DRY RUN? Middle Eastern men on United Airlines start fight with flight attendant!

Posted: March 30, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: EnemyWithin-American | 26 Comments » NBC –At least one of the men walked back to the area of the plane where flight attendants work, laid down and began complaining of illness. That man engaged in “some sort of altercation” with the flight attendant, a passenger said.

At one point another man, who was pacing back and forth in the aisles, also got into a “verbal altercation” with a flight attendant, according to a passenger. Other men of “Middle Eastern descent” were passing notes and “writing in their notebooks,” a source told NBC Chicago.

United contacted officials at O’Hare and alerted them that the flight, which originated in Washington D.C., would stop. The flight was diverted to Chicago. Three passengers were removed from the aircraft, and the remaining passengers were re-screened through security, before being sent on their way.

Passengers arriving at Portland told NBC affiliate KGW they were aware of problems during the flight. Cliff Robinett described the incident as “strange goings on in the back of the plane.” Another passenger, Lydia Omelchenko, said the three individuals removed were “strange people.”

Robinett said the man was lying on the floor in the back of the plane did not speak English, and an interpreter had difficulty translating. Robinett said a doctor on the plane also tried to assist the passenger.

He said three men got off the plane, one of them ill. No one knew what was happening at the time, including TSA officials in Chicago, he said.

Stacy Niedermeyer of Southwest Portland was on the flight and said one of the men went to the back of the plane and “sat down on his bottom.” Some type of heated altercation took place.

Lydia Omelchenko said passengers knew something was amiss and were texting about the incident. She reported that two men, one of them young, left the plane and neither looked ill.

Other passengers interviewed did not wish to be identified. One passenger said a man with a backpack was pacing back and forth and got into an argument with a flight attendant.

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DRY RUN? Middle Eastern men on United Airlines start fight with flight attendant!

Posted: March 30, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: EnemyWithin-American | 26 Comments » NBC –At least one of the men walked back to the area of the plane where flight attendants work, laid down and began complaining of illness. That man engaged in “some sort of altercation” with the flight attendant, a passenger said.

At one point another man, who was pacing back and forth in the aisles, also got into a “verbal altercation” with a flight attendant, according to a passenger. Other men of “Middle Eastern descent” were passing notes and “writing in their notebooks,” a source told NBC Chicago.

United contacted officials at O’Hare and alerted them that the flight, which originated in Washington D.C., would stop. The flight was diverted to Chicago. Three passengers were removed from the aircraft, and the remaining passengers were re-screened through security, before being sent on their way.

Passengers arriving at Portland told NBC affiliate KGW they were aware of problems during the flight. Cliff Robinett described the incident as “strange goings on in the back of the plane.” Another passenger, Lydia Omelchenko, said the three individuals removed were “strange people.”

Robinett said the man was lying on the floor in the back of the plane did not speak English, and an interpreter had difficulty translating. Robinett said a doctor on the plane also tried to assist the passenger.

He said three men got off the plane, one of them ill. No one knew what was happening at the time, including TSA officials in Chicago, he said.

Stacy Niedermeyer of Southwest Portland was on the flight and said one of the men went to the back of the plane and “sat down on his bottom.” Some type of heated altercation took place.

Lydia Omelchenko said passengers knew something was amiss and were texting about the incident. She reported that two men, one of them young, left the plane and neither looked ill.

Other passengers interviewed did not wish to be identified. One passenger said a man with a backpack was pacing back and forth and got into an argument with a flight attendant.

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Tracing the Path of Social Upheaval Across the Middle East and North Africa

03/30/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Are you watching all this, Fellow Reckoner? Now it’s Syria’s turn on the hotplate. Has the world gone mad? More to the point, was it ever sane to begin with? In any case, it is a breathtaking show put on for all the world to watch. Who would want to miss it? What a time to be alive!

But before we get too carried away, before we get into the juicy details, let’s just take a step back for a moment. This period of history is so brimming with events to inspire laughter and sorrow and everything in between. We want to be sure we give each case their just deserts.

Let’s start where all good tales of intrigue start, at the beginning…

Imagine you’re a down-on-your-luck, 26-year old college grad unable to find work in Tunisia. Your friends all have similar problems, so it’s no use crying to them…you’ve got to earn some cash of your own. So, what do you do? How about making a little on the side selling some fruit and veg? Sounds like a viable plan, eh?

