MSNBC reports Pentagon "off-terror betting" market SHUT DOWN

[short bus president]

as of 11:33a Tuesday - no link yet, will scour the MSRNC site for details and update.

Wondered how long this planned atrocity would last...

[otohara]

1. LMAO

I liked what Dorgan said yesterday, he was having a hard time convencing people it wasn't a hoax.

[Gman]

4. I was going to check Snopes

as I initially thought it was a hoax also. this is the most bizarre thing ever done by "administration" to date. The show continues.

[benfranklin1776]

10. I agree

It is sick as hell, but it is not without precedent though. Now faded into the dim recesses of the major news media's attention span, someone did indeed place a bet on a future terrorist attack. Prior to September 11th someone already was in the terror "future's game." They were placing their bets regarding the stock of certain US airlines. The bets were made on the premise that
the stock would fall precipitously the week of September 11th and their bets paid off handsomely after the barbaric butchery of thousands of people. So Someone obviously got a hot tip didn't they? From whom and from where?
That is the million dollar question we should ponder after hearing this latest travesty.

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=99402

[DagmarK]

17. The GUT talk boards batted around the hoax issue for a LONG time

One post after another..... Whaaaatt?? Nagh! No way in hell! Not even possible for the American Radical Right to come up with this! Forget it, no one would come up with something like that.

Interspersed with people saying.....yes, it's true...here's the link...but maybe someone hacked into yahoo or something.

Around and about.

it is THE most unbelievable thing on earth.

And I think we need to demand Congress investigate WHO exactly was involved in it and force them out of the Pentagon on the grounds that they are certifiably INSANE. (And this has Rummy's whacky satanic thumbprints all over it).

[diamond14]

32. after the bush* bloody bloated human head trophy display...

anything can be expected out of this brutal cabal of THUGS...

whatever gets out onto the internet is just a tiny window in the REAL BIG STUFF that is going on inside the pentagoon right now...

I'm sure they thought that web site was just tons of fun...these guys are KILLERS and they have no conscience...they sit around thinking everyday about how to make better clusterbombs, shock-and-awes, nuclear weapons to vaporize cities, chemical weapons to eat the skin off of victims and torment them for days before death, biotoxins that make you wish you were dead sooner or beg to be shot

this is what we pay for...so we should not expect anything else...we are paying most of our taxes for death and destruction...for torture and killings to make corporate profits...

[paper chase guy]

2. damn...

now bush can't hit the trifecta for real.

[Itascapark]

3. WTF???

So, were they hoping the story wouldn't get out or what?

[kayell]

6. Or it was a huge distraction

what did we miss folks? what got ignored? I wouldn't put anything past them anymore. Although i think they are becoming deluded enough to not only think this was a good idea, but that they could get away with it.

[Tansy_Gold]

15. what might have got missed. . . . .

. . . was the Fisk report of U.S. atrocities in Baghdad.

I don't watch tv and don't have access to broadcast news on my computer at work, but the NYT, LATimes, WP, etc., had nothing on their front page websites to report on what went down in the "search" for Hussein -- civilian deaths, Japanese reporter threatened, etc.

So the talk will be about betting on terrorism, while the silence will hide the being terrorized.


being Tansy Gold

[Uzybone]

25. That wasnt going to be reported anyway

not with this "liberal" media. But another poster made a good point. What ever happened to the people/entities who made millions on the airline crash post 9/11? Was it ever investigated? Why does no one talk about it anymore?

[supernova]

5. Wow, an injection of

sanity in this misadministration.

This was an evil, evil idea who's time should never have come.

[chadm]

7. what are you guys talking about

?

[benfranklin1776]

11. The latest in Strangelovian lunacy from Donnie and the Boys

The lunatics are not only running the asylum they now want you to bet on how long it will take for them
to destroy it as well.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_MARKET?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME

[benfranklin1776]

12. The latest in Strangelovian lunacy from Donnie and the Boys

The lunatics are not only running the asylum they now want you to bet on how long it will take for it to be destroyed as well.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_MARKET?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME

[KellyW]

14. another link

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/2363276/detail.html

[short bus president]

8. nothing on the PAM shitcanning just yet, but

here's a transcript from Aussie Radio in which Dorgan describes the idea as "unbelievably stupid:"

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s912955.htm

[DagmarK]

18. I FINALLY get the joke about the short bus!!!

Thanks for the graphic! I guess I do better with picture books.......like all the other kids on the short bus.

