MFS - The Other News

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• Michelle Malkin: Obama spending Labor Day with real thugs.To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations.The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance -- underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues -- is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn. Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He indignantly accused her of "getting close to calling for violence" and suggested that her criticism of Tea Party-bashing labor bosses amounted to "terrorizing" workers.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama Sponsors Federal Grant Workshop For Islamists.BigPeace.com broke the story earlier this week on the White House sponsorship of a workshop to show Muslim organizations how to get federal taxpayer dollars for their activities. The Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) brought 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national groups together for the federal workshop. This is how Obama spends our tax dollars.In contrast, Obama has gutted the faith-based office and disallowed any National Day of Prayer events in the White House.Remember: Islam is not a religion like the Baptists, the Assembly of God or Catholicism, but it is a geo-political, military system.Many of the organizations that are part of the CCMO are part of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in 1928 to impose Islamic tyranny on every nation on the globe. A 2007 membership list of the CCMO reveals that there are 41 Muslim groups.After the November elections, when Republicans gain control of the House and perhaps even the Senate, the new leadership can hold hearings to discover the facts about this shameful event.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US asks Turkey to help stop nuclear Iran.Preventing Tehran from going nuclear 'mutual goal,' says Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, adds US checking option of missile defense on Turkish soil. “I did not come here to question or in any way rebut Turkey’s decision not to support United Nations sanctions against Iran,” US President Barack Obama's principle military advisor said. “I note with gratitude your government’s stated intent to enforce those sanctions."Good luck with that !"Islam Blood is thicker then water!"Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Hindu Human Rights Watch to protest Ground Zero Mosque.Hindus & Sikhs urged to join 9/11 rally on Sept 11 Sat. near Ground Zero NYC, with other communities against Ground Zero Mosque there.The organizers requested the followers of Eastern religions, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains who suffered the most due to Islam and continues to suffer to attend the rally where thousands of people from other religions plan to attend.This is an opportunity not to miss and speak up for what Indian subcontinent faced where 80 million were killed, 350,000 Kashmiri Hindus were driven away from their homes during last 18 years, in the next decade there is expected mass migration of Hindus from West Bengal, Assam and Northern UP, where Hindus/Sikhs numbers were reduced from 25% to less than 1% in Pakistan in just last 60 years and 30% to less than 10% in Bangla Desh where there is an ongoing genocide.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• After his hand was chopped off, Kerala college sacks lecturer.The Popular Front of India activists had hacked the right hand of Joseph on July 4 when he was returning home with his family from a Church. 30 persons have been arrested so far in connection with the gruesome attack which shocked the country. The lecturer, whose severed hand was sutured, has injuries all over his body and is now recovering at his residence at Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district. The management of the Christian-run New Man College has informed T J Joseph that he had been removed from September 1 on the grounds that he had hurt religious sentiments, college sources said on Saturday.Read the full story here.Click here to comment.

• 'US to continue supplying military assistance to Lebanon'.Report says an estimated $100m. worth of equipment and weaponry has been approved, after funds were frozen by US in the wake of fatal border clashes with Israel.Talking about peace and arming Israel's enemies on the other side?What do you need enemies for?Read the whole story here.Click here for comments.

• Iranian cleric: Holocaust is 'superstition'.Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi echoes sentiment often voiced by President Ahmadinejad, says Holocaust is attempt to manipulate the world. Iran's Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi on Saturday joined Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in denying the Holocaust, saying it was nothing more than a "superstition" meant to manipulate the West and the United States.Shirazi, who is considered one of the great Shiite rulers in Iran, said the Holocaust was "a superstition. But the Zionists say that all peoples of the world must accept that.Guys don't you realise you're getting boring repeating yourselves whole the time?Read the full story here.Click here for comments. 

