4 cuts in data cables collective punishment = a War Crime?

[Red Dawn]

We will have to wait and see what transpires Ed.

Note...

All this will have a hugh impact on the financial markets. Who will gain from that ?...

http://tinyurl.com/36vxkf

[Editor]

The major effect would be on disruption to business, i.e. if the links to the call centers break down.

Could be in impetus to bring work back on-shore. This is something which Bush & Brown might benefit from to help shore up their domestic economies. Now that could be a motive for the cuts - but you would have to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist to even countenance the possibility of such a conspiracy.

So let us see : Benefit to US and British economies, Damage to Middle Eastern economies of countries not towing the line, Israel unaffected (which makes it an "even more" desirable location to base your R&D an call centers). With the financial disaster at the heart of Western monetary system, this could be their "plan B".

[Red Dawn]

I think it could have more to do with stocks and share dealings Ed

"The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections"...

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/details.htm

[Editor]

Cross link to Peter Chamberlin's recent Article :
Cutting Cables, Lighting Fuses 2 Feb 2008

[Editor]

FYI, This topic has been picked up by http://whatreallyhappened.com

[Red Dawn]

"The dollar is falling against almost everything…even against Iraq's dinar"...

"GM, of course, cannot print money. But as Ben Bernanke himself put it, the United States, like Zimbabwe where inflation is running at 150,000%, "has a technology called the printing press." What can you expect? We would modestly predict that those 30-year T-bonds, sometime between now and 2048 when they mature, will become worthless"...

http://tinyurl.com/2ypj5n

[Editor]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... 42317/pg_2

The Z gram intercept: greatest cryptography coup of World War I

At the outset of the war, the Germans had five transatlantic cables that ran through the English Channel. One went to Brest in France, another to Vigo in Spain, one to Tenerife in North Africa and two to New York via the Azores. The English cable ship Telconia cut them all in England's first offensive action in the war. This left a cable that ran between West Africa and Brazil that was largely American-owned that the Germans could use. In short order the allies ended that source of direct cable communications with the overseas world. Consequently, Germany was forced to use their powerful wireless station at Nauen, just a few miles outside Berlin. From this moment, German messages were routinely picked from the air and began pouring into the offices of British Naval Intelligence.

The analogy now is to wonder where the internet traffic is being routed via .. and if those routes are now "monitored", and ready to be cut at a snip of a cable or two.

[Red Dawn]

Whatever is going on you can bet it`s not something nice. It could be a combination of all we have said on this thread or more or none Time will tell.

[Masdar]

One cable cut would be an accident two cables cut could be a coincidental accident Four cables cut look for a Gulf of Tonkin incident with connections implicating Israel and the U.S.

[Red Dawn]

Welcome Masdar

Spot on post. Hope you post again.