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• HT:Memri.Al-Qaeda Affiliated Publishes English-Language Handbook on How to Make Homemade Explosives.On December 29, 2010, the Al-Qaeda affiliated media center Global Islamic Media Front and the Dar Al-Jabha publishing house electronically published an English-language book titled The Explosives Course.Hmmmm....Islam the religion of peace.Read the full story here.

• HT:TheFoundry.Obamacare is Already Unraveling.With all the talk about forcing people to buy health insurance, health insurance exchanges, and high-risk pools, it is often forgotten that most of what Obamacare really is, is just a massive expansion of an existing and already failing entitlement program. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over half (18 million) will receive it through Medicaid.In its current form, Medicaid is already bankrupting states across the country. Obamacare only further overloads this already broken system by expanding Medicaid eligibility to include all Americans under 133 percent of the federal poverty level. While Obamacare will pay for all of the benefit expansion for the first three years, and 90% of it after that, Obamacare never pays for any of the state administrative costs for adding those 18 million Americans to their welfare rolls. That amounts to billions in unfunded federal mandates for states to absorb.Read the full story here.

• Fighters against illegal immigration against burning Korans at New Year night in Red Square.Moscow, December 29, Interfax - Burning Quran in Red Square at New Year night can result not only in massive actions of radical groups, but of Russian friendly Muslims as well, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration said at its official statement. "In connection with lately spread information that radical activists intend to burn Korans in Red Square the Movement Against Illegal Immigration urges to renounce the action," the statement says as posted on Wednesday at the movement official website. The document says that burning Koran can result in massive actions and eventually "innocent people will suffer."At the same time, nationalists believe that only Muscovites can celebrate the New Year at Red Square. "We urge official authorities to remove thousands of guest workers from Red Square and other places of Moscow traditional for festival celebrations at New Year night," the statement stresses. In mid-December after the Manezh Square events one of nationalistic leaders Alexander Belov publicly offered to burn Koran in Red Square at New Year night. Read the full story here.

• Rabbi's wife: Arabs are the enemy.Woman who signed letter urging Jewish girls not to date Arabs says 'separatism is what sustained the Jewish people throughout time.' Meanwhile, Masorti Movement rabbi slams letter, says 'our faith is strong enough in order to treat non-Jews with respect and equality'.The letter issued by leading rabbis' wives urging Jewish women to avoid contact with Arab men was thought up and executed within no more than 48 hours. "We thought it up the day before yesterday and were already working on it by Tuesday," said the letter's initiator, Anat Gofstein of the Lehava organization. "All the rabbis' wives were incredibly receptive to the idea. I only had to mention the assimilation phenomenon and they all signed."Gofstein claimed that assimilation had reached religious girls' high schools and seminaries. "We engage in the girls' rehabilitation after they emerge wounded and battered from the Arab villages," she said. "We are interested in boosting prevention. The phenomenon must be stopped instead of waiting for the girls to remain in the villages making it harder to pull them out of Arab culture."One of the rabbis' wives who signed the letter addressed the issue of whether the letter increases antagonism towards religion. "I don't understand what this antagonism you speak of," she told Ynet."Separatism is what sustained the Jewish people throughout time. It's our distinction. We are not out to cause uproar, we are here to raise a very painful issue. And yes, very painful matters need to be discussed openly. Who better to talk to the girls than the rabbis' wives?""There are 18 and 19-year-old girls who are on National Service and get hit on by 40-year-old Arab men. These stories happen every day and no one talks about it. It's just buried and dubbed racism. There is no racism. Arabs are our enemies and that is why one has to talk about it and act against it."Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari (National Union) said that the letter is "in the spirit of the late Golda Meir's saying 'Who ever performs intermarriage joins the six million.' The role of the rabbis' wives has always been to maintain the sanctity of Jewish women and they should be commended for performing their duty." MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), chairwoman of the Knesset Commission on the Status of Women, said in response to the letter that "the intermarriage phenomenon among Jewish girls and Arab men is dangerous for women, who suffer abuse and disconnection from their families after the marriage."Hmmmm..... 'Who ever performs intermarriage joins the six million.' Read the full story here.

