Facelift in a jar can kill cells

Posted by: jcairo | Apr 21 2007 21:10 utc | 4

as nietzsche would answer: YESSS!!!

Posted by: slothrop | Apr 21 2007 22:21 utc | 6

at least the joke part. The Want really stumps me.

Posted by: Juannie | Apr 21 2007 22:42 utc | 8

Quote:
Do the earth worms ask questions?
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Yes CP, if you believe earth worms are reason that you had to go trough this joke…
b, you just got me with this one…
I am sooo not getting THE joke at the moment.

Posted by: vbo | Apr 21 2007 23:01 utc | 10

and from the same site, slothrop this nutcase (dave graubatz from powerline) speaks your language:

It is our task to conduct an extensive mapping of all the Islamic day schools, mosques, and other identifiable organizations in the US and to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, Shari’a. Further, the mapping will scale the Shari’a threat by identifying to which school of jurisprudence it belongs, its historical and contemporary call for Jihad, and whether the Jihad includes violent Jihad against non-believers. . . . Finally, we will examine and map any potential targets situated near these organizations, such as city, county, and federal government buildings, schools and universities, US military installations, major utility or infrastructure sites (i.e., nuclear installations, pipelines, water supply, etc.), and transportation hubs.

Posted by: conchita | Apr 21 2007 23:15 utc | 12

conchita :
do you mean as in actually smoking constantly (if so what is he smoking?), or just smokin’?

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Apr 22 2007 1:53 utc | 14

Noble Resolve 07: Four days of “simulated” nuclear terrorist

Global Research, April 20, 2007
False Flag News
From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.”
This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn?
The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command (NORTHCOM), J9 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, FEMA’s command bunker, the Department of Homeland Security, and Virginia police.
The US Marines are also running “Emerald Express 07” in Virginia on April 24 as part of their Urban Warrior 07 drill package.
It is important to note the “Nobel Resolve” drills are dominated by NORTHCOM, the branch of “homeland defense” based in Colorado and responsible for shutting down the United States under martial law, as well as ushering in the merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico via the SPP.
Meanwhile the J9 Directorate, formulates various terror scenarios and uses advanced computer modeling to run drills and predict human reactions; Recent articles highlight how they are using virtual environments to create and manage realistic war scenarios with millions of “people.”
Some key quotes from the article:
“He said the scenario of the experiment’s first phase starts with multinational partners and goes down to individual municipalities. It begins with a threat that originates in Europe and travels toward the United States.”
“Kersh said that as the scenario progresses, other agencies and other layers of government become involved.”
“The problem eventually arrives at the commonwealth of Virginia with that threat making it into port and then blowing up. This will cause us to work the consequence management part of the problem”
“The fusion center is in a state police headquarters and it’s collocated with Virginia’s emergency operations center.” (ed: Mount Weather)
“coordinated with DHS, possibly to coincide with one of that department’s major exercises.”
We must remember that CIA agent Philip Giraldi warned the American Conservative magazine that STRATCOM would launch a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new WMD-style attack on American soil.
And the Russian media and former Russian military members continue to warn that an American and Israeli strike on Iran is imminent.
While many drills are run every month, Nobel Resolve 07, with it’s “realistic” scenarios, comes at a time of increased geopolitical tension. It is reminiscent of the drills in 2005, where a ten-kiloton nuclear weapon was “simulated” to explode in South Carolina. Some speculated that four-star Gen. Kevin Byrnes, of the Fort Meade TRADOC command, was fired due to his exposure of the drill.
We should not live in a constant state of panic and fear, or make any irresponsible predictions about Noble Resolve 07. But in the coming days, we can email this information to blogs, media outlets, friends and family. Congressmen, and others to help inoculate against any possibility that rogue “red teams” inside the drills may be activated.

If I were to imagine how it would all finally collapse, I suppose this would be it. too damn close for comfort.
given the use of multiple war games (including: simulated live-fly hijackings, plane crashing into NSA? building, false inserts on ATC and uniformed radar screens, etc.) on 9/2001 to both facilitate and cover the attacks, the potential for re-occurance must be considered.
especially ’cause the perps are in control of all the buttons and brass, and feeling some pressure.
Any questions (see this last slide)?
Future Joint Warfare Power Point Presentation Northcom
Also, is this for real? It almost seems like a parody of itself. An updated Dr, Strangelove.
I guess our national security strategists are moving to a Video Game model of command and control. Not the Grand Chessboard, but the Grand Playstation.
JFCOM brings virtual world closer to home