OMG......that is tooooooooo funny. That pic is hilarious with goober-boy all excited about going to school like all the other big kids!

[shirlden]

9. Thank the gods of common sense

Now I don't have to leave. When this story broke, I found it so "sick" I decided....."That's it....I'm leaving". Now I can wait awhile for the next bizzarro scheme.

:bounce:

[Booberdawg]

13. What a disgraceful idea

Have they lost their frickin minds at the pentagon?? Unbelievable! I think rumfilled and cabal are getting waaaaaay too much testosterone. Geeze!

[psychopomp]

16. Just incredible

Somebody has to do a "hey, you remember when the PENTAGON was going to set up a futures market on CHAOS in the Middle East?" thread in, say, a year or two. This is too weird for me to accept as anything more than a waking dream brought on by sleep deprivation.

I can't believe I actually read a headline like that in my lifetime.

This has got to be part of some kind of mass-hypnosis effort.

edit: more tinfoil:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[Must_B_Free]

27. They'll just do it under a different cuddly name

just like "total information awareness" went to "terrist information awareness"

[sam sarrha]

29. the Pentagon was just looking to make some easy money with

insider information.

[RobertSeattle]

19. Website is still up and running as of time of this post

www.policyanalysismarket.org

[underpants]

20. Yikes! That's one helluva front page they have there

Reminds me of Total Informaiton Awareness logo.

[NYC]

33. Blank white page,

but I have some screen shots from yesterday.

[short bus president]

21. LINK HERE

"The Pentagon says it is reconsidering its plan for an internet futures market on terror attacks and assassinations in the Middle East.

In a statement late Monday, the Pentagon said it would consider what it called the 'technical promise' of the plan before asking for additional funds to make it operational."

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=2AE95D77-D19A-4518-8DA7F252DE27AA87

[Tracer]

22. DARPA Is Some Weird Place!

They are the TIA people and are into other extremely strange plans.

[booksenkatz]

23. But wait

I bet they're getting ready to do something ALMOST as off-the-wall so that the thing that they really want to do will look SANE compared to this off-terror betting shit. Wait and see.

Pass the popcorn (and not so much butter on mine this time).

[gristy]

24. Fox news: Terrorism Futures Market cancelled

<snip>

WASHINGTON ? The Pentagon will abandon a plan to establish a futures market to help predict terrorist strikes, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Tuesday.

Sen. John Warner (search), R-Va., said he spoke by phone with the program's director, "and we mutually agreed that this thing should be stopped."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93190,00.html

THAT sure didn't take long.

How long 'till Poindexter is cancelled?????

[karlschneider]

26. Wolfie said at the Sen. hearing this a.m. he "never heard of it until read

it in the paper on the way over here..."
Right. Suuure.
:grr:

[CO Liberal]

28. Actually, They're Outsourcing It To India

Isn't that what ALL good Republicans are doing nowadays?

:-)

[Buns_of_Fire]

30. Question: Would YOU want to be the one...

...to correctly predict the next terrorist attack? On a government site? Whatever you "won," I'd guess you wouldn't get to spend much of it during your extended, all-expenses-paid, indefinite vacation at lovely tropical Gitmo after your surprise visit by the boys of Homeland Security. (Think Ed McMahon with a large gun and a warrant for your arrest.)

[diamond14]

31. at the Iraq hearing today: they asked if it was POINDEXTER

that ran this project...asking Wolfowich himself....

and several senators asked for a list of who worked on this, how much it cost, and who's idea it was, and they want heads to roll...

senators: What is THIS...contracting for terrorism...selling to the highest bidder....killing presidents...hired assassinations...killing for corporate profit....

wolfo: I had no idea, just read about it in today's paper...we try to get these guys to be creative, but it sounds like they got a "little" too creative....

(of course, IMO, it just sounds like what the pentagoon does everyday...killing for corporate profit, assassinations...and all that...)

[Snellius]

34. What about Miss Cleo's psychic hot line?

I'm sure OTB will find another home the Pentagon.

[Sterling]

35. Anyone remember the put options after 9-11?

connect the dots plz people.