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• HT:RightTruth.Obama authorizes 80,000 "Refugees" to enter the country!President Barack Hussein Obama writes a memo to the Secretary of State and, 80,000 more Muslim refugees are allowed into the United States. Am I the only one who has a problem with that? Also this is misleading because these are not really refugees:“Refugees” are defined as people who are outside their country of origin and have a well-founded fear of return to their homeland. Internally displaced persons (IDPs), who have been forced from their homes but are still within the borders of their own country, do not qualify as refugees, and–with some exceptions–cannot come to the U.S. as refugees.Refugee Resettlement Watch and other organizations have expressed grave concern that Mr. Obama is allowing some many immigrants into the country while so many Americans remain out of work and living in poverty.According to the US Department of Labor, 14.8 million Americans remain unemployed. 6.1 million have been out of work for 27 weeks or over.This figure has been challenged by the Union of the Unemployed who provide statistics that the actual number of unemployed Americans is 31 million.Read the full story here.Related : By law* the Office of Refugee Resettlement is required to report to Congress about how the refugee resettlement program and the refugees are fairing.The reports are handy to find out for instance how employment is going for refugees or for example, what percentage are on food stamps. However, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is now WAY BEHIND in their reports.The most recent report to Congress is 2007!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Man Fired for Wearing Bush Sweatshirt at Obama Rally ***UPDATED.Don't try wearing a Bush hat or sweatshirt at an Obama rally.Duane Hammond says it's what got him fired. Hammond is a union stagehand who was part of the crew that built the platform for the Obama event on campus.He came to work early this morning wearing clothing that says "George H. W. Bush". Hammond's son is in the Navy, currently serving on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George H. W. Bush.That didn't go over well with his union supervisor. Hammond says he was told to take off the sweatshirt, or he would have to go home.He refused. They told him he was fired from the job.James Wright, a business representative from IATSE Local 33, says the union is still investigating what happened."If he was sent home because of the sweatshirt, he will be paid for the day," he said.***UPDATE: Duane Hammond says union officials called him this afternoon to apologize for the incident. He say they are "bending over backwards" to make it up to him.Hmmm....damage control in 3...2...1.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Report says Iran grabbed 3 U.S. hikers in Iraq. WikiLeaks document contradicts Tehran's claim that the trio illegally crossed into country.A secret American military report released Friday by WikiLeaks appears to confirm that three American hikers detained by Iran were arrested on the Iraqi side of the border.The military document describes the three as "tourists/reporters" and says they were kidnapped and "were being taken to the Iranian border."Outrage of President Obama in 3...2.... Gone to play Golf!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:NewsRealBlog.Least Shocking Study Results Of The Day: Muslim Treatment Of Women Stinks.The World Economic Forum last week distributed its annual Global Gender Gap Report, a review of how 134 countries have succeeded in closing gaps between women and men in four areas economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival.While some non-Muslim countries do poorly, the vast majority of the worst-scoring countries are Islamic, most of them Arab states.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Giuliani questions NPR funding.Rudy Giuliani defended former NPR analyst Juan Williams Friday, saying Williams was fired for simply "explaining his feelings.""Juan Williams just expressed something that a lot of people feel," Giuliani told the crowd at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey. "And he gets fired for it?"But the former mayor added that it is irresponsible to ignore the threat of Islamic extremists, noting he doesn't understand why anyone would be offended at that notion. "I don't care who's offended by it," Giuliani said. "And if you are offended by it, there's something wrong with you."Now this is the "Real" mayor of NY the 9/11 one and only Giuliani!Read the full story here.Click here.Click here for comments.

