MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• North Korea 'detains fishing boat from South'.The South Korean coastguard said in a statement: "We have found out that our fishing vessel is being investigated by North Korean officials in the presumed North Korea exclusive economic waters in the northern East Sea."The South Korean government, according to international law, wants the swift resolution to the matter and the safe return of its vessel and its fisherman."The vessel has four South Koreans and three Chinese on board.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Newsweek columnist says US funding mosque construction.Truth, even in the tightly controlled prison of the Obama media complex, occasionally bursts forth like a swordfish cavorting on the waves of a golden August afternoon.The Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" I'm damn sure spending US taxpayer dollars on constructing mosques was not envisioned by the Founding Fathers nor by the overwhelming majority of American citizens.

• Video:Michelle Obama thinks she is not entitled to her vacations in Spain, Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard.She said it herself!

• The Guardian's latest Islamist press release.The Guardian story consists of a number of Muslim groups complaining about being labelled “broadly sympathetic to Islamism” in a leaked list sent to the Home Office by Quilliam, the anti-extremist thinktank. This is, apparently, a “smear” and “like something straight out of a Stasi manual.”I wonder why the MSF chose its vice-chair to make this passionate denuniciation? Why didn’t it put up its newly-reappointed chair, Azad Ali? Perhaps it’s because Mr Ali is a self-proclaimed Islamist who describes al-Qaeda as a “myth” and who has stated, in undercover Channel 4 footage, that “democracy, if it means not implementing the sharia, of course nobody agrees with that.”Perhaps it’s because Mr Ali is a senior official of the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe – which works, in its own words, to create an Islamic state under sharia law in Europe. The IFE and the MSF share the same offices.

• The Muslim Hijacking of Ground Zero.Islam doesn't just hijack planes, it hijacks the things that mean something to people. The great cities of the world are littered with relics of the Muslim occupation of their sacred places. Jerusalem, Delhi, Constantinople and Alexandria all testify to the Muslim predilection for taking over other people's sacred places, and turning them into mosques. It wasn't enough for Muslims to conquer Jerusalem and subjugate its inhabitants.No, they also had to take the holiest place in Judaism and build a mosque on top of it.

• HT:Islamo-Nazism.Egyptian Minister calls on Muslim Tourists to Flood Jerusalem.Zaqzouq said his tactic of urging a worldwide conversion on Jerusalem could be used to expose any subsequent Israeli hypocrisy, should the Israeli government refuse to grant them entry permits. He said Muslims could then turn to the international community claiming religious discrimination."This would produce powerful leverage, in lieu of the current negative Islamic boycott," Zaqzouq said. "We are wrong to define Jerusalem as a Palestinian issue. Rather, it is a purely Islamic issue concerning 1.5 billion Muslims."The fact that Islam discriminates other religions in the world doesn't count?

• 1,200 Federalized Guardsmen not to stop or detain illegals on Mexican
  border.Cybercast News Service is reporting that the 1,200 National Guard troops that are being deployed incrementally to the southwest border "will not be doing direct law enforcement," said U.S. National Guard Bureau Director of Communications Jack Harrison when asked if the forces would be interdicting drugs and undocumented immigrants.A toothless babushka?

• World Weather Roundup!From the “weather is not climate department”.Lots of odd weather events going on worldwide.■Snow in Brazil■Freeze in Boliva kills wildlfe■Heatwave and fires in Russia – but it is not global warming.

• Brewing legal disputes could define Kagan's early tenure.Coming soon to the Supreme Court: Arizona's immigration law, same-sex marriage and President Obama's healthcare overhaul. It's unclear how the justices will configure themselves.

• BREAKING: Will Ground Zero mosque project fail because of poor planning?The New York Post reports that the Cordoba Initiative, the project's sponsor, owns only half the land designated as a prospective construction site. The other half is owned by New York energy provider Con Edison.

• Pakistan will need billions to recover from floods.Civilian government overwhelmed by disaster that has killed 1,600, ruined crops, disrupted 12 million lives.Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from its worst floods in history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the U.N. said Sunday.

• Prayer heals, study finds.Prayer heals when it's close-up and personal, and there's a study to prove it.It's not just any kind of prayer, but "proximal intercessory prayer," or PIP -- when one or more people pray for someone in that person's presence and often with physical contact -- that was found by a team of doctors, scientists and religious experts to have remarkable results in healing some patients.

• 10 reported dead in Europe flooding.At least 10 people were killed in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic as creeks and rivers swollen by days of heavy rains burst their banks, destroying buildings, dams and bridges, officials said.

• Video: Dancing man hit by ice cream truck.[Warning: Violent content, graphic language]

• Half a town wiped away in China landslide killing 127 people... with another 2,000 missing.More here with video.

• 'Obama misplaced trust in Netanyahu'.Intel organization accuses Israel of 'blindsiding' US on Iran.A letter from a group of former intelligence professionals imploring US President Barack Obama to prevent a war with Iran sharply critiqued Israel and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies, saying they should not be trusted.My caption :"On est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même."

• Holocaust survivors to Netanyahu: Don't deport migrant workers' kids.In a letter to the Prime Minister, the organization for Holocaust survivors in Israel asks the government to change its position on the 400 children who face deportation if they don't meet government criteria.

• Protesting federal cops detain commander in Juarez.Some 200 federal police officers assigned to fighting organized crime in this violent border city detained one of their superiors at gunpoint Saturday to protest alleged corruption.

