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• Church in Israel and Arabia, mission and religious freedom.Christians must leave their ghetto and stop being inward looking. They bear witness through their work, pilgrimages and daily ecumenical work. The Vicariate of Arabia is home to more than 100 nationalities. Despite the lack of full religious freedom, the Church is alive.“Our Churches are not missionary enough,” said Mgr Marcuzzo, who has lived in the region for 50 years. “In the past, Christian communities in the Middle East had a strong missionary impulse (recent discoveries indicate that Nestorians reached Tibet in the early centuries of Christianity). Today instead, we are too closed, ghettoised, inward looking because of circumstances that forced us to be this way.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Obama signs Nasa up to new future.The US space agency (Nasa) has been given a new direction, one that will seek to put astronauts in orbit using privately run launch services.The change comes into effect with the signing by President Barack Obama of the Nasa Authorization Act 2010.The legislation, passed by Congress last week, mandates the agency to fly the space station until 2020 and to launch one extra shuttle next year.It also instructs Nasa to start work on a rocket for deep-space exploration.The president's signature on the act brings to an end eight months of fractious debate on Capitol Hill about the future course of the agency.Hmmm...something tells me there's bound to be a catch,but what?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AtlasShrugs.Islam on Capital Hill: Jesus, the Muslim Prophet.It's high time the Pope speaks out against this "Kidnapping" of Jesus Christ.Now they are hijacking Christianity their son of God to realise their  own agenda.Read the full scandal story here.Click here for comments.

• Trading cape for the burqa.Hide your face and grab the kids. Coming soon to a TV in your child's bedroom is a posse of righteous, Sharia-com pliant Muslim superheroes -- including one who fights crime hidden head-to-toe by a burqa.These Islamic butt-kickers are ready to bring truth, justice and indoctrination to impressionable Western minds.The Hub, a joint venture with Hasbro toys, announced in May that it would produce and air episodes of "The 99." But then, murmurs of dissatisfaction turned into a cry.How can a secular nation endorse a children's show aimed at pushing one religion?Mom-of-two Trish Mobley said, "I have no problem with Muslim superheroes, but lose the burqa. A female superhero should not wear a symbol of subservience to men. It's also completely impractical when fighting bad guys."Now we're getting a comic book based on a wheelchair-bound Muslim superhero. What's next?Let me tell you where i think the idea of a wheelchair-bound Muslim superhero comes from: Quote "Yassin, bound to a wheelchair since he hurt his back in a childhood.Sheik Yassin was a founder of Hamas , a terrorist organization.." Yassin founded Hamas at the start of the first intifada."They will glorify the man who founded the terrorist group HAMAS!!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Poll: Women see Barack Obama administration as a 'failure'.The White House may view the last 18 months as historic, racking up a legislative scorecard that includes a $787 billion stimulus package and an overhaul of the health care system.A majority of women, however, see it as a failure, according to a new poll conducted by Kellyanne Conway for The Kitchen Cabinet, a conservative women’s group.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• MONTREAL - Canada. A 13-year-old Longueuil girl, dies after 71 -year old father slapped her.'Ray of light' was under pressure to pray, neighbours say.But neighbour Linda Robert said Noutene had been quieter in the last two years. Her father was demanding, Robert said, and could be heard sometimes yelling at the children or his wife. On the evening that she was struck, neighbours said her father was calling in to recite her prayers, as he often did. She was reluctant to go, as she often was, neighbours said."Even when she was young, she hated going in for her prayers," Robert said.Read the full story here and here.Click here for comments.

• HT:EndoftheAmericanDream.What Do The American People Believe About Government?As the November elections draw near, a number of polling organizations have been asking the American people fundamental questions about what they believe about politics and what they believe about government. So what have these polls shown? Well, it is undeniable that distrust and dissatisfaction with the government is growing. The American people are getting fed up with what is going on in Washington. It is also clear that the number of Americans that are in favor of big government is decreasing. But it is actually more complicated than that.Read the full story here.click here for comments.

