[Newspoetry] Tacky. Irresponsible. Appalling.

[Robert Porter]

The geniuses behind Total Information Awareness  (props to Admiral 
Poindexter)  have come up with a brilliant new plan for predicting world 
events.  It's an online betting parlor where anyone with the cash can 
wager on the likelihood of war, assassination, or terrorist attacks.

No, really.

http://www.policyanalysismarket.org/pam_trader.htm


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?hp


  "There is nothing particularly truthful about a report simply because it 
is a secret one. People sometimes get excited because a report is secret 
and they think that therefore it has some particular validity. It is not 
always so in my experience."
--Lord Hurd, Former British foreign secretary.