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• Israel completes preparations for an attack against Iran.In a note to Congress, US Defense Department reveals Israel bought huge amounts of fuel for jet planes and land forces. In Jerusalem, debate heats up over the suitability of an attack against Iran’s nuclear reactors. In Tehran meanwhile, leaders continue to favour nuclear energy because of US embargo on oil refining technology.Many signs point to Israel preparing an attack against Iran or a new offensive in southern Lebanon against Hizbollah. This can be inferred from logistical and military procurements by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in the last few weeks.Israel in early August ordered 284 million gallons of JP8 aviation fuel, a special kerosene-based jet fuel suitable for military use only, plus 100 million gallons of diesel fuel and 60 million of unleaded gasoline, also for military use. The total bill is expected to reach US$ 2 billion.Read the full story here.

• Pakistan Minister wants Obama to be ''leader of all Muslims''.A Pakistani minister wants US President Barack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero in New York and become the "Amir-ul-Momineen" or Caliph of Muslims.Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani, who belongs to the ruling Pakistan People''s Party, said the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival, expected to be observed on September 11, would be a "golden opportunity" for Obama to offer Eid prayers and declare himself the leader of all Muslims."In this way, all the problems of the Muslim world would be solved," Durrani told The Nation newspaper.But-But -But I'm a Christian i have a special relationship with Jesus Christ!Read the full scandal story here.HT:BarenakedIslam.

• Video:Key Obama Ally Works with Socialists for Global Tax.Government.“It is possible for us to get a financial tax around the world.”

• HT:WeaselZippers.Senior Iranian Cleric: The Jooos Are Waiting to Kill the Hidden Imam, Says They Have “Documented Proof” America Believes the Mahdi Will Return.Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran’s supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that “Zionists” are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him.Read the full story here.

• Tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage off Canada.A tanker carrying 9m litres (2.4m gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground off the coast of northern Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard has said.The Nanny, owned by Woodward's Oil, hit a sandbar on Wednesday in the Northwest Passage, near the village of Gjoa Haven in the Nunavut federal territory.No diesel is believed to have been spilt, Coast Guard officials said.The authorities are working with Woodward's Oil to attempt to float the tanker off the sandbar, they added.Read the full story here.

• State Dept. Pressed for Imam Book Explanation.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants the State Department to explain its use of taxpayer funds to purchase and distribute Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book What’s Right With Islam. “Certainly Senate Foreign Relations Committee members will want some briefing from the State Department,” Andy Fisher, the spokesman for Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations told HUMAN EVENTS. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had no immediate reaction to the controversy.Read the whole story here.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.Glenn Beck, 9.1.2010: Re-education Camps Already In America (Universities).Glenn starts this program with how we have approached the economic ‘insanity stop’ on the alert system as people like George Soros are moving their money into gold. He then goes on to explain a story about a tenured professor and a researcher from the University of California (San Diego) who want to ‘dissolve America’, and are using taxpayer dollars to achieve their goal.Read and see the whole story here.

• HT:SultanKnish.The Bankruptcy of Barack.Last night Obama delivered a speech about a war that he exploited for political advantage during the election, and ignored the rest of the time. A war that he tried to sabotage as a Senator, and neglected once in the White House. Where Bush conducted constant conferences with commanders in the field, Obama has let the clashing egos of former Clinton Administration staffers, and a few imported radicals, determine how the war will be conducted. Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never be accused of just not giving a damn. Yet that is exactly the case with Obama. He just doesn't give a damn.Read the whole story here.

• Team USA Defeats Iran In Basketball(And looses his dignity?), Cheerleaders Cover Up In “Nod To Islam”.USA defeated Iran in basketball today, which comes as a surprise to no one. What may raise a few eyebrows: team dancers were forced to wear long pants in a “nod to Muslim law.”What's next Closing all Bars&Pubs?Read the whole scandal here.

• Top 10 Islamo-Fascist Apologists.Islamic totalitarianism is a serious threat to life and liberty, globally. In some places the battlefront is obvious — you can tell by the gunfire, bomb craters and bodies — elsewhere it is ideological. Nonetheless ideas have consequences, slower than bullets, but often far more destructive.You will excuse my bluntness I hope, when I say that America is still recovering from the ideological butt-kicking that we took from the communists. Walk into any college or cocktail party and say “from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs“. See how many objections you get. We had better wise up.The ideological battle against Islamo-fascism is a critical front in the fight for freedom in our time. Right here in America, there is a considerable fifth column — believers, paid agents and dupes — conducting an energetic propaganda campaign on behalf of the Islamo-fascists. Let’s consider some of the star hitters in the lineup and what they bring to the fight.Read the full story here.

• Man Responsible For “Voted Obama? Embarrassed Yet?” Billboard Receives Death Threats.“If everybody thinks [President Obama's] done a great job and they’re very happy,” he said, “then I guess they’d be buying billboards saying ‘I’m proud to have voted for him.’ That’s what makes America great, isn’t it?”The Left has such a case of Obama Glorification Syndrome (OGS) that, when questioned, they fly into a rage . . .Read the full story here.

