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Eco-terrorism strikes US city
Seattle News.Net Monday 3rd March, 2008
An eco-terrorist attack has occurred in the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Five luxury houses were set ablaze in an estate north of the city.
A sign with the words 'ELF,' which officials say may mean "Earth Liberation Front" was found at the scene. ELF has been designated an eco-terrorist group by the FBI, which describes eco-terrorism as, "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."
'Built green? Nope black!' the sign reads, according to an image broadcast by CNN affiliate KING-TV in Seattle. The sign calls the homes 'McMansions.'
John Heller, president of Seattle Street of Dreams, told CNN he had spoken to the fire chief and was told that the fires were suspicious.
'My understanding is that it was an act of terror,' Heller said.
The FBI said the fires are being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.
Heller said he was out of town on business and was rushing back to see what was left of the development. He said it was a new subdivision that featured luxury homes priced around $2 million each.
Seattle's Street of Dreams is 'the most popular and highest attended single site luxury home and garden tour in the U.S.,' according to the event's Web site. Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
Bad Sherrif 03-03-08, 09:41 PM |
Hang 'em High
I say we string 'em up!! We’ll get a possie together and track 'em down...then at high noon we hang 'em high!!
Yeehawww!!
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your nightmare 03-03-08, 10:53 PM |
Fuck the rich
Yeah I’m rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun, these people aint seen a brown skinned man since their granparents bought one!
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Anonymous 03-04-08, 12:52 AM |
I agree with senseless and useless but screaming headlines like Eco-terrorist do far more damage. Keep a nation on high alert until they’re all paranoid...then provide them a solution...less freedom and more government which they pay for in taxes. What a joke! 5 members of some disgruntled group, protesting whatever, committed ARSON and should be charged and tried for that crime. But can the terrorism bullshit would you. We’re ALL so sick and tired of it.
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THE WORLDS VOICE 03-03-08, 08:06 PM |
INSANE AMERICAN
AMERICA WILL SINK AND THEY WILL DO IT TO THEMSELVES. THANKS TO THE POLITICIANS THERE.
THE WORLD WILL JUST WATCH, AS IT ALWAYS BEEN.
GOODBYE AMERICANS, FINALLY YOU WILL TOTALLY VANISHED YOUR OWN PEOPLE.
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 06:37 PM |
if its possible to find link of laden with this.beeter if a link with Iran can be established.
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 07:05 PM |
Burning 5 houses that are unoccupied is NOT a terrorist act. It’s called arson. Gawd, I think America’s become a country of mental cases.
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 04:33 PM |
Mc mansions
Comparing with many poor countries’s houses,EVERY single house in America is a Mc mansion!
If this eco terrorism is not extremely harshly dealt with right now,American future is shit.
Think about it.
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Gash 03-03-08, 05:38 PM |
Pollution
Some environmental activists they are - think of the pollution from all those burning houses! They should be ashamed of themeselves!!
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 04:40 PM |
Round them up and cut off thier head..Saudi Government and other persian countries do it in extreme cases..these little terror groups need to be rubbed out...................nothing else will stop this lame excuse for distruction..for once i think i agree with persia laws in these manners of crime..stop wasting tax payer dollars on career criminals... get rid of them for good..records show they only go out and more and more crime..stop dreaming of rehibilatation..pipe dreams..
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 05:13 PM |
American fed up with career criminals stealing
Do what persia does kill em quick..human rights org. can just go take an asperin and get over it...why should tax dollars keep going into this bottomless pit.law abiding poor need food and shelter .............that would be a better place to put extravagant court cost monies instead of on repeat offinders..give us a break alright..what about citizens rights to peace and security.........get that crazy bunch gone for good.they always do more crime anyway..look at the crimes that they do not get caught at...
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 05:23 PM |
American fed up with career criminals stealing
Do what persia does kill em quick..human rights org. can just go take an asperin and get over it...why should tax dollars keep going into this bottomless pit.law abiding poor need food and shelter .............that would be a better place to put extravagant court cost monies instead of on repeat offinders..give us a break alright..what about citizens rights to peace and security.........get that crazy bunch gone for good.they always do more crime anyway..look at the crimes that they do not get caught at...
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waltky 03-04-08, 10:36 PM |
Upside of the downturn in housing prices...
