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• Graphic: Anatomy of a stoning.In Saturday’s National Post we look at the brutal practice of stoning. This method of execution is still practiced in certain countries, notably Iran, where it is used to punish adulterers and other criminals. The graphic looks at how a stoning occurs.This is according to Sharia law,the Ground Zero Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says : “Sharia Law And US Constitution is The Same”,this is what these people want you to believe!And dare to ask you, the American taxpayer to pay for their Mosque! Read and see the full story here.

• Alleged Owner of Massive Homemade Bomb Arsenal Is a Mystery Man.Is he a terrorist or just a sick man?That is the question police and federal authorities are still asking after the arrest last week of George Djura Jakubec, whose rented house in Escondido, Calif., contained what local authorities called “the largest quantity of homemade explosives found in one location in the history of the United States.”The quiet, cluttered home of the man neighbors described as very private was brought to authorities' attention when a gardener employed by Jakubec brushed set off an explosion by brushing against an explosive powder left on the back yard of the home. The gardener suffered severe injuries but is expected to recover.Police and fire officials at first found the unemployed computer consultant reluctant to talk, but after questioning he admitted that he had hand grenades and other explosive materials in his house, according to papers filed by prosecutors. They have charged the 54-year-old Serbian-born suspect with 28 counts of possession and manufacturing destructive devices, as well as two counts of bank robbery.Among the chemicals that Jakubec is accused of possessing is PETN, the powerful explosive that has shown up in prominent terrorism cases on airplanes, including the 2001 shoe bomb plot, last year's underwear bomb plot and the recent cargo plane bomb plot.He also allegedly had a homemade supply of HMTD, an explosive often used by suicide bombers.Police entered the house after the arrest but later pulled back, citing the disarray and the amount of explosives, chemicals and other dangerous material scattered about the home. They returned again Thursday and, once again, decided the house was too dangerous to search.Before evacuating, they blew up several explosive containers in the back yard, increasing tensions in the neighborhood.The little information available on Jakubec paints a portrait of an isolated and troubled man.Both the quantity and the types of explosives have lead police and federal authorities to keep an extremely tight lid on information about the case.Read the full story here.

• HT:BacktoBasics.Endgame Legislation: Lame Duck Session Ushers in Tyranny.When most of us think about “lame duck” Congressional sessions we think of a “do-nothing” government. However, this so-called lame duck session appears to be a time where legislation that has the most restrictions to individual rights is being rammed through.It seems the members of government who have been recently voted out of office are vying for corporate jobs by pushing such legislation as the Food Safety Modernization Act and the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act which are now on the fast track to becoming law. Both of these laws reek of tyranny for the citizens and a means of corporate consolidation for the big boys.It seems whenever a piece of legislation has the word “safety” in it we can expect to lose our right to make our own decisions. For example, consumer protection groups pushed hard for the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act in 2008 after large numbers of Chinese-made toys and other products proved to have dangerously unhealthy toxins.Consequently, the bill was passed with 407 Ayes, 0 Nays in the House. Only later did the public find out that the bill did more to regulate, tax, and impose fines on neighborhood garage sales than it did to stop dangerous Chinese imports. Clearly, the bill is used to clamp down on an individual’s right to sell their used items without governmental oversight. In other words, the corporate-government will not allow any form of black market to threaten their cartel control of consumerism.The second piece of legislation that was flushed out of the Judiciary Committee last week with a 19-0 vote is the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). This bill is pure tyranny against Internet freedom. In other words, they’re not even using the guise of protecting the people to hammer this one home. This bill seeks to arbitrarily create an Internet “Blacklist” of domains, much like the arbitrary “Terror Watch List.” The government is seeking the power to shut access to sites it flags . . . no judge, no evidence, no jury. The law will also apply to websites hosted outside the U.S. where the corporate-government will claim global control over information on the Internet. The government plans to enforce the blocking of these Blacklisted websites by using major Internet service providers (ISPs).Both of these bills will likely become laws given their overwhelming support in Congress. When enacted, the corporate-government tyranny will begin to work stealthily to regulate their competition out of the marketplace. By the time the vast majority of people realize this tyranny, it will be too late to complain as the independent voices will assuredly be Blacklisted from any debate.Hmmm....welcome to the "New $hutz$taffel World Order"?Read the full story here.

