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Originally posted by Legend
Though I can't help to think that John could of been entering some random family's house and SAID he was a time traveler just to get some free food for a good two years.
But to be serious, what do you guys think of these letters?
He told us he had made a promise to my husband's father in 1975 that involved preparing us for Y2K. On January 1, 2000, the world did not end as John said it would.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
hey Chris,
So your just argumentatve for the sake of it ? You must be fun at a party !
John Titor
There is a Civil War in the United States that starts in 2005. That conflict flares up and down for ten years. In 2015, Russia launches a nuclear strike against the major cities in the United States (which is the "other side" of the civil war from my perspective), China and Europe. The United States counter attacks. The US cities are destroyed along with the AFE (American Federal Empire)...thus we (in the country) won. The European Union and China were also destroyed. Russia is now our largest trading partner and the capital of the US was moved to Omaha, Nebraska.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Russia would be a barren wasteland for the next 50-100 years if they decided to nuke the US, Europe, and China.
Plus....what would they have to trade!? Radioactive rocks?
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Russia would be a barren wasteland for the next 50-100 years if they decided to nuke the US, Europe, and China.
Plus....what would they have to trade!? Radioactive rocks?
/d42w9
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Read what I just said again.
What part of "if they decided to nuke the US, Europe, and China" is so hard to comprehend?
Russia would be nothing and have nothing after the retaliations.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
And what's your article on China for? Titor said get beat by both Australia and Russia.....
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Perhaps... perhaps not. If the US is still able to trade after Russia's nuclear attacks why wouldn't Russia be able to trade after nuclear attacks from the US?
Originally posted by Legend
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Perhaps... perhaps not. If the US is still able to trade after Russia's nuclear attacks why wouldn't Russia be able to trade after nuclear attacks from the US?
The major cities were hit in the US by one nation. I'm sure maybe our economy system was shot, but we have a lot more cities than just 5-6 major ones. Russia was hit with nukes from three different nations (US, China, and Europe). I'm sure Russia was in a lot more pain than we were.
Europe is a whole continent. I wonder how many countries in that one continent decided to strike Russia when he said "Europe counterattacked." I'm sure Russia would be in no state at all to start a trade route with any country, especially the US. There would be nothing left to trade that they don't need for their citizens.
-Chris
[edit on 7/21/2005 by Legend]
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Or the abovementioned scenario didn't happen because of a matter of politics perhaps? And I am sure a severely divided United States in the middle of a civil war would have some major political implications as well.
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are questioning the safety of a Star Wars-style riot control ray gun due to be deployed in
Iraq next year.
The Active Denial System weapon, classified as "less lethal" by the
Pentagon, fires a 95-gigahertz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five seconds
....
The magazine said a vehicle-mounted version of the weapon named Sheriff was scheduled for service in Iraq in 2006 and that U.S. Marines and police were both working on portable versions.
Originally posted by Legend
Originally posted by Roth Joint
Or the abovementioned scenario didn't happen because of a matter of politics perhaps? And I am sure a severely divided United States in the middle of a civil war would have some major political implications as well.
It doesn't matter how divided the USA was, the government would have still found a way to dig up nukes and use them against Russia. Then the AFE (Titor's enemy, I suppose) was destroyed, which means, no more civil war. So in John's Timeline, the government in 2036 is worried about cleaning up the mess the nukes left behind: dirty water, diseased red meat, dirty air, etc.
-Chris
House Votes to Extend Patriot Act
WASHINGTON - The House voted to extend indefinitely the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act, while limiting to 10 years two provisions of the law that have become linchpins in the ongoing congressional debate: allowing federal agents to use roving wiretaps and to search library and medical records.
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By a 257-171 margin, lawmakers who earlier Thursday had watched reports of attempted terrorist bombings in London, agreed to renew key provisions of the Patriot Act that were set to expire at the end of this year.
Forty-three Democrats joined 214 Republicans in passing the bill, which dropped 14 of 16 expiration dates on provisions initially drafted into the law shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Hours earlier, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved its own general extension of the law, but it called for Congress to re-examine the wiretap and library provisions after another four-year time period. The full Senate likely will vote on the bill this fall, before the competing measures are reconciled in a conference committee.
President Bush cheered the House vote.
"The Patriot Act is a key part of our efforts to combat terrorism and protect the American people, and the Congress needs to send me a bill soon that renews the act without weakening our ability to fight terror," Bush said in a statement released by the White House.
Despite more than nine hours of passionate debate, the House nearly one-upped the Senate in a surprise revolt at the conclusion of its deliberations. Nine Republicans broke ranks and voted with a united Democratic bloc on a last-ditch effort to make all 16 of the Patriot Act's most sensitive provisions subject to an additional four-year "sunset" period.
"It is not a Republican vote; it is not a Democrat vote," said one of the rogue Republicans, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (news, bio, voting record) of California. Instead, he cast it as an attempt to adhere to the limited government envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the House, shook his head in disgust — while House Speaker
Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., came to the floor and cast a rare vote of his own — as a designated 15-minute voting period on the Democratic proposal ended in a 205-205 tie. Late-arriving members continued to vote, eventually defeating it by a margin of 218-209.
"Good oversight is done by congressional leadership, not by sunsets," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., who shepherded the bill through the chamber as chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee.
The roving wiretap provision, Section 206, allows investigators to obtain warrants to intercept a suspect's phone conversations or Internet traffic without limiting it to a specific phone or identifying the suspect. The records provision, Section 215, authorizes federal officials to obtain "tangible items" such as business, library and medical records.
Advocates argued that such powers already exist in criminal investigations so they should be expressly continued for terrorism investigations. They also cited safeguards in the bill, such as a requirement that a judge approve the records search.
One amendment, passed 402-26, would require the
FBI director to personally approve any request for library or bookstore records. Another successful amendment calls for a 20-year jail term for an attack against a rail or mass-transit vehicle; a 30-year sentence if the vehicle carries nuclear material; and life imprisonment — with the possibility of the death penalty — if anyone is killed in such an attack.
Critics heralded the bulk of the existing law, but said the sunsets were wisely inserted amid the inflamed passions following the Sept. 11 attacks, and should be retained to assess the long-term impact of the law.
"Periodically revisiting the Patriot Act is a good thing," said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass. "The Patriot Act was an effort to answer the most difficult question a democracy faces: How much freedom are we willing to give up to feel safe? "
Originally posted by spikenigma
Roth Joint,
you might find this interesting. Didn't Titor say
(from memory - not that I believe him, because I don't)
" They were willing to bet people would sacrifice freedom for security, they were wrong..."
well, look what I just saw (last phrase is quite interesting) ? :
House Votes to Extend Patriot Act
"Periodically revisiting the Patriot Act is a good thing," said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass. "The Patriot Act was an effort to answer the most difficult question a democracy faces: How much freedom are we willing to give up to feel safe? "
news.yahoo.com...
Originally posted by Where2Hide2006
I was re-reading the 19 pages of Original Titor Posts yesterday looking for more clues of our future and I came across some of Titors Posts that are often overlooked. Please take the time to read the 19 Pages, its a very interesting read and its Free and on THIS site on the homepage in the buttons at the top. Here are the other Overlooked Titor Posts... Please feel free to comment away.'