Afternoon Posting.
- Putin plays down talk of battle for Arctic resources.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected talk of an impending battle for control of the Arctic region's mineral resources.He told an international conference in Moscow he was confident the region's resources could be exploited in a spirit of partnership. Russia believes the UN will recognise its claim to much of the Arctic seabed.Russia, Norway, Canada, Denmark and the US have all laid claims to territory in the region."One comes across all sorts of fantastical predictions about a coming battle for the Arctic," Mr Putin told the International Arctic Forum on its closing day."We can see clearly that most of these frightening scenarios in the Arctic have no real foundation.Hmmmmm permit me to doubt it,especially with such a US President.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Army veteran accused of threatening Obama.An Army veteran arrested after a seven-hour standoff was charged on Wednesday with threatening to kill US President Barack Obama as part of what authorities said was his plan to ignite a war between Muslims and Christians and “start an apocalypse.”Conaway was in custody and was scheduled to appear in federal court later on Thursday on one count apiece of making a threat against the president and making false threats to detonate an explosive device. Bond was not immediately set.From the authorities their description it sounds like they arrested "Rambo"?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Leading Libyan imam exposed himself to 12-year-old girl in Bristol park.A Libyan imam has been jailed in Britain after indecently exposing himself twice in a park - including to a 12-year-old girl.Abrahim Ghait, who was invited to Britain to celebrate Ramadan, exposed himself to a 28-year-old woman as she made her way home from the gym. Three days later he repeated the offence in front of a 12-year-old girl - telling her his genitalia was named 'Lexie'. Ghait is famous in the Muslim world for memorising the Koran by the age of 17.Yesterday he pleaded guilty to two charges under the Sexual Offences Act of exposing his genitals with the intention that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress.Magistrates jailed him for six weeks on each charge, to serve side-by-side, and placed him on the Sex Offenders' Register for seven years.Mohamed El Haddad, head of the UK Arabic Society said: 'There is no way he would have done something like this. Do you think a church leader would harm its community? 'It was in a park, in the middle of the town, in the middle of the day.'It was Ramadan when he was fasting and he is not supposed to even look at women.'He is a world-famous imam of a mosque in Libya and has spent 15 years learning the Koran. It is destroying the future of a key person. It is crazy and I just can't believe it.Yeah next it's going to be it's a lie or a Zionist plot?Well now he's world known for something completely different!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets'.One of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever detected was probably targeting "high value" infrastructure in Iran, experts have told the BBC.Stuxnet's complexity suggests it could only have been written by a "nation state", some researchers have claimed.It is believed to be the first-known worm designed to target real-world infrastructure such as power stations, water plants and industrial units.It was first detected in June and has been intensely studied ever since."The fact that we see so many more infections in Iran than anywhere else in the world makes us think this threat was targeted at Iran and that there was something in Iran that was of very, very high value to whomever wrote it," Liam O'Murchu of security firm Symantec, who has tracked the worm since it was first detected, told BBC News.Some have speculated that it could have been aimed at disrupting Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant or the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.However, Mr O'Murchu and others, such as security expert Bruce Schneier, have said that there was currently not enough evidence to draw conclusions about what its intended target was or who had written it.India and Indonesia have also seen relatively high infection rates, according to Symantec.Hmmm....where there any infections in China?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Jobless Claims in U.S. Increased 12,000 to 465,000 Last Week.We're heading in the right direction Mr President?The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended and emergency benefits under federal programs. Those who’ve used up their traditional benefits and are now collecting emergency and extended payments increased by about 208,000 to 5.17 million in the week ended Sept. 4. Read the full Fall recovery story here.Click here for comments.
