MFS - The Other News

                  Morning Posting.

• Feces, Urine, Blood, Smoke, and Something Indescribable.That’s when I heard it….the very distinct fire of an Apache 30MM cannon. And again. and again, over and over. It was very close. “We need to move to that position, NOW!” was screamed over the net. Myself and the team of soldiers I was with began running in the direction where we heard the Apache fire, I was not even close to prepared for the carnage I was about to walk on to!

• Democratic Strategist James Carville Slams Obama on Moratorium.“People here have been so let down,” Carville told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “The levies… the federal government let us down… Now the government comes in… and say ‘just blanket stop everything out there’. It’s killing the economy here!”

• EU threatens halt flights to Israel over pilot ID system .Code Positive is designed to prevent hijacked aircraft from entering Israeli airspace, but European Commission worries pilots will be afraid of interception should the system malfunction.

• The Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant has revealed his new look before TV cameras.

• The 7 Most Shocking Secrets From the WikiLeaks Files.More than 90,000 classified files documenting the war in Afghanistan have been published by the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, painting a dire portrait. From hidden civilian casualties to a special unit tasked with murdering top Taliban leaders without trial.

• After bailouts, new autoworkers make half as much as veterans in same plant.Among workers building the Jeep Grand Cherokee here, there are few obvious distinctions. Clutching lunch sacks and mini-coolers, they trudge together through the turnstiles at the plant's main gate each day to tinker with the same vehicles, along the same assembly line, performing the same tasks. Yet they fall into distinctly unequal classes: About half make $28 an hour or more, while the rest, the recently hired, make $14.

• Obama's message to voters: Things could be worse.President Barack Obama, who rocketed to the White House promising "change you can believe in," is now telling voters they shouldn't change a thing.

• U.S. Calls Illegal Mexican Pot Farmer “Displaced Traveler”.Osama Bin Laden in NY = "Displaced traveler"?

• Goldstone committee head denies bias.German jurist Christian Tomuschat says he won't step down.

• Morocco -The country is harassing Christians. Will Sam Kaplan stand on their behalf?Is our man in Morocco up to the job?But since Kaplan's arrival, Morocco has turned from a diplomatic dream job to a depressing despotic reality. Since March, it has expelled about 100 foreigners, including 50 U.S. citizens. Among the deportees were foster parents at an orphanage, businesspeople and aid workers who taught the poor to grow their own food.Their crime? Christian "proselytizing" -- against the law in this Muslim monarchy.U.S. Ambassador in Morocco a poisonous posting from Obama?

• Does U.S. ignore evidence of illegal fundraising for Hamas?ZOA suggests that it is bad enough if an American campus is used to raise funds for terrorism, but it would be more frightening if the Justice Dept. abdicated its responsibility to prosecute it.

• Yasser Qashlaq: Ships will Set Sail for Gaza in Flotilla.Yasser Qashlaq, the Lebanese flotilla organizer, claims the ships will soon set sail for the Gaza Strip. Syria and Hezbollah are involved. Considering Qashlaq's anti-Semitic stance and links to terrorism, he apparently wants a violent confrontation (possibly contrary to the wishes of many of the passengers).

• Obama asks Americans to give him $5."To keep making change and to defend the change we have already won, we need you -- and at least 14 other people in your area -- to contribute so we have the resources necessary going into the election. Please donate $5 today and help Organizing for America lay the groundwork for the fights ahead," the President said.Most Obama supporters who received the Obama email on July 21 asking for political donations received a follow-up email again asking for money a few days later, because Organizing for America failed to reach their goal of 14 people in each community donating $5."If you do not forward this email to another 20 million idiots a bad thing might happen to you?"

• Former House Speaker Gingrich on New York mosque.Mr. Gingrich explained that New York City has more than a hundred mosques; this one is not being proposed for lack of access to a house of prayer. He contrasted that number with the number of churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia: Zero. Time to end the double standard, Gingrich said. In fact, he added, Christians and Jews are banned from Mecca.The U.S. had stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, and held off Saddam from conquering that country. U.S. troops were not allowed to practice Christianity openly. We reported some time ago about Christian Bibles being confiscated on arrival at the airport.

• Female Imams Blaze Trail Amid China's Muslims.And so it appears the future of female imams in China is threatened — not by the state, not by resistance from inside Islam, but by the forces of market economics. China's way of dealing with Islam : Starve them in to extinction?

• CCTV footage shows caretaker 'missing for weeks' was crushed to death after falling into rubbish compactor.

• Video:Egyptian Cleric Hussam Fawzi Jabar: Hitler Was Right to Do What He Did to the Jews.

• Big headline: Lindsey Lohan goes to jail. Small Headline: Washington closer to controlling your life.“Buried deep in the bowels of the massive financial-regulation bill the Senate passed Thursday are massive race and gender employment provisions that will cost countless millions to enforce and appear to duplicate other civil-rights initiatives already in place.”