MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• NY mosque imam: US rights in line with true Islam.Feisal Abdul Rauf says freedoms enshrined by Constitution reflect Muslim values; mosque supporters, opponents rally in lower Manhattan. While tempers were heated, there were no signs of violence between the two sides, which were kept several blocks apart by police.Obama has said he supports the right of Muslims to build the center near Ground Zero, while Republicans, including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, oppose it. Others have suggested it be moved to a less controversial location.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.Why Does Obama Have Two Companies Incorporated In The UK?I received a very interesting email that showed, among other items, that Barack Obama has two companies incorporated in his name in the UK according to Alfred Adask (his post below). How many Barack Obamas exist in the world? Do any Monster readers in England want to do some digging? Is this how the revenue is redistributed to the Queen and the international banksters?

• Video:Live: hostage situation Manilla.

• Why Do Feminists Attack Sarah and Not Sharia?Given Islam’s enslavement of women and the Sharia erection of the Cordoba Initiative’s chief con man, Abdul Rauf, you’d think N.O.W. and their ilk would now be raising more Cain about this Ground Zero Mosque than they are about Sarah Palin.

• Iran begins mass production of 2 assault boats.Inauguration of production lines for missile-launching speedboats comes day after Iranian President Ahmadinejad unveiled country's home-built bomber drone, which he said would deliver 'death' to Islamic Republic's enemies.Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, choking off some 40% of tanker-shipped oil worldwide, in the event of a military attack.

• Obama's Royal Retinue.Vacationing Obama can't shed White House entourage ... President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel. Easier said than done. His SUV, part of a 20-vehicle motorcade, passed through a cordon of Massachusetts State Police motorcycle officers, in a protective cocoon of Secret Service agents.Conclusion: Like a titular head-of-state, Obama rushes from vacation to vacation with breathless coverage throughout. And while people may speculate as to why he is taking so many vacations, we think we know: There's just not very much he can do on the job, and his power is actually fairly circumscribed, not by the office but by circumstance and sociopolitical evolution. Picking a vacation destination may be the clearest and most unencumbered decision he gets to make. But then again, perhaps Michelle and the children do the choosing.

• Why We Fight: The 10 Worst Islamofascist Terrorist Attacks Since 9/11.In 2006, 24 Muslim men were arrested in Britain as they were entering the final stages of a plot to blow up as many as 10 jets headed for the U.S. Their plan was to mix an explosive cocktail, disguised as innocuous beverages, and detonate the mixture using a common electrical device such as a cellphone or mp3 player.

• Bangladesh bans Islam dress code.A Bangladesh court has ruled that people cannot be forced to wear skull caps, veils or other religious clothing in workplaces, schools and colleges.The ruling came after reports that a college in the north had forced students to wear veils.The high court also ruled that women cannot be prevented from taking part in sports or cultural activities.The court said that wearing any form of religious clothing, for students and employees, should be a personal choice.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.Video:Thomas Sowell On Obama And America’s Collapse.I see him as someone who all his life has been associated with and part of a group of people who fundamentally don’t believe in the principles of this country.”

• Video:GOP Strategist Ed Rollins Says “Democrats are in Big, Big Trouble” for 2010 Midterm Elections.

• NY Times Hysterical Lefty Frank Rich Accuses Ground Zero Mosque Opponents of Betraying the Afghan War Effort or Something.Poor General Petraeus. Over the last week he has been ubiquitous in the major newspapers and on television as he pursues a publicity tour to pitch the war he’s inherited. But have you heard any buzz about what he had to say? Any debate? Any anything? No one was listening and no one cared. Everyone was too busy yelling about the mosque.The way he's talking you would think Petraeus has lost the war already?

• Video:Israeli Official Warns: ‘We’re Preparing for War’.Likud member of Israel's Knesset, Danny Danon, appeared on Aaron Klein's WABC radio program Sunday Afternoon. "We are prepared for all risks," Danon said. "And I think our enemies should know that even though we are speaking of peace, we are getting ready for a time of war, as well."

• U.S. air-base plans hint of role in Afghanistan.Three $100 million air-base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar facilities in that country to support increased U.S. military operations well into the future.Three $100 million air-base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar facilities in that country to support increased U.S. military operations well into the future.

• Photos: Today's 'Stop the 9/11 Victory Mosque' Protest in Lower Manhattan.