- A Claim of Pro-Islam Bias in Textbooks.Some conservative members of the Texas Board of Education assert that the history books used in this state have a pro-Islamic bias, and they are upset about it.Never shy about wading into the culture wars, they are planning to vote Friday for a resolution that would send a blunt message to textbook publishers: Do not present a pro-Islamic, anti-Christian version of history if you want to sell books in one of the nation’s largest markets.“The purpose of this resolution is to ensure there is balanced treatment of divergent groups,” Gail Lowe, the chairwoman of the board, said. “In the past, the textbooks have had some bias against Christianity.”“If you can control or influence our education system, you can start taking over the minds of the young people,” Mr. Rives said. “And so I think we are real passionate that you need to make a bold statement to the publishers that pushing this agenda will not be tolerated in Texas.”As evidence of Islamic influence in textbook publishing, Mr. Rives cited a 2008 decision by the Dubai royal family to invest heavily in a company that owns the publishing house Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston.The resolution asserts that textbook writers habitually call Christians “violent attackers” or “invaders” while playing down Muslim conquests in Europe as “migrations.” Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Obama announces Indonesia visit during United Nations speech."Many in this hall count themselves as friends of the Palestinians. But these pledges must now be supported by deeds," Obama said. "Those who have signed on to the Arab Peace Initiative should seize this opportunity to make it real by taking tangible steps toward the normalization that it promises Israel. Those who speak out for Palestinian self-government should help the Palestinian Authority politically and financially, and - in so doing - help the Palestinians build the institutions of their state. And those who long to see an independent Palestine rise must stop trying to tear Israel down."Obama also announced that he will add Indonesia, a country to which he has twice cancelled visits, to his Asia trip this November, which will also include stops in India, South Korea, and Japan. Obama meets with leaders from all 10 ASEAN member countries later Thursday.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:Pajamasmedia.Bombshell: Defying DOJ Instructions, Christopher Coates Will Testify Friday on New Black Panther Case.Told by the Department of Justice to ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission, former Voting Section Chief Coates has instead chosen to comply. His testimony Friday morning is likely to be incredibly damaging to DOJ leadership and the Obama administration. Adams testified that Fernandes, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division in charge of voting matters, told Voting Section leadership that the Obama administration would not file election-related cases against minority defendants — no matter the alleged violation of law.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:NewsRealBlog.Why We Need Islamophobia.An August 19th article by Daniel Luban in the Jewish publication Tablet calls fear of Islam “the new anti-Semitism.” Luban says that,“Many of the tropes of classic anti-Semitism have been revived and given new force on the American right. Once again jingoistic politicians and commentators posit a religious conspiracy breeding within Western society, pledging allegiance to an alien power, conspiring with allies at the highest levels of government to overturn the existing order."This is an admirable attempt at tolerance and pluralism, the key values that make America America. But it overlooks some overwhelming realities. And those oversights may someday threaten America’s very existence.The Jewish threat was never real. There are roughly thirteen million Jews on the planet today, far less than the population of just one of Islam’s roughly 200 major cities–Cairo. But there are more Moslems on the planet than all of the world’s Americans and Europeans combined. In fact, there are nearly three times as many Moslems as Europeans and Americans. Think of that. Nearly three times as many.Not to mention the fact that there are 123 Moslems for every Jew.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Chinese Labor Camps :MEPs condemn imports of 'blood spattered' Chinese goods.The EU has been accused of importing 'blood spattered' goods made in Chinese labour camps.The claim was made by German centre-right MEP Daniel Caspary during a debate on 23 September 2010 on products made in so-called Laogai camps.There are believed to be around 500 forced labour camps in China, many of which are commercial organisations with commercial company names.The camps allow police to send mainly petty criminals to jail for up to four years.US authorities have already banned products known to be made in the camps, and MEPs called for similar legislation to be introduced in the EU.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- The Senkaku-Diaoyu conflict and the end of U.S. supremacy on the seas.A disproportionate reaction from Beijing to Tokyo over a small vessel, silence over North Korea’s the act of war, in the sinking of the Cheonan. Beijing, with its missiles, is now capable of challenging U.S. aircraft carriers.It would take a salvo of three DF 21D to sink an aircraft carrier, such as the "George Washington", sent to protect Taiwan from a hypothetical Chinese invasion, this according to AP.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:Newsrealblog.George Soros’ 8 Most Despicable Acts (UPDATED AFTER THREAT BY SOROS’ LAWYERS).Editor’s Note: This post has been revised since it was first published. Because its author, Kathy Shaidle, is Canadian she is not protected by the same first amendment and libel laws that Americans are. Thus despite the fact that the information she presented has floated around the American blogosphere for years and was published in David Horowitz and Richard Poe’s The Shadow Party, because of where she lives Soros’ goons were able to target her with legal threats. That is the nature of the totalitarian personality we’re dealing with here.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Militants Cut Both Feet off Actress Starring in Afghan Film Critical of Taliban.A Director’s Many Battles to Make Her Movie.LOS ANGELES — Sonia Nassery Cole knew that shooting a movie on location in Afghanistan could get her killed. The most vivid reminder came a few weeks before filming, she said, when militants located her leading actress and cut off both of her feet.But Ms. Cole, an Afghan expatriate with a flair for the dramatic and a history of not taking no for an answer, had her mind made up. Unable to find another actress to take the part — the film is overtly critical of the Taliban — Ms. Cole, 45, decided to play the role herself.“Come hell, come shine, I was going to make this movie,” said Ms. Cole, a novice filmmaker whose primary job is running the Afghanistan World Foundation, a charity focused on refugees and women’s rights. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.HT:InfidelBloggers.