• Imams’ Conference Held in Houston.American Muslims have experience with most of the alphabet soup of Islamic organizations which grace the shores of this continent, from AMC to ICNA, from ISNA to Zakat Foundation, however there may be an important one which has until now escaped notice.The organization AMJA (Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America) has a list of scholars associated with it which stretches from Al-Azhar University to Virginia’s Open University, and back across the ocean to the professors at Saudi universities. Its website, amjaonline.com, provides fatawa on many issues and promises 24-hour access to scholars who can give legal opinions on the issues people face.AMJA focuses on providing fatwas to Americans, and believes it is able to provide culturally appropriate fatwas although many of their scholars are not American–because they have some American scholars and because of the technological ties that bind AMJA’s American scholars with those abroad.Hmmm....Non - Americans giving American citizens fatwas how to live in America,separation of state and religion?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BigPeace.Al Qaeda Terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki Dined at Pentagon; Part of ‘Muslim Outreach’.Despite connections to some of the hijackers and a record of radical sermons and speeches in the United States, fugitive al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was a lunch guest at a Pentagon “Muslim outreach” event just months after the 9/11 attacks, according to documents obtained by Fox News.The invitation came despite the fact that Awlaki “was interviewed at least four times by the FBI in the first week after the attacks because of his ties to…three hijackers – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour,” Fox News reported. The three hijackers were on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.The Defense Department has failed to respond to Fox News’ repeated requests for information on Awlaki’s attendance at the luncheon. A former high-ranking FBI agent told Fox News that there was tremendous “arrogance” about the Pentagon’s vetting process.“They vetted people politically and showed indifference to security and intelligence advice of others,” the agent said. It wasn’t just the Pentagon. As we reported in July, Awlaki is shown in a PBS documentary leading Muslim staffers in prayer on Capitol Hill.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Foreign Policy: A Prince's Mysterious Disappearance.For a generation, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was Riyadh's man in Washington. As the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, he was even dubbed "Bandar Bush" for his close ties to that powerful American political dynasty. After leaving Washington, apparently burned out, he returned to Saudi Arabia to head the newly established Saudi National Security Council, the function of which was not, and still is not, clear. However, he continued to sneak back into the United States periodically because the king quickly decided he preferred Bandar over his successor, Prince Turki al-Faisal, as his channel to the White House — a situation that eventually led Turki to resign in protest.And then, around 2008, Bandar vanished from the public eye. Exactly what caused Bandar to fall out of political favor remains unclear, but he had acquired no shortage of enemies, even within the royal family, over his long tenure as the principal contact between Saudi Arabia and its most important ally.And now he's suddenly back.As the son of a former slave girl in his father's court, he lacks the pedigree to be king himself. But he is married to an al-Faisal princess, and his connections in Washington make him a valuable ally for any would-be monarch. Within the family, he can explain the folly of internal royal dissension in a region increasingly threatened by Iran. Amid all the rumors and innuendo, insiders agree on one concrete fact: Bandar is back as a player in Saudi politics.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Israeli chess master takes Guinness record from Iran.An Israeli chess grandmaster has broken the world record for simultaneous chess games, taking the title from Iran.Alik Gershon, 30, took title after a 19-hour marathon match against 523 players whose row of tables snaked across a Tel Aviv square. He won 454, lost 11 and drew 58.His 86% win rate also outstripped the former record holder, grandmaster Morteza Mahjoob of Iran.Mr Mahjoob last year bested 397 out of 500 chess players in Tehran.Jack Brockbank, the on-site adjudicator for Guinness World Records, confirmed the new Israeli record and predicted a renewed chess challenge from Iran.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Great. MSNBC's 'Lean Forward' Branding Campaign Omits 'Creator' From Its Version of the Declaration, Coincidentally Just Like Barack Obama.MSNBC's latest brainstorm -- the hilarious "Lean Forward" campaign -- uses a carefully edited recitation of the nation's founding document. It omits any mention of God (though it does depict gay marriage)."We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men and women have certain unalienable rights. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness."It can't be a coincidence. It conforms precisely with President Obama's new version of the Declaration of Independence, which he is said to have recited on five separate occasions.Hmmmm.....if a lie is repeated often enough it still remains a half truth.