what the fuck is happening - is there about to be a major disaster/war

you;ve probably heard about intense al qaeda chatter being intercepted that seems to imply a major attack is being planned or already in place. saw this just now, apparently FEMA is trying to buy tons of food ASAP.....maybe its BS but i'm fucking FREAKED OUT......

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/03/war-likely-imminent-survival-food-company-urgently-contacted-by-fema/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

JESUS IS ALREADY CRYING

the trustworthy, esteemed news agency "Intellihub"

PLANNED ATTACK 'BIG,' 'STRATEGICALLY SIGNIFICANT'
Authorities Boost Security Inside Homeland...
Senator: 'Most serious threat I've seen in a number of years'...
'Chatter' beyond anything heard since before 9/11...
Kristol: Year ago Obama said al-Qaida on run and now WE are on run...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/senior-u-s-official-intercepted-al-qaeda-communications-indicate-planned-attack-big-strategically-significant/

Yes, we are aware, but one has nothing to do with the other. the latter happened. the first article you posted is absurdist conspiracy theory bloggery.

when they say before 9/11 do they mean all of before 9/11

BREAKING: fema undercatered its agm

Yes, we are aware, but one has nothing to do with the other. the latter happened. the first article you posted is absurdist conspiracy theory bloggery.

i think so too, but with all this fckkn 'chatter' i'm really scared. another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

especially if they have ground operatives already in the country jesus christ

I'm not saying don't take it serious, but this isn't exactly the first time something like this has happened, y'know? Haven't had a report like this in a while, but in the years following 9/11 we had reports like this every other month, with messages from the White House like "there is a 100% chance of a terrorist attack" and "we will have many on-shore casualties".

it's cool guys, on Saturday I was supposed to go bowling for what I realised was the first time since the 11th of September 2001 (UK early afternoon, I'm not a maniac), but in the end I couldn't make it. The world can breathe a sigh of relief.

so is this a tabloid thread?

I remember. it was awful. i lived in lower manhattan before-during-after 9/11, as a little kid. shit like this triggers a lot of latent shit.....yeah bc for like five years after the fact, even after i moved, it was like, 'o, yea we could all die horribly any day any time. it's not a matter of if but when.' fuck this planet

lol at that first link but we're already in an implausible G.I. Joe sequel

Interpol Asks Nations to Help Track Terror Suspects Freed in Prison Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/world/interpol-issues-alert-on-prison-breaks-in-9-nations.html

other hard hitting articles by Intellihub:

http://intellihub.com/2013/08/01/did-rap-superstar-tupac-shakur-fake-his-own-death-to-avoid-fbi-targeting-and-prison-time/

Interpol Asks Nations to Help Track Terror Suspects Freed in Prison Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/world/interpol-issues-alert-on-prison-breaks-in-9-nations.html

― spammatazz (los blue jeans), Sunday, August 4, 2013 11:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn!

i'm sure this definitely 100% has nothing to do w/ all the heat the NSA is taking atm

lol

http://i42.tinypic.com/j67ekg.jpg

Surprised storming Abu Grahib and freeing hundreds isn't a bigger front-page story.

2Pac totally faked his death.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4413249,00.html

The use of the systems was criticized in the US and around the world for their invasion of privacy, but it is clear that these systems, which are used not only by the US and Britain, save lives.

ok, lol

Fuck you Bureaucracy for being so untrustworthy to make me think that this is all post-Snowden/post-Congressional vote salesmanship

I wish the NYT would start articles with the phrase "My friend Matt"... maybe the new standard for OpEds?

Fuck you Bureaucracy for being so untrustworthy to make me think that this is all post-Snowden/post-Congressional vote salesmanship

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, August 5, 2013 3:18 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this.

although honestly aside from shuttering some embassies how is this information useful even if we could trust it?

seems like it's mostly a way for bureaucracies/ politicians to cover their ass if something happens. "don't say we didn't warn you."

http://www.karenfreberg.com/Bat%20Boy%20Saves%20the%20day.JPG

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/05/dont_go_anywhere_government_warns/

Unlike similar vague warnings in the past, this one is not suspiciously close to Election Day. There is likely some genuine intelligence about some sort of attack that led to this. But that raises questions posed by Philip Bump this weekend: If the American intelligence community was crippled by the recent leaks about its operations and tools, as so many have claimed, how did it manage to collect the intelligence that led to this alert? The head of the National Security Agency told us that the terrorists read all those Guardian stories and immediately took action. Presumably they now no longer use “telephones” or “the Internet,” whereas before they were all blissfully unaware that the United States had the ability to spy on them at all.

