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                         Afternoon Posting.

• Top economists: The second Great Depression has arrived.David Rosenberg, market guru, has officially declared that the US economy is in a state of depression, and he sees the economic superpowers woes worsening.Citing the period from 1929 to 1932 and the eerie similarities, Rosenberg said, "We may well be reliving history here. If you're keeping score, we have recorded four quarterly advances in real GDP, and the average is only 3 percent." The same happened during the early 1930s stock market rebound of 50 percent after the 1929 crash.If all that's not enough, Griffiths points out that the United States' shrinking M3 money supply now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933.Despite the gloom and doom, it's best to remember that things could always be worse. How? Well, an asteroid could hit Earth tomorrow.Read the whole story here.

• Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial!A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps -- the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous memorial.According to the Geographic Travels blog, this "misplacement" has been happening for about two days now. Typing "Lincoln Memorial" into the regular Google search bar brings up a number of listings related to the Lincoln Memorial, yet shows a map of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.Is this a Google Maps glitch, or could this have anything to do with the fact that conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck is holding a controversial "non-political" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday?"Change you can't believe in?Full story here.Google and the CIA invest in analytics firm.

• Beck talks faith in rally coinciding with anniversary of King's speech.But Lloyd Marcus, another black Republican, said he supported Beck's efforts."Go Beck," he said. "This is a fantastic rally and the people there don't give a hoot about race.At a preview event Friday night attended by more than 2,500 followers, Mr. Beck described the event as a revolution – “the beginning of the end of darkness.”"More here and here.Beck, Palin tell thousands to 'restore America'.

• Video:Saudi Arabians Torture Employees-'Hammer Nails' Into Sri Lankan Housemaid, her testimony here.

• FBI data: Hate crimes against Muslims rare!Numbers have declined over recent years, but above pre-Sept. 11 level.WASHINGTON-Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained by incidents such as recent vandalism at the Madera Islamic Center. Jews, lesbians, gay men and Caucasians, among others, are all more frequently the target of hate crimes, FBI records show. Reported anti-Muslim crimes have declined over recent years, though they still exceed what occurred prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks."We see hate crimes generally go in spurts, and are often in relation to international or domestic events," Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Friday.Full story here.

• Belgian cardinal offered to hush up sex case!BRUSSELS — Roman Catholic Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium offered to keep a sexual molestation case against a bishop secret until the bishop retired, an official said Saturday.Full story here. 

• The fatwa that governs muslim soldiers fighting in iraq and afghanistan ... make that, the fatwa that governs american muslim soldiers, and points "the way". i came across an interesting little tidbit in imam feisel abdul rauf's book, "what's right with islam: a new vision for muslims and the west,"so he fired off a request for a legal ruling from islamic authority, in the person of sheik yusuf al-qaradawi, as to whether american muslim would be permitted under islam to fight against their co-religionists there. muhammad abdur al-rashid, and american army officer, is asking a qatari sheik whether islam will permit american troops to fight in a war as directed by their chain of command. do you understand that? an american army officer.in short, we rule that american muslims must fight in this situation, because it serves the greater long terms interests of islam that he do so, in this instance.Full story here.

• As many as 350-people in Brussels demonstrate against Iranian stoning.An estimated 350 people demonstrated this afternoon against the stoning of Iranian women Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani on the steps of the Brussels Palace of Justice.More than 60 Belgian organizations resist this and have campaigned in several cities.Worldwide there are now a total of 109 events held in 106 cities against the stoning.Full story here (Google translate).

• The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History.Current federal budget trends are capable of destroying this country.There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that President Obama's stimulus package has failed to create a sustained recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage applications; and there is a fear that a double-dip recession may very well be in the pipeline. The public perception, reflected in Pew Research/National Journal polls, is that the measures to combat the Great Recession have mostly helped large banks and financial institutions, and that's a view common to Republicans (75 percent) and Democrats (73 percent).Only one third of either political leaning thinks government policies have done a great deal or a fair amount for the poor.Read the full story here.

• Turkey fumes over Iran VP's 'genocide' remark.FM Davutoglu demands explanation after Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei says mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire constituted 'genocide.' Mottaki: Iran's position was in line with Turkey's stance on the issue.Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei caused an uproar when he said the mass killings and deportation of Armenians during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire constituted “genocide.”“A hundred years ago the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against a certain number of Armenians,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency IRNA.Full story here.

• Iran says probe on detained U.S. hikers to end soon.Investigations into spying allegations against three American hikers detained in Iran will be completed soon, Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said in a news report on Saturday.Full story here.

• Bottles, stones and smoke bomb hurled during English Defence League demonstration in Bradford.Bottles, stones and a smoke bomb were thrown during demonstrations by supporters of the English Defence League and opponents from Unite Against Fascism in Bradford today.Police were forced to erect a temporary barricade around the city's Urban Gardens, where the EDL group has been meeting throughout the day.At present there is only one entrance open to the Gardens and protesters have to pass through metal detectors to gain entry.Full story here.

• One Muslim Nation’s Brave Support of Israel.Tiny Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim nation, has taken a risky stand by befriending Israel despite attempts by Iran and Russia to destabilize her.Why choose to shake the hand of the most despised country on earth? Who is this gutsy player and why has it taken such a risk to befriend the friendless?The bond between Israel and Azerbaijan is more than a sign of friendship. It is a sign of hope.This candle lit by two nations in a world battling darkness may well be the light that restores the sight of mankind.Full story here.

• Ladies Night With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Iranian regime. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent some time with the ladies this week.They decided to take a group picture.Smile Ladies!Full story here.

• A Clarion Call to Ordinary Barbarians: It's Time to Fight.Or, if you prefer French: Aux armes, citoyens! Aux barricades!The battle for the GOP may not wait until after November. There's a real possibility we start having that fight right here and right now.The only thing necessary for the triumph of oligarchy is for good voters to do nothing. Let's stand together and fight—and let's be sure to fight together, for as Ben Franklin said, "We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." There are no other options.Full article here.

• CNN Paints Hezbollah as More ‘Tolerant’ Than GZM Protesters.If the MSM doesn’t understand why Fox News is cleaning their clocks, one big reason is that otherwise American viewers are confronted with two choices when it comes to cable news: watch MSNBC and be called racist, or watch CNN and be dubbed Islamophobic.But then, this isn’t the first time a CNN journalist has publicly insulted his viewers (or the lack thereof).The full story here.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Debt, Depression, Default. America is in Deep Trouble.Consumers are spending less. Small retailers are closing shop -- even cable television subscriptions are seeing a loss in revenue. Mike Shedlock of The Toledo Blade highlights America's economic woes with the following.Read the full story here.

• Homeland Security head praises Chicago city's security cameras.U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday ranked Chicago’s Big Brother network of well over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras as one of the nation’s most extensive and integrated — and Mayor Daley wants to make it even bigger. “Expansion of cameras citywide is one of the highest priorities that will help us here in the city of Chicago,” Daley said with Napolitano at his side.

