Armageddon

[tay]

Was a great movie..... they saved the whole friggin planet!

 

[KackAttack]

I thought the Navy Seals had already started operations against Iran, back in Feb:

The most sinister speculation so far has blamed the U.S. and Israel for the cuts in a blatant attempt to further cripple Iran which is now purported to have their Internet service back albeit through U.S. and British routers. There is a widespread belief amongst conpiracy theorist bloggers and on Internet messageboards that the U.S. will engage in a campaign of “Information Warfare” attacking Iran.

http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=1771

 

[Board Game Geek]

U.S. will engage in a campaign of “Information Warfare” attacking Iran

um...sorry to be pedantic, but isn't that what the CUK forums have been doing for the last x years ?

 

[AlfredJPruffock]

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.


Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.

The increase – from 26.5 million in 2007 – is due partly to recent efforts to increase public awareness of the programme and also a switch from paper coupons to electronic debit cards. But above all it is the pressures being exerted on ordinary Americans by an economy that is suddenly beset by troubles. Housing foreclosures, accelerating jobs losses and fast-rising prices all add to the squeeze.

Emblematic of the downturn until now has been the parades of houses seized in foreclosure all across the country, and myriad families separated from their homes. But now the crisis is starting to hit the country in its gut. Getting food on the table is a challenge many Americans are finding harder to meet. As a barometer of the country's economic health, food stamp usage may not be perfect, but can certainly tell a story

 

[NotAllThere]

Sounds bad. Ah'm a geddon out of here.

 

[BrilloPad]

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.


Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s.

The increase – from 26.5 million in 2007 – is due partly to recent efforts to increase public awareness of the programme and also a switch from paper coupons to electronic debit cards. But above all it is the pressures being exerted on ordinary Americans by an economy that is suddenly beset by troubles. Housing foreclosures, accelerating jobs losses and fast-rising prices all add to the squeeze.

Emblematic of the downturn until now has been the parades of houses seized in foreclosure all across the country, and myriad families separated from their homes. But now the crisis is starting to hit the country in its gut. Getting food on the table is a challenge many Americans are finding harder to meet. As a barometer of the country's economic health, food stamp usage may not be perfect, but can certainly tell a story

gap between rich and poor widening. only way to reduce it is depression.

 

[bogeyman]

Getting food on the table is a challenge many Americans are finding harder to meet. As a barometer of the country's economic health, food stamp usage may not be perfect, but can certainly tell a story

It's a dream come true for all those 'survivalists' who wanted to hide away in a shack in the Appalachian mountains with their shotguns primed, and their food stashed, and wishing the rest of the world would just go away, or at least blow its darned itself up.