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  • From: Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Re: truly weird, does not appear to be a hoax...
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:23:47 -0400


> > My favorite quote from the N&O article (the one that scared me the
> > most), which, unfortunately, I can't find a link to online...
> >
> > "Wyden explained it this way: 'For instance, you may think early on
> > that Prime Minister X is going to be assassinated, so you buy the
> > futures contracts for 5 cents each. As more people begin to think the
> > person's going to be assassinated, the cost of the contract could go up
> > to 50 cents. The payoff if he's assassinated is a dollar per future.
> > So if it comes to pass, and those who bought at 5 cents make 95 cents.
> > Those who bought at 50 cents make 50 cents.'"
>

This was the quote of the day in the NY Times' email brief, and it's even
freakier:

"Can you imagine if another country set up a betting parlor so that people
could go in - and is sponsored by the government itself - people could go in
and bet on the assassination of an American political figure?" - SENATOR
BYRON DORGAN, Democrat of North Dakota, in disclosing that a Pentagon office
has proposed an online futures market in terror attacks.

While we're on the topic, I recently read "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia
Supports the New Global Terrorism" by Dore Gold. Published this year, and
quite an eye opener.

Maria




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