• Vladimir Putin to drive 1,300 miles across Russia in Lada.Vladimir Putin has carefully crafted the image of a man of action over the past few years, being pictured bare-chested in various hunting shooting and fishing poses.He has been pictured fighting fires, shooting whales with a crossbow and piloting a fire fighting plane.His latest endeavour is a slight departure from his usual macho pursuits.The Russian Prime Minister is undertaking a 1,300-mile road trip across Russia's far east in a humble Lada.Compare to the American President.Full story here.

• U.S. lays out Mideast peace plan.A U.S. peace plan calls for Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a settlement in a year and actually implement it over 10 years, Yedioth Ahronoth said.A document drawn up by the U.S. administration calls for the two sides to hold frequent meetings with the aim of reaching an agreement on final "status issues" within a year, the newspaper said Friday.Read the rest here.

• Attack on Iran’s nuclear sites unlikely - Russian expert.A series of new military hardware tests by Iran, including missile units, has given cause for reconsidering the seemingly forgotten possibility of the republic’s conflict with the West. Among other things, experts from across the globe resumed arguing whether a US or Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities is likely to happen.

• HT:TheEndoftheAmericanDream.50 Random Questions.In the age of the Internet our attention spans have been reduced to approximately that of a squirrel, but sometimes it is good to sit back and think about the bigger picture. What does all of this change mean? Is it good? Is it bad? What kind of a future are we headed for?This article is going to answer none of those questions.Instead, I am going to share with you a whole bunch of questions that have been stewing around in my head.Hopefully they will stimulate your thinking as much as they have mine.The following are 50 random questions for you to think about this weekend...

• Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish.Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.With high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history."In the rivers near Santa Cruz there's about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river."Read the whole thing here.

• Heirloom Diseases.You’ve probably heard of heirloom vegetables. You know, they’re the ones that have been preserved by passing seeds down from generation to generation. Heirloom varieties are generally at least 50 years old, but many are 100 years or older.While heirloom vegetables are actually benign–and frequently very tasty–it seems to me that we are currently witnessing an alarming wave of another type of heirloom: diseases.Full story here.

• 3 Iranian Jews killed in West Hollywood.Iranian Jewish community leaders says men found dead in apartment were not wealthy, had no criminal pasts. 'The only thing that sticks out is there was nothing significant about them,' he says.Full story here.

• Vigilante Bedbug Exterminators.Can the dreaded pests invading America be battled with supplies from your local hardware store? Brian Ries talks to amateur exterminators facing bedbugs with nothing but do-it-yourself attitude.Full story here.

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                          Morning Posting.

• 148 Balochistan women, 168 kids disappeared by force, U.N. told.In a written submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council ahed of the 15th session in September, the A.L.R.C.said Pakistan is beset by grave and widespread human rights violations by various State-agencies and institutions, notably by the notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the military.The women and children have reportedly been disappeared by the Pakistani intelligence agencies for interrogation over alleged links to Balochi separatists and militant groups.

• Undue interference in the choice of religious leaders.Turkey recognises only four religions: Sunni Islam, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Judaism. It also seeks to determine which religious leaders are elected. Foreign policy appears to shape its choices.The Turkish government continues to interfere in who leads the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Jewish communities. It also determines who leads the Diyanet, the Presidency of Religious Affairs, the highest Islamic religious authority in the country, Forum 18 News Service reports. This violates the rights of each religious group. The Turkish state recognises only four religions: Sunni Islam, Greek Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Judaism. Other religions are neither recognised nor formally allowed; however, they are de facto tolerated. Moreover, no religious community in Turkey at present has independent legal status in its own right—which means for example that no religious community can own property.The government chooses the head of the Diyanet. Other Muslim groups are not recognised. Even if they are tolerated, the latter can be banned at any given time.Religious freedom is far fetched in Turkey unlike in the EU.

• Relief organisations 'discriminating against Christian&Hindu flood victims': report.Christians and members of other minority religions are being treated as second-class citizens, said Father Mario Rodrigues, the Lahore-based director of Catholic Mission."They often receive little assistance or are excluded altogether," he told Fides, the Vatican's news agency. Aid is being delivered by "government officials sympathetic to Islamic fundamentalism or by Muslim relief organisations", Fides claimed in its report, citing other unnamed aid workers.About 200,000 Christians in Punjab province and about 600,000 Christians and Hindus in Sindh province have been affected by weeks of monsoon rain.

• Hard-Line Iran Daily Calls French First Lady A Prostitute.France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has come under attack by Iran's state-controlled media over her support for an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.In a letter addressed to Ashtiani, Bruni wrote last week that her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was trying to secure her release."I just can't see what good could come out of this macabre ceremony, whatever the judicial reasons put forward to justify it," Bruni wrote. "Shed your blood and deprive children of their mother, why? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you're a woman and because you're Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this."Read the whole story here.

• HT:BarenakedIslam.OBAMA slashed the entire NASA budget except for his ‘outreach to MUSLIMS ONLY’.And you thought the Regime had backpedaled on this outrageous idea? Think again. Using your tax dollars, Obama is inviting Muslims to U.S. Space Camps, even Muslims from enemy countries like Libya, home of the now set free Lockerbie bomber.

• New book: Arab lobby rules America.New book by Mideast expert Mitchell Bard claims Arab lobby, headed by Saudis, 'has unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on merits of their arguments'

• Erick Stackelbeck: Rauf Is a Shariah Supremacist.Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, CBN Terrorism Analyst Erick Stakelbeck joins Frank for a candid discussion on the traditional methods of Muslim Brotherhood operatives in the West. Erick explains how Imam Rauf’s moderate persona was intentionally cultivated in the United States in order to advance the Muslim Brotherhood’s totalitarian version of Islam under Shariah law.

• Barack Obama 'to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah to press for peace'.President Barack Obama will visit Jerusalem in coming months to press for a Middle East peace deal to be signed this year and implemented within a decade, according to a leaked White House report.
• One of these days a great leader will offer to lead the world into total peace. He will be recognized throughout the world as a man of peace. He will promise to solve the Middle East conflict. He will bring harmony in the ecumenical-ecclesiastical church. He will offer economic solutions to the world's problems. He will arise as a world leader of peace and prosperity and within three years and a half will become the world's greatest dictator.Beware when this man appears on the world scene. His leadership will take the world into the Great Tribulation of Terror, wars, suffering and death.

• Brewer Condemns Report to UN Mentioning Ariz. Law.In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is "downright offensive" that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years."The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional," Brewer wrote.Governor Brewer you rock!Read the whole thing here.

• Dubai’s Grand Mufti calls for curb in marriage to foreigners.The Grand Mufti of Dubai is calling for a curb in marriages between locals and foreigners as the price of marrying native brides has soared to more than £300,000.“Emirati women are forbidden to marry foreign men. This injustice and the rise of Emirati men marrying foreign women have forced 30,000 Emirati women into spinsterhood.”

• OK you’ve waited long enough, it’s time to get the party started. Our launch date is Sept. 8th 2010. Feel free to yell it from the rooftops. RightNetwork launches on television, web and mobile.Website - Twitter - You tube.