• FBI again hunts al Qaeda "dirty bomb" expert.US federal agencies Saturday, Aug. 7, announced the hunt was on again for Adnan Al Shukrijumah, 35, who lived in the US for 15 years and may now be Al Qaeda's mew global operations chief.counter terror sources confirm the wanted man is indeed dangerous - but not because of his climb up the al Qaeda ladder but owing to the unique task first assigned him seven years ago to carry out a radiological bombing attack in America.Nov. 17, 2003, whose sources reported that already then, in October of that year, Shukriumah was the quarry of a secret manhunt in the US and Canada. He was employed at the time as a nuclear engineering student at MacMaster University's nuclear 5-megawatt research reactor in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada before suddenly disappearing.His absence was noted when a large quantity of radioactive material was missed from the university's reactor. It was suspected then that Osama bin Laden had entrusted the "student" with preparing a "dirty bomb" attack in a North American city.Shukrijumah has never been traced since.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Will Holder investigate Obama pal for providing material support to Hamas?Will Holder investigate this effort to help Hamas? Will he implicate Barack Obama's friend? This is one area where I have no hope.

• Obama to debate Ahmadinejad?"Toward the end of summer we will hopefully be there for the (U.N.) General Assembly and I will be ready for one-on-one talks with Mr. Obama, in front of the media of course."

• U.S. bomb shelter advice misses mark says Israel.A warning to U.S. citizens traveling to the Red Sea resort of Eilat that they should locate the nearest bomb shelter should properly apply to the next-door Jordanian resort of Aqaba, an irked Israel said on Sunday.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Dozens of Americans murdered in Israel missing from US State Dept. award offers.The US State Department maintains a website called Rewards for Justice, which offers rewards for the arrest and conviction of persons involved in terror attacks against American citizens around the World. The page that deals with our region is here. It's called Violence in Opposition to Middle East Peace Negotiations. It hasn't been updated since 2003. And it's missing an awful lot of victims.Brings me to the burning question:"Why hasn't been updated?" 

• All-Women Ship Heads for Gaza tonight and Waits for Clash with IDF.A “women-only” ship, complete with a nun and a heavily pregnant mother, has cleared political and technical obstacles and is set to sail for Gaza, presenting Israel with a new challenge. The ship is supposed to leave Tripoli by Sunday night.

• Female Suicides In Tajikistan Linked To Domestic Violence.Suhrob Salomov, an Interior Ministry official in Khatlon Province, told RFE/RL that 108 cases of suicide and attempted suicide by women have been recorded in the province in 2010. He said 52 people have died as a result and tens of others have been injured.Salomov added that at least 50 percent of the known cases of attempted suicide were related to domestic violence and violence against women.Islam a religion of peace?

• HT:AmericanThinker.Sharia Law in Canada and Britain.The spread of Sharia Law to the entire world is part of jihad. In Canada and Britain, jihad is advancing.

• Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil raises eyebrows.While her friends arrived in Spain on their own, Michelle Obama flew in on a type of aircraft also used by Vice President Joseph Biden. It costs the government $11,555 an hour to operate the plane, according to the Air Force. Assuming a nearly eight-hour flight to nearby Málaga, the total round-trip cost of the flight is about $178,000.The Obama family will reimburse the government an amount equal to two first-class tickets — for mother and daughter Sasha, Air Force officials said. A round-trip first-class flight to Málaga costs about $7,400 apiece, without discounts or restrictions.

• Obama sent a secret letter to Iraq’s top Shiite cleric.President Obama has sent a letter to Iraq’s top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urging him to prevail upon Iraq’s squabbling politicians to finally form a new government.Mike Hammer, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, would not confirm or deny that Obama had sent the letter to Sistani.“We do not comment on Presidential correspondence,” Hammer wrote in an email Thursday.

• ANALYSIS-Israel watches two hot borders, and maybe a third.Israel has Iranian-supported enemies in Lebanon to the north and Gaza to the south. Its back to the sea is safe. But security on its eastern border may be threatened if hostile Iran expands into an unstable Iraq.

• New home sale fee unites divergent groups in opposition.Foes want the Obama administration to ban a 1% 'private transfer' charge — assessed every time a property is sold for 99 years — paid to investors who backed the home's original builder.

• Hizbullah: Israel killed Rafiq Hariri.Group says they have "comprehensive, revealing, conclusive" fabricated evidence.

• More Moderate Muslims.And a “WHO’S WHO” OF THE JIHAD.For a preview of the the Ground Zero Mosque, check out Virginia!

• O looks silly pushing 'creation' myth.I Don't have the heart to break any more bad news to President Obama. So, if you happen to have his phone number, please deliver this message: Go easy on the upbeat chatter about the number of jobs being created by private companies.Your information is inaccurate.The president, I'm sorry to say, is starting to look very foolish. It's presumptuous of me, I know, to think that this president, or any politician, for that matter, really cares about telling the truth. But just in case, here's the hole that Mr. Obama is digging himself into.

• Can We Dispense, Now, With The Myth That They Feel Our Pain?Honestly, I don’t care about the frequency with which our King and his Queen vacation from the tough grind of their having to talk out of both sides of their mouths.

• Pakistan's President Zardari is pelted with shoes at Birmingham rally.Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, had shoes thrown at him as he attended a political rally in Birmingham.Mr Zardari, who is under criticism for visiting Britain while Pakistan is suffering from devastating floods, was in the middle of a speech when an elderly man in the 1,000 strong crowd hurled both shoes at him. The gesture is considered a traditional insult in Islam.Hmmm i just hope it doesn't give Americans ideas or just throw "Golfshoes"?

• Hong Kong filmmakers shoot 'first' 3D porn film.The 3.2 million-US-dollar '3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy', set for release in May, has already generated interest in a host of Asian film markets, as well as Europe and the US.Loosely based on a piece of classical Chinese erotic literature, The Carnal Prayer Mat, the movie will star Japanese adult actresses Yukiko Suo and Saori Hara, the Post said.