• Obama Regimes Follows Through on Threat, Files Lawsuit Against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.The war on Arizona continues. First they sued over immigration law SB1070, yesterday against state colleges and now this.Read the full story here.

• Driven To Distraction: Putin's Lada Stunt Backfires.This week, Putin delivered his latest macho stunt -- a 2,000-kilometer drive across Siberia in a canary-yellow Lada Kalina, intended to boost Russia's flailing car industry and his own ratings ahead of a possible presidential comeback.Putin was full of praise for the little Kalina, calling it "comfortable" and "reliable." He recommended that all Russians -- especially those currently driving Japanese cars -- buy one."You won't regret it," Putin promised.But it wasn't an altogether smooth ride.An amateur video of Putin's ride featuring not one but three identical Lada Kalinas, one of them on a tow truck, is making the rounds on the Internet.The clip, in which onlookers burst into raucous laughter, has received almost 300,000 hits since it was posted on August 30."A third one is coming!" an onlooker is heard saying. "It broke down. He wore it out! Ah, Kalina..."Full Story Here.

• NAACP launches coalition watchdog site to ‘monitor’ Tea Party ‘racists’.The NAACP partnered with Media Matters, Think Progress and New Left Media to launch teapartytracker.org, a website that will specifically publish and monitor “racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement.Shakir said the website isn’t meant to attack the Tea Party, only to “hold it accountable.”(Like the New Black Panthers helping people to vote?)"Conservative media guru Andrew Breitbart, who was once a victim of New Left Media’s trickery (though he says he doesn’t object to that type of journalism), said Think Progress and Media Matters shouldn’t, by any means, partner with an advocacy group, especially the NAACP, in trying to the paint the Tea Party a certain color.“It’s called projection,” Breitbart said. “The alliance of the left, the Think Progress, the Media Matters and the NAACP are projecting onto the Tea Party. The accusations are a projection of who the coordinated, well-funded left is. They are manufacturing the racism. They are the ones who are fomenting the violence, the ones who are the only perpetrators of violence over the last year.”Read the full story here.

• Coast Guard Reports Blast on Oil Rig in Gulf of Mexico.An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the area Thursday morning. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known.Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Ala., Ben-Iesau said. She said authorities do not know whether oil was leaking from the site.Strange probably exploded from surprise of the Judge overruling Obama's drill ban?Read the whole story here ,Here and here. 

• Iranian Opposition Launches Its Own Satellite TV Channel.Iran's opposition Green Movement has officially launched a new satellite TV channel, RASA TV (Resan-e Sabz-e Iran or Iran's Green Media), RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports."Censorship and distortion of the news in Iran led us to establish a new media to collect news from inside Iran and then broadcast it back into the country again," he explained.Read full story here.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.G. Edward Griffin Speaks To Ron Paul’s Requested Audit Of The US Gold Supply.G. Edward Griffin speaks to the legislation that Ron Paul is going to be introducing to audit the gold in Fort Knox and the NY Fed. Ron Paul realizes that he has the American people on his side right now considering the events he wants to see happen from abolishing The Fed (because of the fiat debt situation), and the CIA (because of the drug trafficking) to the audits.Read the whole story here.

• China’s foremost dairy company accused of “recycling” melamine-tainted milk.Hundreds of tonnes of milk powder containing melamine were seized in 2008 in order to be destroyed. Now, a weekly paper accuses one of the companies involved in the original scandal of recycling the toxic product. The company denies the allegation whilst the authorities are silent.Yashily, China’s top dairy, “recycled” melamine-tainted milk by changing the packaging of a truckload of the product rather than destroying it, the Legal Weekly, an affiliate of the Legal Daily, reported yesterday.Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Good news: 'Peace process won't stop anti-Israel activity at the UN.Read the whole story here.

• Arizona vs. the U.N. human rights police.An indignant President Obama complained last week, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” — not international law or global diktats.Read the full story here.

• Iran Risks Crash With Record Stock Market Boom, Say Economists.A record boom in Tehran's stock market will end in a spectacular crash that could trigger a prolonged depression producing multiple bankruptcies, mass unemployment, and acute economic hardship, analysts say.The warning follows months of soaring share prices that have prompted officials in Iran's Islamic regime to proclaim that the country's economy is flourishing despite fresh international sanctions aimed at combating its nuclear program.The Tehran bourse index passed 17,900 on August 30, compared to 12,537 points on the final day of the last Iranian year in March, following a sustained wave of stock sales and purchases. The upward trend has pushed the exchange's total value to more than $80 billion, up from $70 billion in mid-July.However, the bull market has been dismissed as a "state-created bubble" by seasoned analysts who attribute it to the deliberate buying and selling of assets by supposedly private companies that are in reality owned by organizations like the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which has been playing an increasingly dominant role in Iran's economy.One economist says a stock-market crash is "inevitable" and could result in a disastrous financial collapse comparable to those that afflicted Russia in 1998 and Argentina in 2001, with grave consequences for Iran's political and social stability.Read the full story here.