In 2006, JFCOM led the Urban Resolve 2015 experiments. The largest modeling and simulation system ever built, UR2015 included more than 2 million individually simulated objects interacting in Baghdad in the year 2015. UR2015 was used to test current, future, and experimental strategies and technologies for fighting in an urban environment based on present and anticipated threats.
UR2015 brought together dozens of military simulations in a federated architecture. The Army’s Omni Fusion simulation, which models their Future Combat System, was part of UR2015. Northern Command will follow the same inclusive, open approach.
Under the architecture, new simulations can be added to increase the system’s overall power. For example, the system could also predict damage from floods and hurricanes using the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s blast effects model, officials said.
“We’re associating all of these modeling and simulating [techniques] for homeland defense… we’re building a confederation,” Kersh said.
Key to Urban Resolve and Noble Resolve is a technology called the Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation that was developed by a team at Purdue University. SEAS attempts to model nonkinetic effects of military operations in a civilian setting, or PMESII factors. The acronym stands for political, military, economic, social, infrastructure and information effects.
The first part of Noble Resolve will take place between April 23 and 27. In August, Noble Resolve 2 will coordinate with officials in Oregon to model a nuclear attack on Portland. Both efforts are in preparation for DHS’ Top Officials exercise in October.
JFCOM officials have said they plan to build intricate models of more cities. The goal is a fully functioning virtual model of the entire world, known as the Sentient Worldwide Simulation. The simulation, still in the conceptual stage, is envisioned as a “synthetic mirror of the real world” that will automatically follow real events in real time, according to the concept paper.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 22 2007 1:58 utc | 16

The origin of the human brain has been traced back to primitive central nervous systems in worms and bugs…

Posted by: fauxreal | Apr 22 2007 6:23 utc | 18

@11 – “This is about Iraq or cho heung-sui videos or something else and it is definitly OT here so I will NOT post it on the Iraq thread or the cho heung-sui thread or the OT-thread, but here, where it will be really, REALLY OT” – you’ll probably have to do it over again …
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It is not Vonnegut or a quote at all and yes, Nietzsche would have said yes.
It was just a rambling thought I had through a Mahakala meditation about cutting of want …
@CP – It’s earth-day and the NYT prints something on worms and there is a good question:

A sighting in Washington State of the giant white Palouse earthworm Driloleirus americanus, which stretches to three feet long and smells of lilies, sent shock waves through the earthworm community last year. If the Great White Worm was back after nearly 20 years in hiding, what else might still be out there?

Posted by: b | Apr 22 2007 7:43 utc | 20

Errr. That was meant to be referencing post #12, Conchita. Sorry.

Posted by: Jake | Apr 22 2007 15:08 utc | 22

an indication that another ceasefire is the works in somalia

…Hawiye clan leader Abdulahi Sheik Hassan has told Shabelle Sunday that the clan leaders and Bur Madow, a prominent traditional leader based in the secessionist administration of Somaliland had tried to broker a ceasefire agreement between the Ethiopian troops and the insurgents. “We contacted with Addis Ababa administration and convinced the government leaders to order their troops fighting in Somalia to cease the fire, and we do hope by today that the ceasefire deal will be implemented,” he said.

the GWOT angle is really getting ratcheted up in this latest round of heavy fighting. newswire reports are largely repeating the ethiopian/TFG/u.s. rhetoric that AQ is involved in the fighting there now. the TFG premier is sounding like baghdad bob now:

“Until the terrorists are wiped out from Somalia, the fighting will go on. I want to tell the Somali people and the world that there is no so called fighting between Hawiye clan and the government. The battle is clearly between terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda and the government supported by Ethiopian and AU troops,” he said.

also, chris floyd has an article up on somalia, mentioning both MoA and yours truly 🙂
Where the Dead Rot in the Streets: Bush’s Terror War in Somalia Rages On

As sure as night follows day, when George W. Bush backs a “regime change” invasion of a country, you will see headlines like this: “Corpses Rotting in the Streets.” We see it every day in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we are seeing it again in Somalia – the third nation-breaking operation launched under the rubric of Bush’s “War on Terror.”

Posted by: b real | Apr 22 2007 19:09 utc | 24

so Maliki “orders” a halt to the strategic hamlet wall project. wtf?
was this whole thing a ruse to shore up his street cred?
guess we’ll see if the construction actually stops soon enough.

Posted by: ran | Apr 23 2007 2:29 utc | 26