;)
Housing: Best time to buy in four years
March 4 2008: Home values have declined across the country, giving homebuyers the best buys they’ve had since 2004.
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It may be the best time to buy a house in more than four years. Home prices have dropped so quickly and so far that valuations - the difference between what a home should cost and its actual price - are the lowest they’ve been since 2004, according to a report.
The Cleveland-based bank National City Corp., together with financial analysis firm Global Insight, revealed Tuesday that more than 88% of the 330 housing markets surveyed showed price declines and improved affordability during the last three months of 2007.
“Housing valuations are almost back to long-term norms," said National City’s chief economist, Richard DeKaser. He called current affordability “the best in the past four years." But DeKaser cautioned that home prices could fall even further. “This isn’t to say home price declines are over," he said. “We could move below historic norms. By the end of 2008, housing markets could be broadly under valued."
[url=http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/04/real_estate/markets_less_overvalued/index.htm?section=money_mostpopular: Prices still improving[/url]
See also:
Banks should accept mortgage principal cuts: Bernanke
Tue Mar 4,`08 - Banks may have to swallow reductions in the principal of some troubled home loans to ward off greater losses that could result from outright default, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Warning that mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures are likely to rise, with more declines in house prices, Bernanke called for active measures from both the public and private sectors to stabilize housing markets. “This situation calls for a vigorous response," Bernanke said in a speech to the Independent Community Bankers of America, referring to government and private-sector initiatives to slow the rate of home loan failures. “Measures to reduce preventable foreclosures could help not only stressed borrowers but also their communities and, indeed, the broader economy," he said.
U.S. government bond prices shed early losses and turned higher, while stocks extended their declines and the downtrodden dollar touched another all-time low against a basket of currencies. Market bets of a Fed rate cut at its March 18 meeting ticked down slightly to roughly a 66 percent chance of a cut in benchmark interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point from the current 3 percent.
Bernanke’s comments come as the central bank grapples with the twin dilemmas of a slowing economy and rising inflation. U.S. economic growth slowed to a sluggish 0.6 percent at the end of 2007 and hiring declined in January. But inflation rose 4.1 percent in 2007, the largest 12-month rise since 1990. Current housing difficulties differ from past housing market slumps because of the large number of homeowners who owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, Bernanke said.
“In this environment, principal reductions that restore some equity for the homeowner may be a relatively more effective means of avoiding delinquency and foreclosure” than reducing interest rates on troubled home loans, he said. When a mortgage is “under water," a reduction in principal may boost the chances of pay-off by avoiding default or foreclosure, he added. Analysts said the Fed chairman was advising bankers that it was in their best interest to resolve mortgage problems quickly and to cut their losses.
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080304/bs_nm/usa_fed_bernanke_dc: MORE[/url]
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Anonymous 03-03-08, 08:44 PM |
senseless and useless
Such senseless arson and vandalism serves no purpose. It neither helps Americans understand choices, nor promotes values that strengthen our nation. Extremism like this does not help the world!
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~galljdaj+ 03-04-08, 07:01 AM |
Why is Heller not the ECO Terrorist...
... , the terrorist for Profit?
He has/had the Buildings for sale and could not sell them. A sign is far less proof than motive!
You just might notice the police had little to say about the truth of the sign, or even its meaning.
Jumping on the freight train like homeless bums by talking accepting 'Terrorists' talk, and acting like intermediate school children!
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justincase 03-04-08, 08:35 AM |
to all
Guys slow down in hates and talk down redirects. The world will never be at peace if we all act and talk these way all time.Cool it down we are not a volcano that soon to erupt.
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Sammy 03-04-08, 12:24 PM |
Insurance compensation will cover financial loss
Alarmists, alarmists, It seems that some people want to spread this terrorism card by alarming people when arsonists, criminals, and people who probably set fire to their houses for life insurance compensation.
This burning for profits has been an old criminal practice, and insurance companies have a lot of unsettled claims in this sector, but also with the fear of terrorism that has been imposed upon the American people it is very simple to mascarade common criminal acts as being of dubious
terrorist origin and stay in the headlines.
This type of news will sell newspapers and also give a shot in the arm to those that promote terrorism by imposing fear on common people for political purposes, especially at election time.
But I believe that the American people cannot be fooled very easily as they have been fooled in the past, and they can smell the political odor behind these criminal acts that are taking place for financial gains.
Sammy
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