Nope. No dice. When the local authorities confiscated Mohamed Bouazizi’s produce (for selling without a street license) back in December, the young Tunisian was so angry he promptly set himself on fire. Overreaction? Well, self-immolation might not be the first thought that pops into most people’s heads, but what do we know? We’re not an out of work 26-year old Tunisian college grad trying to make a buck. And we haven’t had the bulbous thumb of an oppressive dictator on our head since we were a baby.

In any case, the event awakened a long-dormant undercurrent of anger, precipitating a wave of civil unrest that eventually took down the Tunisian government, ending the multi-decade authoritarian rule of US-backed president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. And this was just the beginning. Soon after the crowds in Tunisia began singing their songs of freedom, the tune spread to Egypt, Libya and across the Red Sea to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and beyond.

Freedom, after all, is a catchy tune.

And now we see that Syria’s House of Assad is on the back foot. The Assad family have been ruling the roost for four decades. That, for much of Syria’s young population, is more than their entire lifetime. According to the figures, approximately one-third of Syria’s 23 million people are under 14 years of age. That makes for a lot of teenage angst in the very near future.

Iran’s chief Arab ally may be, as The Wall Street Journal puts it, “a latecomer to the spring of Muslim discontent,” but it is wasting no time making up for its tardy arrival. According to some human rights groups, more than 60 people have been killed as security forces cracked down on the demonstrations spreading around the country.

In his first public speech since revolts began there almost two weeks ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed “conspirators” for the violence washing over his (for now) land, for what the papers are calling an “extraordinary wave of dissent against his authoritarian rule.”

As usual, the papers have got it all front-to-back. There is nothing “extraordinary” about slaves rising up against oppressive masters. They always rise up…eventually. What is most extraordinary, at least to our thinking, is how long people will take it on the chin before saying “enough is enough,” before they bring their gloves up, either to defend themselves…or to land a counterpunch.

“We don’t seek battles,” Assad said in a televised speech on Wednesday, before adding, somewhat provocatively, “But if a battle is imposed on us today, we welcome it.”

If the people are unhappy in Syria, if they are longing for freedom across the Middle East, they were a long time silent about it. Brutal regimes have been running the place for decades. Then again, stealth is oppression’s best weapon; it creeps in slowly, like a silent, invisible, lethal gas. Good people stand aside and do nothing and then, before you know it, you wake up one day to find half the population being forced to dress in cloth bags and the other half too stupefied and/or terrified to do anything about it.

We have no idea whether Mr. Bouazizi is destined to become the Archduke Ferdinand of the 21st century, or how many militaristically enthusiastic nations will find the conflicts in that troubled part of the world too irresistible to refrain from joining. We do know, however, that repressed anger is generally not a healthy thing…not for individuals, and certainly not for entire generations of young men and women with a spark of freedom in their hearts.

It is curious, then, that the various goings on in the Middle East (and North Africa…and Japan…and along Europe’s periphery) barely inspire a whimper from the markets. Not even the scalawag shenanigans concocted in the oak-paneled halls of government buildings in Washington DC raise a questioning eyebrow from the mainstream media. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is still cruising, as if on autopilot, some 800 points above where it began the year. Neither manmade nor natural disasters seem capable of disturbing its terminally ascendant flight pattern.

But, not unlike the stealthy creep of oppression, market crashes tend to remain unseen too…until the moment they become all-too obvious, when it is already too late.

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Tracing the Path of Social Upheaval Across the Middle East and North Africa

03/30/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Are you watching all this, Fellow Reckoner? Now it’s Syria’s turn on the hotplate. Has the world gone mad? More to the point, was it ever sane to begin with? In any case, it is a breathtaking show put on for all the world to watch. Who would want to miss it? What a time to be alive!

But before we get too carried away, before we get into the juicy details, let’s just take a step back for a moment. This period of history is so brimming with events to inspire laughter and sorrow and everything in between. We want to be sure we give each case their just deserts.

Let’s start where all good tales of intrigue start, at the beginning…

Imagine you’re a down-on-your-luck, 26-year old college grad unable to find work in Tunisia. Your friends all have similar problems, so it’s no use crying to them…you’ve got to earn some cash of your own. So, what do you do? How about making a little on the side selling some fruit and veg? Sounds like a viable plan, eh?

Nope. No dice. When the local authorities confiscated Mohamed Bouazizi’s produce (for selling without a street license) back in December, the young Tunisian was so angry he promptly set himself on fire. Overreaction? Well, self-immolation might not be the first thought that pops into most people’s heads, but what do we know? We’re not an out of work 26-year old Tunisian college grad trying to make a buck. And we haven’t had the bulbous thumb of an oppressive dictator on our head since we were a baby.

