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• The Gangster Matriarch of L.A.Maria 'Chata' Leon, mother of 13 kids, ruled over a criminal empire with connections to a human smuggling ring. The Daily Beast’s new L.A.-based crime reporter, Christine Pelisek, who won three Los Angeles Press Club awards, one for her investigative story on the Grim Sleeper, investigates the case.Five days after a wild gun battle in Los Angeles that sent school children streaming out of their classrooms, and left a gang member dead in the street, the phone rang at the home of Eduardo Alvarez-Marquez.The reputed mastermind behind a human smuggling ring, Alvarez-Marquez had brought many unlikely deliveries across the Mexican border, including a three-month-old baby and a truckload of Chinese workers hidden in a freezer truck.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• British Teen Banned From U.S. for Life After Sending Obscene E-Mail to Obama.A British teenager who sent an e-mail to the White House calling President Obama a "pr*ck" was banned from the U.S. for life, The Sun reported Monday.The FBI asked local cops to tell college student Luke Angel, 17, that his drunken insult was "unacceptable."Angel claims he fired off a single e-mail criticizing the U.S. government after seeing a television program about the 9/11 attacks.He said, "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a pr*ck. It was silly -- the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few."Angel, of Bedford, in central England, said it was "a bit extreme" for the FBI to act.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• New Medicare chief speaks out against rationing. Berwick told the insurers that he has three objectives: better care for individuals; better care for groups of people, such as diabetics or the poor; and reducing per capita costs by eliminating waste and duplication."I want lower costs without harming a hair on any patient's head," Berwick said.Berwick said he wants a "full partnership" with the insurance industry, since tens of millions on Medicare and Medicaid are already getting health care through private insurers. But he also said he'll "play tough" with those who resist change.Again the Chicago aproach?Seems to become a habit in the Obamacare camp?He left without taking questions from reporters.Hmmm...someone trying to recover November votes for the Obama administration?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran releases U.S. woman from prison – state TV.Iran on Tuesday released American hiker Sarah Shourd from a prison in Tehran, state media reported. Few details were immediately available.Full story here.Click here for comments.

• UN chief: Ahmadinejad to attend disarmament meeting.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to participate in UN disarmament talks in New York on Sept. 24.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to attend a high-level U.N. meeting next week aimed at reviving stalled global disarmament talks, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.A U.S. official told Reuters in Washington that President Barack Obama would probably not attend the disarmament talks, since he will be participating in a UN summit meeting on Sudan and other meetings that same day.Hmmm better not be around when they finally stab Israel in the back?It was not immediately clear who will be representing the United States. Invitations went to all 192 UN member states to send delegates at ministerial or higher levels, UN officials said in July.Israel neither confirms nor denies having atomic weapons, but analysts say it has a sizable nuclear arsenal.Read the full conspiracy story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama faces first legal challenge in health care overhaul.The Obama administration will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit by 20 states that claim the president's health care plan is unconstitutional.The fight will primarily be over sections of the law that will require individuals to have health insurance or face tax penalties.They are also against states having to pay additional costs for the Medicaid health insurance program for the impoverished that are not covered by the federal government.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Michelle Malkin .What will — and won’t — get you banned from the U.S.President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security and State Department are hard at work making sure that no drunk foreign teens who call the commander-in-chief names ever set foot in our country.Meanwhile, the Obama kops had no problem lifting the visa ban on soft-on-jihadi scholar Tariq Ramadan earlier this year.Daniel Pipes listed many of Ramadan’s national security-undermining statements and actions which now get a pass from Team O.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:MichelleMalkin.Document drop: Breaking: DOJ Inspector General will investigate Obama voting rights record.Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration’s selective enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section office of DOJ.Big news. Good news. Fine is a veteran IG whose meticulous work I cited in-depth in Invasion. You know how the Obama bully boys have treated IGs. Prayers for Fine would be most appropriate.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Time magazine writer a Muslim apologist.Time magazine writer Tim Padgett is a standard Social Progressive: long on theory and really short on empirical evidence, reality, and facts. His recent article entitled “What Christians can learn from Koran (sic) Burner Rev. Terry Jones” proves this point.Padgett does his level best to insult biblical Christians, conservatives, rural folks, independents, and just about anyone else who isn’t a Social Progressive; except of course, he does not insult Muslims and Islam.He defends his own right to free speech while denigrating and denying that same right to anyone and everyone who doesn’t hold to the Social Progressive line.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• European Court of Human Rights found Turkey guilty in Hrant Dink case.The European Court of Human Rights found the Turkish state guilty in the case involving the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, CNNTurk broadcasted on Tuesday.The case at the European court was initially investigating the conviction of Dink for insulting Turkishness in his column in the weekly Agos. The journalist had brought the case against the Turkish state to the European court.After Dink was murdered by an ultranationalist minor in front of his newspaper’s building in Istanbul in 2007, however, the man’s family opened an additional case at the high court, accusing the Turkish state of failing to protect the journalist’s right to life.