TOPOFF 4 and Vigilant Shield 08: a view from the "feverish fringe"

Great item which puts together the dots, written in PORTLAND.

Fear in that city is spreading like wildfire, seems to me - and not "just" among the fringy, tinfoil hat wearers who shall remain nameless.

This will give you a bunch of the related URLS together.

When I read it, I detected not a tone of outrage or dismay, but one of real anger.

It's Very Good Article, and I recommend it highly. It concludes thusly after presenting a whole stack of material including the role that google has played in all this (interesting as I got it off a google alert. But the links on six bombs missing at Barksdale, has, indeed, gone MISSING. That i KNOW.

All the pieces will be in place. The top officials in town. The Iranian problem presumably still unresolved. The usual alphabet soup of security agencies represented. The majority of the citizenry rendered fully docile by the reporting and editorial pablum of mass media narcotics purveyors like The Oregonian.

Then there's this interesting viewpoint from one who should know: "The greatest threat now is 'a 9/11' occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities . . . it's a very real threat." Dick Cheney, April 15, 2007.

Coincidentally, as some would say, Cheney will be in Portland on October 16. To survey the damage? To push the button? To dine at Jakes? We don't know, and he's not talking.