• HT:DailyNews.LA City Council's "Islamophobia" Resolution Challenged.Violence motivated by bigotry is unacceptable regardless of the target. While crime statistics show blacks and Jews are among the most frequent victims, the Los Angeles city council recently singled out acts targeting Muslims for a special condemnation in the form of a resolution.In the New York Daily News Sunday, Joe Hicks and David Lehrer challenge the move as misleading political rhetoric. Statistics from the local human relations commission show there were 131 crimes based on religion in Los Angeles County during 2009. Of those, 88 percent targeted Jews, 8 percent targeted Christians. Muslims were the victims in 3 percent of the cases reported.That mirrors national hate crime data issued annually by the FBI.Since only 3 percent of 131 hate crimes during 2009 was directed against Muslims, it's difficult to understand why city leaders would pass a resolution that zeroes in on the category that has the next-to-lowest numbers recorded by the County's Human Relations Commission.It appears that the City Council simply took information provided by an advocacy group, one that's hardly unbiased, and uncritically spat out a resolution opposing "Islamophobia" and "random acts of violence against Muslim-Americans." This begs the question: Except for some Islam-hating cretins with sub-zero levels of intelligence, exactly who is in favor of random acts of violence against Muslims?Sadly, under the leadership of its director, Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC has a long record of defending extremist groups and criticizing America's counterterrorism efforts. In 2003 MPAC issued a paper that advocated removing Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas from the government's official list of terrorist groups. This city's leaders should not be so transparently susceptible to the lobbying efforts of activists and advocates. In this case, they have passed a resolution that would lead many to think America's Muslims are under attack nationally and that here in Los Angeles acts of hate are out of control. This might serve the advocates' agenda, but it ill-serves the interests of the people of Los Angeles.Hmmmm......Farmers guard your eggs when the foxes are preaching in Church.Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Video: Kill a Jew, live like a King.This ad is unfortunately quite true.Meanwhile, Gilad Shalit has been held virtually incommunicado under horrible conditions for more than four years.Read and see the full story here.

• CAIR Chief: “We Are the First Defenders of the Constitution”.Press TV interviewed Head of Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjareh from London, and National Director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Mr. Abraham Hooper, and from Washington, Founder and Director of the Democracy Institute, Patrick Basham regarding increasing anti-Islamic sentiment in the US and Europe.Well, unfortunately this sentiment of hatred of Muslims or identifying Muslims as terrorists is something that comes all the way up from people like Bush when he declared a sort of holy war and considered Iraq as a holy war. And you see within the media how Muslims are always being portrayed as terrorists, bad guys and even in popular culture. You don't see in any films or cinemas good guy Muslims. They are all bad guys. They are terrorists, murderers or rapists etc… This level of demonization is very dangerous. Now we are in a situation where these guys are going and training law enforcement on how to deal with Muslims. When in reality it's like getting the Klu Klux Klan to go and train people on how to deal with the black community. We are disgusted by these sort of examples be it local or national.Press TV: We are almost out of time. In a minute could you just tell me something because a lot of Americans feel that the majority of American Muslims want to implement Islamic Sharia in that country? What would you say to such concerns as those?Hooper: Sharia has become one of these hot button issues that is a litmus test now for American Muslims. When American Muslims pray, they follow Sharia, when they fast, they follow Sharia, and when they interact with their family and go to school. I mean nobody is asking for the constitution to go away. In fact the constitution is our last line of defense against these anti-Muslim bigots. So we are the first defenders of the constitution.
  Hmmmm......The way he describes America it's a wonder he's willing to live there?Why not stay in peaceful,loving Islamic Iran?Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.EU funding 'Gaza Holocaust' website.The European Union is indirectly funding an anti-Semitic 'Gaza Holocaust' website.In December 2010, the Palestinian NGO “Ibdaa Institute for Research and Training” (known in English as “Creativity”) launched a website called “Gaza Holocaust.” The antisemitic website aims to document “Israeli war crimes,” “shaming the practices and crimes that the Zionists committed against the people of the Gaza Strip” and “uncovering Zionist propaganda to the whole world, which says that during its aggressions the Zionist army targeted the roots of the Palestinian resistance and not civilians.” The website’s banner features a hand dripping with blood.“Examples of the ways in which antisemitism manifests itself with regard to the State of Israel taking into account the overall context could include...Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” Europe hasn't changed much since the 1930's and 1940's, has it?And no, there is no 'holocaust' in Gaza - certainly not one being carried out by Israel.
  Hmmmm....History repeats itself 1930's all over again.Read the full story here.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.Video: Alex Jones, 12.27.2010: American Citizens are Enemies of The State.Let’s all just watch American Idol while ceiling lights transmit internet data and smart appliances spy on their owners…yep, sounds crazy until you read the AP and NY Times’ reports.Read and see the full story here.

• HT:Memri.Former Supreme Court Judge: Pakistan Is Being Ruled From Washington And London Through The Lens Of Christianity; Blasphemy Law Not In Contradiction With Human Rights.Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad, who also served as Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, said that certain elements are trying to make the blasphemy law controversial in order to malign the religion of Islam.He said that the right to live is the most important in the basic right of an individual, adding that Islamic laws are completely in compliance with International laws and there is no need to change or abolish any clause or law from the Pakistani constitution.He said that the only change the country needs is a change in the ruling elite of Pakistan, free from external pressure.
  Hmmmm....Perhaps Hillary can give them a few Billion Dollar more?Read the full story here.