• Iraqis Auction Computers Donated for Kids.U.S. Military Questions How $1.9 Million in Computers Bought by U.S. Taxpayers Were Auctioned for Less Than $50,000.The U.S. military wants to know what happened to $1.9 million worth of computers.

• Sacrilege: The Obama-Holder 'Justice' Department Won't Pursue Trial of USS Cole Bomber, Plus: a Memo to Ace Regarding the NRSC.The Washington Post's Peter Finn reports that the Obama administration has decided not to prosecute the apparent terrorist mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing in 2000. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri had been accused of orchestrating the attack that killed 17 American sailors aboard the Cole ten years ago.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Pentagon and DOJ Travesty: Troops Can Serve and Die.but their votes won’t necessarily count.Pentagon Grants MOVE Waiver to Five States. (What a surprise. The states getting the waivers are ALL Blue States.)

• HT:MotherJones.Northwest and Northeast Passages Now Open."It is now possible to completely circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean in ice-free waters, and this will probably be the case for at least a month. This year marks the third consecutive year—and the third time in recorded history—that both the Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage have melted free. The Northeast Passage opened for the first time in recorded history in 2005 and the Northwest Passage in 2007. It now appears that the opening of one or both of these northern passages is the new norm, and business interests are taking note—commercial shipping in the Arctic is on the increase, and there is increasing interest in oil drilling."

• Life in the hell hole: A makeshift casino, football, but also worrying signs of stress - Inside the mine where 33 men are trapped.Emaciated, wild-eyed and stripped to the waist, with tangled hair and whiskery, dirt-streaked faces, they look like a tribe of cavemen living in some twilight netherworld.Trapped in an eerie underground cavern where nights and days merge, they cling to survival via meagre supplies passed almost half-a-mile down a tiny borehole - their tenuous, umbilical link with the lives they left behind.Yet, watching the extraordinary first video of the 33 Chilean copper miners who have been trapped in claustrophobic torment for 24 days, and who have been told it will take months to free them, what strikes you most forcefully is their utter lack of self-pity.Read the whole thing.

• Drought in Russia Ripples Beyond the Wheat Fields.Early reports from Russia’s harvest indicate that yields of wheat and barley are down sharply, as predicted after a major drought here this summer that has helped send global wheat prices up sharply since June.Expressing anger over the higher bread prices in Russia that have accompanied the rise in grain, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said Friday, “Someone is simply cashing in on the circumstances.” Prosecutors have recently raided bakeries in Moscow on accusations of price gouging.

• Pentagon Report Shows that China Is Ready for War.In 2005, I quoted General Zhu Chenghu, a top-level Chinese army officer, as saying what would happen if America interfered with Taiwan: “If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond. We… will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds… of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”Read the rest of the story here.

• Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing.The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

• Do we really understand Native Indians' anger on tobacco taxation?After the 1992 and 1997 commotion regarding attempts to impose taxation on Indian cigarettes, Buffalo and other locations of the New York State are once again getting ready to undergo similar experiences following information on a potential uprising of Native-Indians in various parts of the State as Governor David Patterson renewed his plan to start collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Native-Indians.The governor's decision has been supported by businesses statewide who, during a Thursday's news conference in downtown, called on state leaders to stick with the plan, according to Buffalo News.On their side, Indians continue to protest against the state decision alleging that it infringes their sovereignty.

• Who Is Really Funding the Ground Zero Mosque?For weeks, critics of the 13 story $100 million mega-mosque complex planned for the immediate Ground Zero vicinity have been asking where the funding will be coming from. Its sponsors refuse to provide any information and have even refused to rule out taking contributions from other countries including Iran and Saudi Arabia.We know that radical Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood operate through many front organizations. Could the funding of the Ground Zero mosque be all part of an elaborate mosque-in-the box shell game to cover up something far more sinister? Maybe not. But we won’t know until the Ground Zero mosque developer Sharif el-Gamal and his financial backer Hisham Elzanaty begin to come clean about where their money is really coming from.

• U.S. Zionist group claims discrimination over its stance on Israel; Rightists call IRS "Obama's Gestapo".Right-wing group Z-Street says U.S. Treasury withholding tax breaks because its position on Israel differs from the Obama administration's."Not only is it patently un-American but it is also a clear violation of the First Amendment for a government agency to penalize an organization because of its political position on Israel or anything else," Z-Street said in a statement Friday.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Italy: Islam Denied Income Tax Revenue.Mosques in Italy will not receive a share of income tax revenue the Italian government allocates to religious faiths each year. Hindu and Buddhist temples, Greek Orthodox churches and Jehovah’s Witnesses will be eligible for the funds, according to a bill approved by the Italian cabinet in May and still must be approved by parliament.

• Obama’s AmeriKKKa: Condemning Our Nation Before the United Nations.For the first time in our nation’s history, the State Department has submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights about human rights issues in this country. The United States is now on the same level as North Korea, Cuba, Libya, and Iran. We are just one nation among many, no better or worse.

• Why Americans believe Obama is Muslim.There are several reasons that some Americans believe that Barack Hussein Obama is quite possibly a Muslim, and here in this article the attempt will be to give the relevant reasons why some Americans consider this not only a possibility but a likelihood. Please click the links throughout for the substantiation of the statements to follow. People here is Phoenix may or may not have interest in this, yet it is highly relevant to know what the faith of our Nation's leader is. Motivations become more apparent when incite into the person is known. This article will not solve this, yet it will give a deeper incite into the reasonings why so many believe that much about our leader is questionable.

• Two Iranian Activists Win Press-Freedom Awards.Two Iranian rights activists arrested on their way to the funeral of a senior dissident cleric last year have won international press freedom awards, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.The two are jailed blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi and prominent women's rights activist Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh.The two were arrested on their way to take part in the funeral in Tehran last December of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, which attracted tens of thousands of mourners.

• Obama and the Jews, Part 2.

• American Founders and Islam.The more we learn, here in America, and right here at home in Phoenix about the truths we face, the better able to face them, we all will be. It has been said many time that Thomas Jefferson’s Qu’ran is a symbol of something further, but to be clear, there is good reason for the fact that Mr. Jefferson needed the information within it. Problems on the high seas and in Islamic waters caused issues of a need for knowledge of what exactly America was facing.

• 'Torturer Of Tehran' Loses His Untouchable Status.With a frightening reputation and friends in high places, Said Mortazavi for years appeared to have the untouchable status that bred impunity and led his enemies to label him the "torturer of Tehran."As a judge and prosecutor, he shut down more than 60 newspapers, detained scores of journalists and political activists, and was even implicated in the murder and torture of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in the custody of interrogators in 2003.But now, it seems, Tehran's fearsome former chief prosecutor may have met his nemesis -- brought low by violent events that have shocked Iran's political establishment into seeking a high-profile fall guy.

• Tell EPA to reject lead ammo ban."The U.S. Supreme Court says Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms. The EPA says the bullets for those guns may be banned as an environmental hazard," an Investors Business Daily editorial claims.Close but not quite. Per the National Shooting Sports Foundation, they're "considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition."

