MFS - The Other News

 

                          Morning Posting.

• Emirati Trio Boldly Go Where No Muslim Has Ever Been: NASA.Three Emiratis who are the first non-US citizens to train at the Nasa space agency said the intensive programme could be vitally important for the future scientific development of the UAE.“Everything happened so fast that I couldn’t even tell everybody about it.”Thank you Mr "They don't trust me cause of my middle name"Benedict Arnold Barack Hussein Obama.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.UNIFIL ran away during Tuesday's battle; UPDATED WITH VIDEO.Lebanese media have lashed out at the UN Interim Force, which includes Indonesian soldiers, in Lebanon, calling it an "impotent" bystander after a deadly border skirmish between Lebanese and Israeli forces."The impotent international forces beat a retreat, left the place of combat and watched the unfolding events from afar," said the daily As-Safir, which is close to the Shiite movement Hezbollah.

• Germans March In Kiev To Commemorate Nazi Victims.Two hundred Germans took part in the "March of Life" today in Kyiv, an event aimed at asking forgiveness from the victims of the Holocaust.The march, which brought together the descendants of Nazis and the descendants of Holocaust victims, culminated in the Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital where during the German occupation of Ukraine from 1941-1943 a large part of the local population was executed.

• Video:Subway train ran over man.A 28-year-old dare devil said he filmed himself as he jumped onto the tracks in front of a train on the Shanghai subway, as he thought it would be an "exciting" thing to do.

• HT:Amnon&Jonathan!Fact Sheet: U.S. Treasury Department Targets Iran’s Support for Terrorism.The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced today a set of designations targeting the Government of Iran's support for terrorism and terrorist organizations, including Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) and the Taliban. Iran is the primary funder of Hizballah and has long been recognized as the most active state sponsor of terrorism.

• Erdogan's advisor's polygamy stirs debate in Turkey.Ali Yuksal has already said he plans on marrying fourth wife, but the cabinet authorized his appointment. Once media clues in to situation, controversial family values espoused by ruling party provoke public debate.Now this must give Berlusconi nightmares?

• Lawyer of Iranian woman applies for asylum in Europe.Human rights organization in Turkey like Amnesty International and the Human Rights Association (İHD) are closely monitoring the situation of Mostafaei and his client Ashtiani -- who was sentenced to death by stoning but following international pressure was sentenced to death by hanging.They added that he hoped Turkish authorities would be able to convince their neighbors to respect basic human rights based on the good relations that they have, especially with Iran.

• Geert Wilders the Dutch Opponent of Muslims Gains Ground.— Geert Wilders, the anti-Muslim politician who has campaigned for a tax on head scarves and a ban on the Koran, seemed poised Thursday to emerge as a prominent player in a new minority government in the Netherlands.

• New al-Qaida leader knows US well.A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.

• Russia, Crippled by Drought, Bans Grain Exports.“We need to prevent a rise in domestic food prices, we need to preserve the number of cattle and build up reserves for next year,” Mr. Putin said in a meeting broadcast on television. “As the saying goes, reserves don’t make your pocket heavy.”

• Russia fires pose nuclear threat, death toll hits 50.Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said heat from fires in the Bryansk region, which already has nuclear contamination from the Chernobyl disaster more than 20 years ago, could release harmful radioactive particles into the atmosphere.Photo report here.

• AP Enterprise: Scientists think Gulf can recover.Want to know the future of the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico ecosystem? Look first to its muddy, polluted past.The recent ecological history of the Gulf gives scientists reason for hope. In an extensive survey of Gulf of Mexico researchers by The Associated Press, at least 10 of them separately volunteered the same word to describe the body of water: "resilient."

• More killed in Mexico last month than the last four months in Iraq according to Oliver North.In order to resolve the problem President Obama, Attorney General Holden and Judge susan Bolton have done everything they can to bar any attempt by Arizona’s law enforcement from having the necessary tools to maximize public safety . 2700 people have been butchered in Ciudad, Mexico alone in the last twelve months. Ciudad is now the deadliest city in the world! The Obamas prefer to party while the country burns.

• Japan tanker was damaged in a terror attack, UAE says.A Japanese tanker damaged last week in the Strait of Hormuz near Oman was the target of a terrorist attack, the United Arab Emirates state-run news agency has said.It said remains of home-made explosives had been found on the hull of the M Star, which was damaged on Wednesday while travelling from Qatar to Japan.

• U.S. sends donation to help Chavez.Despite the attempts of Chavez to spread his radical ideology in the Americas, his close association with Iran, Hamas, and intense hatred for the U.S, the Obama administration sent Venezuela a donation. The U.S. government shipped 75,000 tons of corn that the Chavez could use in his “socialist” corn-processing plants.

• Parents' fury at council plans for halal-only menus in primary schools.In a move which has also enraged animal welfare groups, only meat from animals killed and prepared using Islamic teaching may be allowed at 52 primaries in Harrow.Critics say the plan puts the needs of Muslim children before those of other faiths, while parents say they have not been consulted over the scheme.According to the 2001 Census, Harrow is one of the most religiously diverse areas in Britain with fewer than 50 per cent of the population Christian, a fifth Hindu and 7 per cent Muslim and six per cent Jewish.

• Nauseating: while the Obamas party the country burns down.Obama is now showing his true genius. If people cannot pay their mortgages he is proposing that the principle on millions of mortgage be wiped off.He is basically declaring the value of real estate at zero! The dollar is collapsing and is going to devastate the American economy by January 2011.

• Malacca, marriage for girls under 16 years to cover the underage pregnancies.The state of Malacca in Southern Malaysia, has allowed the marriage of girls under 16 and also for boys under 18. The decision of the Malacca Islamic Religious Council, announced on August 3, has aroused great controversy in the Muslim country.

• Prophetic Malbim Describes August 2010 Discovery.There is a remarkable Malbim on the book of Yonah 2:4. The Malbim discusses how Yonah was caught in a river under the sea - where the waters of the river were separate from the ocean waters. Until this month - this was generally thought to be a physical impossibility.“Researchers working in the Black Sea have found currents of water 350 times greater than the River Thames flowing along the sea bed, carving out channels much like a river on the land.The undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents.

• Meet Breitbart's Sherrod writer: Racist sexual "expert" and inventor (who cured cancer).Pezzi, who says that "Breitbart asked me to write for BigGovernment.com," has a peculiar self-described history. Pezzi claims to be responsible for "over 850 inventions" and schemes such as a "magic bullet" for cancer, a "robotic chef," and sexual inventions like "penile enlargement techniques" and "ways to tighten the vagina" (because "men like women with tight vaginas"). Pezzi has started multiple websites, from term paper helpers to a sexual help site that answers "your questions about sexual attraction, pleasure, performance, and libido" (Pezzi is qualified to do so because "No doctor in the world knows more about sexual pleasure than I do").Pezzi also claims to have "beaten Bill Gates" on a math aptitude test, turned down a blind date with Katie Couric, and says he's "bigger than some porno stars." I only would like to ask him one question:"How do we get rid of Obama?"