MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• Biden Wants More “Stimulus” Spending: “This is a Chance to do Something big, man!”But in the words of Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s effusive Recovery Act point man, “Now the fun stuff starts!” The “fun stuff,” about one-sixth of the total cost, is an all-out effort to exploit the crisis to make green energy, green building and green transportation real; launch green manufacturing industries; computerize a pen-and-paper health system; promote data-driven school reforms; and ramp up the research of the future. “This is a chance to do something big, man!” Biden said during a 90-minute interview with TIME.

• Auschwitz memorial acquires Nazi medical devices.The Auschwitz memorial in Poland says it has obtained around 150 medical instruments believed to have been used by the Nazis in experiments on the death camp inmates.

• This is Why People Think Obama’s a Muslim.Everything that President Obama has done to disgrace America up until today has just been a warm up for what his administration has just done.

• Muslim inmates 'turning to terror' as think tank says convicted terrorists are radicalising fellow inmates. Britain faces a new wave of terror attacks launched by Muslims radicalised in prison, a respected think tank warns today.The Royal United Services Institute says convicted terrorists inside high security prisons may have turned one in ten Muslim inmates to their cause.As a result, the threat from jihadists born in this country is greater here than anywhere else in the Western world, including the U.S., the report states.

• Video:Klavan on the Culture: Does Islam Suck?

• Iranian Reformist Cleric Decries Prison Torture.Reformist Iranian cleric Hassan Yusefi Eshkevari has described as "shocking" a recent letter by a political prisoner detailing ill-treatment in jail.Karami, the chief editor of a reformist website, "Karami" was detained following the June 2009 Iranian presidential election and reportedly tortured into making a false confession of illicit sexual relations with relatives of opposition Green movement leaders.

• Are Iran's Opposition Leaders Billionaires?Iran's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, has repeated the accusation that the leaders of the opposition Green Movement received a billion dollars from Western countries.Moslehi said that the allegations made by Guardians Council head Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati about the financial assistance of foreign countries to the "leaders of the sedition" is not only true, but that the amount given was probably higher.

• Anti-Christian Hatred behind Ground Zero Mosque "Fans".In Michigan, Christians are barred from delivering tracts on a public sidewalk, in accordance with Sharia law.Coweta County, GA - Church denied permit to build on public property.Miami - Haitian Pentecostal congregation denied permit to enter building."There's a Haitian church on every block around here," Raley says. "Let 'em go somewhere else."Muslim Prayer Allowed in San Diego–Christian Prayer Denied in Bayonne.Read the rest here.

• Video:Bed Bugs 101.Erica Hill gets answers to viewers' questions about bed bugs from Rebecca Jarvis, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, and Debbye Turner Bell.

• How Vindictive Is This Administration?I’m not usually the conspiratorial type, but watch Gov. Chris Christie explain how the Obama administration disqualified the state of New Jersey from hundreds of millions in education funds because some clerk in Trenton turned in the wrong excel spreadsheet.

• Mass panic in markets tomorrow as GDP announced at .5%.The economy in Arizona is holding together with chicken wire. The state is $1.2 billion short. 80% of the states are in the same pickle needing at least $500 billion to keep the doors open. The point is that things are not what they seem. The economy is drowning. The bigger point is why are all these government alwats wrong? Could they be lying. Cramer also agrees. They are lying. The next question is why are they intentionally lying?Read the full story here.

• Flashback:Feb 2010.The United States-based Time Magazine complained this week that the archaeological activities of the City of David Foundation, also known as “Ir David” or “Elad,” are making life difficult for President Barack Obama.it complicates efforts by the White House to enable both Palestinians and Israelis to share Jerusalem as their respective capitals, a key demand of the Palestinians.”The article, which claimed “the willful jumbling of science and faith is threatening Jerusalem's precarious spiritual balance,” essentially accuses the City of David Foundation, which McGirk refers to as a “right-wing Jewish settler organization,” of hijacking Israel's political agenda. It also implies the organization is forcing Muslims to accept the Jewish truth of Biblical historical statements through archaeological discoveries.So if i understand this correctly Time (Obama) does not want to see archaeological discoveries that might confirm Biblical texts cause it might upset Muslims?Strange way of reasoning for a Christian?

• HT:WeaselZippers.Church Leaders Condemn Misrepresentations of Caliph Obama’s ‘Christian Faith’.Over 70 prominent Christian leaders and denominational heads from across the ideological spectrum joined together today to call for a stop to the misrepresentation of President Obama’s Christian faith.In an open letter, these Christian leaders called on the media, public officials, and their fellow Christians to stand with them in opposing those who continue to insinuate that the President is a Muslim, not a Christian.According to ABC news the President went till now 3 times to church,but he managed to play 48 rounds of golf since taking office.

• Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs 'unclean'.IRAN today banned all advertisements in the country for pets, pet shops, pet food and other pet products, claiming that people's love for their dogs and cats may lead to "evil outcomes".The edict, announced by Iran's powerful Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, is based on a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, 86, a hardliner who lives in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

• HT:WeaselZippers.ABC News Admits One of Their Crew Members Attempted to Provoke Ground Zero Mosque Protesters.A freelance audio operator covering a protest at the site of a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero has been reprimanded for his behavior.

• Building Churches in Egypt and the Ground Zero Mosque.Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, are closely watching the controversy associated with the Ground Zero Mosque project, though for different reasons. The Egyptian media is giving this issue full coverage with articles mostly accusing Americans of Islamophobia, and supporting Muslims to hold on to their rights to build a mosque anywhere as guaranteed by the US constitution, regardless of what Americans think.“Let Muslims experience the rage and frustration we have been going through for centuries, every time we want to build or repair a dilapidating church in our own country,” commented Coptic activist Mina Hanna, in what sounded like Schadenfreude. “It would be interesting to see what happens if the West decided to treat Muslims like Christians in Egypt.”

