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• HT:GatewayPundit.Princeton Study Unintentionally Links Barack Obama to Current Financial Meltdown.In 1994 Barack Obama represented Calvin Roberson and ACORN in a lawsuit against Citibank, charging the bank systematically denied mortgages to African-American applicants. Obama worked against banks who denied mortgage loans to minorities.The case against Citibank was settled out of court. This lawsuit was one of a series of lawsuits that were filed by ACORN using “redlining and racism” allegations to lower credit standards.In 2007 Barack Obama actually said that, “Giving sub-prime loans to people who can’t afford them is a good idea."The article was a bit off. It wasn’t racism that caused the banks to loan to minorities. And, it wasn’t George Bush.It was liberal policy.Regardless, it all leads back to Barack Obama.What a shock.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Pakistan's Extremists Are Carrying Out Their Own Decapitation Strategy.Pakistan's Pashtun-dominated Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province witnessed another high-profile murder on October 2, even as most of the country was reeling from violence on a scale not witnessed in recent history.Muhammad Farouq Khan, a renowned scholar and an ardent supporter of nonviolent Islam, was the latest victim of the terror wave unleashed by armed men purporting to be Taliban or students of religious seminaries.Many observers believe the cold-blooded murder of the soft-spoken Farouq Khan inside his clinic was part of a plot to create the impression that this part of Pakistan is on the verge of being taken over by the Taliban, with the ultimate aim of squeezing more dollars from the United States and the international community.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid.He's not exactly throwing his hat in the ring yet, but real estate mogul Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he's giving his first serious consideration to running for president in 2012.He suggested he has the "common sense" and, most importantly, the "finesse" to be commander-in-chief."I think my whole life has sort of been about finesse when you get right down to it. I mean it's -- what running a country is, is to a certain extent we have to bring principle back and we have to also bring common sense back," Trump said. "We have no common sense. We have no common sense. And we're losing this country. Mark my words, if we keep going this way, we're losing this country. It will no longer be great. It's not respected to anywhere near what it used to be.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• 'German Taliban' video posted on al-Qaeda website.A recruiting video produced by German militants and posted on an al-Qaeda website has cast fresh light on how European Islamists are joining insurgents fighting in Pakistan's mountainous tribal areas.The 51-minute film shows German-speaking gunmen, armed with AK-47s, light machine guns and mortars, apparently taking on Pakistani troops in South Waziristan and Orakzai, areas close to the border with Afghanistan.They include a clean-shaven man of Caucasian appearance, who wears a baseball hat pulled low on his face and  sunglasses.German authorities believe at least 70 German nationals have travelled to Pakistan for training, with about a third returning home.A drone strike on Monday killed eight militants, including possibly five Germans, according to Pakistani security sources, as part of a US surge in attacks to kill the plotters.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Blind man barred from Dubai flight over disability.A blind American traveler says he was stopped from getting on a flight in Dubai on Tuesday because of his disability — a decision the government-run airline insists was a mistake it regrets."I was mad. ... I couldn't believe it," the 37-year-old information technology specialist said. "I tried to reason with them, but I just got a single cold answer."He left the airport and went to stay at a brother's house in Dubai until he could catch another flight out.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheLastCrusade.Gulen college opens in Chicago.Welcome to the American Islamic College, where students will be trained to take part in the creation of a universal caliphate and the international expansion of militant Islam.Alexander has also claimed that Hamas and their terrorist activities were really no different than what the “Christian evangelical right” has brought forth.Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, boastfully calls the college “a sleeping giant.”What happens when the giant awakes?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way?After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm.“Although the forecast for the next month is only 70 percent accurate, I find the cold winter scenario quite likely,” Vadim Zavodchenkov, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Worker Spoke of Jihad, Agency Says.A New Jersey man accused of joining Al Qaeda in Yemen spoke openly of militant views while working at American nuclear plants, according to a report by the inspector general of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that proposes tightening personnel security rules.The man, Sharif Mobley, who is charged by Yemeni authorities with murdering a hospital guard during an escape attempt in March, said he told others in his labor union: “We are brothers in the union, but if a holy war comes, look out,” said the report from the inspector general, Hubert T. Bell.His lawyers have admitted that Mr. Mobley was in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical cleric in Yemen who has been linked to several terrorist plots and has called for attacks on the United States. But the lawyers have said Mr. Mobley denies being involved in any terrorist plot.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Poll: Two-thirds think stimulus was a 'waste'.Over two-thirds of Americans believe that President Obama's signature stimulus bill was a waste, a new poll found Tuesday. The figure suggests that the cornerstone of the Obama administration's agenda to bolster the economy has fallen flat with voters as elections loom in four weeks. The poll also hints that the White House's effort to sell the bill to the public has been far from successful.Republicans have hammered Democrats who supported the stimulus over the last 20 months, accusing them of wasting money while not creating jobs, while Democrats claim that hundreds of thousands more jobs would have been lost had the stimulus not been enacted.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheJawaReport.YouTube Suspends MEMRI TV Videos.It seems some vids are removed others are not.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Dutch Court Rejects Wilders Push to Change Judges at Muslim-Insult Trial."There are no weighty indications that the judges have given the impression of being prejudiced,” Judge Frans Bauduin, who was brought in to rule on the impartiality question, said at the court today. The trial, which was halted yesterday, will continue with the current judges tomorrow at 9 a.m. local time.“The words used by the presiding judge in that last sentence were chosen unfortunately,” Bauduin said. “They’ve given the requestor a wrong impression.” Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• This year’s winter may be the harshest – Polish climatologists.According to Polish climatologists, the Gulfstream- the Atlantic warm current, which protects Europe against the Arctic cold, is cooling fast. It might even disappear completely, they warn.Russian meteorologists disagree with the pessimism of their Polish counterparts, agreeing though that the speed of the Gulfstream has indeed been reduced two-fold for several years. The Scandinavian countries are already feeling the breathing of the Arctic.Explanation:Shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation is a postulated effect of global warming.Global warming could lead to an increase in freshwater in the northern oceans, by melting glaciers in Greenland and by increasing precipitation, especially through Siberian rivers.It is by no means clear that sufficient freshwater could be provided to interrupt thermohaline circulation — climate models indicate not, but research continues.In my opinion this is what is happening right now!Read the full story here and here.Click here for comments.

• Chief Negotiator for EU Criticizes MHP Leader's Prayer in Ani.Bağış said sarcastically that it was a good development that the MHP administration started praying and he advised them to read the Sura Al'Maida which warns those who show off during worship rituals.MHP Deputy Chairman, Mehmet Şandır, responded to the criticisms of Bağış and said that he should read the 51st verse of the Sura Al'Maida which states that one should not make friends with the Jews and Christians because they are each others' friends. He added that the sura adds that those who are friendly with them become one of them.Hmmmm....and these people want to enter the European union?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Beautiful: Having torn the health insurance industry asunder, Democrats appear ready to lay waste to the life insurance industry.Never mind that America has no static class structure -- the rich become poor and the poor rich every day of the week. Never mind that life insurance has protected those of modest means for centuries.Never mind all that. The progressives have American society to tear down. And more taxes to collect in their plot to redistribute everyone's wealth.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.