U.S. Warns Financial Firms of Al Qaeda Threat
December 1st, 2006On 8/25/2004, I wrote:
I wouldn’t be surprised if critical network infrastructure was physically destroyed. The global economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. When the macro-scale looting has finally run its course, and the collapse is imminent, why no provide an excellent excuse for the collapse?Take away the flow of information and you take away the flow of money.
Take away the flow of money and you bring down the show.
Well, if anything happens, it simply means this nonsense with the economy and the dollar went too far. Forget about that Mexican standoff with the currencies and the national debt closing in on $9 trillion….
LOOK OUT! OVER THERE! IT’S A TERRORIST INDUCED CRISIS! RED ALERT! THE TERRORISTS KILLED FREE TRADE!!!! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!!!
HAHA!
The only thing we can know for sure is that the show is going to be good. It will, in fact, be the greatest show on earth. Get your popcorn ready:
Via CNN:
The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said Thursday.
The officials – a person familiar with the warning and a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security – said the Islamic militant group aimed to penetrate and destroy the databases of the U.S. stock market and banking Web sites.
Research Credit: GK
Hey you know what could be next?? Something like this “The U.S. Gov’t has warned financial firms and brokerage houses to be on the lookout for any individuals who are making unusual amounts of money by trading stocks or trading currencies through the Internet. The Gov’t suggests that such individuals could possibly be raising funds to support “terrist activities” (I misspelled that on purpose, in Bush-spelling), and as such their funds/profits should be frozen until a Gov’t inspection team can investigate the individual in question to ascertain the profits wouldn’t be used for illegal activity”
Or is that too far-fetched??
Far fetched?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0207/S00119.htm
And definitely don’t get caught with physical cash:
Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp
Eighth Circuit Appeals Court ruling says police may seize cash from motorists even in the absence of any evidence that a crime has been committed.
US Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation.
In the case entitled, “United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, a man with a “lack of significant criminal history” neither accused nor convicted of any crime.
This announcement from cnn is laughable. Al Qaeda is trying to whipe out financial databases? As if databases aren’t backup on a regular bases and easily restored? This looks like just one more attempt to get Joe Lumpen quaking in his boots thinking ‘dem A-rabs are gonna whipe out his pension.
Oh Help me Home Land Security, the A-rabs are gonna ruin me. You’re my only hope.