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• Iraqi Christians in Kirkuk cancel Christmas festivities.Iraqi Christians in the northern city of Kirkuk have decided to drastically ratchet back Christmas celebrations this year to mourn lives lost in an attack on a Baghdad church earlier in 2010.The archbishop of Kirkuk, Louis Sacco, said activities marking the religious holiday would be limited to Christmas mass and prayer for the future of Iraq. No festive singing or celebrations will take place, according to German news agency DPA.For the first time since 2003, Kirkuk churches will hold a mass in the morning and not at midnight, the archbishop noted.Iraq is unable to exercise democracy in a civilized way since it is gripped by a political conflict on power to which Christians were forcedly drawn into, he added.Read the full story here.

• FCC Approves Plan to Regulate Internet.The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to regulate the Internet despite warnings that it could strangle industry investment and damage an economy that is still struggling to recover.The 3-2 vote fell along partisan lines with Democrats capitalizing on their numerical advantage.The rules would prohibit phone and cable companies from abusing their control over broadband connections to discriminate against rival content or services, such as Internet phone calls or online video, or play favorites with Web traffic.President Obama said in a statement that the plan "will help preserve the free and open nature of the Internet while encouraging innovation, protecting consumer choice, and defending free speech."Republicans, who will control the House and an additional five seats in the Senate in the next Congress, may try to overrule the regulation. Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can strike down a regulation by passing a joint resolution. A number of big Internet companies, including Netflix Inc., Skype and Amazon.com Inc., have previously expressed reservations about the plan as well.Hmmmmm....The day America lost it's internet freedom,a date who will live in infamy.Read the full story here.

• Anti-Semitic website back online: York U student on the run from Interpol.VANCOUVER - An anti-Semitic Islamic website police say is operated by an Ontario student who is on the run is now back on the Internet after being shut down earlier this year by a Canadian web-hosting provider.Salman An-Noor Hossain, 25, of Mississauga, operated a website called Filthy Jewish Terrorists and he and the site were the subject of a five-month investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police.The site was shut down in March and Hossain was suspended from York University as the OPP investigated him.But the anti-Semitic site has re-launched, using a host in Switzerland.On Tuesday, Hossain posted a blog identifying himself as the operator of the re-launched site, and using the same design as the old one. The new web site is registered with generic information making it impossible to locate him.Last July, the OPP said in a statement that Hossain "wilfully promoted hatred and advocated genocide of the Jewish community." His website called for direct terrorist attacks.Hossain was charged with five counts under the seldom-used hate-crime section of the Criminal Code, but he didn't show up for his court date.Last month, the Ontario Superior Court issued an international warrant for his arrest on Interpol. Hossain's picture, birth date, height, weight, colour of eyes and hair are listed on the international police web site."Every single Muslim in North America and Europe has a right to go and physically fight alongside the Islamic resistance groups in the various regions under external occupation (Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, and other places)," the website reads.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service issued a statement Tuesday saying it knows of such sites."CSIS is very aware of certain Internet websites which support or incite terrorist violence, and that some of those sites are based in Canada," the statement said.Read the full story here.

• Congressmen respond to FCC’s net neutrality plan.In the wake of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) passing of a net neutrality plan, some Congressmen are already planning how to fight back. For some, that means the 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA).Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton, the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Oregon Republican Rep. Greg Walden and Nebraska Republican Rep. Lee Terry have pledged to use that law to fight the FCC’s new regulations.The CRA gives Congress the authority to review federal agency regulations, and repeal them if necessary with a joint resolution.“The FCC’s hostile actions toward innovation, investment and job creation cannot be allowed to stand,” said Upton in a statement. “Today’s vote is a sad commentary that this administration and the FCC continue to ignore the will of the American people – our new majority is committed to protecting personal liberty and reducing the size and scope of the government.”Upton went on to say that while the FCC may claim broad industry support for net neutrality, that support is really just “’cries of ‘uncle’ resulting from threats of even more onerous regulation.”While promising to use the CRA to fight the FCC’s plan, Walden released a statement saying, “If left unchallenged, this power grab will allow the Commission to regulate any interstate wired or wireless communication on barely more than a whim.”“The FCC has irresponsibly decided to pursue a course unauthorized and opposed by most members of Congress,” added Terry. “This is just more big government intervention in the marketplace to try and fix something that isn’t broken.”The congressmen also promised to hold hearings during the next year on the FCC’s regulations.Hmmm...They can't start turning back the clock soon enough!Read the full story here.