• In One Azerbaijan Village, 'Carrying Water Is Women's Work'.In this small, dusty village in central Azerbaijan, daily life for the local women begins at dawn and ends at sunset. What happens in between, say several Celebiler women, is nonstop labor."First we go to the fields," says one woman dressed in a colorful housecoat. "Then we come back and get our buckets and walk a long distance from here to get water. Then we come home, and begin washing clothes by hand. It's torture for us.""You can't think about resting," says another. "There's no water, no gas. This is real rural life."The women smile ruefully when asked if they have time for small luxuries like relaxing or watching soap operas. Television, says one, is for people who have nothing to do -- and finding such a woman anywhere here is impossible.

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                         Afternoon Posting.

• HT:MichelleMalkin.The fishermen’s flotilla: Showdown at Martha’s Vineyard.Continuing my coverage of the revolt against the White House ocean grab, here’s the latest on today’s fishermen’s protest flotilla gathering at Martha’s Vineyard while President Obama plays Scrabble and golf with his Chicago cronies.

• HT"WeaselZippers.Muslim Cabbie Stabber Moved From Riker’s to Bellevue.Even MORE proof that liberalism is a mental illness?

• Mysterious Fire Destroys Voting Machines in Texas County with ACORN-like Voter Fraud.Another blow has been dealt to voters in Harris County, Texas just days after the Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez released a 72 page PowerPoint on voting irregularities from a local group similar to the infamous ACORN.

• Anti-Tea Party groups turn violent.On the eve of the massive 'Restoring Honor' gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday, anti-Tea Party groups have turned violent.Prudent Americans must not allow these tactics to thwart their efforts to take the nation back from extremist Leftwing operatives who have demonstrated a clear disdain for our Constitution. Dr. Alveda King's words are thus words to the wise.

• Pearl: Put the mosque elsewhere.Slain reporter's dad says Ground Zero mosque would prolong "illusion." Judea Pearl, father of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel murdered by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan eight years ago, says that permitting the Ground Zero mosque project would prolong “the illusion” that the American Muslim leadership can achieve public acceptance without confronting its role in allowing “victimhood, anger and entitlement” to spawn acts of terrorism.Read the full story here.

• Red Flag Warning EPA Ammunition Ban!There is yet another assault on an individual’s God-given right to bear arms. This one coming from of all places, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

• Obama Administration Apologizes for Florida Koran Burning.Even though Donahoe’s apology is dated August 5th and fully acknowledges and includes the OIC in her expression of “deep concern,” the OIC still demands that the Obama Adminstration“take appropriate steps to protect the sacred religious sentiments of Muslims of America and of the Muslims across the world.”

• Britain faces new terror wave.Britain faces a new wave of home grown terrorists as 800 radicalised Islamist prisoners are released from jail, a leading security expert warns.

• Kuwaiti MP wants state aid for men to get second wives.A Kuwaiti MP proposed Wednesday state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich emirate.

• Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber.The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing."After 10 years, it seems like nobody really cares," said Gloria Clodfelter, whose 21-year-old son, Kenneth, was killed on the Cole.

• 'Iran recognizes "Armenian genocide"'.Iranian nation accepts the historic truth, PAP member says.Iran’s Vice President Hamid Baghaei’s statement again testifies to the fact Iranian current political establishment headed by the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recognizes the 'Armenian Genocide' committed under Ottoman Empire in 1915, the MP from the Prosperous Party of Armenia (PAP) Aram Safaryan said.Erdogan must be ecstatic of joy?

• HT:PajamasMedia.Obama’s Electioneers: Documentary to Reveal the Extent of 2008 Voter Fraud.The New Black Panther case? That type of behavior didn't just happen on Election Day. It was rampant during the Democratic primaries.

• A Relativist, Wrapped in a Muslim, Inside an Agnostic.Why does a significant chunk of the American electorate think Obama is a Muslim? Let's count some of the reasons: he speaks of his "Muslim roots," says he hails from "generations of Muslims," was born to a line of Muslim males and given by them an Arabic name, went to a Muslim school in Islamic Indonesia, speaks glowingly of Islam whenever he gets the chance, holds a Ramadan dinner in the White House, tells his NASA head to turn the space agency into a Muslim outreach program, and last but not least insults doctrinal Christians routinely.

• The Ground Zero Mosque's Muslim Opponents.Defenders of the proposed Ground Zero mosque are quick to write off opponents as bigots simply out to stir up hatred of Muslims.While some of the rhetoric is excessive, the blanket dismissal hides a more difficult challenge for mosque advocates: A growing number of Muslims openly oppose the project too. Some agree it's the wrong place, while others are increasingly critical of what they see as tone-deaf and clumsy leadership from mosque planners.

• HT:AmericanThinker.President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement Disorder.With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the U.S. became the world's only superpower -- Uncle Sam would say, "Jump," and the response would be, "How high?" This has not continued; if anything, on today's world stage, Uncle Sam increasingly resembles Rodney "I don't get no respect" Dangerfield. We cannot even kill off a few ragtag third-world pirates, let alone impose our will on Iran or make Hugo Chávez nervous.

• VIDEO: Michelle Malkin Slams Progressives on Muslim Cabbie Attack — Heads Explode at 'Think Progress'.Awesome commentary on the radical leftists who couldn't leap fast enough at the chance to smear the "evil" right-wing for the attack on the cabbie.

• HT:TheBlogProf.Sound familiar? DC police to use technology to predict who will commit murder in the future.

• At the Tomb of Tutankhamen.An account of the opening of the royal Egyptian sepulcher which contained the most remarkable funeral treasures unearthed in historical times.Photoseries.

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                          Morning Posting.

• Biden Wants More “Stimulus” Spending: “This is a Chance to do Something big, man!”But in the words of Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s effusive Recovery Act point man, “Now the fun stuff starts!” The “fun stuff,” about one-sixth of the total cost, is an all-out effort to exploit the crisis to make green energy, green building and green transportation real; launch green manufacturing industries; computerize a pen-and-paper health system; promote data-driven school reforms; and ramp up the research of the future. “This is a chance to do something big, man!” Biden said during a 90-minute interview with TIME.

• Auschwitz memorial acquires Nazi medical devices.The Auschwitz memorial in Poland says it has obtained around 150 medical instruments believed to have been used by the Nazis in experiments on the death camp inmates.

• This is Why People Think Obama’s a Muslim.Everything that President Obama has done to disgrace America up until today has just been a warm up for what his administration has just done.

• Muslim inmates 'turning to terror' as think tank says convicted terrorists are radicalising fellow inmates. Britain faces a new wave of terror attacks launched by Muslims radicalised in prison, a respected think tank warns today.The Royal United Services Institute says convicted terrorists inside high security prisons may have turned one in ten Muslim inmates to their cause.As a result, the threat from jihadists born in this country is greater here than anywhere else in the Western world, including the U.S., the report states.