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Gaza university makes hijab obligatory.Even female Christian students asked to send in pictures of them wearing traditional Muslim head covering for graduation ceremony. Faculty claims it is just 'customary,' but not compulsory.Al-Azhar University, located in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, is obligating female students to wear a hijab even if they are Christian, according to a report published on Saturday on the London-based website Elaph.A Jordanian study published this week asserted that 87% of women between the ages of 18 and 70 in Jordan suffer from a lack of Vitamin D as a result of insufficient sun exposure and not enough milk consumption.The researchers linked this phenomenon to wearing the hijab. According to the findings, 92% of women who wear a hijab suffer from a lack of Vitamin D. This figure increases to 96%, according to the survey, when it comes to women who cover their faces as well with a niqab.I presume in Nordic countries this must be 100%?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iraq combat over but U.S. troops still in danger.U.S. Staff Sergeant Kendrick Manuel swung his rifle over his shoulder and grumbled about being viewed as a "non-combat" soldier in Iraq."When NBC talked about the last combat troops are gone, they made it sound like everything is basically over," he said, after escorting a 19-truck convoy through a part of northern Iraq where roadside bombs and mortar attacks are still a danger."To us it was like a slap in the face, because we are still here ... we are still going in harm's way every time we leave out of the gate,""If a life is gone, it is gone," he said. "As long as we are going in harm's way, it (the war) is not over for us."The war is over!"Well the old one is gone, now it's the "New dawn "war!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iraq: US troops leave, Al Qaeda returns.This was utterly predictable.The September 13 Los Angeles Times has a piece by Ned Parker reporting that Al Qaeda is resurgent in Iraq. It is recreating sanctuaries, traveling more freely, infiltrating the police force, perpetrating suicide bombings and assassinations, and even gaining control of towns for brief periods.There is also a nightmare vision for Iraq: that Islamists take control, making the country as cruelly barbaric as Talibanic Afghanistan or the Iranian mullocracy. It could become a center of Islamism, providing a safe haven for terrorists to disrupt the region and the world. It could become a vortex of instability, with Sunni-Shia civil war and persecution of the Christian minority. Iran could swallow southern Iran while in the north the Kurds trigger a war with Turkey.The dream is still possible.But so is the nightmare."Operation New Dawn" but for whom?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IslaminEurope.Netherlands: 13 Dishonor murders a year.About 13 people are killed in the Netherlands in Dishonor murders every year, according to new figures from the police, reports De Pers.By definition it is difficult to get data about Dishonor murders. A murder case can look like a fight about drugs, but only after further inspection it turns out to be about insulting family honor.When honor is the issue, for example, when the daughter acts 'licentiously' or a wife wants to leave her husband, honor has to be restored, via exclusion, forced marriage or violence if need be. Because the motive is the deciding factor in whether it's Dishonor murder, there's always a subjective element.But the sheltering of women who fear for their lives is still a serious problem. The two special shelters, which are guarded 24 hours a day, a currently overcrowded.Anke van Dijke, director of Fier Fryslân, says they had to reject girls who were threatened. In the past half year they helped 22 people, but had to turn away 31.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AmnonandJonathan.We live in really sadistic times, G-d help us.How is This For Tolerance; Burn Christians Alive.When this story was first reported, the media described it the way it always describes Coptic persecution at the hands of Muslims — as a “sectarian-clash.” As this more revealing report makes clear, however, it was anything but a “sectarian-clash” (which suggests Christians and Muslims, in more or less equal numbers, fighting and rioting). Instead, a Muslim set a Christian on fire, and then other Muslims attacked his father, stabbing him to death — this in a village where Christians make up maybe 3-4% of the total population. Keep this in mind the next time you hear about “sectarian clashes” occurring where Muslims predominate and non-Muslims live as minorities.TCW Says: And again I ask, where is the outcry from the Christians around the globe? Burn a Quran and heaven help us; butcher, burn, massacre a person no problem as long as it doent offend the Muslims.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• EU lends support to reforms, urges implementation.Brussels has expressed approval for sweeping amendments to Turkey's Constitution, while urging the European Union membership candidate country to draft a new constitution that would lead to wider freedoms. About 58 percent of voters, a much larger margin than expected, voted in favor of the government-proposed amendments to the Constitution crafted after a 1980 military coup in a referendum on Sunday, signaling strong support for the government led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.“We encourage the Turkish government to show the utmost transparency as well as a spirit of dialogue on the substance of this implementing legislation. We share the views of many in Turkey that today’s vote needs to be followed by other much needed reforms to address the remaining priorities in the area of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion. One mass a year for Christians doesn't mean religious freedom!In this respect, we agree with those across the political spectrum in Turkey who believe that a new civilian Constitution would provide a solid base for a sustained development of democracy in Turkey, in line with European standards and the EU accession criteria.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ElderofZion. Video : Jerusalem 1918 .Just watch and enjoy: old footage of Jerusalem in 1918. How much has changed and how much has remained the same.