• Obama's mystery proposal to regulate the Internet.If President Obama wants his executive branch to resemble the opaque, power-hungry political machinations in Chicago, he seems to be succeeding in the area of Internet regulation. Last April, a federal court told the Federal Communications Commission that it has no business regulating the Internet. Unfortunately, judicial rejection of the commission's first swing at the "net neutrality" ball -- the idea the FCC must regulate the Internet to insure everybody has equal access -- didn't deter Obama's FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, from taking another whack. He's bringing a new set of proposed net neutrality regulations to the five-member panel Tuesday. Unfortunately, nobody knows any details of the new proposal because Genachowski has kept them secret until the last possible minute even as he rushed them forward for a vote. How ironic that the Internet, the great and empowering liberator of information that "wants to be free," is being chopped up behind closed doors by an unelected panel. Note, too, that this is being considered by the FCC on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year.Federal courts will almost certainly strike down anything the FCC adopts Tuesday, just as they did earlier this year. Congress will also have its chance to undo Genachowski's handiwork through the Congressional Review Act. But why should we have to go this far to rein in a government agency supposedly run by people who took an oath to "support and defend" our Constitution? Is Obama unable to make his own appointees obey the law? Either way, the new Congress should hold Obama accountable for what the FCC is now doing in his name.Hmmmm....The rise of the Dictatorship?Read the full story here.

• HT:TheLastCrusade&InfidelBloggers.Gulen movement invades Hawai!The Gulen Movement has launched an invasion of Hawaii.Members of the Islamic movement which seeks to establish a universal caliphate have established their newest charter school on a U.S. Marine base in Kailuna.The school, which will be funded by US taxpayers, is called the Mokapu STEM School.Like the 140 Gulen schools in mainland America, the Mokapu STEM School will be controlled by a board of Turkish administrators, who will indoctrinate students in Turkish culture, religion, and language so that they may play a future part in the restoration of the Ottoman Empire.The proposal for the school shows that the Monapu STEM School will represent an expansion of the Daisy Education Corporation, a Gulen firm, which operates the Sonoran Science Academy schools in Arizona, and the Paragon Education Corporation, another manifestation of the militant Islamic movement.The proposal further states that the school will be securing educational services from the Accord Institute of Educational Research, another tentacle of the Gulen octopus.Kazim Z. Gumus, who worked at the Gulen Harmony School in Texas, is a member of the Interim Board of the new Hawaiian school, along with three Turks affiliated with the Daisy Education Corporation and the Paragon Education Corporation.Many of the teachers at the Monapu STEM School will come not from the local pool of unemployed teachers in Hawaii but from Islamic schools and academies in Turkey.This pattern of staffing has been established by the Daisy and Paragon Corporations which have secured 149 H1B visas and 4 Green Cards for teachers in six of their Gulen-inspired charter schools.To many Hawaiians, the appearance of a Gulen school within their islands may appear to be an event of minor significance.The reverse is true.The Gulen schools are so subversive that they have been outlawed in such countries as Russia and Uzbekistan. The funding for these institutions has been curtailed in the Netherlands.The schools – which fuel the Gulen movement – have been responsible for transformation of Turkey from a secular state into an Islamic country with 85,000 active mosques – one for every 350 citizens – the highest number per capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams than teachers and physicians – and thousands of state-run Islamic schools.Many Americans might think of schools called “the Beehive Academy”,“the Chesapeake Science Point School” or “Sonoran Science Academy” as altruistic institutions that serve the common good of the American people, but names are deceptive and the Gulen movement operates under the Islamic principle of taqiyya or “holy deception.”Hmmmm....What's Dalia Mogahed Obama's Muslim advisor and Obama their role in all this?Read the full story here.