Yes, the terrorists have diverted an asteroid the size of Texas and it will strike D.C. in a matter of hours.

Oh wait, no, they're just trying to divert attention from / or rationalize the NSA spying programs.

some doofus posted this exact article yesterday like around the moment this thread started. when I called it a hoax, he demanded a source to 'refute' this story.

man I wish I had sources as airtight as "this dude Matt who is a friend of a friend sez this happened"

The Obama administration’s decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan ordered the leader of its affiliate in Yemen, the terrorist organization’s most lethal branch, to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday, according to my friend Matt.

i dont want to die in a terrorist attack

most of us aren't signing up to do that either iirc

someone really needs to invite that friend Matt to this board so we can get the inside scoop on that FEMA shiz.

luckily, your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are 20,000,000 to 1. You're 150 times more likely to die from lightning.

Cutout Bin's right. If you look at the re-

Yeah well they warn you when lightning's coming too tbf

There's the equivalent of a 9/11 nearly every month on our nation's roads and highways. Chill the fuck out and promote driving safety.

Ain't no one gonna tell me how to drive my car. Commie.

The government has not sufficiently proven that reckless driving and vehicular accidents/deaths are even remotely correlated. IMO its yet another lib dog whistle.

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/MaterCars.jpg

Phony scandal, imo. Like the "death" of Twinkies.

my biggest lol itt is that first link and seeing all the commenters thank Matt for not "feeding the beast". its like, where do these people think "help" is going to come from when they get hit with a disaster? oh that's right, they're all Randians that can handle everything their goddamn selves and don't need no gubmint help.

It's not about help, it's about waiting it out in a bunker.

I remember talking to one of these folks on DALnet (lol 2002) once, he kept talking about needing his 'vast array of guns' to protect himself from 'them' when 'they' came to the door. I kept asking "from who?", and he'd say "the government". I'd say "why are they coming to your door?", and he'd say "because they want to take our freedoms!". He also started threatening to use said weapons on me if I kept 'mouthing off'.

the worst part though, is I was posting as <HANDLE REDACTED>, and I said "you're making this sh!t up, troll. there's no way you have this vast array of guns". He sends me a .jpg of a SHITLOAD of guns, and on top of it was a note, written in dark red ink "Real. AND MINE, <HANDLE REDACTED>".

sure glad he didn't live anywhere near me, or know my name. yeesh.

and it was red ink, not blood - not going for 'dramatic effect' here, guy clearly owned ballpoints and/or a marker

the freedom to live holed up in a bunker assuming the rest of society, and especially everyone in power, is hostile to your existence

i don't really get how these gun-nut, anarcho-fascist people don't understand that "freedom" can only exist in the context of civil society, where people have freedom of movement, access to education and healthcare, and a relative sense that they can be safe when they leave the house.

that's the main thing that annoys me about them. their sense of freedom is purely negative: it's not about being free to move around in a society that one would actually want to live in, but just this abstract idea of being able to hoard property and not have people "tell you what to do"

the dream of living in a bunker is very appealing to me, especially in this age of accessible internet and eventually door-delivered/teleported groceries. but yeah, i dislike the hate and fear is wrapped up in these things.

i don't think it's appealing. i am on the internet all day but in the library.

http://bubblegumpost.com/wp-content/themes/newsy/themify/img.php?src=http://bubblegumpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/freetobe.jpg&w=400&h=275

yeah, the idea of freedom portrayed in that image is closer to my ideal of freedom than that proposed by gun-nut bunker dwellers

Those lil kids are all packing to defend their giant letters. Hands off!