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US plays 'genocide' card to pressure Turkey on NATO missile system.US threatens Turkey to recognize 'genocide' unless it deploys missile defense system.With already-troubled Turkey-US ties further challenged by NATO plans for a missile defense system, Washington is now attempting to use one of the touchiest issues in the two countries’ relationship to gain Turkish cooperation.“The perception that Turkey and the US work for opposing aims makes it difficult for us to work together,” Philip Gordon from the US State Department said at an American Turkish Council meeting Tuesday in Washington. “Whether the rhetoric that Turkey is heading East is right or wrong, as long as some think like that, we will have problems.”The anti-missile system is only the latest headache in Turkish-US relations, which ebbed after Ankara’s refusal to allow US troops to cross its territory to invade Iraq in 2003 and have been hard to get back on track since.Unless there is some improvement in these three areas, Washington made clear through diplomatic channels, Turkey should not be surprised to see a resolution recognizing Armenian claims of genocide pass before the end of the year.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:EmergingCorruption.Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands.Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money.Munger and his wife have spent some $10.5 million on a plan to continue the creation of a commission composed of five Democrats, five Republicans, and four non-partisan members who are to have the power to affect the redistricting required by Congress as a result of Census statistics.“I’m doing this to try to ensure voters have fair districts where representatives will compete for offices,” Munger said yesterday in a telephone interview from Palo Alto. “Elected politicians are picking the voters, voters aren’t picking their representatives.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ElderofZion.French human rights official asks Arab League to curtail anti-semitic programming. On Wednesday, Paris requested that the Arab League take action on "the problem of television channels that broadcast anti-Semitic propaganda in the Middle East and also to Europe via satellite."Francois Zimeray, Ambassador for Human Rights at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he had noted in particular the case of channels of Hamas, "Al Aqsa," and that of Hezbollah, "Al Manar," during during a visit to the headquarters of the pan-Arab institution.The anti-Semitic propaganda of these channels is "spreading hate via satellite, returns a bad image of Islam and does not contribute to creating a climate conducive to peace," he told reporters.Source.Click here for comments.

• American woman jailed in Dubai for abusing police officers and for allegedly using the ‘f’ word.She also allegedly broke a door allocated for people with special needs.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Europe adopted the wrong policy toward Iran.Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani says Europe has adopted the wrong policy toward Iran and prevents the truth from being reported on the Iran.The Iranian official said certain parties are running an anti-Iranian media trend in the West and criticized European media for their selective and biased reporting on Iran.Regarding the possibility of nuclear talks between Iran and the EU in November, Perthes expressed hope that the negotiations will lead to a diplomatic solution to the standoff.Iran and the European Union have been at odds over US-led allegations regarding Tehran's nuclear program, especially following the EU move to target Iran's oil and gas sectors with unilateral sanctions alongside the United States.Hmmmm.....Obama already talking to Iran?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Norway and the Jews.With the Jewish world focused on the looming nuclear threat from Iran, 60,000 Hezb'allah rockets menacing from southern Lebanon, and the dramatic shift of Turkey from an ally to an increasingly Islamist foe, one might think that Norway's attitudes toward the Jewish State and Judaic values might not be worthy of a second glance. After all, the entire organized Jewish population in Norway -- about seven hundred people -- could easily fit in Oslo's largest hotel. In fact, Norway's international involvement in the NGO world, academia, and Christian churches often means that what is uttered there can impact all Jews.So we are grateful that one leader, United States Senator Sam Brownback, who heads up the U.S. Congressional Caucus on Norway, was concerned enough about these trends and developments to launch a protest about the anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli hatemongering to Norway's Ambassador to the United States, Wegger Stromen. Brownback wrote that he was "contacted by human rights activists over increasing reports of anti-Semitism in Norway often linked to events in the Middle East ... these events are concerning particularly as they have sometimes involved prominent members of Norwegian society."And if one is looking for the most heavily guarded building in Oslo, it's not the Parliament, but the Oslo Jewish community center, whose synagogue was shot at a couple of years ago. In 2010, it's clear that distortions and discriminatory attitudes about the Jewish state and values are an integral part of Norway's dominant culture. We can only hope some leaders in Oslo will take Senator Brownback's criticisms to heart. Meanwhile, all Jews -- not just those in Norway -- owe Sam Brownback a debt of gratitude for calling out such unchallenged bigotry.