• As thousands are being killed on the Arizona-Mexico border, President upset he can't buy shrimp.‘As the president walked around the restaurant, some cordoned-off reporters shouted out to him questions, including one about the war in Iraq. Next Tuesday night, the president will deliver an Oval Office address at 8 pm ET, in which he will mark the occasion of the withdrawal of US combat troops from the country.But the president was in no mood today to discuss the issue with reporters in that setting. He ignored questions for a bit, then turned to the reporters."We're buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on."’

• Canada: Book Demonizing Israel in School Libraries.The school board in Toronto, Canada, has decided to support a novel that portrays IDF soldiers and Judea and Samaria residents in a negative way.Dimant added that “a young girl, who admitted to having Jewish friends, recently reviewed The Shepherd's Granddaughter on a popular book-review website and stated that reading this book made her want to ‘go to the West Bank and kill Israelis.’ Clearly, this propaganda has no place in our classrooms and is against Canadian values.”

• Iraqis 'feel betrayed' by US pullout.The Sunni Arab militiamen who sided with American soldiers against al-Qaeda during Iraq's brutal insurgency fear the exit of thousands of US troops will herald a surge in bloody revenge attacks against them.Known as the "Sons of Iraq" by the US army that financed them, the former rebels fought militants loyal to Osama bin Laden's terror network, but years later are mocked as "Sons of America" by foes who continue to exact vengeance.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.The F-35 sale and Obama's relations with Israel.You may recall that last week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided to submit an order for 20 F-35 joint strike fighters at a cost of more than $2 billion. This was far less than the 75 that the IAF originally wanted to order.The reason for the 'small' order isn't just the cost. And the small order says a lot about the state of Israel's relations with the United States under Obama.Relations are still strained between Israel and our biggest ally. But it's important that you understand where and why those relations are strained.

• President Obama, It’s Time to Can the Catfood Commission.Pete Peterson, the hedge fund billionaire who made his money by not paying his fair share of taxes, has pursued a decades-long quest to destroy Social Security and has pledged $1 billion to achieve that goal. So when President Obama announced he would convene his first “fiscal responsibility” summit on February 23, it didn’t bode well that Peterson was to be the keynote speaker.

• “The Sharia Is Unjust”—Impassioned Plea From A Secular Muslim Woman of Yemenite Origin.Dr. Elham Mane’a: “[T] he time has come to call things by their proper names: a theocracy that applies the precepts of the shari’a to [its] society today [is one that] violates individual rights, discriminates between its citizens, and oppresses its women and its religious minorities.”Another brave woman who speaks out about this evil.

• Google Plans To Kill Web In Internet Takeover Agenda.The net-neutrality ending deal with Verizon is just the beginning of Google’s plans to kill the open and free Internet as part of their takeover agenda to completely control the world wide web and force independent media websites, radio and TV shows out of existence for good.People who want to run a simple blog will be priced out of existence, online TV and radio shows will cease to exist as the Internet is swallowed up by the corporate borg.

• Arab Opinion on the Ground Zero Mosque.Our expatriate Russian correspondent Russkiy has translated some reader input from the website of the BBC’s Arabic-language service. He says:The BBC has questioned Arab readers on their views with regard to the Cordoba Initiative and the noise it has created. Some comments are worth translating.

• “The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated.Without a revolution, Americans are history.”America died two years ago. It’s a walking dead-zombie country, and anybody who still lives in that country should get re-familiarize themselves with cotton-picking, because once the dollar crashes, the only crop that America will be able to export, is cotton. It will be King Cotton again. It will be 1840 again. The only job available will be as a cotton-picker working on a Wal Mart or Goldman Sachs plantation. This is the reality of the situation.

• Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings.The White House is having a disastrous 'summer of recovery.'In what will rank as one of the all-time presidential PR disasters, we're now well over half way through what the White House called "the summer of recovery." And what a recovery it's been.

• Will Obama Try to Save Iranian Shiva Nazar Ahari?The human rights advocate and dissident needs help.Iranian authorities first arrested Shiva Nazar Ahari in 2001, when she was seventeen. Her ‘crime’ was attending a candlelight vigil in Tehran that commemorated the victims of 9/11. Since then, she’s taught Iranian homeless children and Afghan refugees' children. In 2006, after she became the spokeswoman for the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), Ahari was kicked out of university, whereupon her troubles really began.

• Maalouf, Muslims and Christians.Can a West that is not capable of tolerance toward Islam and cannot give to Muslims the rights that were once given to Christians by Muslim societies be deemed an advanced civilization?What rights have been given to Chrsitians in Muslim countries?Where are the Churches in Saudi Arabia or Dubai?

• A Tale of Two Cities: Copts Call Muslim Hypocrisy over Ground Zero Mosque.As ever, as Muslims and their left-wing camp followers attack everyday Americans – the overwheming majority of whom agree that it is an act of gross insensitivity for the Cordoba Initiative to construct its ‘Park 51′ mosque and ‘community centre’ near the site of the 9/11 atrocity – it’s one rule for the Ummah and another for everyone else.

• Turkey Removes Iran From Its `Red Book' Threat List, Milliyet Reports.Iran will be removed from a list of threats to Turkey in the biggest overhaul of the country’s national security document since the end of the Cold War, the Milliyet newspaper said. The Turkish military, intelligence and diplomatic agencies are drafting changes to the country’s so-called Red Book that include the removal of any reference to the possibility that Iran may export its Islamic Revolution to Turkey, the newspaper reported without saying where it got the information.Kick them out of Nato now!

• Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'! AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert.This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012.NASA said that a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause “$1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery”.