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2008-05-14 Home Front: WoT
NORTHCOM eyes more northern border patrols
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Posted by lotp 2008-05-14 09:06|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Ok, fine. But has anyone considered the walk south after landing anywhere up there? By the time any jihadi made it to an "urban centre" they would have become Canadian.
Posted by Excalibur 2008-05-14 09:26||   2008-05-14 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 According to Ezekiel 38 and other prophecies, a great horde of fully armed troops invades from the north on war horses and using mules for merchandise. "Babylon" invades "Israel", then God avenges his people by sending destroyers against "Babylon". Identification depends upon your interpretation of allegorical passages, but some of these are not just historical references to ancient battles, as they are apocalyptic with a future fulfillment. I guess I'd rather be safe than sorry by including the US as both representive of the people of God and Babylon, rather than just a past battle in geographic Israel. However, you don't need to fill up horses with $14 UAV fuel, especially it it is scarce!
Posted by Thealing Borgia6122 2008-05-14 10:31||   2008-05-14 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 But has anyone considered the walk south after landing anywhere up there?

The situation would be more of establishing monitoring stations, outposts or supply depots in the northern areas.

A couple of years ago, a Chinese oceanographic vessel made a port visit to a village on Hudson Bay. The Chinese didn't notify the Canadian government. That's the reason for concern.
Posted by Pappy 2008-05-14 12:03||   2008-05-14 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 "As the Arctic ice cap shrinks,"

Uhm, don't look now, fellas, but the Northern ice cap has practically recovered.

Check out this image. You might need to click on it to blow it up to full size. Check out the far right of the graph. See where sea ice drops to a near record low? And see how this year it goes right back to where it was from about 1996 to 2004?

Wanna see something even neater? Check out the global sea ice chart. 2008 has shown the largest increase in sea ice recorded.
Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-14 15:31||   2008-05-14 15:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks, x-patch.

Whaddya wanna bet the red line on the second graph continues UP?

That'd put AlBore's some enviro lefty panties in a twist as they try to figure out how to hide the information from the proles.

**evil grin**
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-05-14 16:31|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-05-14 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The russians seem keen to plant flags in recent years.
Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-14 16:33||   2008-05-14 16:33|| Front Page Top

#7 What I find absolutely knee-slapping is the fact that the US has today labeled the polar bear as "threatened" ... not because it is actually threatened, but because SOME models say it COULD be threatened around the year 2050. So we have embarked on a path of protecting species that are not under threat (current polar bear populations are at record numbers, by the way) and whose populations are at all time record highs now, because of what some study says what MIGHT happen 40 years from now.

Polar bears survived the last interglacial just fine ... and that interglacial was much warmer than this one has been. The North pole would have been ice-free every summer in the last interglacial.

How do these morons get elected? Ah, right, the morons who vote for them.
Posted by crosspatch 2008-05-14 16:39||   2008-05-14 16:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Blame Canada!

/obligitory-southpark
Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-14 18:13||   2008-05-14 18:13|| Front Page Top

#9 US CENTCOM might want to consider more all-around, as per below:

RIAN > IRAN SAYS IT INTERCEPTED A TERRORIST ATTACK AGZ THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE, in city of Rasht near Caspian Sea. IRAN IS CHARGING THAT TERRORIST GROUP HAS US LINKS???

IOW, IRAN is ACCUSING THE US OF A DIRECT PROXY ATTACK AGZ RUSS CONSULATE = SOVEREIGN RUSS [Diplomatic]TERRITORY.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-14 21:59||   2008-05-14 21:59|| Front Page Top

#10 KOMMERSANT > TERRORISTS PLOTTED TO EXPLODE RF CONSULATE IN IRAN'S RESHT. FARS News Agency > Iran Minister argues was a wilful US intent by proxy to divide/split Iran from her neighbors???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-14 22:03||   2008-05-14 22:03|| Front Page Top

#11 ION RUSSIA > UKRAINE has formally banned MOSCOW'S MAYOR for arguing that RUSSIA SHOULD TAKE OVER AND ANNEX UKR's SEVASTOPOL NAVAL BASE FOR RUSS BLACK SEA FLEET.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-05-14 22:06||   2008-05-14 22:06|| Front Page Top

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