• Al-Arabiya: Iraqi Special Forces Foil Planned Attack On Iraqi Christians Ahead Of Christmas.Security forces found three explosive vests, six hand grenades, a pistol and documents indicating the men had entered Iraq at the weekend (File) On December 20, 2010, Al-Arabiya reported, citing Iraq's Interior Ministry spokesman, that Iraqi special forces had foiled an alleged suicide attack by three Libyan "Christmas bombers." The three were killed in a raid in Mosul, after Iraqi security services received information about their intent to carry out suicide bombings on Christmas. Read the full story here.

• HT:NorthEastIntelligence.Taking names, Napolitano style. 21 December 2010: Did you see the Washington Post this morning? That was the one sentence e-mail I received yesterday from my DHS contact who alerted me to the DHS/TSA memorandum about the domestic intelligence agency’s creating and maintaining a list of individuals who were determined to be “interfering” with the enhanced airport TSA screening procedures through their objections or “opting out” of such procedures.In my November 23rd report titled DHS making a list, checking it twice, I wrote that the DHS, through the arm of the TSA, under the direction of Napolitano and with the full consent of Obama, was collecting the names and personal information of such individuals, labeling them as potential “domestic extremists.” Meanwhile, the very same agency was busily averting an uprising by air travelers and a potential public relations nightmare by temporarily suspending their draconian security measures during one of the busiest travel times of the year.This tactic was first disclosed by Alex Jones and was widely reported at airports across the country, further confirming that the measures enacted are all about the total behavioral control of the populace and have little to do with air security. Mockingly and in what could be considered borderline delusional, the TSA and the corporate media actually reported that the “opt-out” day had turned into a TSA appreciation day.Monday’s edition of the Washington Post featured an article titled Monitoring America, which was the result of an investigation by columnists Dana Priest, William Arkin and staff researcher Julie Tate, which confirms that the U.S. Government ” is building a vast repository [of the names and personal information] of Americans and legal residents who are not accused of any crime.” Inclusion on the list appears to involve a rather broad and arbitrary definition of someone acting suspiciously as interpreted by a law enforcement officer or even a neighbor.The Washington Post article identifies the collection of names and profiles of Americans as the new Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, or SAR for short. When a “suspicious” incident is observed or reported, information about you is collected, either through direct questioning or by more covert means, such as running your license plate through a state DMV database or even photographic surveillance for facial recognition purposes.What happens next, however, is perhaps the most disturbing aspect to this story.Even if the reported activity is deemed to be completely innocent and harmless, the data collected about you remains stored in the SAR “Guardian” database indefinitely. Accordingly, the DHS will be able to quickly compile in-depth profiles on you whenever they determine it to be necessary despite being completely innocent or cleared of any crime or criminal behavior.While government officials are busily assuring the public that all officials with access to the data have been trained in privacy rules and the penalties for breaking them, (and of course we’ve all seen how well that works) they fail to address what should be the most obvious concern of all. Why are our own domestic intelligence agencies creating and maintaining files on law abiding U.S. citizens who have not been accused of any crime and who have been cleared of any suspicious activity at all?The Stasi-style infringement on the rights to law abiding American citizens is nearly as breathtaking and those who are accepting of it.Hmmmm....How long before the FEMA camps will be filled with US citizens for "Re Education" for just objecting to a pat down?Read the full story here.

• HT:TheAmericanDream.16 Shocking Facts About The Student Loan Debt Bubble And The Great College Education Scam.As you read this, there are over 18 million students enrolled at the nearly 5,000 colleges and universities currently in operation across the United States. Many of these institutions of higher learning are now charging $20,000, $30,000 or even $40,000 a year for tuition and fees. That does not even count living expenses. Today it is 400% more expensive to go to college in the United States than it was just 30 years ago. Most of these 18 million students have been told over and over that a "higher education" is the key to getting a good job and living the American Dream. They have been told not to worry about how much it costs and that there is plenty of financial aid (mostly made up of loans) available. Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the "real world" they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between. As millions of Americans wake up and start realizing that the tens of thousands of dollars that they have poured into their college educations was mostly a waste, will the great college education scam finally be exposed?For now, the system continues to push the notion that a college education is the key to a good future and that there is plenty of "financial aid" out there for everyone that wants to go to college.
  Hmmm...."Change you can see"?Read the full story here.