• Qur’ans, Bibles, and U.S. Flags.The Florida pastor of a small Christian church in Gainesville, FL found himself at the center of an international firestorm last week. Even the staunchest of conservatives advised him against burning Qur’ans in protest of Islam. U.S. Commander in Afghanistan David Petraeus said it would endanger our troops.Christian Bibles were printed in two different Afghan languages by a United States church and sent unsolicited to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Those Bibles were ultimately confiscated and burned - not by terrorists, Muslims, or Afghanis, but by U.S. Military personnel. The act of burning Bibles was perpetrated by Americans in Afghanistan. The reason given by Defenserida pastor of a small Christian church in Gainesville, FL found himself at the center of an international firestorm last week. Even the staunchest of conservatives advised him against burning Qur’ans in protest of Islam. U.S. Commander in Afghanistan David Petraeus said it would endanger our troops.Christian Bibles were printed in two different Afghan languages by a United States church and sent unsolicited to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Those Bibles were ultimately confiscated and burned - not by terrorists, Muslims, or Afghanis, but by U.S. Military personnel. The act of burning Bibles was perpetrated by Americans in Afghanistan. The reason given by Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Wright was that the Bibles could endanger U.S. Troops.Just to clarify, burning Qur’ans in America puts U.S. Troops in danger in Afghanistan. Not burning Bibles in Afghanistan does the same thing.The message being sent to our troops and civilian Americans by our most prominent military and civilian leaders is clear: it is ok to burn your country’s flag and even your Bible but it is unacceptable and even un-American to burn the Qur’an.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Heh: Deceased Georgia Man Uses His Obituary to Solicit Donations in Lieu of Flowers “to Anybody Who is Running Against Obama in 2012″.If you are a friend of Don Unsworth, a Georgia businessman who recently passed away, don’t send flowers to the family. Just vote against President Obama in 2012.“He was not really a big Obama fan,” said his daughter Donna Barnes. Barnes says the US Air Force veteran disliked the costly stimulus and worried about unemployment. The obituary, and the donations, were Unsworth’s family’s idea. “We just felt like it was the best tribute we could give to him,” said Barnes.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:HinduIDF.The List of Hindu Temples converted to mosque in Kashmir.Hindu Temples attacked, stoned, bombed or burned by Kashmiri muslims and terrorists in Kashmir in Independent India. Data from newspapers noted once in a while. The noted period is from 1986 to 1992. Those who noted more such destruction in Kashmir is requested to post that data in the remarks. Muslims cannot stand other communities and their Gods.Read the full story and list here.Click here for comments.

• Don't let Ryanair see these: Seat with 23 inches of legroom unveiled to increase number of passengers in 'saddle class'.It brings a whole new meaning to the term cattle class, a plane seat that is shaped like a saddle and could allow airlines to squeeze in even more passengers.Named the 'Skyrider', the new seat design is set to be unveiled in America this week and promises to attract plenty of attention from airlines looking to increase the number of seats in the economy class sections of planes, apparently without compromising on comfort.Passengers sit at an angle with just 23 inches of legroom between them and the seat in front - a whopping seven inches less than the current average seat pitch of around 30 inches.Hmmmm...more passengers...more suitcases....more weight higher consumption more costly to operate.2. How about blood flow problems on longhaul flights?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Log of 1912 Arctic Expedition Found.The fate of the Russian crew seeking the ice-choked Northeast Passage had long been shrouded in mystery.Russian explorers Monday said they had found a sailor's log from aboard a legendary Arctic expedition that vanished as it sought to forge through the ice-choked Northeast Passage in 1912.For decades mystery clouded the fate of the adventurer Georgy Brusilov -- captain of the first Russian crew to seek the elusive Arctic trade route from Asia to the West -- inspiring a generation of books and films.But the famed voyagers' remains and a journal -- dated to May 1913 from aboard their vessel, the Saint Anna -- were found this summer on the icy shores of Franz Josef Land, Europe's northernmost land mass."There is no doubt that the skeletons and notebook pages we found at the end of July on Franz Josef Land are the remains of Georgy Brusilov's expedition -- which were thought forever lost," Oleg Prodan, who led the mission in the expedition's footsteps, said.Midway into its epic journey along the Siberian coast, after navigating the perilous Vilkitsky Strait into the Kara Sea, the expedition ran aground on thick ice floes.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.