• Erdogan bashing Israel.Thanks to the repeated oddities and indeed rather insolent acts of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman duo in Israel it has become far easier for Islamist, Islamofascist, nationalist or simply anti-Semitic personalities all across the globe but particularly in our geography engage slobberingly in the Israel bashing game in hopes of winning some additional public sympathy.Even though some diehard opponents, probably lunatics, insist on referring to him as “sultan” and sometimes crowds in Turkey and in the Muslim-Arab neighborhood welcome him as their “sultan” Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a personality who has committed himself to advance democracy in his country. Obviously, he does not have an Islamist background; never ever declared an intention of using democracy as a train car to be traveled on until reaching the destination of a Turkey with Islamist governance.Did you buy this reasoning for the surge of Israel bashing in Turkey? Difficult as it is, that was the safest way of saying many things without indeed clearly violating the “liberal” atmosphere of freedom of opinion in this country.Hmmm...."Obviously, he does not have an Islamist background"prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan graduated from an Imam Hatip school As the name suggests, they were originally founded in lieu of a vocational school to train government employed imams; after madrasas in Turkey were abolished by the Unification of Education Act as a part of Atatürk's reforms.Hellooooooo?And welcome Iran and Jew hatred!Read the full story here.

• South Korea honors slain marines; commander vows 'thousand-fold' retaliation. YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea — South Korea's marines commander Saturday vowed up to a "thousand-fold" retaliation for the North Korea artillery attack that killed four people just days earlier. The threat came as efforts to halt violence in the region continued even as South Korea and the U.S. prepared to launch joint military maneuvers Sunday."Our marine corps ... will carry out a hundred- or thousand-fold," retaliation against North Korea for launching Tuesday's attack, You said, without elaborating.North Korea issued new warnings Saturday against the war games, calling them an "unpardonable provocation" and warning of retaliatory attacks that would "turn the stronghold of enemies into a sea of fire" if its own territory is violated. The comments ran on the state-run Uriminzokkiri website, and came a day after the North's warnings that the peninsula was on the "brink of war.""It's hard to know why China doesn't push harder," Mullen, told CNN television's Fareed Zakaria GPS, in comments due to air on Sunday. "My sense is they try to control this guy. And I'm not sure he is controllable."He added: "I think we all have to focus on getting his attention — but in particular, China, in terms of focusing on his vulnerabilities and making sure that that part of the world doesn't come undone."Read the full story here.

• EXCLUSIVE: Whipped, threatened with beheading and on the brink of suicide. The Chandlers tell their awesome story of survival at the hands of Somali pirates.Fury blazed in the pirate chief’s eyes as Paul and Rachel ­Chandler clung to one another defiantly beside their makeshift tent in the remote Somali desert. By refusing to be separated, as he had ordered, the English hostages whom he regarded as his personal ‘prize’ had humiliated him in front of his entire gang — and now he was about to make an example of them.Stalking off into the nearby bush, he ripped out the 4ft long root of a tree and very ­deliberately shaved off the bark with his dagger, making it more pliable.Then the attack began. The thug, named Bugas, flogged the couple repeatedly with his hastily-made whip, until livid red weals covered their torsos like the galley slaves of old.The savage punishment beating was meted out on January 5 this year — a date that will haunt the Chandlers for ever.Somalis are almost entirely Sunni Muslims.The Somali constitution discourages the promotion and propagation of any religion other than Islam,a.k.a. "The Religion of Peace".Read the full story here.

