Something wicked this way comes

[China_cat]

It's only April so I can't see any 'emergency' reason for it. Today they cancelled my niece's leave that she was going to use to get married...in JUNE. Actually the end of June.

She's in the Navy, a nuke, on a carrier. A carrier that is supposed to go to Japan next January.

Cancelling midsummer leaves now is NOT a good omen.

[bryant69]

1. No that's not

Oh my.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Atman]

2. I have to agree with you...that doesn't sound good

We already know about the nuke demonstration for Iran, also in June. This sounds ominous.

[shadowknows69]

3. A large deployment from FT Drum

is due in August from what I'm hearing as well.

[MADem]

4. Headed to the gulf, perhaps? n/t

[China_cat]

6. That's what I'm really afraid of.

[izzie]

5. Bush will need carriers in the India Oceans etc.

They shot rockets right over SA from the Red Sea in father's Bush war. George War Bush. It is time to pull the old stand by and vote in no money.

[Horse with no Name]

7. My brother is stationed in NC and his wife is in San Diego

They haven't been able to get transferred to be with each other and it has been over a year.
However, he got permission to instruct a class in San Diego for 3 weeks so that they could spend some time together, but now her ship is going to be deployed.
She is on the Bonhomme Richard.
Something wicked indeed.

[Horse with no Name]

10. These are from the website:

>>>>snip
USS Bonhomme Richard Onloads More Than 2 Million Pounds of Munitions
Story Number: NNS060417-07
Release Date: 4/17/2006 9:00:00 PM

By Photographer’s Mate Airman Mark Patterson, USS Bonhomme Richard Public Affairs

ABOARD USS BONHOMME RICHARD, At Sea (NNS) -- During local operations off the coast of Southern California, the San Diego-based Multipurpose Amphibious Assault Ship USS Bonhomme Richard (BHR) (LHD 6) received more than 2 million pounds of munitions.

The munitions, designed to arm an embarked Marine Expeditionary Unit, were transferred to BHR from USS Tarawa (LHA 1) and Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, Detachment Fallbrook.

The multi-dimensional evolution began early April 10 and was so well executed that it was finished on April 13, one day ahead of schedule.


>>>>snip

Harriers Return to USS Bonhomme Richard
Story Number: NNS060326-02
Release Date: 3/26/2006 12:15:00 AM

By Chief Journalist (SW/AW) Walter T. Ham IV, USS Bonhomme Richard Public Affairs

ABOARD USS BONHOMME RICHARD (NNS) -- AV-8B Harriers returned to USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) for the first time in nearly nine months March 23 during local operations off the coast of Southern California.

Bonhomme Richard is currently training and preparing for operations in support of the global war on terrorism.

http://www.lhd6.navy.mil/

[Jara sang]

8. My friend's son is being redeployed to Iraq in October.

They told him he wouldn't have to go back, now he is going. "Big Red One" 1st Infantry division out of Fort Riley.

[RufusEarl]

9. June and Iran

Iran had planed to start selling oil via euros starting in March 06, but for some reason put it off! What bothers me was the fact that they were going to re-start the euro oil bourse in June this year.

I've read allot about this and i've come to the conclusion that thats the real reason Bu$h went into Iraq, seems Saddam had the same plan back in 2003. The fact that the world oil supply is sold only using US greenbacks, and any oil rich country trying to sell oil using euros would cause this oil inspired admin to go to war.

[nashville_brook]

14. props up our 'economy' -- what if a couple of stressors bear down at once

say, war escalation, and soaring gas prices.

what to do? republican answer: lock up immigrants. people will demand leadership to 'provide better for The People" and instead of doing that, they will scapegoat and just make things worse.

this administration is out of control. i can imagine a million endgames. so few ways out.

[RufusEarl]

20. Administration out of control!

I've read a couple of post here on DU, that suggest some state houses will be calling for impeachment of the Bu$h admin. I know it's a long shot, but i'm hopeful that it will get the attention of the congress.

The state houses or were the peoples voices are heard the loudest, so if you can let your state house know how you fell perhaps they will get on board as well.

[nashville_brook]

21. FOUR states so far -- and here's a barometer

all day, Sirius 'Disorder" has been playing protest music and bitching about bush. it's the small stuff.

[femmedem]

40. From Z mag, an article supporting what you say:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_dollar_vs_euro.html

Here's a brief excerpt:



Oil can be bought from OPEC only if you have dollars. Non-oil producing countries, such as most underdeveloped countries and Japan, first have to sell their goods to earn dollars with which they can purchase oil. If they cannot earn enough dollars, then they have to borrow dollars from the WB/IMF, which have to be paid back, with interest, in dollars. This creates a great demand for dollars outside the U.S. In contrast, the U.S. only has to print dollar bills in exchange for goods. Even for its own oil imports, the U.S. can print dollar bills without exporting or selling its goods. For instance, in 2003 the current U.S. account deficit and external debt has been running at more than $500 billion. Put in simple terms, the U.S. will receive $500 billion more in goods and services from other countries than it will provide them. The imported goods are paid by printing dollar bills, i.e., "fiat" dollars.