In any case, the event awakened a long-dormant undercurrent of anger, precipitating a wave of civil unrest that eventually took down the Tunisian government, ending the multi-decade authoritarian rule of US-backed president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. And this was just the beginning. Soon after the crowds in Tunisia began singing their songs of freedom, the tune spread to Egypt, Libya and across the Red Sea to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and beyond.

Freedom, after all, is a catchy tune.

And now we see that Syria’s House of Assad is on the back foot. The Assad family have been ruling the roost for four decades. That, for much of Syria’s young population, is more than their entire lifetime. According to the figures, approximately one-third of Syria’s 23 million people are under 14 years of age. That makes for a lot of teenage angst in the very near future.

Iran’s chief Arab ally may be, as The Wall Street Journal puts it, “a latecomer to the spring of Muslim discontent,” but it is wasting no time making up for its tardy arrival. According to some human rights groups, more than 60 people have been killed as security forces cracked down on the demonstrations spreading around the country.

In his first public speech since revolts began there almost two weeks ago, Syrian President Bashar Assad blamed “conspirators” for the violence washing over his (for now) land, for what the papers are calling an “extraordinary wave of dissent against his authoritarian rule.”

As usual, the papers have got it all front-to-back. There is nothing “extraordinary” about slaves rising up against oppressive masters. They always rise up…eventually. What is most extraordinary, at least to our thinking, is how long people will take it on the chin before saying “enough is enough,” before they bring their gloves up, either to defend themselves…or to land a counterpunch.

“We don’t seek battles,” Assad said in a televised speech on Wednesday, before adding, somewhat provocatively, “But if a battle is imposed on us today, we welcome it.”

If the people are unhappy in Syria, if they are longing for freedom across the Middle East, they were a long time silent about it. Brutal regimes have been running the place for decades. Then again, stealth is oppression’s best weapon; it creeps in slowly, like a silent, invisible, lethal gas. Good people stand aside and do nothing and then, before you know it, you wake up one day to find half the population being forced to dress in cloth bags and the other half too stupefied and/or terrified to do anything about it.

We have no idea whether Mr. Bouazizi is destined to become the Archduke Ferdinand of the 21st century, or how many militaristically enthusiastic nations will find the conflicts in that troubled part of the world too irresistible to refrain from joining. We do know, however, that repressed anger is generally not a healthy thing…not for individuals, and certainly not for entire generations of young men and women with a spark of freedom in their hearts.

It is curious, then, that the various goings on in the Middle East (and North Africa…and Japan…and along Europe’s periphery) barely inspire a whimper from the markets. Not even the scalawag shenanigans concocted in the oak-paneled halls of government buildings in Washington DC raise a questioning eyebrow from the mainstream media. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is still cruising, as if on autopilot, some 800 points above where it began the year. Neither manmade nor natural disasters seem capable of disturbing its terminally ascendant flight pattern.

But, not unlike the stealthy creep of oppression, market crashes tend to remain unseen too…until the moment they become all-too obvious, when it is already too late.

Joel Bowman
for The Daily Reckoning

Joel Bowman is managing editor of The Daily Reckoning. After completing his degree in media communications and journalism in his home country of Australia, Joel moved to Baltimore to join the Agora Financial team. His keen interest in travel and macroeconomics first took him to New York where he regularly reported from Wall Street, and he now writes from and lives all over the world.

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Precious Metals Investments: How They’re Affected by the Middle Eastern Unrest and Devastation in Japan

Libya is getting bombed by American, British, and French fighter jets. The situation in Libya could spill over to other Arab countries in sympathy.

Japan just suffered a horrific tsunami and related leak in one of its nuclear generation plants. The damage could impact the country’s economic renewal.

In all of this, after declining to just north of $1,300 an ounce, gold has been rallying. It is trading at a key level of $1,430 on the chart.

Investing in gold is a safe haven play when the market risk rises.

Gold has rallied in each of the last 10 years and shows a beautiful bullish price chart. My gold advice would be to accumulate gold on weakness. The situation in Libya could worsen and there are also tensions in Iran and other Middle East countries. This means added global risk. Oil is trading at over $105.00 per barrel on the threat of more disruption in oil from Libya.

In my view, the key determinant of how gold will fare will depend on the direction of stocks along with the geopolitical tensions.