• Axelrod to US Chamber: What Are You Hiding That You Don’t Want the American People to See?AXELROD: The president’s birth certificate has been available to people.TAPPER: The long form?We caught up with White House senior adviser David Axelrod today to chat about the current controversy about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and whether any of its ads are being funded with foreign money.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Dubai firm bags UK patent for network security.The technology helps prevent businesses from exposure to potential network threats.Patented as the ‘Network information security zone joint defense system’, the Dubai-headquartered firm’s ZoneDefense solves the limitation of pre-emptive measures that traditional network security technologies do not provide, according to a company statement.ZoneDefense automatically quarantines infected computers on a network by detecting abnormal behaviour that violates rules of its network access service, it said.Hmmmm.....did i not read recently "They"want to block access to infected computers?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Directorblue.You'll never guess who's behind the foreclosure crisis about to crush the housing market again (hint: it begins with a Fannie and ends with a Mae).The financial blogs have been atwitter for months over paperwork problems in the housing industry related to foreclosures. Around one-quarter of all recent home sales are foreclosures and now it appears many of those transactions -- and, worse, the mortgage-backed securities that undergird much of the economy -- may be at risk.Just when you think things can't get any worse, we discover that Democrats are thinking of implementing a foreclosure moratorium, which would literally freeze the entire housing market in its tracks.Hmmmm........better wait till after the devaluation?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ShalomLife.French Priest Uncovers Mass Graves In Ukraine.Before Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek – before any of that – Jews were being killed in the Ukraine. It started early on, in 1942 when Germany invaded the Ukraine and ended in 1944. Two million Jews lived there before the War. One and half million were murdered and lie in unmarked mass graves, unrecognized and unremembered. Babi Yar, where 34,000 died in a ravine just outside of Kiev in 1944, is the only exception. They were killed by the Germans and by their many Ukrainian collaborators. They lie forgotten mainly because the Soviet regime would not allow any publication concerning these Jews.The victims were taken from their homes to locations just outside the towns and villages they lived in. There, they were shot at close range, face to face or in the back. Many died buried alive – men, women, children, babies.That is until a French Catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois, came along. He has spent several years searching for the remains of the Jews murdered during the war in the Ukraine and has excavated hundreds of mass graves containing the bones of Jews massacred during this time. The present population, unwilling to make this public, have demolished all vestiges of Jewish life in the Ukraine. “Synagogues are used as garbage dumps, Jewish cemeteries have become market places and mass graves yield the bones of the murdered every time there is a thaw,” writes journalist Adam R. Tomaszewski.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BacktoBasics.By:MichelleMalkin.Newly nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money.The Obama White House has been an echo chamber for the Soros-funded Center for American Progress from Day One — from bashing Fox News, attacking talk radio, and pimping “media justice” and the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine, to crusading for the government health care takeover using Astroturfed doctors and taxpayer-funded operatives installed in the health care bureaucracy.Team Obama has gotten away with its left-wing myna bird routine. Until now.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheBlogProf.Sharia: Muslim Policeman in Britain doesn't have to protect a Jew. Want to know what kind of absurd liberal moonbattery is coming down the pike here in the US? We need only look across the pond to the moonbat capital of the planet.I'm i mistaking but it looks like the 1930's all over again?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Tea&Politics.Iran: Christian pastor sentenced to death for "thought crime".A Christian pastor in Iran is being sentenced to death for what is being called a "thought crime."There are others in his assembly who are imprisoned, and his own wife is being threatened with life imprisonment. They have two young children.According to web-blogs following the case, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, responsible for one of the largest Protestant communities in Iran, "has been" sentenced to death for apostasy Saturday, October 2 by the 11th Chamber of The Assize Court of the province of Gilan.This information was given to his lawyer Nasser Sarbaz. It was communicated to him verbally, news sources said.It's not only about free speech ,it's also about free thought.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Ethnic Uzbek Imam Slain In Russia's Tyumen.TYUMEN, Russia -- An Islamic leader of Uzbek origin has been shot dead in the central Russian city of Tyumen.Yevgeny Kazakov, the chief investigator in the Tyumen prosecutor's office, told RFE/RL that assassins riddled Isomiddin Akbarov's car with bullets on October 10. He said an investigation had been launched.Akbarov, 51, left Uzbekistan for Russia in the 1990s and worked as an imam in the town of Novy Urengoi, in Tyumen Oblast, since then.The leader of the local Muslim community, Khamzat Chernomorenko, told RFE/RL that in September, at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, about 100 Muslim worshippers were detained in a mosque in Novy Urengoi and questioned by security forces.Some of Akbarov's friends and relatives say security forces might have been involved in the killing.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Resurrecting the Fraud from the Obama Presidential Campaign.So.. though he softened his hateful anti-democratic rhetoric, President Obama’s surrogates are still going strong with the “threat to democracy” meme to broadly paint opposition to his socialist agenda.It’s time to resurrect the fraud from the Bamster’s own 2008 Presidential campaign.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:NewZeal.Be There! - “Marxism in America Conference”.Try to make this event. It'll be a great day.Next week, New Zeal's Trevor Loudon will be joining a great lineup of speakers at;“Marxism in America Conference” - National Press Club, Washington DC.October 21, 2010, 10am to 4pm (lunch included).Cliff Kincaid, president of America’s Survival and veteran journalist, hosts a variety of experts:Prof. Paul Kengor discussing President Obama’s little-known Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis; former FBI agent Larry Grathwohl, who blew the whistle on radical bomber Bill Ayers, on re-establishing a congressional committee on internal security; new, shocking YouTube videos featuring FBI veteran Max Noel on the violent Weather Underground; Prof. Mary Grabar on the Marxist propaganda masked as “history” in books by Howard Zinn; new information on the radical activities of Ayers, and more!Source.Click here for comments.