• Video:Klavan on the Culture: Does Islam Suck?

• Iranian Reformist Cleric Decries Prison Torture.Reformist Iranian cleric Hassan Yusefi Eshkevari has described as "shocking" a recent letter by a political prisoner detailing ill-treatment in jail.Karami, the chief editor of a reformist website, "Karami" was detained following the June 2009 Iranian presidential election and reportedly tortured into making a false confession of illicit sexual relations with relatives of opposition Green movement leaders.

• Are Iran's Opposition Leaders Billionaires?Iran's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, has repeated the accusation that the leaders of the opposition Green Movement received a billion dollars from Western countries.Moslehi said that the allegations made by Guardians Council head Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati about the financial assistance of foreign countries to the "leaders of the sedition" is not only true, but that the amount given was probably higher.

• Anti-Christian Hatred behind Ground Zero Mosque "Fans".In Michigan, Christians are barred from delivering tracts on a public sidewalk, in accordance with Sharia law.Coweta County, GA - Church denied permit to build on public property.Miami - Haitian Pentecostal congregation denied permit to enter building."There's a Haitian church on every block around here," Raley says. "Let 'em go somewhere else."Muslim Prayer Allowed in San Diego–Christian Prayer Denied in Bayonne.Read the rest here.

• Video:Bed Bugs 101.Erica Hill gets answers to viewers' questions about bed bugs from Rebecca Jarvis, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, and Debbye Turner Bell.

• How Vindictive Is This Administration?I’m not usually the conspiratorial type, but watch Gov. Chris Christie explain how the Obama administration disqualified the state of New Jersey from hundreds of millions in education funds because some clerk in Trenton turned in the wrong excel spreadsheet.

• Mass panic in markets tomorrow as GDP announced at .5%.The economy in Arizona is holding together with chicken wire. The state is $1.2 billion short. 80% of the states are in the same pickle needing at least $500 billion to keep the doors open. The point is that things are not what they seem. The economy is drowning. The bigger point is why are all these government alwats wrong? Could they be lying. Cramer also agrees. They are lying. The next question is why are they intentionally lying?Read the full story here.

• Flashback:Feb 2010.The United States-based Time Magazine complained this week that the archaeological activities of the City of David Foundation, also known as “Ir David” or “Elad,” are making life difficult for President Barack Obama.it complicates efforts by the White House to enable both Palestinians and Israelis to share Jerusalem as their respective capitals, a key demand of the Palestinians.”The article, which claimed “the willful jumbling of science and faith is threatening Jerusalem's precarious spiritual balance,” essentially accuses the City of David Foundation, which McGirk refers to as a “right-wing Jewish settler organization,” of hijacking Israel's political agenda. It also implies the organization is forcing Muslims to accept the Jewish truth of Biblical historical statements through archaeological discoveries.So if i understand this correctly Time (Obama) does not want to see archaeological discoveries that might confirm Biblical texts cause it might upset Muslims?Strange way of reasoning for a Christian?

• HT:WeaselZippers.Church Leaders Condemn Misrepresentations of Caliph Obama’s ‘Christian Faith’.Over 70 prominent Christian leaders and denominational heads from across the ideological spectrum joined together today to call for a stop to the misrepresentation of President Obama’s Christian faith.In an open letter, these Christian leaders called on the media, public officials, and their fellow Christians to stand with them in opposing those who continue to insinuate that the President is a Muslim, not a Christian.According to ABC news the President went till now 3 times to church,but he managed to play 48 rounds of golf since taking office.

• Iran bans pet ads, brands dogs 'unclean'.IRAN today banned all advertisements in the country for pets, pet shops, pet food and other pet products, claiming that people's love for their dogs and cats may lead to "evil outcomes".The edict, announced by Iran's powerful Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, is based on a fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, 86, a hardliner who lives in Iran’s holy city of Qom.

• HT:WeaselZippers.ABC News Admits One of Their Crew Members Attempted to Provoke Ground Zero Mosque Protesters.A freelance audio operator covering a protest at the site of a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero has been reprimanded for his behavior.

• Building Churches in Egypt and the Ground Zero Mosque.Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, are closely watching the controversy associated with the Ground Zero Mosque project, though for different reasons. The Egyptian media is giving this issue full coverage with articles mostly accusing Americans of Islamophobia, and supporting Muslims to hold on to their rights to build a mosque anywhere as guaranteed by the US constitution, regardless of what Americans think.“Let Muslims experience the rage and frustration we have been going through for centuries, every time we want to build or repair a dilapidating church in our own country,” commented Coptic activist Mina Hanna, in what sounded like Schadenfreude. “It would be interesting to see what happens if the West decided to treat Muslims like Christians in Egypt.”

• As thousands are being killed on the Arizona-Mexico border, President upset he can't buy shrimp.‘As the president walked around the restaurant, some cordoned-off reporters shouted out to him questions, including one about the war in Iraq. Next Tuesday night, the president will deliver an Oval Office address at 8 pm ET, in which he will mark the occasion of the withdrawal of US combat troops from the country.But the president was in no mood today to discuss the issue with reporters in that setting. He ignored questions for a bit, then turned to the reporters."We're buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on."’

• Canada: Book Demonizing Israel in School Libraries.The school board in Toronto, Canada, has decided to support a novel that portrays IDF soldiers and Judea and Samaria residents in a negative way.Dimant added that “a young girl, who admitted to having Jewish friends, recently reviewed The Shepherd's Granddaughter on a popular book-review website and stated that reading this book made her want to ‘go to the West Bank and kill Israelis.’ Clearly, this propaganda has no place in our classrooms and is against Canadian values.”

• Iraqis 'feel betrayed' by US pullout.The Sunni Arab militiamen who sided with American soldiers against al-Qaeda during Iraq's brutal insurgency fear the exit of thousands of US troops will herald a surge in bloody revenge attacks against them.Known as the "Sons of Iraq" by the US army that financed them, the former rebels fought militants loyal to Osama bin Laden's terror network, but years later are mocked as "Sons of America" by foes who continue to exact vengeance.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.The F-35 sale and Obama's relations with Israel.You may recall that last week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided to submit an order for 20 F-35 joint strike fighters at a cost of more than $2 billion. This was far less than the 75 that the IAF originally wanted to order.The reason for the 'small' order isn't just the cost. And the small order says a lot about the state of Israel's relations with the United States under Obama.Relations are still strained between Israel and our biggest ally. But it's important that you understand where and why those relations are strained.

• President Obama, It’s Time to Can the Catfood Commission.Pete Peterson, the hedge fund billionaire who made his money by not paying his fair share of taxes, has pursued a decades-long quest to destroy Social Security and has pledged $1 billion to achieve that goal. So when President Obama announced he would convene his first “fiscal responsibility” summit on February 23, it didn’t bode well that Peterson was to be the keynote speaker.

• “The Sharia Is Unjust”—Impassioned Plea From A Secular Muslim Woman of Yemenite Origin.Dr. Elham Mane’a: “[T] he time has come to call things by their proper names: a theocracy that applies the precepts of the shari’a to [its] society today [is one that] violates individual rights, discriminates between its citizens, and oppresses its women and its religious minorities.”Another brave woman who speaks out about this evil.