[WiseButAngrySara]

47. Damn, how sick does that seem? Or is it just me? Bingo, though, there's

the incentive. Dumb me, I thought money was just money at face value, but in fact, you exchange $$ into US Dollars to buy oil, and it's more pennies on the dollar.

Thanks for posting this, and Welcome to DU! :hi: Nice to have more economists on board! Maybe this warrants a separate discussion thread. Interesting topic.

Definition:

Fiat Money: Paper currency backed only by the authority of the government, and not by the metal.

[femmedem]

51. Me an economist? LOL! I just had the time to do some googling today.

But I think you're right, it might warrant a new thread. I'll see what I can put together for tomorrow. And thanks for the welcome!

[WiseButAngrySara]

53. You're welcome for the welcome! Let me know if you've started a thread.

I'll look for it, but if you could link it here that would be great!

[femmedem]

54. I started a thread before I got this reply

but it died a sad, little-noticed death.

I just replied to this releveant thread, though:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2250393&mesg_id=2250393

and I'm hoping this one garners some attention. The U.S. just stopped publishing how many U.S. dollars are held in reserve overseas. They're really afraid that the dollar is going to crash, and people will notice, and that will cause it to crash more.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. MacDill is gearing up for a big deployment too

They had an article about it a couple of weeks ago in the St. Petersburg Times.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

12. Shout this from the roof tops!

We know what your up to you murderous rat bastards.
recommended

[Hailtothechimp]

30. HERE'S what they're up to...

1. Do whatever they're going to do with Iran in the summer, and give the people some time--not to accept it, but to at least internalize it.
2. Then by November, play the old "A vote against bu$h is a vote for the terrorists" bullshit.
3. Then institute the widest-reaching draft we've ever seen. And pass a fat, permanent tax cut for the billionaires, to boot.

And it will probably work, too. At the cost of millions of lives in the short term, and the survival of the planet over the long haul. And they will think this a price worth paying, primarily because we (the common folk who have no contingency in such an awful event) will be the ones to pay it.

May God have mercy on us all.

[Liberal In Texas]

31. I relunctantly agree. They are going to attack before Nov.

It's part of the scheme to stave off the disaster for them in November.

* is to be seen as a messianic leader and the Apocolpyse nigh.

We live in frightning times.

God help us.

[acmejack]

13. It would take a Carrier Battle Group about six weeks

to assume station in the Persian Gulf. It is a long haul from San Diego. A Nimitz class carrier can transit the Suez canal and come from the Atlantic side as well.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/coalition/deployment/images/iraq.persian.gulf.deploy.2.g

[Horse with no Name]

15. And my SIL is getting ready to leave...

should be there in time...:scared:

[China_cat]

16. My niece is in Norfolk.

Her carrier was the first nuke to be accepted by the Japanese for stationing there and was to replace the retiring carrier in Jan. 2007.

It's not such a long haul from the east coast. And the fact is that troop movements are never given by specific dates any more. The leave in June being cancelled could very well mean that her ship will be leaving for the gulf within the next 2 weeks.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Exactly.

:(

[acmejack]

19. Yes, the date & time of Ship's movement has always been Classified.

I am familiar with the western route, but not so the Eastern Mediterranean.

[driver8]

24. I was a nuc on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Is it the

Abraham Lincoln that is going to Japan?? (We didn't have female nucs when I was in.) Does your niece like what she does in the Navy?

[Roland99]

28. My ex's brother was on the Eisenhower (late 70s/early 80s)

[China_cat]

29. I hope you'll understand that due to her position,

I won't endanger her by answering except to say that yes, she loves her job and was at the top of her class.

[driver8]

36. I understand...

I am glad that she likes it.

My roommate at prototype was a division officer on the Theodore Roosevelt. He told me that the women outworked the guys and qualified faster. He said if he had his way, his whole division would have been women!!

[driver8]

25. I don't think that they are sending carriers through the Suez

Canal anymore. I read someplace that the powers that be felt the carriers were "sitting ducks." I went through the Suez twice while on the Eisenhower. It is a tight fit.



USS Roosevelt going through the Suez Canal

[Roland99]

26. What's currently in the Caribbean performing maneuvers there?

It got Chavez a bit riled up.

