Let's see - they began sending nuclear shipments to Iran on Dec. 16 a bit over a month ago. Prior to that by some months they began flying their old Bombers intruder missions. After Dec, 16th they began dusting off their navy. This month they have fired their weapons right where Europe could feel it (not actually but in a symbolic way) like a shot across Europe's bow sort of speak, and they are ramping up more navy actions. Now Russia has delievered 66 metric tons total, the 6th shipment being made yesterday
http://en.rian.ru/world/20080124/97631970.html
Oh and the wall between Egypt and Gaza was blown by someone who was certainly an expert, not your average Palestinian, and this should keep Israel looking over its shoulder as it eyes Iran, and meanwhile Bush has been up to his usual breathings of war against Iran....
Then there is IBM. Except for auto companies making deals with unions recently, and a few airlines and their unions, I don't know of any companies the size of IBM that have cut worker's pay in one day and one hour by 15% since the 1930s. True - the Fed made its big money drop from the choppers on Monday...but Ibm's stock was little effected by the market drop anyway. I do know from many friends in IBM that yesterday IBM did something it has never ever done - it suddenly told several thousand workers in Global Services that their pay would be cut by 15% effective that day. This is during a period of inflation and high gas prices. Now why do I mention Ibm? I have learned from work done in it over the years and by friends there and by family there, that IBM is WELL CONNECTED with the Powers That Be. Many times in the past it has done self-protection messures long before an economic or political disaster has hit, even while most other companies - some larger - have not seen what was coming.
So when IBM suddenly does something strange and something it has never done before and when its stock is little effected, I must assume it knows from its sources that something big is headed our way. Seeing that this is a dire action, I must assume what ever that thing is, is not too far off in the future - say a week or a few weeks at most.
How IBM normally did things: Usually when a division is doing badly it first cuts hours and fires temp workers, Second it will offer packages to workers who will accept an agreement to quit on their own. Third, it will begin a stealth layoff, laying off people by ones and twos so as to avoid the news and papers. So what it is doing this week is not according to its SOP used for the last 15 years. Something is coming.