• HT:The Hill.Homeland Security seizes domain names. The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, according to TorrentFreak. ICE appears to be targeting sites that help Internet users download copyrighted music, as well as sites that sell bootleg goods, such as fake designer handbags.The sites are replaced with a note from the government: "This domain named has been seized by ICE, Homeland Security Investigations."Hmmm...what has Homeland security to do with Copy Right infrigement?"Read the full story here.

• HT:RefugeeResettlementWatch.Oregon: Somali arrested for attempting to blow up Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.Of course I had to laugh! The title of the story from CNN is ‘Teen suspected of trying to set off bomb at Oregon tree-lighting event.‘ (Hat tip: Ed) You gotta read the story to find out it was a 19-year old (probably older) Somali former refugee who got caught in a terrorism sting.(CNN) — A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, on Friday evening, the Justice Department announced.Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. He is a resident of Corvallis, Oregon, and is a student at Oregon State University, according to the FBI.Mohamud was arrested by the FBI and Portland Police Bureau after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van that was parked near the tree-lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Justice.Read the story and take note—you never quite know who you’re talking to on the internet!The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation during which Mohamud had been monitored closely for months as his alleged bomb plot developed, the Justice Department said. Officials said the public was never in danger from the device.Next we will hear from CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) that the “kid” was lured into this.Read the full story here.Related : Portland, Oregon: A Sleepy City or City of Sleepers?

• HT:Knowledge Is Power.Whooooo....rrrrrrr....uuuuuuu?Source.

• HT:RightSideNews.Breaking News: Power to the People! Repeal Amendment Gaining Strength.The great fear of all dictators is provoking rebellion before they are ready to handle it. So the Democrats, our Nation’s aspiring despots, have become refined experts at offering soothing, even encouraging, but always deceptive rhetoric about their sleazy, underhanded power grabs. Supported by a largely complicit mass media, they have brought our country to the breaking point.But throughout history, the American people have repeatedly shown an amazing capacity for finding innovative solutions, often at the very last minute, to seemingly intractable crises. This fact of the indomitable, resourceful and defiant American spirit literally terrifies the left, and with good reason. They are now outed.First we got the Tea Party, a genuine, spontaneous, grassroots revolution that rose up in less than a year to become the most dynamic, influential political movement in America. It gave us the stunning defeats of Democrat politicians in New Jersey, Virginia and even the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. Finally, the Tea Party should be credited with the November 2010 election results in the U.S. House of Representatives and the state legislatures, where Republicans now hold the largest number since 1928. But we all know that even these gains are not enough, at least not yet, to stop the leftist juggernaut—led by the most radical President and facilitated by the most corrupt Congress in U.S. history. So Communists, er, Democrats, meet your nemesis, those damned innovative Americans, again. The Daily Caller headline (November 24, 2010) says it all. Yet another unanticipated fastball has been hurled directly at the radical left’s destructive agenda.It is called the Repeal Amendment. Brainchild of Georgetown Constitutional Law Professor Randy Barnett , the proposal has gotten legs with the help of Florida attorney Marianne Moran , Executive Director of RepealAmendment.org .The proposal calls for a constitutional amendment that would allow the states, by a two-thirds majority vote, to repeal objectionable federal legislation and regulations. Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, slated to be Majority Leader in the upcoming Congress, has gotten behind the movement, as has Virginia’s governor, and lieutenant governor, leaders in the state legislature and Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Cantor articulates the justification well : Washington has grown far too large and has become far too intrusive, reaching into nearly every aspect of our lives. In just the past few years, Washington has assumed more control over our economy and the private sector through excessive regulations and unprecedented mandates. Our liberty and freedom has lessened as the size and scope of the federal government has exploded. Massive expenditures like the stimulus, unconstitutional mandates like the takeover of health care, and intrusions into the private sector like the auto-bailouts have threatened the very core of the American free market.Yeah, that about says it, although I would add the outrageous, blatantly corrupt misappropriation of trillions of taxpayer dollars for personal and political gain this administration and Congress have wantonly engaged in. These people need jail.The Amendment is straightforward and simple:"Any provision of law or regulation of the United States may be repealed by the several states, and such repeal shall be effective when the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states approve resolutions for this purpose that particularly describe the same provision or provisions of law or regulation to be repealed."Hallelujah !Read the full story here.

