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All American Airlines Flights Grounded
For those flying in the northeast today, especially in and out of Boston, it is just not their day (all the more so if there are terroristy-looking, Arab-speaking passengers nearby). The day just got much worse for those flying American Airlines. Via BBG:
- FAA SAYS ALL AMERICAN FLIGHTS GROUNDED AT AIRLINE'S REQUEST
- FAA SAYS AMERICAN GROUNDINGS DUE TO AIRLINE COMPUTER PROBLEMS
- AMERICAN AIRLINES SAYS SABRE RESERVATION SYSTEM OFFLINE
- AMERICAN AIRLINES REPORTS RESERVATION SYSTEM OUTAGE ON TWITTER
- SABRE SAYS THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WITH AIRLINE BOOKING SYSTEM
- FLIGHTS MAY RESUME AT 5PM EASTERN
Must be the evil Chinese hackers' fault again, and it is about time the government stepped in and regulated the entire Internet, preferably with a kill switch to get rid of all the pesky, fringe elements.
Update from American:
UPDATE as of 3:30pm CDT: Our systems have been fully restored, however we expect continued flight delays and cancellations throughout the remainder of the day. We have made several options available to our customers:
If customers must travel today and are already at the airport, they can rebook on another airline by visiting an American Airlines agent or by going to the other airline’s ticket counter with their electronic ticket number.
If customers must travel today and are not yet at the airport, they can rebook through American Airlines reservations or through another carrier and American will honor the fare difference.
If a customer chooses not to travel today, there will be no charge for reservation changes or a full refund will be provided.
It is important to note we see no evidence that today’s technical outage is related to the tragic events in Boston.
We will continue to provide more information throughout the day as we make progress in resolving this issue. We apologize to our customers and our people for this inconvenience
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After AA, ZH. Its the next logical step in the procuring of a total national security.
Fuck you Bernanke!
Good.
I didn't want to fly today anyways.
p.s. -- BULLISH
Stuxnet
American Airlines is a Carnival Cruise in the sky, just not as much shit.......yet!
Free speech is for terrists. Guns are for terrists. Gold is for terrists.
Damn, someone like us could get labeled in crazy ways by people who can't pronounce "terrorist."
As Charlie Veitch used to tell us, "Everything is OK!"
..probably has nothing at all to do with US Air waltzing in to take the reigns...
(like Continental did to United)
At least AA has wifi. Fucking United.
AA is in trouble maybe they where long gold?
Making excuses because ….
Maybe they know something we don't
we'll know if planes start blowing up again
Skynet just became self-aware.
Bush's Fault
Sad day for the TSA people, they'll have no one to touch inapropriatly.
I prefer to call United "The Airline Formerly Known As Continental".
LOL
Yep them travellers is "Stux" all right!
No groping and irradiation for you today.
BTFD!
Board the fucking dirigible?
But just them, AA, huh? Hmmm.
Patience.
"And now get me that fucking president on the phone , and tell him how occupied he is! I need at least a day. I need a day to make something up!"
He's on the back nine and Reggie Love is the ball washer
That should suffice.
One possible motive for the Boston Marathon Bombing
Consider:
- after all of these foreign wars securing energy for peak oil
- and them now fracking us to death
- with the environment and resource depletion spiraling out of control
- the economy is re-tanking again
- and all of these trillions of un-fulfillable promises are coming due...
Why not create random violent/terrorist events to establish fortress/prison America?
To train the citizenry to abhor actual freedom in exchange for false security. And this allows one to have security forces in place as austerity really bites.*
It's a cheap method to boot. A bargain really, when compared to 9/11.
And to tickle your antennae just a bit:
While they are at it, why not make it look like anti-tax people? So that if one is opposed to paying taxes to the government/corporations then one is associated with terrorists.... Hit em with a left and then a right.
In other words, prepping. 1% style. The psychotic top 1% of the 1%. Up there it is not about left or right, conservative or liberal, it is just up and down. Like chess, and they and their friends are 20 moves ahead with a rigged board. And they see this tsunami is heading our way...
It is nothing new actually, dictators and kings have been doing it for millenia, they were just more open about it.
Hey if you can entertain some JFK theories, why not this?
*I heard Ted Koppel with my own ears tell people that they should expect and not question heightened security at all public events. Basically get used police everywhere and you should feel bad if you question it. (CBS 7:55PM PST)"
Go watch the movie Brazil.
Don't remind me, please ...