"you are free to FUCK OFF and leave me and my friends be"

TREE TO BE
YOU AND ME

;-)

assuming the rest of society, and especially everyone in power, is hostile to your existence

to be fair, i am quite hostile to the existence of these arseholes

oh yeah guys, the war started a few minutes ago. al-queda and snowden broke manning out of jail and loki blew up mount rushmore

i never trusted loki

another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

another 9/11 would be pretty fuckin not chill

I knew you New Yorkers were unshakeable but "unchill"

Neanderthal, dalnet was always the worst of the irc networks

twas, but it had the metal channel I liked in it!

xp JM fair enough, that might have been phrased poorly. it's more like, the bunkerdwellers just seem to take the corruption of the government as a matter of course and have no interest in helping to create a just society. the dream of civil society is just totally dead to these people and it's not clear that they ever would have cared about it.

productive movements like the civil rights movement of the 60s held society up to a high standard, and insisted on this standard even though it was obvious that society was falling way far short of it. i think this is a different sort of politics than the conspiracy theorist, who always retreats into a safe position of cynicism. it's unchill.

Freedom is a fig leaf for gun nuts. Their motivation is closer to malignant narcissism.

EFnet > IRCnet > DALnet > Undernet

(actually Undernet was probably really good but it just confused me by having nick registration and no nick length restrictions. or was that a different network?)

and now my head is so full of nerd minutiae from 1996 that nobody cares about any more, I guess retreating to a bunker forever seems like a p. good deal to me too

Undernet wasn't too bad. I never used IRCnet, but it split off of EFnet around the time I was still new to irc and mostly european?

Yeah, I think you're right that it was mostly European. It definitely had a lot more UK servers than the other big networks. Not sure when it split off as it was already separate the first time I used it in 1996-7.

I wonder if any of my former IRC channels are a) still populated b) still ever talked on c) still talked on by anyone I knew d) still talked on by anyone who isn't a raging asshat

what the fuck is happening itt

EFnet > IRCnet > DALnet > Undernet

(actually Undernet was probably really good but it just confused me by having nick registration and no nick length restrictions. or was that a different network?)

and now my head is so full of nerd minutiae from 1996 that nobody cares about any more, I guess retreating to a bunker forever seems like a p. good deal to me too

― slippery kelp on the tide (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What IRC client did you use?

bitchx

and irssi later

LOL thats this has turned into an IRC thread (EFNet ftw)

I hated that while on DALnet, they let you reg your nicks without a character limit, I'd go elsewhere and it'd be an 8-10 character limit, so my nick would get cut off.

as far as which proggie, I was lame, I used mIRC before finally getting pIRCh

On windows I was using virc as I was part of its scripting community then used xircon

I know some programmer types who've had the same channel on Freenode for like 10+ years running

#metal was the shit on DALnet. The channel still exists (it's been around since the mid 90s I'd guess), but it's dying slowly. In its heyday, it was full of folks from various countries all talking, arguing, and verbally threatening each other about metal. lots of regulars, lots of cool memes.

However, there was bad blood between the Americans and Swedes in the channel. The Swede AOPs were ban-happy, and would kick people out for saying they didn't like Mayhem, or not getting a boner when they heard power metal. One of our fellow Americans had been given the channel's password by the channel owner, and we conspired to get him to give us the password to seize control from the Swedes in an attempted coup.

He finally rebuffed us angrily, and 90% of the American population of the #metal board abruptly left for another IRC server, forming their own private channel. In its heyday, you could find heated arguments about Metal Church's best album at 3 am. Nowadays, all you get are repetitious posts of "a/s/l?" and "NP: Arsvrtr - Norway is Cold".

it's pretty great that the major disaster/war revealed in this thread is about ban-happy swedish metalheads

waitin for my friend Matt to tell me if the Swedes come out of dormancy and attempt to annex new channels

You aren't worth the trouble.

dude the real metal channel was elsewhere feebs

Eating my eggiwegs and lomticks of toast with the droogs and my nicks on my proggie

On the 90s Internet for a bit o the ole ultraslowness

swift tolchock in the yarbles for all us newsies wewsies

#ansi