• Lockerbie bomber blast at Britain: Jail killed me a million times.Breaking his silence on the first anniversary of his release, the 58-year-old cancer sufferer said he was disgusted by those who effectively wanted him dead. 'They want to quicken my death. Is it up to me?' Abdelbaset Al Megrahi Megrahi told journalists in his home city of Tripoli. 'They killed me in prison a million times, denied as I was from seeing my children and family. So what more do they want from me?'To finish your sentence perhaps?

• The left has gone completely insane?Remember also that historically, some of the most shocking brutality in the region was justified by the Bible, not the Koran. Crusaders massacred so many men, women and children in parts of Jerusalem that a Christian chronicler, Fulcher of Chartres, described an area ankle-deep in blood. While burning Jews alive, the crusaders sang, “Christ, We Adore Thee.” My hunch is that the violence in the Islamic world has less to do with the Koran or Islam than with culture.More such idiocies you can read here!

• Obama to Give Major Speech on Iraq.President to Speak After End of Vacation on Aug. 29; Gen. Odierno Says U.S. Will Return Only in "A Complete Failure".In interviews with CBS' "Face the Nation" and CNN's "State of the Union," Odierno said it may take several years before America can determine if the war was a success.Read the prob is for the next president?

• Video of lynch mob killing two teenage brothers sparks mass demonstrations across Pakistan.Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited the family of the two boys Sunday in Sialkot and issued an appeal for citizens to come forward with evidence to help the investigation. He said at least 10 suspects have been arrested, including four police officers.Malik criticised the spectating police officers' lack of action, saying they should have at least fired their guns in the air to disperse the crowd.He also said the disgusted nation are baying for the mob's blood.It is not the kind of incident any civilized society can afford,' he said. 'The whole of Pakistan wants the people involved to be punished. And we are getting demands from the nation that they should be hanged at the very place where they murdered the two brothers.'

• Somalia is turning into Afghanistan: Somali rebels increasingly resemble Taliban, with floggings, music bans and possible al-Qaida links.Wherever Islam gets a foothold, after it starts building cross-cultural "bridges", it turns a country into a brutal, medieval shithole and works to exterminate infidels.Men are forced to grow beards. Women can't leave home without a male relative. Music, movies and watching sports on TV are banned. Limbs are chopped off as punishment, and executions by stoning have become a public spectacle.Welcome to A.D. 613!

• Years After Taliban, Afghan Women Fare A Little Better.Since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the situation for women there has improved marginally. Repression continues, especially in the rural areas.

• Iran to Send Larger Satellites into Space.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country plans to send larger and heavier satellites into space in future."We are going to put a larger satellite into space that can operate for one year and send data," Ahmadinejad said on Saturday, adding, "Iran plans to shoot satellites to altitudes of 700 km, then 1,000 km."Once this target is realized, placing a satellite at a geosynchronous orbit of 35,000 km will be easy."And meanwhile obtain the technology to launch nuclear missiles?Remember how Germany trained(Build) his luftwaffe?

• Iran unveils long-range drone to counter ‘aggressors’.The 4-meter-long drone aircraft can carry up to four cruise missiles and will have a range of 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), according to a state TV report -- not far enough to reach archenemy Israel. ”The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship,” said Ahmadinejad at the inauguration ceremony, which fell on the country’s national day for its defense industries.The goal of the aircraft, named Karrar or striker, is to "keep the enemy paralyzed in its bases,” he said, adding that the aircraft is for deterrence and defensive purposes.For good info on Iran just trust Turkey to have it,just best friends.More here.

• Video:Gaddafi knows Israel killed JFK and talks about his African Kenian Muslim brother .He probably knows even who was bribed to let the Lockerbie bomber free also?

• HT:TheAstuteBloggers.Mapping global poverty and tyranny is mapping Islam and Socialism.

• Ground Zero Mosque Opponents, Supporters Turn Out to Demonstrate.They carried signs saying, "You Can Build Your Mosque at Ground Zero When We Can Build Our Synagogue at Mecca," and "Building a Mosque at Ground Zero Is Like Building a Memorial to Hitler at Auschwitz." Daisy Khan, Organizer, Says Opposition Is 'Like Metastasized Antisemitism'.No more then the 'metastasized racism towards Christians' in Muslim countries how many Christian Churches have there been build there lately?"We want to build bridges"to where......?

• In striking shift, small investors flee stock markets.Investors have withdrawn a staggering $33.12 billion from mutual funds in 2010.Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade group. Now many are choosing investments they deem safer, like bonds.If that pace continues, more money will be pulled out of these mutual funds in 2010 than in any year since the 1980s, with the exception of 2008, when the global financial crisis peaked.Small investors are “losing their appetite for risk,” a Credit Suisse analyst, Doug Cliggott, said in a report to investors on Friday.