F Ted Koppel. TV is for retards as is Hollywood. F TV and the media. I stopped listening to Limbaugh in the car because he talks aboout all the scum on TV. By talking about the scum he proves he is one of them. F TV. Keep being a sheep and keep watching like an idiot. You are enabling these people.
Up there it is not about left or right, conservative or liberal, it is just up and down.
No liberals are still hateful douchebags.
Come on, we all know that Zerohedge hosts "kiddie-porn" and shares copyrighted materials. I've also heard that one can buy a fake Prada bag from there as well, but you didn't hear that from me.
I heard that Mises.org, InfoWars, SteveQuayle, LewRockwell, the GoldenJackAss, and all the rest do it too.
I hope they shut down these purveyors of smut and filth and end their pirating ways soon. The Internet would be such a better place to read CNN, NBCNews, FoxNews, NYT, WSJ, and all the rest. hujel
Curiouser and curiouser....
God we are so predictable!!!!
This has been the theory for sometime amongst the enemies of America, that all anyone would have to do is, wage a low intenisity war (small scale attacks and bombs), with repeated attacks every couple of weeks of even one a month, and the paranoia and anger would tear the Country apart, bringing everything to a standstill and collapsing the economy, in a short period of time!
Its called the "Snowball Theory" and will see if its in play! And don't be so nieve to think that our enemies are just Arabs at this point!
To be fair, it ain't really tough to collapse the economy.
All you really have to do is remove the $85 X-tra large in QE every month.
pods
Well played, Pods.
That and Stuxnet JPM's EBT card operation.
<shudder>
pods
Pretty sad state of affairs when one figures that the elimination of a TON of counterfeiting ($85 billion/month) would actually KILL the system!
Selection wheel:
A) Rock;
B) Hard Place.
I'd like to buy vowel...
Well, it may be time to start heading to the cabin.
I was just thinking the same thing, really.
Cabin time is just around the corner... however... I will be waiting for Obama/Cheney to roll out the American Patriots for Safety and Security Act (2013) first.
It is a brilliant 645 page piece of legislation that is due to be released sometime this afternoon.
It basically allows unrestricted police searches of anyone anytime for anything (or for no reason at all) ... arbitrary (and reporting optional) arrests and indefinite detention of anybody for any reason... and basically everything else that the Modern Security State will require...
Links?
No. Concertina.
(Sarc)
Sarc! Isnt that already in place?
Is it mandatory?! Huh?
"He loved papa Bush."
Dude! You had me searching the hell out of that.
Am I an idiot for believing that that was possible and searching for it or are those that didn't the idiots?!
But in my defense, in November 2011 I initially didn't believe NDAA 2012 was real when a friend sent the link to me.
huejl
I heard it's printed on a piece of paper roughly the same size as the Bill of Rights and smells of fresh bleach.
Lol same, the panic house
My budget only allows for a "panic van."
me too actually, perks of finding a female with a rich daddy I suppose
Youse guys are so lucky.
All I've got is a "panic fridge box" neatly tucked away under an interstate bridge.
Location, location, location!
Interstate bridges are the last place that most would go. Very smart!
Blend in with the alkies
Panic bear den in the back forty.
"Move over, cubbies!"
Guess I'm stuck with my "panic hat" then :(
I'm already there.
"Well, it may be time to start heading to the cabin."
You'll have to take the 5 o'clock flight.
Didn't see That one coming!
Isn't SABRE a souped up version of compuserve?
It still has a cryptic green screen interface
Hm, its more advanced than I thought. I thought they were using the RF input on BW TVs.
19NOVSYDJFK9ALAX := Display flights with connections via LAX
.
Source: http://www.viasinc.us/products/tt/publications/sabre_fg_preview.pdf
Can I get that on a 4 inch floppy?
I have it on 1/2 inch tape.
What kind of tape drive do you have?
Alternatively, I can transfer it to punch cards and mail them to you.
http://ns1758.ca/winch/winche03.html
Shit! You know, I was only ever expecting GOOD flashbacks!
No, but 5 1/4 or 8 inch floppies are available for a small upgrade fee. 110 baud cassette tape is the preferred media, with punched tape also available if you need a more durable backup.
I chucked my Atari cassette drive...shucks!
Yeah, those were the days.
those shits are worth money now.
Really? I still have my Commodore C128D and some Amiga lying around somewhere ..
I still have a few dozen Syquest 88 cartridges I will sell you. Make an offer. I'll throw in my stock certificates to sweeten the deal.
