OT: Countdown: Three Weeks to Chaos

[CA renter]

TB,

That’s a good idea, and I’m not sure why it’s not already being done.

Used to work in import/export, but that was a long time ago. We used Letters of Credit, and I can see how this could be a problem if banks don’t trust each other.

Additionally, why not start up a full-reserve bank that can work as an escrow company in all types of transactions like this?

Anyone here with more current experience know why/if this is not being done?

A business idea for us Piggs??? 😉

[Arraya]

Nice to know they have a bunch of Nukes. I would not want to be in Israel now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081014/wl_mcclatchy/3072503

A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as “very bad.” Another official called the draft “very bleak,” and said it describes Pakistan as being “on the edge.”

The first official summarized the estimate’s conclusions about the state of Pakistan as: “no money, no energy, no government.”

[Arraya]

Nice to know they have a bunch of Nukes. I would not want to be in Israel now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081014/wl_mcclatchy/3072503

A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as “very bad.” Another official called the draft “very bleak,” and said it describes Pakistan as being “on the edge.”

The first official summarized the estimate’s conclusions about the state of Pakistan as: “no money, no energy, no government.”

[Arraya]

Nice to know they have a bunch of Nukes. I would not want to be in Israel now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081014/wl_mcclatchy/3072503

A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as “very bad.” Another official called the draft “very bleak,” and said it describes Pakistan as being “on the edge.”

The first official summarized the estimate’s conclusions about the state of Pakistan as: “no money, no energy, no government.”

[Arraya]

Nice to know they have a bunch of Nukes. I would not want to be in Israel now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081014/wl_mcclatchy/3072503

A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as “very bad.” Another official called the draft “very bleak,” and said it describes Pakistan as being “on the edge.”

The first official summarized the estimate’s conclusions about the state of Pakistan as: “no money, no energy, no government.”

[Arraya]

Nice to know they have a bunch of Nukes. I would not want to be in Israel now.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081014/wl_mcclatchy/3072503

A U.S. official who participated in drafting the top secret National Intelligence Estimate said it portrays the situation in Pakistan as “very bad.” Another official called the draft “very bleak,” and said it describes Pakistan as being “on the edge.”

The first official summarized the estimate’s conclusions about the state of Pakistan as: “no money, no energy, no government.”

[Arraya]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50

After a four-year spending spree, Icelanders are flooding the supermarkets
one last time, stocking up on food as the collapse of the banking system
threatens to cut the island off from imports. “We have had crazy days for
a week now,” said Johannes Oluffsson, manager of the Bonus discount
grocery store in Reykjavik’s main shopping center. “Sales have doubled.”
Bonus, a nationwide chain, has stock at its warehouse for about two
weeks. After that, the shelves will start emptying unless it can get access
to foreign currency, the 22-year-old manager said, standing in a walk-in
fridge filled with meat products, among the few goods produced locally.

[Arraya]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50

After a four-year spending spree, Icelanders are flooding the supermarkets
one last time, stocking up on food as the collapse of the banking system
threatens to cut the island off from imports. “We have had crazy days for
a week now,” said Johannes Oluffsson, manager of the Bonus discount
grocery store in Reykjavik’s main shopping center. “Sales have doubled.”
Bonus, a nationwide chain, has stock at its warehouse for about two
weeks. After that, the shelves will start emptying unless it can get access
to foreign currency, the 22-year-old manager said, standing in a walk-in
fridge filled with meat products, among the few goods produced locally.

[Arraya]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50

After a four-year spending spree, Icelanders are flooding the supermarkets
one last time, stocking up on food as the collapse of the banking system
threatens to cut the island off from imports. “We have had crazy days for
a week now,” said Johannes Oluffsson, manager of the Bonus discount
grocery store in Reykjavik’s main shopping center. “Sales have doubled.”
Bonus, a nationwide chain, has stock at its warehouse for about two
weeks. After that, the shelves will start emptying unless it can get access
to foreign currency, the 22-year-old manager said, standing in a walk-in
fridge filled with meat products, among the few goods produced locally.

[Arraya]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50

After a four-year spending spree, Icelanders are flooding the supermarkets
one last time, stocking up on food as the collapse of the banking system
threatens to cut the island off from imports. “We have had crazy days for
a week now,” said Johannes Oluffsson, manager of the Bonus discount
grocery store in Reykjavik’s main shopping center. “Sales have doubled.”
Bonus, a nationwide chain, has stock at its warehouse for about two
weeks. After that, the shelves will start emptying unless it can get access
to foreign currency, the 22-year-old manager said, standing in a walk-in
fridge filled with meat products, among the few goods produced locally.

[Arraya]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aVFtDRGwcc50

After a four-year spending spree, Icelanders are flooding the supermarkets
one last time, stocking up on food as the collapse of the banking system
threatens to cut the island off from imports. “We have had crazy days for
a week now,” said Johannes Oluffsson, manager of the Bonus discount
grocery store in Reykjavik’s main shopping center. “Sales have doubled.”
Bonus, a nationwide chain, has stock at its warehouse for about two
weeks. After that, the shelves will start emptying unless it can get access
to foreign currency, the 22-year-old manager said, standing in a walk-in
fridge filled with meat products, among the few goods produced locally.

[Arraya]

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field “Pain Ray”

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

[Arraya]

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field “Pain Ray”

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

[Arraya]

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field “Pain Ray”

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

[Arraya]

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field “Pain Ray”

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

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