• Women in Afghanistan need our support.The lot of Afghan women has improved since 2001, but they still struggle to be heard.For women in Afghanistan, some things have changed since 2001. Many more girls are in school, though attacks on schools are at an all-time high. Maternal mortality has decreased in some areas, though still one woman dies in childbirth every 30 minutes. Women do have a number of seats in parliament, even more than in many western countries for example, though they will tell you how difficult it is for them to get their voice heard. Many Afghan women and men are now truly afraid of what might happen in the future.My take on this is "as soon as the troops are gone the Taliban will be back and women will have no rights what so ever under their hard line Islamic rule!The next step will be a tsunami of fugitives from Afghanistan."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Today’s EPIC Waste of Taxpayer Funds: $700,000 in Stimulus Money Spent on Creating Computer Program That Tells Joke.A research professor at Northwestern University is defending a more than $700,000 stimulus grant he has received to create computer software that tells jokes.Professor Kristian Hammond says it’s serious work. But some critics say using stimulus money for this type of research is no laughing matter.Critics say the project is simply a waste of taxpayer money. But the man behind this next-generation software say those detractors, which include Senator John McCain, have never bothered to call and ask him what his work is all about.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Cartoon of eagle in Mexican flag shot dead to highlight 'terrible' violence sparks controversy.An American cartoonist has sparked criticism after sketching the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood.Daryl Cagle said his drawing, which has been published in at least two Mexican newspapers, was to highlight the ‘terrible’ violence in the country.The work shows the green, white and red flag with the eagle covered in bullet holes sprawled in the centre.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Ben Bernanke's monetary policy poverty.The White House is floating a new stimulus, though the Fed chief seemed to rule it out. But does he have any other tools?Everyone was pretty glum about US GDP growth between March and June, when it was thought to be 2.4%. But due to the wonders of statistical revision, it now turns out that it was only 1.6%. Of course, those out of work do not care what the statistics say because they know exactly what the economy feels like to them now. All the same, these numbers are no doubt confirming people's fears that the dreaded second dip (of on-going depression) is on the way.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• The battle for Turkey's constitution.As Turkey gets ready to vote on amendments, political wrangling means that the constitution will remain undemocratic at heart.Nationalist rightwing and statist left-of-centre groups are campaigning against the amendments, Islamist-leaning groups support them, and Kurdish groups advocate a referendum boycott, wishing to support neither the secularist establishment nor the current government. Moreover, the socialist and the liberal left are divided over whether some progress is better than none, with opponents arguing that half-hearted changes to the constitution would preclude eventual real reform.With the campaign dragging on for months, the referendum has thoroughly polarised Turkish politics. Win or lose, that is unlikely to change.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay raise starting this Wednesday!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Karzai announces "peace council" to push Taliban talks.An Afghan peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban has been set up, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the latest step in a gradual move toward reconciliation with the Islamist insurgents.The idea for a peace council was discussed at a traditional gathering, or jirga, attended by about 1,600 Afghan leaders and tribal elders in the capital, Kabul, in June.Karzai's presidential palace issued a statement on Saturday which said the creation of the High Peace Council was "a significant step toward peace talks."Karzai's plan, backed by tribal elders at the "peace jirga," involves luring Taliban foot soldiers away from the insurgency with cash and job incentives while seeking reconciliation with senior leaders by offering them asylum in other Muslim countries and striking their names off a U.N. blacklist.Sounds more like a surrender just before the foreign troops leave?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Legalinsurection.AP Calls Obama A Liar.There is no other reasonable interpretation.Here is how Obama described the end of combat operations in Iraq in his speech Tuesday night.If Obama had qualified his description, for example referring to the end of "major combat operations" and specifically mentioning the continuing need to "secure" the country, there is no doubt the press would have left him alone and praised his accuracy.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Video: Glenn Beck on Israel and Iran.

• 'Mideast peace process poses a strategic threat to Iran'.Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman: Cancellation of Iran FM's visit to Cairo is proof of the importance of the peace process.Speaking at the Shabbat Tarbut event in Haifa, the minister said that "the cancellation of a visit by the Iranian foreign minister to Egypt and the historical events that have occurred in Tehran since the start of peace talks are proof that progress in the talks will lead to an alliance between Israel and the moderate Arab states versus the axis of evil of Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• And now for something completely different!'Roman women built fires in their brasseries' and other hilarious classroom howlers by schoolchildren.Read the full "Stories" here,keep hankie ready for the tears of laughter!Click here for comments.