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Muqata.Israeli SWAT team wins International CounterTerror Competition.In a highly under-reported win, Israel's Police Counter-Terror force, the "YaMaM" won the international "Urban Shield" counter-terror competition against 27 top rated police and federal SWAT teams from around the world. Not only did Israel place first, but their point score was the highest ever in the history of the competition.Heh..."When the going get tough,the tough get going"!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Judges told to step down in Wilders trial.Judges in the hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders have been ordered to step down by an independent appeals panel.The move follows a request by Mr Wilders' lawyers who said they feared the judges were biased against him.The legal process that began in January must now begin again with new judges. The trial itself started in October.Mr Wilders faces five charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail.Mr Wilders' lawyer Bram Moszkowicz had argued that the bench at Amsterdam District Court had created "an impression of partiality" by putting off a decision on the defence's request to recall a witness.Being denied the opportunity to recall the witness would "make it impossible for the defence to substantiate a crucial part of its case", he added. A hastily convened panel said on Friday that it found the trial judges' decision to be "incomprehensible in the absence of any motivation".They said that Mr Wilders' fear of bias as a result was "understandable"."Under the circumstances, the request [for the judges' removal] is granted," said a statement from the panel.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:NewZeal.Walid Shoebat on the Islamization of the United States.Walid Shoebat, a convert from Islam to Christianity speaks on the reality of the attempt to islamize the United States of America. You will learn a lot from this 3-part speech. In particular, note his words that "Terrorism is not the explosion. Terrorism is a political act." Watch it, and then pass it on.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BigPeace.Is Obama Submissive to Islam?A few weeks ago, I referred to President Obama as a “dhimmi president,” a subservient kowtower to Islamic power. Maybe it’s time to rethink that designation. He’s not a dhimmi. He’s a spineless, supine, surrendering subject of submission – in other words, a dhimmi-plus.How else to explain Obama’s complacency with regard to a crescent-shaped monument (which Alec Rawls advances in “Crescent of Betrayal: Dishonoring the Heroes” his claim that the memorial is in fact the world’s largest open-air mosque), being built on National Park Service federal land at the Shanksville, PA Flight 93 crash site, while at the same time ignoring the desecration, theft and need to replace the Mojave Desert War Memorial Cross (our nation’s sole WWI federal memorial) also on National Park Service federal land?And how else to explain Obama’s stumping on behalf of the Ground Zero mosque while at the same time ignoring multiple written requests from veterans’ organizations and a host of distinguished American citizens including Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Rick Santorum, a few Medal of Honor recipients, Major Generals, Vice Admirals and many other esteemed citizens, asking that he restore the Memorial Cross?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Turkey -‘Religious leader’s gathering to halt headscarf process’.In a move that could serve to sabotage Turkey’s efforts to settle the headscarf ban, Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü, the leader of a religious community, has been preparing for a showy gathering at a sports hall in İstanbul and urging his followers to attend the meeting in religious clothing.Ünlü has been reportedly warning his female followers to wear their chadors and males to wear their robes and turbans.The daily recalled that the Aczimendi group is remembered for its provocative protests in the run-up to the Feb. 28, 1997 unarmed military intervention that toppled the government at the time.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BacktoBasics.When in a hole, dig deeper, prescribes George Soros.The former British Labour politician Denis Healey famously defined what he called the First Law of Holes: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging!”But legendary investor George Soros [the man that stated HE wants to devalue the America dollar] has exactly the opposite recipe for a weak US economy that finds itself in a hole six feet deep: dig deeper.Soros’ recommendation may be controversial, but he isn’t alone in calling for greater US investments despite the debt problems. Economist and equity analyst Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The Corruption of Capitalism, argues in favour of an even more over-the-top recommendation: a $3 trillion investment over the next 10 years in “21st century industries” — like solar energy, genetic engineering/ biotechnology and nanotechnology!