A strong and bullish stock market tends to drive some selling in gold, as capital flows into equities from gold. This could materialize, but my feeling is that gold will receive support from the global uncertainties in the Middle East and Japan, along with higher expected demand flowing out of China and India as the countries’ per-capita incomes continue to edge higher.

If the Middle East situation worsens, it would drive up oil prices, which would impact economic growth at a time when the economies continue to be at risk. I would not be surprised to see gold move towards $1,500 an ounce over the next year.

Also don’t forget about the mounting debt and deficit in the United States. The country has over $14.0 trillion in debt and is paying billions in interest daily. Many states are struggling to make ends meet and are looking at severe cuts in the state budgets.

On the chart, the Relative Strength for the April gold has strengthened, so there could be additional upside moves in the near term. There remains a bullish golden cross on the chart, with the 50-day moving average of $1,384 above the 200-day moving average of $1,321. Look for resistance at the 13-week high of $1,434.1 and $1,440. The recent move above $1,440 failed to hold.

Silver has also followed gold higher, with the May silver futures contract above $36.00 an ounce. Silver is a play on the economic recovery, as it’s found in electronics.

I also like copper as a play on the recovering global economies, especially in industrial applications and housing.

My advice to play the commodities is to buy gold stocks, silver stocks and oil stocks on weakness, especially if the situation in Libya and the Middle East worsens and Japan weakens.

George is a Senior Editor at Lombardi Financial, and has been involved in analyzing the stock markets for two decades where he employs both fundamental and technical analysis. His overall market timing and trading knowledge is extensive in the areas of small-cap research and option trading. George is the editor of several of Lombardi’s popular financial newsletters, including The China Letter, Special Situations, and Obscene Profits, among others. His trading advice on stocks and options is also found on his daily trading site, Daily Profits. He has written technical and fundamental columns for numerous stock market news web sites, and he is the author of Quick Wealth Options Strategy and Mastering 7 Proven Options Strategies. Prior to starting with Lombardi Financial, George was employed as a financial analyst with Globe Information Services.

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OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES = FAIL

Posted: March 19, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: ISLAMOBAMA | 12 Comments »

And we’re not even talking about the Israel-Palestine mess here.

WND –Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia are beginningto fray at the edges as the Sunni Saudi kingdom dispatched

1,800 troops to next-door Bahrain in an attempt to quell revolt against that nation’s Sunni-ruled regime, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

The U.S. had urged Saudi Arabia not to do that.

That, analysts say, is just a tip of the iceberg of decisions that are being made that reveal the extent to which U.S. advice now is ignored, or even repudiated, across the Middle East, and they say a part of that is because of President Barack Obama’s perceived abandonment of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally.

Saudi Arabia and Jordan both were in alliance with Mubarak in their efforts to contain Iran, which is dominated by Shi’aIslam.

But the abandonment of Mubarak – the U.S. called for his departure and hailed the opposition forces providing a front for the radical Muslim Brotherhood – has caused the Saudis to believe they have to act on their own without having to consult any longer with the U.S., analysts say.

The basis for a more unilateral Saudi approach stems from an early Saudi appeal to the U.S. to support Mubarak inthe face ofincreasing demonstrations at the time in Egypt, even if the government had decided to use troops against the demonstrators.

For years, the U.S. has supported the autocratic rule of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which itself is beginning to face increased demonstrations for change and greater reform within the kingdom. While the U.S. worked behind the scenes for a graceful Mubarak exit, demonstrators remain concerned that the U.S. backs the interim military regime which has promised the reforms the demonstrators seek.

Now, the U.S. has not condemned Saudi Arabia’s introduction of troops into Bahrain or, for that matter, the sending of additional troops by other Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates at the request of the Bahraini regime of King Hamad ibn Isa Al-Khalifa. Nor has Washington criticized the regime for making the troop requests.

The U.S. strategy is to help open up the Bahraini political system without the government being overthrown, analysts say. However, the arrival of the Saudi troops has indicated more of a heavy-handed approach in stopping any protests, with military force if necessary.

Regional analysts are suggesting that Washington’s continued backing of autocratic regimes in the Middle East may indicate a loss of clout in itsforeign policy while condoning “a level of force” inthe face of democratic demonstrators.
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Paul Craig Roberts : How The Law Was Lost : Father of Reaganomics Paul Craig Roberts discusses how the American middle class is being systematically dismantled by means of destroying the ladders of upward mobility and offshoring US manufacturing as well as skilled jobs to China and India. He also explains how the rule of law has been eviscerated, greasing the skids for the evisceration of the

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