• Jailed Iranian Filmmaker Challenges Supreme Leader.Iranian filmmaker and journalist Mohammad Nourizad has written an open letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arguing that the United States does more to protect religious freedom and moral values than Iran.Nourizad -- who has been in Tehran's Evin prison since August --- wrote in his letter on October 10 that since Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election, violations of people's privacy has become more common.He said religious mobs have attacked the home of Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, a critic of Khamenei. In the United States, by contrast, he said personal privacy is strictly protected by law.Comparing morality in Iran and the United States, Nourizad wrote: "Americans have been brought up in such a way that they seldom lie, while lying is clearly evident among the people and authorities in our country."He asked: "The chances of an American prosecutor telling a lie are virtually nil, except in rare cases, but what about prosecutors in our country? Our prosecutors lie as easily as taking a sip of water -- they formulate and disseminate untrue rulings."As for freedom of speech, Nourizad wrote to Khamenei: "You are the only person in Iran who has freedom of speech, while everyone in America has freedom of speech."He continued: "We are Muslims but tainted by hypocrisy, while [Americans] who seem to be pagans do not know hypocrites. You, as an imam, should issue a fatwa and tell us which nation is closer to God."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Silwan: Stones thrown at touring MKs.Knesset's State Control Committee members get rude welcome while touring east Jerusalem neighborhood; Internal Security Minister also visits area at same time, vows to put end to stone-throwing incidents. A minivan carrying members of the Knesset's State Control Committee returning from a tour of the east Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood was stoned by Arabs Tuesday.A large rock hit the front window of the vehicle, but no one was injured. Border Guard troops who were securing the area were informed and dispersed the attackers.The incident took place while Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch visited the east Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan and Issawiya in response to the recent escalation in stone-throwing. "We will stop the stone-throwing with covert and overt forces, and we will bring back the quiet," he added. I call on the Jews and the Arabs to avoid confrontations. It does not add anything to the security of the residents of Jerusalem."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.An unusual demonstration (for Israel) was held outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv on Monday night. Shoes and eggs were thrown at this picture of President Obama (which, as you may recall, was taken while he was on the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu in April 2009 and touched off quite a scandal because it was considered disparaging to Netanyahu) to protest the pressure he is putting on Israel to extend the 'settlement freeze.'asked “if Obama can be against the burning of the Koran, how can he kick around the Bible?” At the beachfront promenade on Monday, protesters held an assortment of signs, including one reading “Obama, Israel is not ketchup, so don’t squeeze” and “Obama, you are not the 12th imam.”Some in attendance shouted insults directed at the US president, including, “Go to hell, Obama,” “Go back to Kenya” and “You are not a Christian, Obama.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US Rabbi: British Jews should support far-right EDL group.The English Defence League (EDL), a British far-right group opposing the "Islamification" of England and which is in contact with the US-based Tea Party organization, has invited Tea Party activist and senior Rabbi Nachum Shifren to speak about Sharia law in London this month, reported the Guardian Sunday.Shifren, who is running for the US senate in the upcoming midterm elections, said Britain's Jewish community should support the EDL."The Jewish community is paralyzed with fear, exactly what most radical Muslim agitators want.The people of England are in the forefront of this war – and it is a war. One of the purposes of this visit is to put the kibosh on the notion in the Jewish community that they cannot co-operate with the EDL, which is rubbish," he said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• The President's Nun: Obamacare Scranton Scandal Explodes.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• North Carolina Muslim Admits Working with al Qaeda: "Proud to be an American Traitor" [Full text].****Jawa Report Exclusive****Read the full story here.click here for comments.

• HT:Tea&Politics.Pakistan: Satellite images show that Govt has accelerated its nuclear weapons programme.The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based nuclear watchdog, has obtained satellite images showing that a row of cooling towers at Pakistan's secret Khushab-III reactor has been completed. This suggests the plant could begin operation within months, allowing Pakistan substantially to increase its stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium.Pakistan, which is deepening its nuclear ties to China, has blocked the Conference on Disarmament from starting discussions, saying a cut-off would hurt its national security interests.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• ‘Voter Fraud Watch’ — Uncle Pajamas Wants You!PJMedia is announcing a new initiative for election day 2010 — “VOTER FRAUD WATCH.” This initiative is to be carried forth on Pajamas Media and PJTV.As almost everyone would agree, in a democracy the integrity of the vote is paramount. If significant fraud or intimidation occurs at our polling places during an election, our democratic system of government is in peril.PJMedia has been at the forefront of this struggle for integrity of the vote, most recently via its coverage of the Department of Justice/New Black Panther controversy. This coverage was led by DOJ whistle blower and former attorney in the department’s voter rights division, J. Christian Adams. Mr. Adams has agreed to lend his legal expertise to “Voter Fraud Watch.Read the full story of this initiative here.Click here for comments.