Iomega shmIomega.
I'll raise you a couple of DataPoint cake-platters....
I think they run it on their Osborne portable( if you have native bearers)PC's.
There is a Chinese vibrator made for the India market with more computational fire power than SABRE.
Well, there looms arbitrage ...
They always said them Indians was smart people. Dots and all.
I don't know why but that made me laugh out loud
Is amber an option?
I would think so ...
Aren't the IRS' computer, the main one(s) not the PCs, even more out of date? I kind of remember hearing that they were and it was a pretty bad "chewing gun and bailing wire" kind of thing. Not that I'll complain if they crash. hujel
Someone please check AA's put option open interest over the past 2 weeks, pretty please.
And for God's sake, STAY AWAY FROM MODERN HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS!
Should I cash in all of my frequent flyer miles or what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS2Z19yTuPI
That is totally UN-AMERICAN!
martial law
Is this the time of Huxely or Orwell
Transitory...
I'd say Kafka nonetheless
Depends upon which pill you're taking. Now what'll it be, Red or Blue?
I can't endorse it enough, watch the movie Brazil!
Brave New World meets 1984 meets Hunger Games meets Lord of the Flies...
you forgot Planet of the Apes. Coming soon to the inner city Shit Flinging Olympics nearest you.
200 Motels. For a little added eccentricity.
May I add another recommendation: "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested."
Free e-book: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7849/pg7849.html
Plus Omega Man and Soylent Green. Any other Chuck Heston films?
Get your hands off that teleprompter you damn dirty apes!
Yes, Airport 1975. (It's a disaster movie).
It cost $3 mil, grossed $47 mil (old dollars).
Or, you could try...
Two minute warning.
An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum prior to a professional football championship similar to The Super Bowl. He is spotted by a Goodyear Blimp camera. Police and SWAT team are immediately called in by the stadium manager Sam McKeever (Martin Balsam).
Police Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), working with SWAT team Sergeant Chris Button (John Cassavetes), devises a plan to capture the sniper before the conclusion of the game.
And you wonder why we're all disappointed at the real life versions...
[Edit: God, please don't try and watch them, they're terrible. Heston was your "Go to Man for disaster films" in that period though]
More like Brazil.
Yeah, maybe alto much like Brazil
Plus, Terminator Salvation, only less positive....
Short-wave radio anyone?
Ah, good(?) you've seen Brazil. Everything is shaping up just like in that movie. They missed NOTHING!
****ing Pelosi and a lot of the Senate has that freakish plastic surgery/botox that they elderly ruling class had in Brazil.
F -tard DeNiro is a big lib.
A breaking down system creates the terrorists it needs to cover for the accidents caused by a crumbling infrastructure as a Monkey-Wrench repair man sabotages their networks, while incompetently failing to catch the actual terrorists, who despite their violent rhetoric do less damage than a single man trying to correct a database error...
Mr Goldstein, I see you've read the script for today [the Brazil meme is flowing well at the moment, with varying degrees of uptake].
All Instruction Manuals...
Who is John Galt?
It's the time of the season for loving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwFpRnOeGg
It's time for Mike Judge: "Why come you don't have a tattoo?"
hux*orw = 'Merica
kneed moar soma...
SHORT all airlines now!
Brave.
Fucking sequester..... if only.....
YOU NEED US CITIZEN !
was the BB flying AA?
I couldn't resist. Mina: And The Beat Goes On (1968) - YouTube
Ask any airline CEO if He/She would buy their own company stock. Crickets....
"I'm sorry sir, your flight is cancelled. For your inconvenience please enjoy this free voucher for a mandatory cavity search by TSA agent of our choice. Thanks for flying the friendly skies."
Oh, oh, oh, me, me, me, me, me, sir
I want the enema
Pleeeeeeeese
On a mainstream site this AM an onlooker in Boston was quoted as being "totally fine with a full cavity search right now."
Idiots. Collateral damage will always remain. You can't legislate away the risks of living.
You can't wake them up. Maybe you can pretend them from harming themselves (by thinking someone would take care of them), but mostly not.
The fucking sheeple love taking it in the ass.
Some people are just freaky like that.
pods
Maybe he says that to all the guys.
He he he he he he he he he he
Can't stop chuckling.
This whole fucking thing is coming unglued
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you may be fisted.
Maybe he was feeling a little lonely.
Please add this to the current list of bullish events.
The joys of rule by Hysteria.