• Man attempts to hijack aircraft with Iranian parliament members.A passenger who attempted to hijack an airplane en route to Damascus from Tehran on Saturday was detained in-flight by the airline's security guards, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.The agency said that a single man armed with a "cold weapon" claimed he had placed bombs on the aircraft and had hijacked the plane.The news agency did not specify the type of weapon the man had.There were no reports of injuries and no bombs were found on board.Read the full story here.

• Are Security Scanners Safe?Scientists want more scanner safety data before they can say yes.As millions of U.S. travelers get ready for the busiest flying day of the year, scientists still can't agree over whether the dose of radiation delivered by so-called backscatter machines is significantly higher than the government says. This is despite months of public debate between the White House, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and independent scientists.Full-body scanners have been installed at many U.S. airports. The machines use either low-energy, millimeter wavelength radiation, which is harmless, or X-rays, which can potentially be hazardous. X-rays can ionize atoms or molecules, which can lead to cancerous changes in cells. Even if the government has significantly underestimated the dose of radiation delivered by an X-ray scanner, it is likely to be relatively small.In April, four scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote a public letter to the White House warning that the government may have underestimated the dosage of ionizing radiation delivered to a person's skin from a backscatter machine by one or two orders of magnitude. The scientists, who have expertise in biochemistry, biophysics, oncology, and X-ray crystallography, pointed out that the government's estimate was based on radiation exposure for the entire body. During scanning, the majority of radiation will be focused on the surface of the body, meaning a more concentrated dose of radiation is delivered to the skin.Sjoden says it should be possible to measure a full body dose of radiation from a backscatter machine and extrapolate the dose given to the skin. Both he and the USCF scientists are also concerned that backscatter machines could accidentally give someone a higher dose of radiation, or that a TSA employee could increase the dose to get a better view of a person.However, Sjoden isn't as worried that the estimated exposure is dangerously wrong. "You would have to be a heavy traveler to accumulate a large dose."But Sjoden still questions whether enough studies have been done to determine the risk across the population, especially since children, the elderly, and some people with genetic predispositions to cancers are more sensitive to the effects of radiation.Ed Nickoloff, professor of radiology at Columbia University and chief hospital physicist at Columbia University Medical Center, says the data isn't yet clear either way. "At this point, until I knew more information, I'd tell people to take the pat-down," he says.Hmmm...does Obama care cover cancer provoked by radiation?Read the full story here.Related : The deadly effects of TSA full body scanners.Here. 

• Turkey’s perception problem continues, if not worsens in Washington.Following the Turkish agreement on the NATO missile defense system last week in Lisbon, contrary to expectations, Turkey’s perception problem and questions about its direction have not ended in Washington. Instead, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s stern messages to Israel from Lebanon, where he visited this week, the new matrix of Washington politics since the midterm elections, in which the Republican opposition is much more stronger, and a set of issues expected to stem from the missile shield system continue to promise a hideous winter for the Turkish-American & Israeli, or TAI, relations.The big question this week was why Turkey’s consensual agreement on the NATO missile system did not ease the jittery relations between Turkey and the U.S. Wasn’t the biggest contemporary sticking point between the two allies just nicely resolved? Turkey’s opposition to the missile system would have indeed damaged the image of Turkey far worse than many would have anticipated. However, in the real world, Turkey had very few other options beside accepting the new NATO defense plan to begin with, as I concluded my Oct. 15 column, five weeks before the summit, “What will or can Turkey do beside support the new vision, willingly or unwillingly?” Turkey, indeed, could have not opposed the rest of the 27 members of the alliance’s decision to defend themselves just because it did not share the same concerns.The other significant menace for the U.S.-Turkey relations is undoubtedly Turkey’s worsening relations with Israel. I had a lengthy phone conversation with Mr. Dan Mariaschin, executive vice president of B'nai B'rith International, a global Jewish community group, a week ago and one thing clear to me from the whole conversation was that vociferous Jewish Americans have no hope for better relations between Turkey and Israel, as long as the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, are in the government in Ankara.Some commentaries appeared this week in the Turkish press which suggested that the Turkey-U.S. relations are going through the toughest period in the last 40 years. I have not been around that long and cannot echo the statement fully. What I am afraid is to predict sadly that the TAI relations might be entering into one of the most gruesome winters of recent history.Hmmmmm....get Turkey out of NATO before it becomes a second Iran.Read the full story here.