• Google Plans To Kill Web In Internet Takeover Agenda.The net-neutrality ending deal with Verizon is just the beginning of Google’s plans to kill the open and free Internet as part of their takeover agenda to completely control the world wide web and force independent media websites, radio and TV shows out of existence for good.People who want to run a simple blog will be priced out of existence, online TV and radio shows will cease to exist as the Internet is swallowed up by the corporate borg.

• Arab Opinion on the Ground Zero Mosque.Our expatriate Russian correspondent Russkiy has translated some reader input from the website of the BBC’s Arabic-language service. He says:The BBC has questioned Arab readers on their views with regard to the Cordoba Initiative and the noise it has created. Some comments are worth translating.

• “The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated.Without a revolution, Americans are history.”America died two years ago. It’s a walking dead-zombie country, and anybody who still lives in that country should get re-familiarize themselves with cotton-picking, because once the dollar crashes, the only crop that America will be able to export, is cotton. It will be King Cotton again. It will be 1840 again. The only job available will be as a cotton-picker working on a Wal Mart or Goldman Sachs plantation. This is the reality of the situation.

• Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings.The White House is having a disastrous 'summer of recovery.'In what will rank as one of the all-time presidential PR disasters, we're now well over half way through what the White House called "the summer of recovery." And what a recovery it's been.

• Will Obama Try to Save Iranian Shiva Nazar Ahari?The human rights advocate and dissident needs help.Iranian authorities first arrested Shiva Nazar Ahari in 2001, when she was seventeen. Her ‘crime’ was attending a candlelight vigil in Tehran that commemorated the victims of 9/11. Since then, she’s taught Iranian homeless children and Afghan refugees' children. In 2006, after she became the spokeswoman for the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), Ahari was kicked out of university, whereupon her troubles really began.

• Maalouf, Muslims and Christians.Can a West that is not capable of tolerance toward Islam and cannot give to Muslims the rights that were once given to Christians by Muslim societies be deemed an advanced civilization?What rights have been given to Chrsitians in Muslim countries?Where are the Churches in Saudi Arabia or Dubai?

• A Tale of Two Cities: Copts Call Muslim Hypocrisy over Ground Zero Mosque.As ever, as Muslims and their left-wing camp followers attack everyday Americans – the overwheming majority of whom agree that it is an act of gross insensitivity for the Cordoba Initiative to construct its ‘Park 51′ mosque and ‘community centre’ near the site of the 9/11 atrocity – it’s one rule for the Ummah and another for everyone else.

• Turkey Removes Iran From Its `Red Book' Threat List, Milliyet Reports.Iran will be removed from a list of threats to Turkey in the biggest overhaul of the country’s national security document since the end of the Cold War, the Milliyet newspaper said. The Turkish military, intelligence and diplomatic agencies are drafting changes to the country’s so-called Red Book that include the removal of any reference to the possibility that Iran may export its Islamic Revolution to Turkey, the newspaper reported without saying where it got the information.Kick them out of Nato now!

• Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'! AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert.This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012.NASA said that a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause “$1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to 10 years for complete recovery”.

MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Not taking yes for an answer.Like Arafat before him, Mahmoud Abbas does not accept Israel's right to exist and is committed to its eventual destruction. How can such a man deliver peace?No matter how many times Israel has reached out its hand in peace, it seems Mahmoud Abbas just wasn’t – and isn’t – interested.

• Leaked CIA memo cites U.S. Jews among exporters of terrorism.Wikileaks releases a CIA memo titled 'What if Foreigners See the United States as an Exporter of Terrorism?' in which American Jews in Israel was one of four groups mentioned.

• Iran:'US forces disrupt aid to Pakistan'.The head of Iran's Red Crescent Society says the presence of American forces in Pakistan has disrupted the process of international aid to the flood-stricken people. "Western countries only make decisions on paper, and have not provided the flood-stricken people of Pakistan with enough help," IRCS Secretary General Zaher Baloni Rostami said on Thursday.Isn't heartwarming how Islamic countires like Pakistan and Iran work together? 

• The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves.Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Muslim Brotherhood Blames Robert Spencer, Geller for Stabbing of Muslim Cabbie by Left-Leaning Filmmaker.

• Third terror suspect was Pakistanian ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant.It is the second time since 9/11 that an RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has arrested a group of Canadian suspects planning to strike at home.A news conference in Ottawa is scheduled for Thursday.Police have charged three men in what they say was a terror plot that reached from suburban Ottawa to Afghanistan, Iran, Dubai and Pakistan.Updated story here.

• 'Drunk' desecration at mosque.A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said.Evening prayers were disrupted at the Iman Mosque on Steinway Street in Astoria when the unhinged man "came in with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated," said Mustapha Sadouki, who was attending services."He fumbled over to our rugs where people were praying" and then committed the despicable desecration, Sadouki said.

• HT:JawaReport.US Muslim soldier Zachari Klawonn appears in uniform on Al-Jazeera to complain of Islamophobia in US military.This soldier, Zachari Klawonn, is stationed at Ft Hood. Why on earth would anyone at Ft Hood be afraid of Muslims?Unfortunately, we are going through this right now. I think this speaks volumes about us, as a society right now. I mean, as an American citizen and service member, I see the opposition of American citizens to my right to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero1 as a big slap in our face for a service member.For someone who enlisted in the US army to uphold and defend our constitution, to have that right almost completely battered and taken away is moral shattering. Islamophobia is evident within the military, but I think it's also within our American society right now, unfortunately.And Hey, here's Muslim traitor 101st Airborne soldier Nasser Abdo also appearing on Al-Jazeera telling their audience that serving in the US military is not compatible with being a Muslim. Abdo is claiming conscientious objector status, even though it's not because of his pacificism, but his religious ideology (not grounds for objector status).

• Stealth Jihad Behind Ground Zero Mosque.Separation of Church and State Should Apply to Saudi Government in U. S. Mosques.Mr. Kelly, who is a political satirist, wrote in his column: “Sometimes a subject is so serious that even we need to take a step back and let the story tell itself. This is one of those times. … Despite public opinion, the mainstream media has virtually ignored the protests against the WTC mosque. According to internet reports, not one major TV network or camera crew covered this recent protest. … Uncredited photos of the New York protests have surfaced, bypassing the mainstream media’s unbalanced reporting, and have since caused a stir on the internet. Few words are necessary. The photos of the mystery photographer speak louder than any words ever could.”

• Pakistan aid agencies review security measures after The Pakistan Taliban has threatened to attack foreign aid workers hampering efforts to get relief to the eight million people affected by the flooding.Hundreds of foreign aid workers have arrived in the country to help people in need of clean water, food and medicine. However, many of the worst affected areas are in the north-west of the country where militants have kidnapped and murdered with impunity.Now US officials say they have discovered that Tehreek-e-Taliban, is planning to attack aid convoys. "According to information available to the US government, Tehreek-e-Taliban plans to conduct attacks against foreigners participating in the ongoing flood relief operations in Pakistan," one US official said. More on this story here.