• Russia, India sign design contract for prototype multirole fighter.Russia and India signed a contract on Tuesday to jointly develop a design for a new fifth-generation multirole fighter.The document was signed between Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's current visit to India.Russia's Sukhoi holding and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited agreed in early 2010 to jointly develop a fifth-generation fighter jet based on the T-50 design.The project design cost is estimated at $295 million, shared equally between Russia and India.Russia has been developing its own fifth-generation fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype, known as the T-50, was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East.Russian officials have already hailed the fighter as "a unique warplane" that combines the capabilities of an air superiority fighter and attack aircraft.Russia is planning to use the jointly-developed 5G fighter as an export version of T-50, while India is expecting the new fighter aircraft to enter service with its air force by 2020.Hmmmm.....Sounds like they prefere Russia to Obama .Can't blame them after he insulted the Hindus by not visiting their temple.Read the full story here.

• Four Young Iranian Activists Detained.Four young Iranian reformists have been taken into custody after being summoned to the prosecutor's office at Tehran's Evin prison.The four activists are Hadi Heydari, a cartoonist for Iranian reformist papers; Mohammad Shafiei and Ali Reza Taheri, members of the youth branch of the Islamic Iran Participation Front; and Fatemeh Arabsorkhi, daughter of jailed leading reformist Feizollah Arabsorkhi. The reason for their detention on December 20 has not yet been made public. Fatemeh Arabsorkhi’s sister, Sajedeh, told Radio Farda that Fatemeh has said that she is being held in solitary confinement in Evin prison. Sajedeh said Fatemeh suffers from heart disease and has been hospitalized several times in recent months. She suggested that the security forces may have arrested Fatemeh in order to compound the pressure on their father. Read the full story here.

• Video : Russia develops unique Yars ballistic missile.This unique RIA Novosti video footage shows an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launch and an interview with its developers on the missile’s capabilities.Hmmm....Obama lets reduce our missiles.Read the full story here.

• 'Over 30 and single? Try polygamy'.Local Bedouin newspaper sparks calls on single Bedouin women who are over 30 to consider polygamous marriages, saying 'it's the Sharia solution'. Have a wife, or maybe a few: New ads have been popping up in local Bedouin newspapers throughout the Negev recently. The ads suggest that Bedouin women who are in their third decade and remain single, try polygamous marriage as a solution to their "problem".Since polygamy is illegal in Israel, the people behind the ad campaign refuse to reveal their identities, but sign the ad as The Negev Committee for Women's Rights.Even though polygamy is illegal and anyone marrying more than one woman is in danger of being arrested, the fact is that the law is hardly ever enforced. An ad featured in Rahat's Al Haddat newspaper states that the purpose of the campaign is to help women who have passed the 30 year mark and are having trouble finding a groom.The ad also stated that according to Islamic law, marrying a second and even a third wife is an extremely effective solution for single women in their thirties. The ad shows a 34-year-old Bedouin woman who tells of how she feels that her "future is bleak" because all of her friends are already married and she doesn't know if she will ever be able to experience motherhood. The question "What is the solution for 7,514 women in the Negev who are over 30 and still single?" was spread underneath her picture with an answer already included: "polygamy, the Sharia solution".The ad's initiators shared an important stipulation – polygamy was allowed if a man can treat each wife equally. Those who cannot should not marry more than one woman. In addition to polygamy being illegal in Israel, the ad campaign itself is illegal because it encourages illegal activities. Various sources within the Bedouin community claim that the phenomenon has seen a worrying increase in recent years.Hmmmm....polygamy, the Sharia solution?Read the full story here.

