Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Islamonazi Iran Leader More Defiant Than Ever
Click here for the story.Faisal Shahzad Linked to Failed Subway Bomber
In related news, investigators have offered no explanation for how the Times Square suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was able to board an airliner despite being put on a no-fly list.Read more about "No-Fly" Faisal here.China Looking to Buy Gold Mines and Listed Miners
China Confidential has learned that Chinese companies are intensifying efforts to acquire both producing gold mines and listed gold mining companies perceived as undervalued. M&A is the best way to find and mine gold--and mint money--in the view of Chinese investors.
Sources in Hong Kong and Tokyo say China sees gold as an alternative currency--more than a mere hedge against inflation--and gold mines and miners as assets that for the most part are still undervalued.
In advance of a stronger yuan--China's currency is expected to appreciate relative to other currencies--China's interest in snapping up the aforementioned assets are likely to bid up prices of gold and other commodities that China uses, such as copper, iron ore, and, of course, oil.
One way to play this trend is the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD).
Another possibility, for investors with the requisite skills and appetite for risk: analyze, compare, and cross-reference precious metal stocks that have performed well enough, apparently, to attract Chinese attention--e.g. this list--against such useful groupings as the top five small-cap gold industry stocks with highest return on equity.
Disclosure: no positions.Taiwan War Game Simulates Chinese Invasion
UPI reports:An estimated 6,500 Taiwanese soldiers, including elite forces, have taken part in the Asian island's biggest war game exercise in more than a year.
The military exercise, officials said, was a simulated type of Chinese attack on Taiwan, lifting the veil on how Taipei's military would respond to its an attack by its estranged neighbor, despite improving ties.
Continue here.Shahzad Associate Arrested in Pakistan
A photo of Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad appears above.
The New York Times reports:Mr. Shahzad also told the authorities that he had acted alone, but hours after he was arrested, security officials in Karachi, Pakistan, said they arrested a Pakistani man who had spent time with Mr. Shahzad during a recent visit there. Investigators said they arrested the man, Muhammad Rehan, in a mosque in the North Nazimabad area just after morning prayers. The mosque is known for its links with the militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad.
Investigators said Mr. Rehan told them that he had rented a pickup truck and driven with Mr. Shahzad to the northwestern city of Peshawar, where they stayed from July 7 to July 22, 2009. The account could not be independently verified.
Mr. Shahzad, who lives in Bridgeport, Conn., spent four months in Pakistan last year, the authorities said. His ties to that country, as well as the arrest there of Mr. Rehan, strengthened suspicions that the Times Square plot had at least some tentacles reaching overseas.
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Who is Faisal Shahzad? Details are emerging, as reported here.Gold Becoming the 'Anticurrency'
Iran Again Provoking US in Persian Gulf
Weakness invites aggression....
Ahead of becoming a nuclear-weapons state, Iran is provoking and testing the United States in the Persian Gulf. Reuters reports:Iran announced new naval war games on Tuesday and revealed that one of its military aircraft had photographed a U.S. aircraft carrier, a day after Washington said Tehran was challenging its sea power in the Middle East.
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From Tehran to Times Square, radical Islam perceives the United States as an adversary that is both ruled by and riddled with useful idiots, Islamist appeasers and sympathizers, dupes and dopes.
Unless the enemy is stopped--meaning, utterly destroyed and defeated--the testing and taunting, pushing and probing will continue in advance of a catastrophic conflict in the Middle East and/or a nuclear attack on the U.S.Times Square Suspect Tied to NW Pakistan
Iran Wants Independent Probe of US Nukes
US Arrests Pakistani-American in Times Square Case
The arrest of a Pakistani-born American man for driving a failed car bomb into New York's Times Square on Saturday has once again thrust the south Asian country under the global spotlight as a center of terrorism, just as the Obama administration seeks to shore-up Pakistani support for Washington's fight in Afghanistan.
Faisal Shahzad's arrest followed the appearance of a video message on the Internet by Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for the Times Square attempt.
Continue reading the CBS analysis here. The original, breaking news story follows. Scroll down for a video report from the Connecticut neighborhood in which Shahzad lived for several years with his family.
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U.S. federal agents and local New York police on Monday night arrested a Connecticut state resident--a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan named Faisal Shahzad--in connection with the failed car-bombing in Times Square. He was reportedly in Pakistan for several months before recently returning to the U.S.
The suspect was reportedly arrested at JFK Airport, trying to flee the country.
CBS News says his name was "familiar to counter-terrorism investigators." That could simply mean that his name had been added to the no-fly list.
The Taliban of Pakistan--known as the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, or TTP--have claimed responsibility for the attempted atrocity.
Investigators are reported to be examining similarities between the incident and coordinated attacks in the summer of 2007 in Glasgow and London. Both attacks involved cars containing propane and gasoline that did not explode.Monday, May 03, 2010
Sure Enough, Washington Post Blames Israel for Obama's Failure to Stop Iran's Nuclear Program
Significance of the TTP Times Square Claim
Pending further developments in the case, Charlie Szrom and Chris Harnisch put the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claim of responsibility for the attempted Times Square car-bombing in perspective:A TTP attack attempt on the American homeland – regardless of its success – would signify a hitherto unknown capability of the TTP. Whether or not the TTP conducted the attack, observers should recognize the group’s propaganda campaign as an effort to weaken international support and Pakistani will for any North Waziristan incursion and prove its strength. The U.S. should also take all necessary precautions to defeat and defend against the TTP, recognizing that whatever its operational capacity in the U.S., the group has clearly identified the U.S. as a target and itself as a member of the global network led by al Qaeda.
Read the authors' analysis here.Appeasement Update: Christian Science Paper Publishes Pro-Iran Nuclear Arms Propaganda
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
More proof (as if any were needed) that appeasement fans the flames of aggression.
Click here for the story.
How would Taiwan respond to a Chinese attack?
Gold's future is bright, as reported here, because the precious metal is transcending its traditional role as an inflation hedge and becoming the world's "anticurrency"--an alternative, or antidote, to both the dollar and the euro.
CNN reports Times Square car-bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad has Pakistani residency, and his family is from northwestern Pakistan, a jihadist stronghold. Click here for the story.
Unmoved by the Obama administration's bizarre disclosure of a state secret--the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal--nuclear-arming Iran is calling for independent verification of the figure. Click here for the story.
UPDATE: CBS News reports:
Sure enough, the pro-appeasement, Obama-adoring Washington Post has blamed Israel for Obama's failure to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Click here for the Post propaganda piece.
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