.

Then finally we could have peace and all, as statements like "How is doubting a holocaust your great uncle says he saw so much different from doubting the virgin Mary your great ungle says appeared to him?" will be banned. (Warning: Don't read that last sentance if you are in Europe.) Of course without open dialog questions like that may simply sit and simmer in some people's minds, so we'd need some way to find such people so they can be eliminated. I'm sure the details could be worked out, though, perhaps with some massive spying program that looks for subconscious indicators of discontent.

I can't believe people still deny the Halocaust. It's stupid. He deserves what he got. One less person out there wasting tax dollars, and food.

I lost several loved ones in the Halocaust. Since then I have dedicated my life to ensuring that video game console superiority joins the ranks of racism, sexism, and classism as unacceptable in polite society.

>>8900
Now that he's in jail he's using more tax dollars, and possibly more food, depending on what his living conditions were.

>>8902
Don't forget fursecution!

>>8907

It doesn't matter. He's being punished for his crimes, and that's worth the cost.

>>8918
If you ask me I'd love free meals everyday and plenty of time to kick back and relax. Sounds like my kinda life.