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• Pakistan army cancels US trip amid search dispute.Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" at Dulles International Airport in Washington, a spokesman said Wednesday.The nine-member Pakistani delegation, headed by a two-star Navy rear admiral, was already aboard United Airlines Flight 727 when one of them reportedly made a comment to the flight attendant - saying he hoped the flight was his last, in reference to their long day's travel from Islamabad.The comment prompted concern and security officials were notified. The delegation was taken off of the plane and missed the flight.Read the full story here.

• Department of Agriculture Builds a Stonewall Around the Muslim Brotherhood Grants Workshop.We sent an email to the Department of Agriculture yesterday afternoon, asking for confirmation concerning their co-sponsorship (with the Muslim Brotherhood-associated Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations) of the Tuesday, August 31 special workshop on “direct access” grants and financial assistance, combined with an Iftar dinner with Muslim federal employees. The “direct access” grants workshop was promoted by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to “cut the red tape” with several federal agencies (Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, White House, Education, etc) for 20 invited – but unnamed – Muslim groups, under CCMO’s associated Muslim Brotherhood sponsorship.We received a reply email from the USDA at 3:01 pm with the instructions, “You can feel free to attribute this to ‘a USDA spokesperson.’” The email was not sent from the USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Max Finberg, nor his colleagues Jon Granberg-Michaelson and Julie Curti, to all three of whom we had directed these questions.So much for "Transparency"!Read the rest of the story here.

• HT:ElderofZion.Hamas distributes candy to celebrate heroic murder of pregnant woman (updated).Read the whole story here.

• HT:ElderofZion.Blaming the victims: The New York Times' sick coverage.I had not realized how truly sick the New York Times' coverage of the terror attack was. In the very first paragraph:The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations.The New York Times is agreeing with Hamas - Jews living on their historic homeland are the main evil in the Middle East, and this terror attack highlights the "disruptive role" of their communities.Read the full story here.

• Arizona Now Has ‘Whopping 30’ National Guard Troops and 15 Billboard Signs Warning Citizens About Drug Cartels Operating on Public Lands.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state’s border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week.“We have a whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,” Babeu told CNSNews.com. “It’s less than a half-hearted measure designed to fail.”Read the full story here.

• HT:TheBlaze.US Muslim Group Releases Video Vowing Not to ‘Take Over This Country’!Al-taqiyya and dissimulation are words used for a practice of Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims.Anyway a look at the comments shows the red line!

• HT:IsraelMatzav.It's 3:00 am, the phone is ringing and no one is answering.This ad by an organization called RightChange is phenomenal. Let's go to the videotape.

• Saudi official denies maid had nails driven into her.A Saudi official has denied a Sri Lankan maid’s allegations that the couple she worked for in the kingdom hammered nails and needles into her body.But Saad Al Badah, the head of a Saudi government department responsible for foreign workers, told state television on Tuesday night that Ariyawathi’s allegations were baseless and amounted to blackmail.“The whole story is baseless,” said Al Badah.“It is nothing but blackmail by Sri Lankan labour firms,” he said.Why am i not surprised?Read the full fairytale story here.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Poll: Majority of Republicans Says Obama Favors Muslims Over Other Groups, Sympathizes With Islamic Fundamentalists.A new Newsweek poll of registered voters highlights the divide between Republicans, Democrats, and Independents over the issue of Islam and President Barack Obama.According to the poll, 51 percent of Republicans think it’s definitely or probably true that President Obama”sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world.”In addition, 59 percent of Republicans and 28 percent of political independents think “Obama favors the interests of Muslim Americans over other groups of Americans.”Read more here.

• Jewish teacher suspended in France for teaching 'too much' about Holocaust.A high school history teacher is accused of 'brainwashing' her students, says French news agency AFP.A French history teacher in Nancy, France, has been suspended for breaching the principle of secularism and neutrality after the French education ministry concluded that she was teaching "too much" about the Holocaust and spending too much time organizing trips for her students to Nazi death camps in Poland and the Czech Republic.The principle of secularism and neutrality in France is meant to protect the separation of church and state. The ministry's report cites that in meeting with investigators, the teacher used the word "Holocaust" 14 times while using the more neutral term "massacre" only twice.Hmmm perhaps they should say "It was a terrible misunderstanding between Jews and Nazis?since the truth can't be said."Read the full story here.

• Iranian to get 150 lashes for insulting late Caliph.An Iranian Shia man will get 150 lashes after he was convicted by a Saudi court of insulting a late Muslim Caliph who was one of the closest companions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), a local daily said on Wednesday.“The Iranian, who is Shia, took off his shoe and started waving it in front of the grave…he then began to curse late Abu Bakr Al Siddiq,”In Shia Islam, Abu Bakr is, however, regarded as a usurper on the grounds the Prophet’s cousin, Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb, was the righteous successor.Read the full story here.