• Sharia by a Sleight of Hand.Writing in Forbes, Claudia Rossett takes a look at the good fortune Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Ground Zero mosque, has enjoyed since he came to America. In an article entitled “Cashing In On Ground Zero”, Ms. Rossett outlines the salaries, remunerations, stipends, honoraria, emoluments, perquisites, and gratuities — some of them due to the largesse of the federal government — conferred upon Imam Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan since he arrived on these shores.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Cal State University Professor: Opposition to Ground Zero Mosque “No Different Than Nazi Hostility Toward the Jews”.Seemingly unaware of the Nazi-like intense hatred directed toward da Joooos among his fellow Muslims. It should be noted that the professor rips Imam Rauf for “this stupid idea” of a mosque at Ground Zero.

• West Bank rabbis: Only Jews to renovate Joseph's Tomb.Following Ynet report on plans for Palestinians to restore tomb's compound, group of Samaria rabbis sends strident letter against plan, claiming it gives PA de facto ownership of site.

• HT:TundraTabloids.Finland amnesty scum-gate continues:Israeli ambassador Granot says it's unacceptable to call Israel a'Scum state'.

• New Life in America No Longer Means a New Name.For many 19th- and 20th-century immigrants or their children, it was a rite of passage: Arriving in America, they adopted a new identity.Charles Steinweg, the German-born piano maker, changed his name to Steinway (in part because English instruments were deemed to be superior).

• HT:AmericanThinker.Why Jews are Deserting Obama and the Democrats.One little-noticed trend that speaks volumes: the decline in Democratic Party identification and support for Barack Obama from American Jews, once among their most reliable and enthusiastic backers.There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of Jews leaving the Democratic Party, most recently noted by the Pew Research Center. This has caused consternation among the usual suspects -- among them, the National Jewish Democratic Council and New York Times columnist and uber-liberal Charles Blow, who commented just a few days ago.

• Ex-nuclear official: Iran has material for 1 to 2 atom bombs.Olli Heinonen, one of the IAEA's leading experts on Iran, says 'this constitutes a threat.'Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for one to two nuclear weapons, but it would not make sense for it to cross the bomb-making threshold with only this amount, a former top United Nations nuclear official was quoted as saying.

• Sharia for Dummies.Imam Feisal Abdel Rauf claims that the US constitution is Sharia compliant. Now let us examine below a few laws of Sharia to see if Imam Rauf is truthful or a fraud.Or just a load of Al-taqiyya a.k.a. The art of lying !

• Good Cop, Bad Cop: The Political Theatre of the Ground Zero Mosque Power Couple.The role of Daisy Khan, wife of the Ground-Zero-Mosque-Honcho, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is to feed the flames surrounding the project in such a way as to demonize its opponents, drive away those among them who might shrink from the nonsensical conflation of anti-GZM sentiment and anti-Jewishness, and incite anti-Americanism here and abroad by tagging opposition to the mosque as American hatred of all Muslims.Oh, talk about cool operators.

• US military's top secret X-37B shuttle 'disappears' for two weeks, changes orbit.AMATEUR astronomers are enjoying a cat-and-mouse game with the US military in keeping track of its secret space plane, the X-37B. The X-37B was launched in April amid much publicity, but scant detail about its true use.Built by Boeing's Phantom Works division, the X-37B program was originally headed by NASA.It was later turned over to the Pentagon's research and development arm and then to a secretive Air Force unit.Several sources claim quote arms control advocates who say it's clearly the beginning of the "weaponisation of space".

MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

•  Slogans and chants for August 28, 100 cities in the world against stoning.

• From an Actual Moderate Muslim, a Memo to the MSM on Imam Rauf.As an African American Muslim convert for nearly a quarter century, I believe I’ve earned the right to weigh in on the bitter controversy surrounding the proposed mosque at Ground Zero.

• US warns of threat to foreign aid workers in Pakistan.The Pakistani Taliban are planning to attack foreigners helping with flood relief efforts in the country, a senior US official has warned.The Taliban plan "to conduct attacks against foreigners participating in the ongoing flood relief operations in Pakistan", the official told the BBC.The official also said "provincial ministers in Islamabad" may be at risk.

• My Phone Call With the First Lady of the Ground Zero Mosque.I got the privilege of a one hour phone call with Daisy Khan today. Khan is the leader of ASMA (American Society for Muslim Advancement) and the now famous wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Together they are the force behind opening up a mosque and large Muslim community center near Ground Zero. What did I learn from the call? That Khan presents herself as a pluralistic Muslim, but is quite the spin master and has no plans of actually listening to anyone she disagrees with.

• Chris Matthews: I’m the Decider and Obama’s a Christian!If MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews feels a thrill run up his leg when he sees President Obama, that’s his problem.Taking a politician at his word is naive, at best.President Reagan was right: Trust, but verify.President Obama has been describing himself as a Christian since even before he first ran for public office, but he has not proven that he is “a true Christian” and Matthews and his ilk cannot do it for the most pro-abortion President in American history."Mr. Obama says he's a Christian, Mr. Keyes would say, and yet he supports a lifestyle that the Bible calls an abomination.By his own implicit admission, Obama retained some of his skepticism too and Obama acknowledged (p. 207) politics drew him to Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.’s black liberation theology-grounded, Trinity United Church of Christ.If Obama is entitled to be skeptical about Christianity, why aren’t Americans entitled to be skeptical that Obama really is a Christian, Mr. Matthews?

• The Perfect Iranian Storm on the Horizon.Jonathan Spyer is not your typical Israeli journalist and political analyst. He has a PhD in International Relations, he fought in Lebanon during the summer war of 2006, then went back to Lebanon as a civilian on a second passport.

• Saudi couple hammer 24 hot nails into their maid after she complained of heavy workload.A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her after she complained of her heavy workload.X-rays showed the brutal result after the nails were hammered into the hands, legs and feet of LT Ariyawathi, a 49-year-old mother-of-three.Ariyawathi had returned to Sri Lanka on Friday after five months in Saudi Arabia.

• Pamela Geller Gives Longtime Hannity Guest an Overdue Taste of What He Deserves.While Kirsten Powers’s commentary may have once been believed to have a redeeming quality or two, I doubt anyone held any such illusions about “civil rights” attorney and occasional Fox News guest Michael Gross. The man never attempts to hide his innate nastiness, so it was refreshing to see him confronted by someone not known for suffering fools on “Hannity” earlier this week: Pamela Geller.

• Briton, 20, 'raped twice by Arab soldier' in Dubai after accepting a ride in the back of his car.A British woman was raped twice by an Arab soldier in Dubai after accepting a ride back to her apartment in his car, a Dubai court has heard. The 20-year-old, who works as an office secretary in the Muslim state, said she was attacked after enjoying a night out with friends in the Buddha Bar on January 4.