• HT:TeaAndPolitics.Spain: Muslim Ham-o-phobia update.The Muslim boy who sued his teacher because he was speaking about making Spanish ham, has accused the teacher of telling him to go back to HIS country (they have come from Morocco). I don’t really believe that accusation, although the student’s parents have already announced that they are going as far as it’s needed, because they “don’t want this to happen to another Moroccan or Colombian”. The Prosecutor’s office has already said there is no basis in Spanish law for this action. Anyway there are already people supporting the student “because in the end he is just a boy”.The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, have told to Spanish newspaper ABC.es what he told the Muslim student: “Firstly, you are not qualified to tell me what I can and I can not talk about in class. Secondly, I do not care about what you eat, or this other one eats at all. Thirdly, the religion you believe in, or is professed by any of the other children, is still less important to me. Fourthly, there are 30 students here, and you must adapt to the 29 remaining, not the other way round. And fifthly, if you do not agree with the teachings and knowledge taught in this center, you always have the choice to walk away to another school. I never said, as claimed by the family, that he had to leave to another country“. He adds: “I just put an example in a context that seemed appropriate, as if speaking of Toledo, I would have thought that their marzipan has a reputation and a student had warned me not to talk about it because he is diabetic“.The Andalusian Community has supported the teacher, while the Muslim community has said this is “nonsense“. I would say this is something grave, as this student is trying to curtail his teacher’s academic freedom.Lastly, the Andalusian Teachers’ Association representative, Gonzalo Guijarro, has blamed “multiculturalism” for this “absolute folly“. He adds: “multiculturalism (…) holds that all cultures have equal right to develop public space in a democratic country… This (action against the teacher) has no sense or reason. One thing is that everyone is entitled to follow the precepts of their religion in private and quite another to try to make them prevail in the public sphere. This goes against the most elementary principles of a democratic society“.Hmmmmmm....As far as i know the Koran only says not to eat pork,nothing is mentioned in it about speaking about swine or pork.Read the full story here.

• HT:Persecution.org.Islamic Militants Destroy Underground Christian Library in Somalia.Washington, D.C. (December 20, 2010)–International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on December 16, members of Al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group, destroyed a Christian library in the Luuq district of Somalia.The militants destroyed the library and brought Bibles, Christian books, and audio/video materials to the city center and burned them after the Muslim noon prayer. The guardian of the library fled the area hours after the library was found by the Islamists. His whereabouts are unknown. Al-Shabaab’s district commissioner in Luuq, Sheik Farhaan Abdi Elmoghe, described the discovery of the library as “a blow to the misguided Somali Christians."The library was located in a derelict farm on the Juba River. It is not uncommon for the persecuted Somali Christians to literally bury their Bibles and other Christian materials because of intense persecution from Islamists.Hmmmm.....Outrage of the American President.....Ah sorry that's for when they burn Korans.Read the full story here.

• Metro randomly inspects bags.WASHINGTON - Metro Police started randomly inspecting bags at the Braddock Road and College Park Metro stations Tuesday. The searches, which are designed to be non-intrusive, came in the wake of recent terror plots and the same morning that an explosive device was found under a subway car seat in Rome. The searches started at 7:30 a.m. and lasted about an hour at the Braddock Metro station. During the searches, police randomly selected bags or packages and checked for hazardous materials using special technology. Screeners swabbed some bags and inspected them in a process that look less than a minute each. Some common items, such as household chemicals, can prompt a positive test. Residue from a firing range also can trigger a positive test.One Metro transit officer tells WTOP's Adam Tuss that "homemade bombs often come from household chemicals."Read the full story here.

• School bans Merry Christmas greeting?There is controversy and confusion in the town of Mesquite, NV after teachers and staff members at the local high school were told to stop saying, “Merry Christmas,” according to an attorney with a conservative advocacy group.Teachers at Virgin Valley High School are reportedly not allowed to post any religious Christmas decorations, and are prohibited from engaging in other Christmas activities as part of an agreement with the Nevada American Civil Liberties Union, according to Alliance Defense Fund attorney David Cortman.“Employees, including teachers, can’t even say the words, ‘Merry Christmas,’ in the school,” Cortman told Fox News Radio. Students, however, are still permitted to use the traditional holiday greeting.“They took away prayer, now they’re saying you can’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” Narvin Ruth told the Mesquite Local News. “It’s about time we took our rights back.”Hmmmm....Art 18 of The Universal Rights of the Human Rights.Read the full story here.