Just remember, those poor saps going on hunger strikes in Gitmo are VERY safe from any so called acts of terror.
And, if you have armed guards surrounding you, it's not the act of terror that you are afraid of so much, it is probably the fact that there are armed People about, who you do not command and therefore do not trust.
The guards, walls, razor wire, cuffs, hoods, earmuffs and solitary are for their own saftey.
Good thing they merged with US Airways.
Have they raided the pensions yet?
Flying is pure torture. I have no idea how people put up with it.
I used to put on over 100k/yr and Mrs K wonders why I don't like it anymore.
Not that security, smaller seats, less civil staff and passengers have anything to do with it, of course.
I had executive platinum status with AA during the late 90's and early 2000's. First class wasn't too bad back then... now it sucks.
I will never again set foot on another flying machine unless it's absolutely necessary.
No kidding. The last time I flew was in 2005 - to Scotland. Each flight, connecting flight, there and back I was pulled aside, grilled as to my travel plans, luggage searched, etc. Being a tall, blonde, green-eyed woman with a Midwest accent, I didn't think I really fit the profile.
No, you fit perfectly.
You fit the profile, just not the profile you were thinking of.
pods
I bet you own gold, store food, and have Libertarian tendencies. That makes you a member of one of the most dangerous terror groups that exist: Domestic Extremist. And if you happened to be a Christian on top of all that, well that just wraps up the final paragraph in the book now, doesn't it...
Especially if you have a nice set of mellons.
(Sorry, it had to be said)
You're Pure Evil, you had to say it! LOL
Pas Mal! I guess those TSA morons will have nothing to do today except to cavity search each other. AA SUCKS anyway.
most likely terrorist list has grown too large for airlines' computer systems to handle
Amtrak looking real good now......
I/R, I took Amtrak last week. Had to pick up a car. (The irony) I was pleasantly surprised. Could be a regional thing?
The Gestapos aren't all that much fun when you're crossing the border... Nothing like being grilled when you're trying to return HOME!
Whoa, an interesting reorganization plan that removes computers to save money. Or, can you imagine the chaos when they merge their system with US Airways?
I'm stayin off plans till they block them from the new cellphone threat. I seldom fly anyhow lol.
They've been flying remotely a lot longer than cell phones have existed. Crazy that one can access the flight control system unencrypted, via radio, though.
Makes you wonder if this technology was available on 11 September 2001. Just saying.
Must the the fault of those terrible radicals, Patriots who fought to throw off foreign rule by international banksters and monarchists from Britain and Europe.
Yeah, those guys would blow up their own people in Boston in an anti-government protest, say many politicians and their main scream media. But are too dim to blow up the financial district and government buildings including the Federal Reserve Board, just a few minutes away?
Yeah, those terrible patriots who believe in the Constitution - not the spew from CNN CIA and the New York Post ramping up the hysteria by making unfounded accusations about a 'Saudi', a 'student', a 'foreign passport', an 'extremist', 'right wingers'...blah, blah, blah.
This is what it looked like in Germany before the Nazis funded by Rothschild Zionists instigated WWII, and dragged the USA into it against the will of the people.
This is what it looks like in most of the Middle East and Far East where totalitarian regimes use physical or financial terrorism to subjugate the many for the few.
Long live the Republic of the USA, hijacked after 1913 by foreign forces of the Rothschild Zionist and European monarchist persuasion, using Operation Paperclip to import their hateful Nazis into the highest level of U.S. science, academia, government and legal structures.
They also funded Josef Stalin who said that random acts of terrorism on domestic soil would ensure that people begged for tighter government control, authoritarian rule.
'Never let a crisis go to waste,' said Rahm Emmanuel, one of the most powerful people in the U.S. and his family ...spewing their hateful ideology.
Right up to:"blah, blah, blah", you were dead on. Keep it short, who needs examples?
Please wait with your accusations until police finds intact passport and Koran, uh, I mean Right Wing Radical bible.
I am surprised how sturdy those religious books sometimes are.
Did I miss the first wave that was hauled in? I don't recall hearing roll-call for anarchists... they are ALWAYS at the top of the list (and a smaller, and, while portrayed otherwise, less violent of most other groups).
I know one thing...I wouldn't be getting on any of those 5pm flights when service resumes.
Quote of the Day in the "Mission Accomplished" category:
"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOSTON_MARATHON_EXPLOSIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-16-05-26-46
On the other hand maybe he's just lonely.
Bullish on pressure cookers and hardware.........