• Obamnesty...it's here, feds now dismissing thousands of deportation cases.As has been rumored for some time, the Obama administration has started a ‘backdoor amnesty’ and has begun to drop large numbers of deportation proceedings against illegal aliens. The new policy started quietly about a month ago in Houston.Unable to get an amnesty bill through Congress and facing ever plummeting poll numbers, Obama has simply decided to become our undocumented dictator and make up his own laws.Read the whole story here.More here.

• I'm a victim too says the widow of 7/7 bomber, in legal aid claim that could delay inquest.The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims’ inquest - saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity.Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner’s decision to exclude Khan’s death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings.

• Ground Zero Mosque Developer’s Ad on Muslim Website: “We are Trying to Build a Mosque That Holds 1,000 Worshippers Only 2 Blocks From Ground Zero”.Now of course the developers go to great lengths (and the left even further) not to call it a mosque.Supporters of the “Ground Zero mosque” have been oddly obsessed with the idea that the proposed Islamic center shouldn’t be called a “mosque.” As Frank Rich wrote last Sunday in the New York Times: “It’s not a mosque but an Islamic cultural center containing a prayer room.”But the website for the project, once called the “Cordoba House” and now known as “Park51,” explicitly refers to “the mosque,” although it tries to minimize the mosque’s importance for some reason.

• Hindus attacked, evicted from ancestral colonies in Sindh land grab scheme.MIRPURKHAS, Sindh: Hindus from the Megwar community have been thrown out from their ancestral property after a Muslim cleric accused a young Hindu of blaspheming the prophet of Islam, Mohammad.

• Ground Zero Mosque: Reciprocity in Riyadh first Part 1.Wyomingites wonder why these Americans are not calling for the same ‘religious tolerance’ and ‘freedom of religion’ for non-Muslims in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SA), the capital.

• How Arabs view the anti-mosque movement.several recent articles claim that the mosque had become the #1 topic of discussion on jihadist forums. Both are wrong, in different ways. Most Arab columnists agree with the argument that the anti-mosque movement will badly harm Arab and Muslim views of the United States, contra Rashed, but there isn't as much active discussion of it in the forums as you'd expect. That isn't a reason to relax, though. The impact is likely to be felt not so much on extremists, whose views about America are rather fixed, but on the vast middle ground, the Arab and Muslim mainstream which both the Bush and Obama administrations have recognized as crucial both for defeating al-Qaeda and for achieving broad American national interests. And that mainstream, not the extremists themselves, is where our attention needs to be focused.

• So It Begins: DHS implements 'Backdoor Amnesty' and other startling immigration stories our beloved legacy media forgot to report.At the intersection of incompetence and ideology lies a crossroads called Legacy Media.

• Sarkozy warns world powers will mobilize against Iran if nuclear talks fail.Israel and Iran's Gulf Arab neighbors are concerned about its increasing clout in the region and the prospect of it acquiring nuclear weapons.

• Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats.One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.

• HT:TheAmericanDream.The ABC’s Of The Great American Housing Crisis.It doesn't take a genius to realize that a horrific housing crisis in unfolding right in front of our eyes. Yesterday it was announced that existing home sales plummeted 27 percent in the month of July. Today it was announced that new homes sales dropped to the lowest level ever recorded in July. But why is this happening? Why is the American Dream still dying for millions of American families? Wasn't the recession supposed to be over by now? Weren't home prices supposed to be moving back up by this time?

• If you disagree with the Obama Regime, you could be penalized by the IRS.Z STREET, a pro-Israel non-profit corporation, filed a lawsuit in federal court today charging that the IRS violated the organization’s First Amendment rights. The suit was filed after Z STREET was told by an IRS official that its application for tax-exempt status has been delayed because an IRS policy requires consideration of whether a group’s views on Israel differ from those of the current Administration. “Not only is it patently un-American but it is also a clear violation of the First Amendment for a government agency to penalize an organization because of its political position on Israel or anything else,” said Z STREET president Lori Lowenthal Marcus, a former First Amendment lawyer. “This situation is the same as if the government denied a driver’s license to people because they were Republicans or Democrats. It goes against everything for which our country stands.”

• HT:Elder of Zion.Latest Arab rumor: Blackberry a CIA-Mossad plot!Ammon News, a Jordanian newspaper, exposes the frightening truth: that Blackberry uses jointly developed CIA-Mossad technology to read everyone's emails and messages!And they have ironclad proof. You see, Blackberry is based out of Canada. The reason? Because if it was based out of the US or Israel, then people wouldn't trust it!

• Israel asks Germany to bring fugitive Nazi war criminal to justice.Klaas Carel Faber reportedly murdered more than 20 Jews at the Westerbork concentration camp, where many Dutch Jews were sent.

• Another “Moderate” Imam and Ground Zero Mosque Supporter Can’t Bring Himself to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization.Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam Kringle, who seems like a nice enough fellow, reeled off the usual talking points about how Islam forbids terrorism and, therefore, if someone commits an act of terrorism that act is, by definition, un-Islamic.Then came the moment of truth: the very simple question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” Have a look at the YouTube clip below. Like his friend Imam Feisal Rauf, Imam Kringle won’t answer the question.

• Skyscraper near Empire State Building wins backing.A new 67-storey skyscraper has won the approval of the New York authorities despite efforts to stop the construction by the owner of the Empire State Building.The full city council backed the 15 Penn Plaza by a 47-1 vote.More on this story,here and here.

• Coffins Made With Brotherly Love Have Undertakers Throwing Dirt.COVINGTON, La.—Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina gave the Benedictine monks at St. Joseph Abbey a new calling. After the storm pummeled much of a pine forest they had long relied on for timber and income, the monks hatched a fresh plan: They would hand-craft and sell caskets.But now, local funeral directors are trying to put a lid on the monks' activities. The state funeral regulatory board, dominated by industry members, is enforcing a Louisiana law that makes it a crime for anyone but a licensed parlor to sell "funeral merchandise." The morticians are serious. Violators such as the monks can land in jail for up to 180 days.

• Early Snow in Russia.Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September.Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. Nice August weather!

• Bermuda-sized chunk breaks off Arctic ice shelf.A huge chunk of ice about the size of Bermuda has cracked off Canada's largest remaining Arctic ice shelf.The ancient slab of ice, measuring about 50 square kilometres in area and almost 400 metres thick, broke away from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island's northern coast last week, the Canadian Ice Service said Wednesday."The whole northeast quarter seems to have gone," said Trudy Wohlleben, a senior ice forecaster at the service, who first noticed cracks developing on the shelf in early August. Satellite images over the last week have confirmed the huge chunk of ancient ice shelf has broken away, she says.

• Pea sized frog found on Borneo island.Scientists have discovered a frog the size of a pea, the smallest found in Asia, Africa or Europe, on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.Adult males of the new micro-species range in size from 10.6 and 12.8 millimeters and the pea-sized amphibian has been named Microhyla nepenthicola after the plant on Borneo on which it lives, according to taxonomy magazine Zootaxa."Scientists presumably thought they were juveniles of other species, but it turns out they are adults of this newly-discovered micro species."