U.S. Special Operations Command Visits Cryptogon

The U.S. Special Operations Command user (host: wsa27.socom.mil, ip: 209.22.222.27) conducted the following Google search: rice rationing united states.

The socom.mil user read: EMERGENCY: FOOD RATIONING REPORTED IN U.S.; EAST AND WEST COAST, and reloaded the page once.

Hmmm

[tqft]

Via cryptome
https://www.nsa.gov/releases/cdx.cfm [nsa.gov]
"The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) Information Assurance Directorate will host the 8th Annual Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX), 21-24 April 2008. Joining "

Couldn't be any correlation?

Yes, well, the privateers already

[iminplaya]

have a head start [nysun.com] on the rationing business. And anybody who thinks that the military will have a hard time finding soldiers who will shoot down Americans, better think again [guardian.co.uk]. And please remember that these "shortages" are nothing more than price adjustments. It's the thievery in the energy markets and speculation all around that's causing this. And it's the one big ruse that could get people to accept a "postponement" of the election.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Commodities. Food. Bodies.

All speculatively traded.

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[iminplaya]

I was thinking of putting a kidney, or a piece of my liver up on eBay. Now I think I'll just put 'em on the grill. Mmmm... maybe some ribs, too.

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[Qzukk]

You mean it's NOT because of all the farmers growing that ethanol corn stuff I keep hearing about in the middle of the rice swamps?

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[rk]

Y'know, my first reaction is to dismiss your post as paranoid hyperbole, but given everything that's transpired in the last seven years, it's really hard to do so.

I was talking with my dad about a month ago about the situation in the world. Understand first my dad is the archetypal pillar of the community, moderate Republican midwestern businessman, ex-president of his local Kiwanis chapter sixtysomething type. He's about as mainstream white guy America as you can get. I asked him point blank: "What wo

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[iminplaya]

Y'know, my first reaction is to dismiss your post as paranoid hyperbole...

Yeah, I get that a lot. Goes with the territory I guess. Eh, waddya gonna do? I can honestly tell you though that what is transpiring has been going on a lot longer than seven years. Tenacity is the word for today.

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[rk]

Yeah, I get that a lot. Goes with the territory I guess. Eh, waddya gonna do? I can honestly tell you though that what is transpiring has been going on a lot longer than seven years. Tenacity is the word for today.

Oh, I agree with you. This score has been a century plus in the making... I'm just surprised to find such a fast accelerando to the thrilling coda at this point in the music, I guess. :-/