• HT:AhmadiyyaTimes.Germany - Curtail Islamic Extremists with Anti neo-Nazi laws?Eye on Extremists: Germans Seek Ban on Islamic Radicals.Germany's stepped-up efforts to ban some Islamic groups for promoting radical views have sparked a national debate over whether the government is violating the free-speech protections of the constitution it says it is aiming to protect.The German government's latest move to crack down on groups that promote extremist Muslim teaching came earlier this month, as dozens of police raided homes, offices and religious schools in the western German cities of Bremen, Braunschweig and Mönchengladbach. The security forces were seeking evidence that could lead to the banning of two organizations that officials say are calling for imposing Islamic law in place of German law.Interior ministry officials allege that the groups, called Invitation to Paradise and the Islamic Culture Center Bremen, seek to undermine Germany's parliamentary democracy by supporting the establishment of an Islamic theocracy within the country. A security official said the groups also allegedly support a strict form of Islamic justice, such as the execution of Muslims who convert to other religions or the amputation of a hand as a punishment for theft.The latest investigation marks a departure from previous crackdowns by German security and justice officials. German security officials are pursuing a ban of these two Islamic groups primarily because of the principles they espouse, rather than a suspicion of a link to terrorism.A senior intelligence official said the outcome of the current investigation is unclear because neither Invitation to Paradise nor the Islamic Cultural Center Bremen has been linked to terrorism. Nor is the investigation into the groups related to the government's warning of a possible terrorist attack in November, the Interior Ministry said.The investigation has spurred questions over whether the effort could run afoul of German free-speech protections and further alienate pockets of Germany's Muslim population.The debate underscores the difficulty that Europe's democracies face in trying to curtail Islamic extremism without violating their own constitutional principles.An Interior Ministry spokesman said German law requires the ministry to investigate suspicions that organizations may be violating the constitution. The searches are a "suitable method" of obtaining evidence in an organization-ban investigation. No decision has been made on whether to ban the groups, he said.Germany's constitution, written after World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, makes allowances for restricting some forms of speech considered hostile to the country's democratic order. German statutes, for instance, ban symbols such as Nazi swastikas as a violation of the constitution, and make Holocaust denial illegal.Until now, such laws have mainly been used to curtail neo-Nazi activism. German authorities will "need to consider whether those restrictions apply" in the case of the Islamic groups under investigation, said Manfred Gnjidic, a lawyer who has raised German constitutional-law challenges to defend terrorism suspects.In announcing the raids, Germany's Interior Ministry said "a democracy shouldn't wait until faced with a violent form of holy war before it takes action against organizations that oppose the German constitution."Hmmmm....Fight fire with fire?Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Is Turkey itching for war against Israel?Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s recent remarks saying, “We want peace, but there is no will for peace on the Israeli side,” has rekindled the debate. This statement was made in the wake of harsh statements from Tel Aviv.But it seems that there is no single voice coming from Tel Aviv. There is only a cacophony that is hard to understand. So it is more important to watch the internal conflicts in Israel than the Turkish-Israeli crisis. It is strange that neocons and Israel’s extreme rightists have been targeting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu for years. We are watching carefully the campaigns these circles and their extensions in Turkey carry out to get rid of Davutoğlu. But what happened? Their campaign made Erdoğan and Davutoğlu stronger. The Israeli foreign minister, who is the most extreme rightist among those circles, has been declared persona non grata by all. Most probably, he will lose his position as foreign minister.A few comments.First, the statement "we want peace, but there is no will for peace on the Israeli side" implies that Israel and Turkey are at war. Is that what Davotuglu believes? Does he plan on following through on that belief? If so, does he believe that NATO will protect him when Israel retaliates?Hmmmm....Erdogan the Great Sultan?Now Read the rest of the story here.