[sutz12]

27. Not true....

We sailed from Norfolk VA to Spain in 4 days. That was in 1971.

San Diego to Indian ocean is 10 days, max.

[driver8]

50. That's what I was thinking. I was on the Eisenhower and did 2 Med

cruises and we could be in the Med. in 4 or 5 days. Nuclear carriers can go "balls to the wall" for a long time.

[pocket]

18. looks like a bad month for brown children

and a great one for bomb makers

[Liberal In Texas]

37. What ever month they do it. It'll be a bad month for civilization.

Unleashing nukes or even another conventional war will turn the world topsy.

Nukes actually might mean the end of life as we know it. Another war, will probably end our little comfortable lives as we know them.

These people are mad.

[incapsulated]

22. Shit.

I was hoping that the potential for full scale popular revolt over gas prices would stop them. It still might. I hope.

[Liberal In Texas]

34. Bloody Hell. They know what the gas prices are!

This is going to be an act of despiration. They're going to start another illegal war and there is spit we can do about it.

They are intent on holding power. The * legacy is making the ME an democratic (read capitalistic) lake (or desert) in his term. He knows he does not have another. And if what he does brings on the End Times, so be it.

These people are insane beyond belief.

I feel powerless, sometimes, to be able to stop them.

[midnight]

23. That does not sound good.

I hope things will not get any worse before they get better. So many people in harms way. It's just awful.

[wtmusic]

32. It would be foolish to change horses in mid-disaster

Vote Republican in '06! :crazy:

[alfredo]

33. Sounds like an October Surprise. It takes a bit to build up

an attack force.

[Tsiyu]

35. Maybe putting the navy up for sacrifice

Gotta think like a **, like a Neocon...

Aren't there anti-ship capabilities in that region? Could the Neo's be provoking attack as rationale for more warmongering?

Don't mean to alarm the OP...just thinking out loud....:hug:

[China_cat]

39. You can't alarm me any more than I already am.

[alfredo]

48. They tried in in Iraq.

it didn't work. they had to fall back on their reliable catalog of lies.

[alfredo]

52. They are cross training some for infantry duty.

If I signed up to be in the Navy, I wouldn't be too happy to think I am going to be a pop up target for an insurgent is some dusty village.

[Syrinx]

38. I have a cousin in the Navy

He's on some secret mission. He can't tell anyone where he is. Not even his wife or mother.

OOPs: No, make that the Air Force.

[banana republican]

41. U.S. TO CONDUCT MILITARY EXERCISES OFF GUAM

The U.S. military plans to gather three aircraft carriers off Guam this summer for exercises that will mark the first time since the Vietnam War that so many of the ships have operated in the Pacific Ocean together.

U.S. Air Force planes and Marines also will participate in the June maneuvers.

<snip>

Cossa said the June maneuvers would demonstrate to Iran and North Korea that, despite the U.S. focus on the war in Iraq, the United States would have resources at its disposal in the event of a military confrontation with either country over its respective nuclear program.

Cossa said it was unlikely the United States aims to send China a message with the exercises even though that might be a popular interpretation of U.S. intentions.

http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2006/April/04-13-25.htm

[newportdadde]

42. Is it just her leave cancelled or others on the ship as well?

[China_cat]

44. Any leaves to start after June 1 have been cancelled.

[banana republican]

43. Iran to carry out large-scale military exercises

Several hours after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the Iranian nuclear program, Iran announced on starting large-scale military exercises in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The navy, land and air forces, naval and rocket units of the Iranian Army, as well as paramilitary units of the Islamic militia will participate in the exercises.

Overall, 17,000 servicemen, 1,500 vessels, fighters and bomber aircraft will be engaged in the military exercises. A training launch of a ballistic missile with 500 km range is also planned, reports RSN. The Iranian leadership announced that the “maneuvers are to be held to counteract the psychological war waged against Iran.” It is noteworthy, the exercises will be held in the gulf, through which about 80% of the oil extracted in the Persian Gulf is transferred.

http://www.regnum.ru/english/615019.html

[Flying Dream Blues]

45. Kick...must read. This is scary, indeed. nt

[leeroysphitz]

46. My leave was cancelled just before the first Gulf War...

Your niece's leave getting cancelled may not "prove" anything but it is NOT a good sign.

[WiseButAngrySara]

49. Something wicked, indeed! This entire thread is ominous, but kick and

recommend anyway.

[hedgehog]

55. If Bush authorizes a bombing run over Iran, it'll be the worst

order since Custer said " Let's go after those Indians over there."

Iran is not Iraq. We have soldiers scattered all over Iraq fighting a non-conventional (guerrilla) war. What happens when we bomb Iran and they send a strong, well armed, well commanded, motivated army over the border at our guys on the ground?