2003-07-29 17:59:54.069884+02 by Dan Lyke 5 comments
I call hoax: I don't remember which of my daily reads gave me a link to the story about the Pentagon funding PolicyAnalysisMarket.org, (one of a gazillion reprints of roughly the same story), but I call hogwash.
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#Comment Re: Terror futures trading made: 2003-07-30 21:25:44.026332+02 by: Larry Burton
Well, Smith was a prophet, ya know. :)
#Comment Re: Terror futures trading made: 2003-07-30 20:26:19.395168+02 by: Dan Lyke
Funny you should mention that, Under the Banner of Heaven![[Wiki]](/adbanners/lookingglass.png){kind=small}
mentions several times where Joseph Smith predicted the death of some political opponent, and sure enough, the prophecy would be fulfilled, often by a believer.
#Comment Re: [Entry #6385] Re: Terror futures trading made: 2003-07-30 02:56:03.804445+02 by: Larry Burton
Dan Lyke wrote: > From the weblog entry at > http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6385.html > > Hmmmm... Phil just sent http://www.darpa.mil/iao/FutureMap.htm which > might indicate that someone at DARPA <http://www.darpa.mil/> was > thinking about such a thing. >
Ever hear of assasination politics? This sounds an awful lot like having the potential of being something like that.
-- Regards, Larry Not playing music
#Comment Re: Terror futures trading made: 2003-07-29 23:34:22.782715+02 by: Dan Lyke
Hmmmm... Phil just sent http://www.darpa.mil/iao/FutureMap.htm which might indicate that someone at DARPA was thinking about such a thing.
#Comment Re: Terror futures trading made: 2003-07-29 23:10:49.8979+02 by: Dan Lyke
Here we go, in another article we get some quotes from experts, including this beauty:
"This is a low-budget operation," he said, noting that it's so far cost less than $1 million. "This sort of national media attention is far and away more than we can afford to pay for advertising."
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