Does a state of war exist?

[as seen on tv]

The NASDAQ computerized stock market was “down” yesterday for 3 hours or so. Officials managed to restore the system a few minutes before the 4pm close of business. But they refuse to give an official explanation for the outage, leading to speculation that this was a “denial of service attack” similar to the ones the Iranian military has launched against major US and European banks previously, in retaliation for sanctions and restrictions on the movement of money they use to sponsor terrorism and nuclear weapons development.

The US government has “no comment” either.

Let me postulate an analogy: Suppose a small cadre of Iranian military covert ops types stormed the floor of the stock exchange, took everyone hostage, and then attempted to blow up the building? Suppose they’d previously attempted this at every “systemically important bank” in the nation – Chase, Citi, B of A, Wells Fargo . ..?

Would it be appropriate for the government to remain silent, and not take action?

Realistically, the corporate equivalent of “Norton Internet Software” is unlikely to prevent state sponsored internet terrorism. Expecting your local bank and the stock markets to fend for themselves while under sustained attack by the world’s worst rogue nations is worse than short sighted. It’s a complete abdication of defending our nation and people.

We evidently can find the time and money to vacuum up all the emails, tweets, and phone calls made from our citizens, and crunch the “big data” to see if “chatter” suggests Obama’s birthday will be celebrated by an embassy bombing .. .but we lack the clarity of mind and resources to protect our financial system, our checking account balances, our pensions?

I can’t understand why the press isn’t discussing this openly. Hey – all you talking head guys on TV. You’re millionaires. You have more to lose than the rest of us. CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN – you’re publicly traded companies and you depend on orderly, well run stock markets.

Or are YOU networks and media millionaires too stupid to figure that out as well?

Full disclosure – can we hire that computer nerd Justin Long from “Live Free or Die Hard” to send the Iranian military an “E bomb”? They might actually be receptive to offers for cheap Viagra, Nigerian sweepstakes, non stick cookware.

 

[worldlymrb]

Our Federal Govt is at war with everybody except Central Bankers, Wall Street, Illegal Immigrants, War Criminals and Islamic Extremist.

 

[Sickofleft]

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The NASDAQ computerized stock market was “down” yesterday for 3 hours or so. Officials managed to restore the system a few minutes before the 4pm close of business. But they refuse to give an official explanation for the outage, leading to speculation that this was a “denial of service attack” similar to the ones the Iranian military has launched against major US and European banks previously, in retaliation for sanctions and restrictions on the movement of money they use to sponsor terrorism and nuclear weapons development.

The US government has “no comment” either.

Let me postulate an analogy: Suppose a small cadre of Iranian military covert ops types stormed the floor of the stock exchange, took everyone hostage, and then attempted to blow up the building? Suppose they’d previously attempted this at every “systemically important bank” in the nation – Chase, Citi, B of A, Wells Fargo . ..?

Would it be appropriate for the government to remain silent, and not take action?

Realistically, the corporate equivalent of “Norton Internet Software” is unlikely to prevent state sponsored internet terrorism. Expecting your local bank and the stock markets to fend for themselves while under sustained attack by the world’s worst rogue nations is worse than short sighted. It’s a complete abdication of defending our nation and people.

We evidently can find the time and money to vacuum up all the emails, tweets, and phone calls made from our citizens, and crunch the “big data” to see if “chatter” suggests Obama’s birthday will be celebrated by an embassy bombing .. .but we lack the clarity of mind and resources to protect our financial system, our checking account balances, our pensions?

I can’t understand why the press isn’t discussing this openly. Hey – all you talking head guys on TV. You’re millionaires. You have more to lose than the rest of us. CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN – you’re publicly traded companies and you depend on orderly, well run stock markets.

Or are YOU networks and media millionaires too stupid to figure that out as well?

Full disclosure – can we hire that computer nerd Justin Long from “Live Free or Die Hard” to send the Iranian military an “E bomb”? They might actually be receptive to offers for cheap Viagra, Nigerian sweepstakes, non stick cookware.

Don't forget flush toilets, I think in large swaths of the middle east a flush toilet would go for a high premium........just saying.....

 

[as seen on tv]

Don't forget flush toilets, I think in large swaths of the middle east a flush toilet would go for a high premium........just saying.....

duirng the cold war, the pentagon concocted a plan to "bomb" the soviet union with sears roebucks catalogues. the thinking was that 300 pages of fashionable consumer goods delivered to your door would stop communism dead in its tracks. what happened instead was satellite TV and the internet, which had essentially the same effect.

religious jihadists insist that the faithful remain impoverished and pure, while they themselves live like kings with mulitple teenage wives and lavish posessions. Even the great ascetic - Osama Bin Laden - lived in a million dollar compound with internet, tV, and his prettiest young wife, when he was shot.

if you believe your only duty is to live in poverty and take a christian or jew with you when you die . . i don't have an immediate answer to solving that problem

 

[Sickofleft]

if you believe your only duty is to live in poverty and take a christian or jew with you when you die . . i don't have an immediate answer to solving that problem

No I don't either but for some reason with that in mind, to large numbers of people on this board letting Iran gettting a nuclear capability is ok....

 

[as seen on tv]

No I don't either but for some reason with that in mind, to large numbers of people on this board letting Iran gettting a nuclear capability is ok....

if iran bombs tel aviv (or paris, or nyc) these same people will be rising from the ashes to proclaim "they (or we) had it coming. it's not irans fault for doing this"

 

[Sickofleft]

if iran bombs tel aviv (or paris, or nyc) these same people will be rising from the ashes to proclaim "they (or we) had it coming. it's not irans fault for doing this"

Yes....something about a coup or something....and George Bush sucks......

 

[GordonGecko]

What do you want us to DO, ASOT?

Declare war on Iran?

Or is this more of rightwing complaints-but-no-actual-solutions discussions on foreign policy?