• Pay UpGot a blog that makes no money? The city wants $300, thank you very much.For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it's a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.

• 10 Bigoted Remarks Made by the ‘Tolerant’ Left In Obama’s ‘Post-Racial’ America.During the 2008 Presidential campaign, we heard relentlessly about how Barack Obama would usher in the era of Post-Racial America. Upon his Presidential nomination and subsequent election, it reached a fever pitch, with every speech he made being lauded as the second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. In reality, not so much. In fact, the reality was almost the antithesis of Martin Luther King, Jr’s dream – instead of being about character, everything became about the color of one’s skin.

• Fidelity sees record number raid their 401(k)s.Hardship withdrawals spike in troubling sign for economy.In the wake of news about a spike in new applications for unemployment benefits comes another potentially troubling sign: A record number of workers made hardship withdrawals from their retirement accounts in the second quarter.What's also eye-opening is that 45 percent of participants who took a hardship withdrawal a year ago took another one this year, McHugh said.

• Only a matter of time--inside the Muslim Brotherhood.As a world network that poses as a 'moderate' fellowship within Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated numerous organizations, campuses, and political groups with an extremist message of world domination.The group is also well-known for its numerous connections with terrorist organizations and state sponsors of terror, although leaders vehemently deny such charges.So thoroughly has the Brotherhood infiltrated vast sectors of American society that many counter-terrorism experts say it is only a matter of time until mayhem breaks forth with fury...against American citizens.

• US Said Preparing New Laws To Seize Americans Retirement Accounts.First They Destroy Private Healthcare in America – Yes, the socialist Democrats won their first battle to destroy the private healthcare system in the US but the automatic IRA bill now in Congress is their next attack to also control, confiscate and destroy the private retirement system. Ultimately, nationalizing healthcare is designed to create a major new government revenue stream by replacing private health insurance with a nationalized, mandatory, government program and their goal is identical with your retirement plan.

• Lenders Agree to Prop Up Ailing ShoreBank.Some of the nation's largest banks have agreed to contribute enough money to save Chicago-based ShoreBank, the community lender with strong ties to the Obama administration, FOX Business has learned.
• Update : ShoreBank fails; will be reincarnated as Urban Partnership Bank.

• HT:Michelle Malkin.ShoreBank update: A shutdown…and a quick, smelly reincarnation.Hmmm. Feds moved to shut down Obama crony bank ShoreBank today, but it’s not really going away.We did a story earlier here on MFS on the Shorebank and Obama: Connect the dots and follow the money....from ShoreBank to the Obama Administration et all ShoreBank

• Will A Decline In The Credit Rating Of U.S. Government Debt Lead To A Complete Financial Disaster?Most Americans know that individuals have credit ratings, but many of them don't realize that countries have credit ratings too, and that even a small dip in the credit rating of a nation can have a huge economic impact. For decades, U.S. government debt has had a very, very high credit rating. U.S. Treasuries were generally considered among the safest, if not the safest, investments in the world. But that is starting to change. Just this past week, Moody's Investors Service said that the U.S. government has been running up so much debt that there is actually a danger that the credit rating of U.S. government debt could be downgraded at some point in the future. That would make it significantly more expensive for the U.S. government to borrow more money, and it would cause interest on the U.S. national debt to skyrocket even further.So why should we be concerned?

• 15 Signs That The U.S. Housing Market Is Headed For Complete And Total Collapse.The U.S. housing market is dying. You will only hear hints of this on the mainstream news and from the politicians in Washington D.C., but as statistic after statistic continues to roll in, the reality of what is happening is becoming very difficult to deny. Up until the end of April, the giant tax credit that the U.S. government was bribing home buyers with helped stabilize the real estate market, but now that the tax credit has expired the decline of the U.S. housing market has resumed. Mortgage defaults continue to set new records. Foreclosures continue to set new records. Home repossessions by banks continue to set new records. The number of homes being constructed and the number of Americans applying for home loans is at stunningly low levels. For decades, owning a home has been touted as the very heart of "the American Dream", but today that dream is out of reach for an increasing number of Americans. Why?

• Entering a Death Spiral?Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire.The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece's problems are dragging down the country's economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back."If you take away my family's bread, I'll take you down -- the government needs to know that," Meletis says. "And don't call us anarchists if that happens! We're heads of our families and we're desperate."