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• Sa'ar on Int'l Holocaust Day: 'We swore - never again'.Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar says remembrance will stop tragedy from repeating itself, sends warning to those threatening Israel's security during Holocaust memorial ceremony in Paris."Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt," this is the message that Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar wished to convey on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sa'ar quoted the famous verse from Deuteronomy during a memorial ceremony that took place at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Wednesday. Sa'ar said that "the universal commitment to prevent the repetition of the tragedy, which is unlike anything in the history of humanity, requires us to remember what happened on European soil in those days."The progress, the technology, the science did not stop the horror," he continued. "In large part, the opposite is true. Only the adherence to moral values will guarantee the prevention of atrocities and secure a better future for the human race. This kind of adherence requires the willingness to stand up to evil, to confront it, and sometimes also pay the price." 'Education will eradicate atrocities'Sa'ar stated that education is the key to achieving moral existence."I am convinced that the more we learn and teach about what happened in those dark days – something that is happening more and more in many nations – we will be able to immunize against the moral dullness of senses, which is what allows for man-made atrocities," he said.The education minister mentioned in his speech that the Jewish people are ancient and proud people, which has contributed spiritual, cultural and scientific treasures to humanity throughout history.INDEED NEVER AGAIN !Read the full story here.

• HT:DailyCaller.Video : Palin: Obama’s State of Union address full of ‘WTF’ moments.Read and see the full story here.

• Jewish Lawmaker Slams J Street for Position on Anti-Israel U.N. Resolution.A liberal Jewish congressman tore into the liberal Jewish lobbying firm J Street this week, saying the organization's "brains have fallen out" after it urged the Obama administration not to veto a proposed U.N. resolution condemning Israel. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., effectively cut ties with J Street, a group that raised campaign money for him last year, in a searing press release Tuesday. The tipping point was the group's call for the administration to clear the way for a Palestinian-backed proposal at the U.N. Security Council condemning Israel's settlement expansion. "I've come to the conclusion that J-Street is not an organization with which I wish to be associated," Ackerman said."The decision to endorse the Palestinian and Arab effort to condemn Israel in the U.N. Security Council is not the choice of a concerned friend trying to help. It is rather the befuddled choice of an organization so open-minded about what constitutes support for Israel that its brains have fallen out," he said. "America really does need a smart, credible, politically active organization that is as aggressively pro-peace as it is pro-Israel. Unfortunately, J-Street ain't it."Hmmmm......Neighter is the Obama administration.Read the full story here.

• U.S. missionary in Mexico Nancy Davis fatally shot.An American missionary was fatally shot in Mexico on Wednesday, police said.The preliminary investigation indicated that Nancy Davis, 59, and her husband were traveling on a Mexican highway near the city of San Fernando, Mexico, when they were confronted by gunmen in a black pickup, the Pharr Police Department in Texas said in a statement. San Fernando is south of the border city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas state."The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them," the police statement said. "At a certain point the gunmen discharged a weapon at the victim's vehicle and a bullet struck the victim Nancy Shuman Davis on the head."Davis' husband, identified as Sam Davis by family friends, drove their truck "at high rate of speed" to the Pharr International Bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande. Nancy Davis was taken to a hospital in nearby McAllen, where she was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later.The Texas Department of Public Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are also assisting, police said.Maryanne Wheeler, another friend who worked with the Davises in the 1990s, said Nancy Davis' death was a great loss."They breathed Mexico," Wheeler said. "That's their love."For 40 years she has gone around Mexico, trying to be there as a nurse, a friend, as a spiritual adviser and has loved them. They lost the best," she said. "They had a petite lady who had the tenacity of a bulldog and was there for you." Wheeler said the couple had been shot at before and knew the dangers of the border area.Hmmmm....And the Mexican President comes to lecture the American congress?Read the full story here.

• HT:WZ.Obama: Hey, You Know Who Would Make a Great Chief of Staff to Replace Rahm? Me!…In the third of Rouse’s baskets was the failure to use Obama’s gifts as a communicator to full effect. He was overexposed. He was in the weeds. The thread got lost. “With these big legislative fights, he was almost like a prime minister or negotiator-in-chief,” says the same official. “The price for that was, we lost the vision, the inspiration.”Though Obama grasped this last critique, he dismissed the charges of aloofness and insularity. When business complained that he was hostile, he cited all the times he had invited CEOs to the White House. When donors moaned about the fact that at the first year’s Christmas parties, he had done away with the tradition of taking pictures with the guests, Obama scoffed, “Big deal, they’ve all got pictures of me before.”Emanuel’s ad-hocracy, meanwhile, didn’t faze Obama. The president’s friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett sometimes pointed out that not only had he never managed an operation, he’d never really had a nine-to-five job in his life. Obama didn’t know what he didn’t know, yet his self-confidence was so stratospheric that once, in the context of thinking about Emanuel’s replacement, he remarked in all seriousness, “You know, I’d make a good chief of staff.”Those overhearing the comment somehow managed to suppress their laughter.Hmmmm......We have seen one like that before...Read the full story here.