“An investment on that scale in the industries of the future would create technological miracles that would permanently end the US trade deficit, raise enough tax revenues to balance the budget, and end the nation’s dependence on credit,” argues Duncan. A “little more debt” and some of America’s “vaunted ingenuity” could lock in another American Century.”Hm.......Tax revenues from the poor and homeless?"They don't trust me bacause of my middle name"?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BigPeace.American To Be Caned in Singapore for Overstaying Visa.“AN AMERICAN, who accompanied his wife to Singapore last December for fertility treatment, and overstayed, could be the first US citizen to be caned in 16 years.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Nigeria court rejects 'forced marriage' case.A Nigerian high court has dismissed a case brought by a 26-year-old woman who says her father forced her to marry a senator.The judge said her human rights had not been violated and it was a matrimonial matter for an Islamic court.Zainab Isa Mayana was married to the senator of Zamfara State, Sahabi Ya'u, 54, in July at a ceremony where she was represented by her father.She says she has never met him and her father knew she was already engaged.Sokoto, where the trial took place, was one of several northern states to re-introduce Sharia law after the return to democracy in 1999.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Memri.Arab Author on 'Pursuing an Islamic Metamorphosis'.on English.aljazeera.net, Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti writes that the Muslim world is facing a decline similar to that of medieval Europe, as described by Dutch historial Johan Huizinga. He says that the Islamic world is experiencing a crisis, at the heart of which is "the lack of consensus about the social contract on which society should be based, especially in terms of an agreed understanding for the relation between religion and state." He goes on to discuss how a new consensus might be formed, asserting that "non-Muslim minorities and non-practicing Muslims need to accept the fact that Islamic law is too rich and too important to be discarded."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover.The simple credit card is about to get a makeover.Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.Other card issuers are testing more newfangled cards, including some that can double as credit and debit cards, and cards with fraud protections baked right into the plastic. One, for instance, shows a portion of the account number only after the cardholder enters a PIN.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Giant Makkah clock to be ready next month.A giant clock tower constructed in Islam’s holiest city of Makkah as one of the world’s highest towers will be completed next month and will be linked to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a Saudi newspaper said Saturday.The third face of the clock skyscraper, which was launched on a trial basis last month, has been completed while the fourth side will be finished in early November, Sahafaonline Arabic language network reported.“The fourth side is located south of the Makkah Grand Mosque…it will be finished early next month to mark the end of the project that will be one of the most important hallmarks for Muslims around the world,” it said.“The clock timing will be linked to UTC after the fourth and last side is completed.UTC, also referred to as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Universal Time (UT), or "Zulu" is an international time scale used in astronomical and aviation publications, weather products, and other documents.Formerly and still widely called GMT, UTC nominally reflects the mean solar time along the Earth's prime meridian. UTC is expressed using a 24-hour clock but can be converted into a 12-hour clock--AM and PM.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Idaho Shortcut Stalls Global Trek.Shipment of Oil Gear From Korea to Canada Hits Objections to Huge Loads on Rural U.S. Highway.Idaho—A Canadian oil company's $8 billion plan to tap Alberta's oil sands has hit a roadblock en route to U.S. Highway 12.Imperial Oil wants to send 35,000 tons of mining equipment over the Rocky Mountains in 207 massive loads that would creep along the winding, two-lane highway in the middle of the night—four or five shipments a week—for about a year. The route is part of a shortcut of sorts, designed to shave months and thousands of miles off the trip from the equipment's South Korean maker to Canada.The legal obstacle began not with Imperial Oil's plan, but with a much smaller shipment. In May, four coke drums commissioned by ConocoPhillips for a refinery in Billings, Mont., arrived at Lewiston. A coalition of environmentalists and small business owners sued to halt their transport, and on Aug. 24, a district judge in Boise threw out the Idaho Department of Transportation's permit that would have allowed that shipment to proceed. The judge said the agency didn't give the public enough opportunity to respond to the proposal and said he wasn't convinced the company could effectively respond to a mishap along the desolate route.All parties now await a state Supreme Court ruling in the case, which also has Imperial Oil's permits on hold.Hmmm...of course it's a lot more interesting for the U.S. to be depending on Saudi oil then being able to use Canadian oil?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Robin whitebreast!: Rare albino bird spotted in Surrey garden.See this lovely creature here.Click here for comments.