• HT:EyeOnTheWorld.Something to look forward to: Birth of an (Oil) Nation, loss of an Islamic prize.In January, the Western world will welcome a new nation, South Sudan. The Islamic world will not. The coming independence of South Sudan, which holds most of the oil in the country now called Sudan, marks a loss of territory and of wealth for the Islamic world. Worse for Islam and Sudan, more losses may follow in black African areas that refused to become Islamicized.Sudan, Africa’s largest country, is Islamic and Arabic in the north, Christian or animist and black in the south. Following an independence referendum January 9, the black south, an area the size of France, is expected to secede, taking with it 80% of Sudan’s five-billion barrels of oil and thus most of Sudan’s foreign exchange. Under the terms of an existing agreement, the revenue from oil, which is now being piped north through Sudan for export, is being split 50-50 between north and south. But Sudan, which many expect to declare war on South Sudan after the referendum, has good reason to worry that the existing agreement will be scrapped.For one thing, South Sudan will be building a southeast oil pipeline, through neighbouring Kenya to a port on the ocean. Once built, South Sudanese oil need not flow north through Sudan, and Sudan will lose its ability to take its share. To add to Sudan’s worry, China – Sudan’s chief financier and the destination for 65% of Sudanese oil exports – has reversed its opposition to South Sudan’s independence and is now bidding to build the new pipeline.Read the full story here.

• HT:AmericanThinker.The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama.On a national level -- and this especially plagues great nations -- this manifests itself in the notion that "it" could never happen here. Oh, the "it" could be descent into tyranny, domination by a foreign power, or dissolution. Or maybe it could be the election of a leader who is a Manchurian candidate, a traitor within, someone bent on destroying the nation that gave him everything. That..."it"...couldn't happen here. In fact, the idea is so preposterous to many Americans that if such a threat loomed, they would never see it coming. And they would call a person who warned of it a nut.So I want to present you with a hypothetical. Let's say a leader were elected who had, during his childhood, been mentored by an avowed Nazi. Let us further say that his guardians had chosen this mentor for him, indicating that they were likely sympathetic to the man's beliefs. Now, let us say that upon reaching college, this future leader gravitated toward Nazi professors. Moreover, we then find out that a man who knew the leader as an undergraduate and was, at the time, a Nazi himself, said that the leader was "in 100-percent total agreement" with his Nazi professors and was a flat-out Nazi who believed in old-style Brownshirt tactics.Nothing that could reconcile the flat-out Marxist-Leninist Obama was in his college days with the man he supposedly is today. There's no one who says, "Yeah, he was a radical guy in his youth, and I just couldn't believe how he became disenchanted with his old ideas." There are no stories about a great epiphany, an overseas trip that opened his eyes, or a personal tragedy that inspired growth. There's nothing to explain how a radical Marxist became a reasonable politician. And if there is such an explanation, it's the most elusive of missing links.So could "it" happen here? And is it really nutty to ask if, just maybe, it already has?Hmmmm....It has almost happened,it's still busy,if he looses the next election he will seize power by force.Read the full story here.A MUST READ !

• HT:RightWingNews.Thanks to Big Government, Oil Prices Headed for the Sky.What might an irresponsible, authoritarian, hyper-intrusive government driven by a radical environmentalist agenda and hostile to American interests do to the energy sector? It might prevent the building of nuclear plants and oil refineries, squash drilling in the ANWR wasteland and the Gulf of Mexico, and declare drilling to be out of the question most anywhere else. What might happen then?You can't say Comrade Obama isn't keeping any of his campaign promises. Here he is again assuring us that he would deliberately cause energy prices to "skyrocket"(Video).Hmmmmm....If he really wanted to destroy America would he do it in any other way?Read and see the full story here.

• HT:AmericanThinker.The Four Questions Every Liberal Must Be Asked.Ever notice how liberals like to spend money...particularly other people's money? If you've ever found yourself engaged in debate with a liberal in an attempt to convince him that government spending is out of control you know it's often an exercise in frustration. This is especially true when your liberal invokes his holier-than-thou conviction that the supposed good he is intent on imposing upon the world - both domestically and internationally - must trump any financial considerations you may introduce into the debate.Well, fret no more. Here's a surefire formula to stop any liberal dead in his tracks: a series of 4 questions that every liberal must be asked. It involves a few mathematical exercises, the effects of which are guaranteed to negate whatever Keynesian psycho-babble regular reading of Paul Krugman's New York Times column may have infected a liberal's neuronal functioning. I have found this bottom-line number crunching to be the best form of deprogramming for whatever Kool-Aid the Obamanomics crowd has been ingesting.Read and see the full story here.

• Rep. Peter King to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown.Rep. Peter King plans to use his new bully pulpit to target immigration.The New York congressman, who will become the new chairman of the House Homeland Security next week, told the New York Post that he will push for legislation to tighter border security and arrest more immigrants crossing the border illegally. He said President Obama's immigration policies were failing."The Obama administration continues to display an obvious lack of urgency when it comes to gaining operational control of the border, which is absolutely critical," King (R-LI) told the newspaper.King said Obama has "done little" during his term to curb undocumented immigration, adding that the country needs a new game plan "that incorporates the necessary staffing, fencing and technology to do the job."Read the full story here.