• F.C.C. Seeks More Input on Wireless Internet Rules.On the Internet, data moves at the speed of light. The Federal Communications Commission, not so fast.After months spent gathering comments about preserving an open and competitive Internet, the F.C.C. requested more feedback on Wednesday about whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service.The agency is also asking for comments about one of the most hotly debated Internet regulatory issues: special services that offer to prioritize certain digital traffic for a fee.Read the full story here.

• Michael Bay Offers $50k For Information For Puppy Throwing Woman.(Sampurn Wire):Michael Bay the director of ‘Transformers’ was particularly appalled by the cruelty of a girl. The woman is wearing a hooded sweatshirt and keeps chuckling while throwing the innocent puppies into the river.Animal cruelty is particularly despicable crime and it seems that there is no limit to it. People tend to think that uncivilized people are prone towards animal cruelty.Read the full story here.

• Police Raid Offices Of Russian Opposition Weekly.Russian police have raided the offices of a weekly opposition magazine, "The New Times," known for its investigative articles on high-level corruption.Read the full story here.

• The Right Side Of The Blogosphere’s Reaction To Obama’s Speech Last Night.Obama's Speech: Now Is The Time We Must Honor Our Returning Troops By Transforming The Country Into Something They Wouldn't Recognize And Don't Want.Read the whole thing here.

• Muslim Groups Ask DOJ To Hold Haters Accountable.Free speech? What Free Speech? Welcome to Islamist and Sharia compliant reality.A coalition of faith groups met with Justice Department officials Monday to encourage the Obama administration to take a more public stance against anti-Muslim hate speech and hate crimes.Great let them start here!Full story here.

• Presidential Proclamation–National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.One of the greatest responsibilities we have as a Nation is to safeguard the health and well-being of our children. We now face a national childhood obesity crisis, with nearly one in every three of America’s children being overweight or obese. There are concrete steps we can take right away as concerned parents, caregivers, educators, loved ones, and a Nation to ensure that our children are able to live full and active lives. During National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, I urge all Americans to take action to meet our national goal of solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.The new landmark health care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), includes a number of important tools for fighting and reversing the rise of childhood obesity. All new health insurance plans will be required to cover both screenings for childhood obesity and counseling on nutrition and sustained weight loss, without charging any out of pocket costs. The ACA also requires large restaurant and vending machine operators to provide visible nutritional information about the products they sell, enabling all Americans to make more informed choices about the foods they eat. As part of my Administration’s comprehensive approach to combating this epidemic, the ACA includes millions in new funds to implement prevention activities nationwide that support recommendations of the Task Force on Childhood Obesity.Hmmmmm.Read the full story here.

• Activist group promotes Egypt’s intelligence chief for president.Activists on Thursday hung posters across Cairo supporting Egypt’s intelligence chief as a candidate in next year’s presidential elections, the latest campaign to try to undermine a possible father-son succession in the Arab world’s most populous nation.Opposition groups have been vocal against the idea, and have floated other names as candidates, including Omar Suleiman, the intelligence chief, and former U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.But this is the first time images of Suleiman, himself a career army officer, appear.Scores of the posters showing Suleiman in a business suit, dark sunglasses and waving with his right hand surfaced in several Cairo neighborhoods, plastered on walls and bridges.In one location, four Suleiman posters were plastered round a single one of Gamal Mubarak.The posters call Suleiman the “real alternative.”Read the full story here.

• GOP Candidate Joe Miller on Obama: “He’s One of the Major Forces Moving This Country Towards Socialism”.A day after his opponent conceded the Republican primary for Senate in Alaska, Joe Miller took on both President Obama and the Republican political establishment Wednesday, warning that the nation is headed towards socialism and facing a dire fiscal crisis.Read the full story here.

• The Cordoba House and the Myth of Cordoban ‘Ecumenism’.The "Golden Age" of pluralistic Muslim rule, alluded to by Rauf's proposed mosque title, has been thoroughly debunked by historians.Imam Feisal Rauf, “founder and visionary” of the Cordoba Initiative, apparently sees the construction of a triumphal mosque within the 9/11 World Trade Center attack’s zone of destruction as a fulfillment of his vision for Islam in America. A must read! Full story here.

• Burger King sold to buy-out firm for $3.26bn (£2.1bn).Read the full story here and here.

• Pitt, Fox top sex fantasy list.LONDON - Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Megan Fox have topped a list of stars who people would allow their partners to sleep with.The Hollywood stars were voted into the top spot after British couples were asked which celebrities their partners would let them sleep with, without classing it as cheating, reports femalefirst.co.uk.Sigh those British always fantasising?Read the full story here.