MFS - The Other News

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• Iran stoning case woman fainted on hearing sentence, says cellmate.For days, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtian was like 'a ghost wandering in shock' after receiving death penalty.

• Germany: Turkey is not yet ready to join the European Union, but it is essential that it be “on Europe’s side,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was quoted as saying on Tuesday.“If the question had to be decided today, Turkey would not be ready for membership and the EU would not be ready to absorb it.”Hooray for German efficiency!

• A Girl Triumphs Over an Unspeakable Crime.Nine months ago, The Daily Beast reported on an horrific crime: An Afghan teenager's nose and ears were cut off by vindictive in-laws after she tried to run away from an abusive marriage. Now, after national media attention, Bibi Aisha will travel to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery.

• Video:Tennessee Official Says Islam May Be a ‘Cult’.Tennessee’s lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, has been asked to explain recent comments captured on video in which he suggested that Muslim Americans might not have a constitutionally protected right to worship in the United States.

• Hungary Sued in Holocaust Art Claim.For more than two decades the heirs of a world-renowned Jewish collector have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or placed after being stolen by the Nazis and later returned to Hungary.

• Video:Female Genital Mutilation in the U.K.A truly horrifying expose of how Muslim girls in the UK are being taken back to the old country to have their genitals mutilated and prepared for forced marriage. Warning contains shocking testimonies and images!

• Does the Obama Regime orchestrate Support UN Creation of Palestinian State?Palestinian Authority officials say if Israel and the Palestinians fail to reach an agreement to create a Palestinian state, the Obama administration will support a resolution at the United Nations that would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state."Last year, Ahmed Qurei, former PA prime minister and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, told WND in an interview that the PA "reached an understanding with important elements within the administration" to possibly bring to the U.N. Security Council a resolution to unilaterally create a Palestinian state.Asked to which "elements" he was referring, Qurei would only say they were from the Obama administration.

• HT:JIDF.Videos:Maryland Hate Crime: Synagogue Defaced with Swastikas and Hate Against Jews.Shows again how "Intelligent' these morons are they can't even spell right in German"Sieg Heil" not Seig Heil another example of idiots on the rampage!

• President Obama Once Again Makes Erroneous Claim That Foreign Entities Can Spend Unlimited Amounts in U.S. Elections.“Tomorrow there’s going to be a very important vote in the Senate about how much influence special interests should have over our democracy,” Obama said. “Because of the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year in the Citizens United case, big corporations -- even foreign-controlled ones -- are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on American elections.”He must be confusing his own election again?

• Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment.No, it’s not about slavery; like so much of our politics these days, it’s about Barack Obama.

• Passenger Plane Crashes Near Pakistani Capital.A Pakistani passenger plane carrying at least 152 people crashed on Wednesday in the hills near Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, civil aviation officials and local media said. Rescuers were struggling to reach the aircraft and news agencies reported that at least 20 bodies had been recovered so far.

• What BP Knows About the Size of Gulf Disaster.While BP publicly stuck to claims that its blow-out well was leaking at rate of 5,000 gallons of oil per day, the company was privately operating under the assumption that at least five times that amount was gushing into the Gulf, according to documents released today by congressional investigators.

• Olbermann: The Tea Party Is The New Ku Klux Klan.Disgusting, disgraceful, pathetic: a better way to describe Olbermann and the mainstream media in general is hard to come up with.

• Video:Gingrich: Forget Ground Zero -- They Can Build A Mosque Near Central Park Or Columbia Instead.During his appearance, Gingrich ended up making it clear that he doesn't oppose mosques in all of New York -- just in this particular spot.

• U.S. withdraws ‘pain ray’ from Afghan war zone.A ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves hasbeen pulled out of Afghanistan by the US military.US army chiefs in Afghanistan have stayed silent about the reason for the U-turn.They can't find the enemy?

• Economy erodes election hope for Democrats.Americans by a large majority believe President Barack Obama has not focused enough on job creation, as economic fears threaten Democrats ahead of November 2 congressional elections, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.

• Obama Undermining Intelligence Collection on Terrorists?Nabhan might have provided the United States with invaluable intelligence -- information available nowhere else about his terror network, its American recruits and its plans for new attacks. But thanks to a decision by Obama, all that intelligence was vaporized. Why did the president choose to kill, rather than capture, Nabhan?

• Obama administration risks over $100 million trying to "save" a few thousand dollars annually on carbon emissions?Some say that Ka Le is haunted -- and it is. But it's haunted not by Hawaii's legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are "Na leo o Kamaoa"-- the disembodied voices of 37 skeletal wind turbines abandoned to rust on the hundred-acre site of the former Kamaoa Wind Farm.The ghosts of Kamaoa are not alone in warning us. Five other abandoned wind sites dot the Hawaiian Isles -- but it is in California where the impact of past mandates and subsidies is felt most strongly. Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California "big three" locations -- Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio -- considered among the world's best wind sites.

• Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen and NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco.

• City and County Government Associations: Obama Economy Will Create or Save, Eh, I Mean Destroy or Eliminate 500,000 Public Sector Jobs.A report by a consortium consisting of the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties doesn't beat around the bush. It's title: "Local Governments Cutting Jobs and Services: Job losses projected to approach 500,000".

• The new, improved Obama.You can give a hyena an "Ultimate Makeover" it will still remain a hyena!No matter how many Rabbis he invites at the White house he will still be Anti -Israel.

• UK: “Allahu Akbar” Screaming British Islamists Protest in Front of Downing Street Over WikiLeaks Documents…“British soldiers go to hell, hands off Muslim lands”- chorus.

• Videos Rouse Russian Anger Toward Police.One day last fall, a police officer here put on his uniform and sat on a drab tan couch before a video camera. In a halting monotone, he recorded two video appeals to Vladimir V. Putin, 13 minutes in all.

• Will the burka's biggest foe soon be praising Allah? French Minister Eric Besson promised his Tunisian fiancee's family he would convert to Islam, and then passed a law banning religious veils.

• India Struggles To Stem Rise In 'DisHonor Killings'.Traditional Indian values are clashing with modern mores in northern India, where there has been a reported upsurge in so-called honor killings, the murders of young couples who elope in defiance of caste boundaries and their families' wishes.Nearly every day, Indian media carry reports on the murders of young people who tried to defy very specific local rules about who can marry whom.

• Hayward exiled to Siberia; will Obama be next?Many have complained that Barack Obama's detachment far outweighs that of Hayward.

• Freezing temperatures threaten thousands in Peru.Plan is providing emergency supplies to thousands of children and pregnant women in Peru who are suffering from a cold snap that has already caused the deaths of more than 200 people from pneumonia.Temperatures have plummeted as low as -24C° in some areas, far below the average for July.