• Barack Obama gets more personal with black voters.PHILADELPHIA – The White House has hesitated to cast the midterm elections as a referendum on President Barack Obama, except when it comes to one key constituency: African-American voters.As Obama has steadily increased his outreach to African American voters over the past month. With interviews and campaign stops targeted at the black community – “our community,” as the president likes to say – he has sent a clear signal that this election is about him and his record.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Updated :40 Killed in Bus Collision in Ukraine.A passenger bus collided with a train locomotive in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least 38 people, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Ministry.The accident occurred at around 9:30 Tuesday morning local time in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the ministry said. At least 11 people were taken to the hospital, many in critical condition.Media reports citing Ukraine’s interior minister, Yevheny Kravets, and others said the driver of the bus was to blame for failing to heed signal lights warning of an approaching train. “The driver of the bus ignored the warning lights and drove onto the crossing, moving into close proximity of the approaching train,” a statement on the site of Ukraine’s national railroad company said. “As a result there was a collision with the locomotive.”Read the full story here.Updated with pics: here.Click here for comments.

• CAIR Launches Islamophobia Dept. at Sold-Out Banquet.Almost 300 Muslims from around the nation also attended CAIR’s day-long leadership skills training conference held prior to the banquet.CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad announced the new Islamophobia Department in his address to the evening banquet.Awad said the department will produce an annual Islamophobia report that will track trends in rhetorical attacks on Islam and Muslims and will offer accurate and balanced information to be used in the struggle for tolerance and mutual understanding."We do not want to take over your country"?Well let them start with giving tolerance to other religions in Muslim countries to start with.We have here a minority dictating the majority how to live and obey according to Sharia law.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Poll of Americans: Iran will nuke Israel if gets bomb, should be stopped, Obama hurting Israels security.Read the full poll here.click here for comments.

• The elephant in the Obama Whitehouse.While the media, Talk Radio hosts and Conservatives discuss Meg Whitman’s maid or Christine O’Donnell’s witchery, our government is slowly taking total control of our lifestyles, property and food with hardly a mention. This is the elephant in the Whitehouse which no one is discussing.New powers would give Obama the power to completely shut down industries that don’t follow government orders of the new bill. Those companies who do not comply will be force to shut down.Imagine being without banking access, television, electricity, energy, water, the abililty to work or communicate? All industries including financial, healthcare, insurance, food and energy would be affected. America would ‘shut down’.This is part of a bigger picture which is the real agenda…the government is moving towards the control of our land, waterways, energy, food, housing, etc., as indicated by the United Nations Agenda 21, signed in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and implemented by each president since. . The main purpose of Agenda 21 is to take away our private rights and control the population.This is the elephant in the Whitehouse.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Brady Campaign's favored (apparently) response to tyranny--sit there and take it.Last Friday, the Brady Campaign's Dennis Henigan, in one of his more or less weekly screeds in the Huffington Post, claimed that the U.S. is threatened by "right wing extremist militias," who along with the NRA, subscribe to a "dangerous" view of the role of the Second Amendment.What's most telling, though, I think, is that anyone who denies that it is legitimate to resist, by force of arms, a tyrannical government, can only be arguing that resistance to tyranny is not legitimate. In other words, we are, apparently, expected to sit here and take it.I have an answer to that, and in contrast to my usual long windedness, this answer is even more succinct than "Molon Labe." Not two words, but two letters: "No."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Patient with spinal cord injury becomes first to receive human embryonic stem cells in landmark U.S. trial.Doctors have begun treating the first patient in the U.S. to receive human embryonic stem cells in a landmark clinical trial.Details of the trial are being kept confidential as it is likely to reignite the ethical debate on the use of embryos.Geron Corp GERN.O has the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration licence to use the controversial cells to treat people, in this case patients with new spinal cord injuries.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Cash-strapped school making two new classrooms... out of double-decker bus bought on eBay.A cash-strapped primary school which cannot afford a planned extension is making two new classrooms - from a double decker bus.Parc Eglos School, near Helston in Cornwall, bought the vehicle on eBay and will hold science and cookery lessons on board.The school had planned a classroom extension but could not find the £15,000 needed.So headteacher Brett Dye came up with idea of buying the double decker bus and converting it into a two-tiered classroom.One question....How will you keep the Bus -Classroom warm in winter?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• You want flies with that? McDonald's Happy Meal shows no sign of decomposing after SIX MONTHS.Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald's Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old.Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mould or decay.Entitled 'The Happy Meal Project', Mrs Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestructible fast food meals progress as it refuses to yield to the forces of nature.Hmmmm.....perhaps it has military potential?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.