• HT:SFGate.Prominent progressive activists announce early opposition to Obama's re-election.As President Barack Obama prepares for Tuesday's State of the Union address -- considered by many to be the real kickoff of his 2012 presidential campaign -- a group of vocal progressive activists have launched what they promise is an aggressive campaign to fight his re-election. The group of 150 liberal activists, authors, and academics -- including Code Pink's co-founder Medea Benjamin and author Daniel Ellsberg -- Tuesday released a petition announcing early opposition to Obama's re-nomination by Democrats. Many of the names included are Greens and indies, not necessarily Democrats themselves, but they said they intend to "actively seek to impede" his policies on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq as the campaign goes forward."We vow not to support President Barack Obama for renomination for another term in office, and to actively seek to impede his war policies unless and until he reverses them,'' their statement says.They charge that "since he became president, Obama has had three opportunities to work with Congress to reduce military spending, but instead has championed increases in that spending each time, despite the fact that this spending represents a clear threat to the economic future of our country.'' The group says Obama "has continued..to hide the true costs of the wars by funding them with off-the-books supplemental spending bills, despite the fact that he campaigned against this very practice.''And, they say, while escalating the war in Afghanistan, Obama was "given the CIA even greater freedom of action to launch lethal drone strikes against civilian houses in Pakistan.''Hmmmmm.........Just before the Muslim Coalition for Peace-USA demonstrates on their April 9th mass anti war and anti-islamophobia rally?Don't tell me these people are the same people as the  ones on that demonstaration?No WAY !Read the full story here.

• Protesters torch Egypt police post.Police post in city of Suez burnt down as angry protests continue to erupt despite security crackdown.Angry demonstrators in Egypt have torched a police post in the eastern city of Suez, where violence between police and protesters has racheted up amid a security crackdown.Police fled the post before protesters used petrol bombs to set it on fire Thursday morning, witnesses told the Reuters news agency. Police in Suez responded to other demonstrators by firing rubber-coated bullets, water cannons and teargas.Dozens of protersters gathered in front of a second police post later in the morning, demanding the release of relatives who were detained during a wave of unprecedented protests that authorities have failed to quell since they began on Tuesday.Meanwhile, activists calling for the outser of Hosni Mubarak, who has served as Egypt's president for 30 years, clashed with police in the capital, Cairo, in the early hours of Thursday.While the situation had calmed later in the morning, the protests are likely to gather momentum with the arrival of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, and a potential presidential rival to Mubarak.Responding to a reporter's question as he departed Vienna for Cairo, ElBaradei said on Thursday that he was ready to "lead the transition" in Egypt if asked."If people, in particularly young people, if they want me to lead the transition I will not let them down," ElBaradei told journalists at Vienna airport.But ElBaradei added: "My priority right now is to see a new Egypt and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."Demonstraters were planning another major protest for Friday, a day often used for protest in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood - the country's technically banned but largest opposition movement - said on Thursday for the first time that it would participate.Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane said that the US must strike a delicate balance."Egypt is by far one of the biggest beneficiaries of US foreign aid when it comes to military financing," our Washington DC correspondent said, adding that Egypt received $1.3bn a year from the US, second only to Israel in that respect."It would seem then, that the US has some leverage to push the Egyptian government to not crackdown on the protesters," Culhane said. Whether the US choses to exercise that leverage remains to be seen.Like Tunisians, Egyptians complain about surging prices, lack of jobs, and authoritarian rulers who have relied on heavy-handed security to keep dissenting voices quiet.Egypt's population of about 80 million is growing by 2 per cent a year. Two thirds of the population is under 30, and that age group accounts for 90 per cent of the jobless. About 40 per cent live on less than $2 a day, and a third are illiterate.Hmmmmm.....As i said El Barradei the "saviour" of the day ,the strawman for the Muslim Brotherhood?Read the full story here.

• Egypt stocks suffer 2nd biggest drop of history.Egypt's main index suffered the second-biggest one-day fall in its history on Thursday, as anti-government protests shook the confidence in one of the region's best-performing economies.The EGX30 index tumbled 10.5 per cent, its biggest drop since Oct 7, 2008 when the benchmark fell 16.5 per cent due to the deepening global economic crisis.Trading on the exchange was briefly suspended after the index slumped 6.2 per cent. More sellers appeared when the markets reopened, quickly extending its declines. The index tumbled 6.1 per cent on Wednesday.Several major stocks were suspended again after the reopening, as they breached stock exchange limits.Activists trying to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak extended their protests into a third day, making a new call for demonstrations on Friday to maintain pressure for change."When there's panic, it overrides all fundamentals and technicals," said Hashem Montasser, EFG-Hermes managing director and head of regional asset management.Montasser said it would be difficult to say how much lower the index would fall."This could be a bottomless pit. The reaction we are seeing is very much politically driven and it's difficult to say when this will stop."Hmmmm.......An indication of things to come ...as i said before.Read the full story here.