- HT:AmericanThinker.ObamaCare: Will Someone Please Kill It Before It Kills Us?Will a Republican-controlled Congress repeal HR 3590 before it destroys U.S. health care and depresses the U.S. economy even further?As they say in the game of bridge, let's review the bidding. HR 3590 will: •Increase health care spending •Raise the national deficit •Put people out of work •Discourage hiring and entrepreneurial activity •Increase waiting times to receive care (no new providers) •Reduce services to Medicare patients, and •Discourage people from entering or staying in health care.ObamaCare is a rabid dog. Someone needs to kill it.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- Stench from Ahmadinejad's food drives off hotel guests.The last time Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad graced New York with his presence, he told an interviewer for a local magazine that he was quite the cook. "I make all the dishes," he boasted, "the lamb, the rice, the yogurt." Sounds like quite the epicure. Ahmadinejad brought his personal cook along with him, possibly fearing—not unreasonably—that that he might otherwise be poisoned. But in the words of a hotel employee quoted in the New York Post, the meals he is being served "make the whole hotel stink like hell."The episode does seem to lend credence to the saying "You are what you eat."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- The truth about "separation of church and state".There seems to be a significant amount of confusion concerning our founding fathers, their religiosity, and the original intent of our First Amendment. Without question, the vast majority of our founders were indeed men of Christian faith and character. Let us first establish the fact that in our federal Constitution, there is no "separation of church and state," a battle cry of the Left. Those words are nowhere. The First Amendment simply states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…"When Missouri was applying for statehood, Constitution signer Rufus King pointed to the Bible in opposing slavery in the new state:"I hold that all laws or compacts imposing any such condition upon any human being are absolutely void because contrary to the law of nature, which is the law of God." Now, according to the separationists and the ACLU, this would be a no-no. But to a man who was actually present at the debates and the signing of the Constitution, it was perfectly reasonable and legitimate to use the Bible to guide policy and to make points politically.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- In Beirut,the Sunni-Shia crisis is getting worse!The international tribunal investigating the Hariri assassination might indict members of Hizbollah. The latter’s leader, Nasrallah, labels the tribunal an “Israeli project” and raises the issue of false charges. Lebanon’s prime minister plays down the row but demands “truth and Justice”. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria are working to avoid violence.For their own reasons, the Saudis, Syrians and Iranians have moved in to calm down the political and confessional storm. Iran does not want any trouble because President Ahmadinejad is expected on an official visit to Lebanon on 13 October. Syria and Saudi Arabia want peace and quiet because they sponsored last July’s political truce following a joint visit to Lebanon of Saudi King Abdallah and Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. For them, the survival of the Hariri government and respect for the media and political truce are crucial. Whilst it would not have the STL abolished, Saudi Arabia said that in exchange for an end to the row it would try to get the main charge in its present form changed.Thus, the focus is not on the STL itself but on what is happening around it. Hizbollah for instance has come up with evidence that would connect Israel to the Hariri assassination.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.
- HT:InfidelBloggers.Maine: Muslim teen sets off chemical bomb near mosque --nothing to see here.Islamic leaders told police that the explosion was just a 13-year-old "experimenting." What was the kid trying to do? "Teenager responsible for chemical bomb near Islamic Society of Portland," by Helen Dailey for WCSH6.com.Just a young Muslim at a mosque experimenting with a bomb. In Maine. What's to be concerned about?Are the "Bombs"related to an zoning issue about a planned Mosque?Are we seeing here an distortion of facts?Read the full story here and here.Click here for comments.
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