• Saddam Hussein's Yacht Back In Iraq.A 269-foot yacht commissioned by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1981 has finally made its way home after spending decades on loan.Iraq was at war with Iran when the yacht was finally finished in the 1980s, so Hussein never even had a chance to use it. He apparently lent the yacht, which was built in Denmark for about $25 million, to the royal families of Oman, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.Then, in 2008, the yacht, with its gold-plated bathroom fixtures, a helipad and minisubmarine, went up for sale by a company partly owned by the King of Jordan. The Iraqi government fought the move and last year won the case in a French appeals court.The yacht was then sent to Greece for renovations, says Iraqi Transportation Minister Amer Abdul Jabar Ismail, and then sailed to the southern port of Basra. The boat is currently the property of Iraq's Ministry of Transportation.Read the full story here.

• Residents of southern Russian city try to 'save honor' of young girl, 8 injured in shootout.At least eight people were injured during an armed scuffle between residents of the city of Zelenokumsk in Russia's southern Stavropol region over the honor of a young girl, the region's police press service said on Saturday.According to police reports, some 100 people were involved in the incident late Friday night that involved handguns after a group of young men attempted to "protect the honor" of a young girl, whom a group of Chechens had allegedly attempted to forcibly seat in their car."A group of young adults from Zelenokumsk decided to protect the honor of a minor, who had complained that a group of local Chechens had tried to force her into their car. The 'protectors' were shot at with handguns from the inside of the car," the report read.Read the full story here.

• 'Great test of manhood': Bloodthirsty World War I diaries of German soldier celebrate fighting on the Western Front.The extraordinarily bloodthirsty war diaries of German soldier and later celebrated writer Ernst Jünger have been published for the first time.Unlike many of his contemporaries he saw the war not as a tragedy but a 'great test of manhood'.He writes with evident pride about having killed a British soldier with 'a clean head shot.' and describes with relish how in 1918 he led a group of shock troops towards British machine gun positions.'In a mixture of feelings brought on by excitement, bloodthirstiness, anger and alcohol consumption we advanced in step towards the enemy lines,' he said.Jünger was a dedicated and extraordinarily lucky soldier - he was the only survivor of a company in the 73rd Hanoverian infantry regiment which was almost completely wiped out on two separate occasionsJunger's account of the grim battles or World War I is devoid of any sentiment or self pity, despite the appalling conditions under which both sides fought. Jünger’s biographer Helmuth Kiesel, who arranged for the diaries to be published, told German news website Der Speigel: 'I am not aware of any comparable diary, either in German, French or English, that describes the war in such detail and over such a long period' 'All other diaries are usually far shorter and span just a few weeks or months.'Jünger himself was wounded over a dozen times as he fought through some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict.At the beginning of 1917 he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and towards the end of the following year was awarded the fabled 'Blue Max' - officially known as Pour le Mérite. He was the youngest soldier ever to receive this coveted award.Hmmmm......"The War that would end all Wars"?Read the full story here.