• Major newspaper calls for impeachment of Barack Obama.One of the top 10 newspapers in the country in terms of overall circulation has called for the impeachment of Barack Obama.The Washington Times, which has become known through the years as D.C.'s major alternative newspaper, called for the ouster of Obama in an op-ed column yesterday. The Times is delivered into the mailboxes of every Senator and Congressman in Washington.While the column does not officially represent the editorial board of the newspaper, the fact that WT chose to publish it may indicate the official stance of its publisher and ownership, given that the columnist is one of a select few staff editorialists for the paper, and each column written by staff must have prior approval of the WT brass.In the stunning opinion-piece, columnist Jeffrey T. Kuhner stated the following:"President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached."Read the full story here.

• Report: U.S. threatens to shun military drill with Turkey if it bans Israel.Turkish daily Hürriyet reports that the U.S. relayed its position to Ankara after invitations for a joint drill were sent out to several countries, but not to Israel.Why not remove Turkey from Nato?Read the whole story here.

• Iranian Political Prisoner 'In Grave Condition'.Iranian political activist Arjang Davudi, who launched a hunger strike in jail 50 days ago, is in a grave condition, his wife has told RFE/RL's Radio Farda.Davudi was arrested in 2003 on charges of founding a political group called The Freedom Movement of Iranians. He is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran's Gohardasht prison.He began the hunger strike to protest the alleged violation of his rights."Arzhang‎'s friends informed me that he was taken to prison hospital last night," Davudi's wife, Nazanin Davudi, told Radio Farda this week. She said she was told Davudi could neither talk nor open his eyes.Read the full story here.

• US enters final military phase in Iraq as new commander warns of continuing perils.The U.S. on Wednesday moved into the final phase of its military involvement in Iraq, with administration officials saying the war was ending even as the new commander of the remaining 50,000 troops warned of the ongoing threat from “hostile elements.”While Iraqis are generally happy to see the U.S. military pulling back, they are also apprehensive the withdrawal may be premature as militants hammer local security forces. Iraqis also say they fear their country may still revert to a dictatorship or split along religious and ethnic fault lines.Read the full story here.

• Obama's recovery summer: this president is now a lame duck as we start a 15 year depression.When Ben Quayle said that Obama was the worst president we have had in the entire history of the country he was not exaggerating.Obama has failed at everything he has touched and he reached the point of no return the day he was sworn into office.We now have a rising unemployment rate at 16.5% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.41 million people are on food stamps about 15% of the population. To give you an idea in 1965 there were 500,000 on food stamps 1/2% of the population.Read the full story here.

• Ground Zero mosque, between Islamophobia and Islamic fundamentalism.The proposal to build a Muslim place of worship close to the 9/11 site has unleashed a firestorm. The latter has led the Euro Arab Center for Studies to probe the question, eliciting a number of responses with fear, panic and tensions as the main explanations. Father Samir, a Jesuit expert on Islam, stressed the political aspect of the issue, urging Muslims to look into the motivations behind Islamophobia. He also called for the “reinterpretation” of the passages in the Qur‘an that advocate violence.Wedwed, a writer from the United Kingdom, said, “It’s a matter of Moslems' misbehaviour. Moslems keep attacking other religions and make themselves unpopular.” For this reason, Muslim should “bring back the truth of Islam”.Read the full story here.

• White House flirts with Mayor Bloomberg.Is Mayor Bloomberg being wooed to join the Obama administration?Asked about last weekend's four-hour golf game with President Obama on Martha's Vineyard, Bloomberg told reporters yesterday, "The economy was the main subject, other than discussing golf."Now there are whispers that the president went even further and sounded out Bloomberg about whether he would join his foundering economic team as treasury secretary, replacing prime blame-target Timothy Geithner."Obama needs Bloomberg more than Bloomberg needs Obama," a source tells us. "Obama's looking to do something bold and credible before the election.".Hmm another anti-gun member in the Obama team?Read the whole story here.

• HT:Maggiesnotebook.Muslim Brotherhood Gets Direct Access to White House: Texas Governor Rick Perry Gets Nada: Behold Another Iftar Dinner at Taxpayer Expense.A complete roundup of the facts."They don't trust me cause of my middle name"Whatevah!Read the full story here.

• Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel.The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.Archaeologists working in Hilazon Tachtit found what they thought was a late Palaeolithic campsite, when they discovered tools and animal bones. However they soon realised they were looking at a large burial site, with huge numbers of animal bones.They found the remains of at least three aurochs - giant extinct cattle - and over 70 tortoise skeletons.The site, from the era known as the Natufian phase, had at least 28 human bodies, ranging from babies to those who would have been elderly for the time - aged about 45.Read the full story here.