MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Iran nuclear sanctions by EU unacceptable, says Russia."This not only undermines our joint efforts to seek a political and diplomatic settlement around Iran's nuclear programme, but also shows disdain for the carefully calibrated and co-ordinated provisions of the UN Security Council resolutions," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

• HT:Elder of Zion.The US Army wants a Torah.The Army wants a Torah scroll.And, in what appears to be somewhat against a fair RFP process, the Torah scroll it wants is so detailed that it can only be written by a specific scribe.

• Iran to pay families to have babies, abandon 'ungodly' family planning.Under new plan, each child will receive $950 at birth, $95 every year until they reach 18.Under the initiative's rules children can withdraw the money at the age of 20 and use it for education, marriage, health and housing.Or leaving the country?

• US Senate Lockerbie hearing postponed.US Senate hearings on the release of the Lockerbie bomber have been postponed because key witnesses have declined invitations to take part.

• Media Matters Defends Hamas-Linked Obama Advisor as Mainstream Islamic.Something like Osama bin laden?Well, I agree, radical Islam is pretty much mainstream, if not a 100% accurate representation of Muslim groups — unless you manage to somehow call those who wish to impose sharia on the west and eliminate Israel anything but radical.

• France declares war against al-Qaida.France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

• Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million.Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.

• Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh.20-foot-high plume seen; tug boat hit well before dawn, officials say.Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.

• Chechen children in Russia holiday camp brawl.Seven people have been arrested after a mass brawl in a Russian holiday camp involving a group of Chechen children."Caretakers say he made nationalist statements. After a while, the director of the camp, his father, brought in a large crowd of local boys, who committed the pogrom. The children sustained major traumas," said Mr Kadyrov.

• Announcing Radical-in-Chief .I am pleased to announce that my political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, will be published on October 19 by the Threshold imprint of Simon & Schuster. Here is the Amazon page. Here is the cover.RADICAL-IN-CHIEF marshals a wide array of never-before-seen evidence to establish that the president of the United States is indeed a socialist. Tracing an unbroken thread of socialist activities and political partnerships, from Obama’s youth through his community organizing days and beyond.

• The tax hike nobody's talking about.Get ready for a smaller paycheck.At least that's what could happen if Congress doesn't approve President Obama's proposal to extend the Making Work Pay tax credit soon.

• Anti-Semitic talkbacks in Romania: Jews in control.Reports on Israeli military chopper crash in Romanian media spark wave of racist responses. 'Six fewer Zionist terrorists,' one says.

• Dems fear GOP oversight of Obama administration."We have seen what happens when Republicans take control of Congress with a Democratic president," Franken told the Netroots group, "and it ain't pretty."

• Spotlight on Iran Update, July 27 , 2010.Pictures of the week: industrial workers amidst ongoing power outages.

• Saudi King a No Show as Treasures Glitter in Louvre Exhibition.Paris is abuzz with rumors about King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and why he didn’t show up, as planned, at the opening of the Louvre’s first show devoted to his country.Was he furious at an article in the newspaper “Le Figaro” quoting him on June 29 -- falsely, say the Saudis -- as having said to Herve Morin, the French minister of defense, that two countries, Iran and Israel, didn’t deserve to exist?My bet is on Furious. 

•  HT:AstuteBloggers:Michelle Obama will take youngest daughter to Spain on the Taxpayer Dollar...And they're gonne be out of the country and away on his "Birthday".(I use " .." because it's just the anniversary of the Christian date of his birth,not the Muslim date -wich was 22 safar 1431 or 02/14/2010 - and they already celebrated it!It wouldn't surprise me if Michelle went to visit the Grand Mosque of Cordoba,anyone wanne bet?

• Thanks for the memories, Barack: Or, how to bankrupt a country in three easy steps.“Europe’s prospects brighten as U.S. fades.” Thus a headline in Reuters this morning.German business confidence is soaring while U.S. consumer sentiment sinks.Britain’s second-quarter economic growth was almost twice as fast as expected, the strongest in four years.Meanwhile, economists have steadily marked down forecasts for Friday’s U.S. gross domestic product report.Thanks a lot, Mr. President. And thanks to you, too, Secretary Geithner. You inherited the richest, most productive country in history. And you have set it firmly on course for economic stagnation.Obama the walking & talking doomsday machine?

• Wyclef Jean 'To Run' For Haiti Presidency.Remember how "Active' he was when the disaster struck?Come to think of it how much has Haity already recieved from the collected funds?

• Ahmadinejad Rails Against Paul the Psychic Octopus for Spreading “Western Propaganda and Superstitions”Apparently Ahmahomo asked Paul when the Mahdi would return and he said never, that pissed him of…I can see it coming "A fatwa against psychic octopusses"?

• Iran opposition warns of revolution.Iran's opposition leader Mousavi said Monday that Ahmadinejad's regime could suffer the same fate as the deposed Shah if they continue to consolidate their grip on power.

• Audit: U.S. Can't Account for 95% of Iraqi Funds.Defense Department Unable to Trace $8.7B in Iraqi Oil Money Tapped by U.S. for Rebuilding Nation.Obama and transparancy that's like BP without oil?

• Faster please.The Brothel Named Iran.I’ll bet you haven’t seen very much news about Iran during the past week or 10 days, have you? And yet there’s lots of news!

• Disappearing Shemen: Clean-Up Crews Can’t Find Crude in the Gulf.Is this the opposite of the Chanukah miracle? For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there’s one problem — they’re having trouble finding it.

• Now that Bell's $800,000 City Manager has resigned, perhaps San Francisco can examine its 10,000 or so six-figure city workers.

• Pandering to Muslims at Taxpayer Expense.Western governments may be swimming in red ink, but there has been no slowdown in public resources being devoted to placating Muslims and conducting comical exercises in multicultural outreach. A few recent lowlights spanning three countries.

• Youth Vote Cools on Obama.A recession hitting younger workers hardest, frustration with a slow-to-change Washington after the campaign joyride—young supporters are ditching the president. Samuel P. Jacobs on whether they’ll come around by November’s midterms.

• Turkey helping Syria crush Kurds, and implication for Israel.As Turkey builds relations with fellow Islamist neighbors, reports are coming in of Turkey helping Syria crush Kurds in Syria, Iran crush its Kurds, as well as fight its own Kurds and those from Iraq.When will they remove this Islamic butcher from NATO?

• Hamas official says group considering military draft in Gaza.Security official: Financial, demographic considerations will affect decision to conscript.