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The Doomsday Scam
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- sshumaker 11y agoDid you even read the article? It talks about the legend of "red mercury", a magical substance that is more powerful than a neutron bomb, and various groups (including daesh) misguided attempts to procure this non-existent substance. It's a really fascinating look at how people continue to believe in myth.
- nbarbettini 11y agoA homeopathic nuke. Clearly.
- crpatino 11y agoFunny! According to the Law of the Similars, a micro doze of some agent counters whatever ill that would result from a macro doze of the same agent. So a homeopathic nuke would be the cure for radiation poisoning!!!
- mfoy_ 11y agoI wonder if Western sources discrediting it doesn't actually just lend credence to it. From Daesh's POV it's like "Hah! Nice propaganda attempt America! But we know the true power of Red Mercury!"
- talmand 11y agoBut what to believe and what to ignore? Because that documentary called "Star Trek" showed us the true potential of red mercury. They clearly tried to disguise it's true nature by calling it "Red Matter", but we can see through such obvious lies.
- omginternets 11y agoDoes Daesh really not have wikipedia? This story strikes me as being bullshitty seeing as this article exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury
- czinck 11y agoYou believe that Western propaganda? Of course the US wants to discredit red mercury, they're afraid of its true power.
- nkrisc 11y agoThey'll believe whatever they want to believe. In fact, they already believe lots of mythical nonsense, what's one more unverifiable belief?
- jsnell 11y agoIf you search the article for "Wikipedia", you'll find an exchange that addresses exactly this.
- draw_down 11y agoYou think members of a fundamentalist terrorist organization can be persuaded by Wikipedia?
- mfoy_ 11y agoWikipedia is just Western propaganda! /s
- davidw 11y agohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11419428/Watch-Saudi-cleric-tells-students-Earth-does-not-rotate.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar... - if everything you 'know' revolves around half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, I suppose sorting it all out gets kind of confusing.
- cozzyd 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution this article exists too. I wonder what https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/زئبق_أحمر says
- kelvin0 11y agoThis is almost as awesome as the fake bomb detector ... Which some states actually purchased! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
- TeMPOraL 11y agoFrom some point of view it is awesome, but personally that bomb detector is a kind of fraud I seriously believe should be punished much harder than cold-blooded murder. The producer is making shit ton of money on knowingly exploiting countries and putting many people at risk. I wonder how many lives this device has already claimed.
- vox_mollis 11y agoThe reported poor performance of both red mercury nuclear devices and the ADE 651 are due to the integrators' failure to power them with the output of a properly-calibrated Turboencabulator. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
- kelvin0 11y agoI wish I could upvote this! :)
- clock_tower 11y agoI don't know that "awesome" is quite the word for this. If these things work at all, they work as dowsing rods, and not even the most fanatical New Ager claims that everyone in the world can dowse. (Claims tend to be more of the "1 in 100,000" variety.) More likely, these things just don't work at all, for anyone, no matter what unlikely theories about the world might or might not be true... as shown by the Wikipedia article, which relates cases of contraband passing frightening numbers of checkpoints operating these pieces of junk. One Iraqi general was fond of them, but apparently he was heavily bribed...
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- mikeash 11y agoSo here's an interesting question: if you sell fake weapons (or weapons materials) to a terrorist organization as part of a scam, is it illegal? Normally, selling weapons to terrorists would be illegal. But these aren't actually weapons. And normally, scamming people would be illegal. But you're scamming terrorists trying to carry out an illegal transaction. I'm sure the answer is, yes, it's illegal. But it's an odd situation and I'm not quite clear as to how it works out.
- talmand 11y agoIt would be fraud, unless the seller believed that it was actually a weapon because intent comes into play. But the victim would have to come forward to file a complaint with a legal authority. Which is possible because there are examples of people going to police after being scammed in a drug deal. I wish it would happen, it would make for an entertaining case.
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- steve-howard 11y agoThe last thing I'd be afraid of after selling fake weapons to a brutal terrorist regime would be going to prison for fraud.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI can sort-of imagine the headline. "Man prevented bombings by scamming terrorists, went to jail for tax evasion."
- dragonwriter 11y ago> It would be fraud, unless the seller believed that it was actually a weapon because intent comes into play. But the victim would have to come forward to file a complaint with a legal authority. No, they wouldn't; its not generally mandatory, as a matter of law, for the victim to enter a complaint for criminal prosecution to proceed, though often the government will prefer a complaining and actively cooperative victim, since that both demonstrates that there is a problem to address and makes prosecution easier (since the victim will be an important source of both direct evidence and information that will lead to evidence.)
- bitwize 11y agoIs this the inspiration for the planet-imploding "red matter" from Star Trek (2009 film)?
- CamperBob2 11y agoThe substance was so valuable that dishonest traders, al-Safi said, often trafficked in fake red mercury. ‘‘In my village at least 15 people trade in it,’’ he said. ‘‘They buy normal mercury, and they color it. They use red lipstick and put a little on a spoon and heat the spoon... I think I see the problem.
- clock_tower 11y agoIt could be worse, according to the article: they could be going after "Blood of the Slaves", the type of mercury that lets you summon genies.
- zeveb 11y agoYeah, as soon as I saw that I wondered how many poor slaves are being bled to death, or have had intravenous injections of mercury, or have been otherwise abused chasing after the 'Blood of the Slaves.'
- clock_tower 11y agoI'm desperately hoping that, despite the name, "Blood of the Slaves" mercury isn't actually produced from slaves. ISIS injecting slaves with mercury to produce magic metal that summons genies would be a new low -- although I wouldn't put it past them to do it.
- Shivetya 11y agoI am not worried about a nuclear weapon, dirty bomb. The likely attack will be chemical if they deviate outside of guns and explosives. It was proven in Japan so that direction isn't unlikely.
- zeveb 11y agoSounds like the fan death[1] of the arms trade… [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death