• HT:Debka.Iran rounds off grab for Lebanon with figurehead prime minister.The two days Iran's new foreign minister Ali Salehi spent in Damascus from Saturday night, Jan. 22, were enough to keep Syrian president Bashar Assad in place for Tehran's final steps in its grab for Lebanon: the installation of a puppet government in Beirut.Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah's performance Sunday, Jan. 23, was a crucial piece of misdirection: He stepped out of character to call in dulcet tones for a unity government in Beirut. This sounded as though he was following Assad's orders last week to go for a broad coalition which left the prime minister he toppled Saad Hariri out in the cold and strengthened Syrian influence in Beirut. But meanwhile, a parliamentary majority had been put together to install as prime minister Najib Mikati, a 55-year old Lebanese tycoon, who was willing to pledge in advance to cut Beirut's ties with the UN tribunal – STL – investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri and declare its summonses and rulings null and void.Mikati has built a business empire in Europe, Africa and the Middle East through his personal connections with the Syrian president and Hizballah leader and the use of their intelligence facilities to promote his interests. He was awarded the premiership in return for a commitment to disqualify the STL as his first order of business, thereby saving Iran, Damascus and Hizballah the embarrassment of a head-on clash with the international court over its summonses – not only for the extradition of Hizballah's top security officials, but also against Iranian and Syrian regime officials suspected of complicity in the Hariri assassination.By having the duly appointed Lebanese prime minister delegitimize the tribunal, all three can insist they are obliged to disobey court decrees against the will of the Lebanese government and its people and barred from following the orders of a body declared illegitimate and operating at the behest of Washington and Tel Aviv.Read the full story here.

• HT:CanadaFreePress.Western military fleets are heading to Lebanon & Israel’s army is on full alert.In a report that was published today in the Kuwaiti daily Alseyiasi, veteran analyst and journalist Hamid Gheriafi wrote that many Western and Arabic countries have been lately issuing urgent travel warnings cautioning their citizens who are residing in Lebanon to take the highest required measures to avoid being targeted by Syria’s and Hezbollah’s armed groups and advising them not to travel deep into Lebanon’s southern and Bekaa Valley regions or to go to Beirut areas where there are Sunni Shiite tensions.The report stated that the whole democratic and Free World and the majority of the Arab countries are extremely concerned that Tehran’s and Damascus’s allies could take full control of the Lebanese state and all of its institutions, including both the army and internal security forces. USA, European countries, England, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and many other countries have been conducting around the clock consultations on the highest level to abort this vicious Syrian- Iranian scheme. The Syrian-Iran full control of Lebanon will impose a dire threat to all the Arab countries, Israel, and Europe.Mr. Gheriafi learned from reliable European Intelligence sources in Brussels that at least two well equipped Western military fleets were urgently ordered to move from the Arabian Gulf to positions close to both Syria and Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea with strict instructions to fully monitor and watch the unfolding events in Lebanon, especially in case Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, succeeds in taking over the new Lebanese government.The intelligence sources did not unveil the identity of the Western fleets, but confirmed that they comprise two nuclear aircraft carriers with 210 jet fighter planes on board, and more than 30 ships carrying about 5,800 marines armed with the latest technologies.The same sources said that the Israeli air and navy forces have been on a high alert status since last Friday after Lebanon’s Druze Leader, MP Walid Jumblat, decided to join Hezbollah and Syria with his parliamentary block, giving them the upper hand and a parliamentary majority that enables them to form a new pro-Syrian and -Iranian government, killing all chances for caretaker PM Saad Hariri to return as a PM.The Obama administration will most probably halt all kinds of aid to Lebanon and even impose harsh sanctions. In this same context, all the 18 countries with troops participating in the UNIFIL forces deployed in South Lebanon on the Lebanese-Israeli border are extremely concerned about their safety. These countries are definitely going to reevaluate their participation in UNIFIL, as well their aid to Lebanon once Hezbollah’s government is in office. In conclusion: The Free World and the Arabic countries have an obligation to help the Lebanese people by all available means, including military forces in a bid to stop Iran and Syria, through its armed terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, from taking over Lebanon and turning it into an arena for evil wars against all the democracies in the world. The confrontation with the Axis of Evil is inevitable, and now it is the right time to act before it is too late and before a new Nazi dragon starts goose stepping in to devour all the Arab countries and Europe.Read the full story here.


• Thousands rally against Yemen regime.Civil unrest in Arab world spreads. Protestors in Saana call for end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime. 'We will not accept anything less than the president leaving,' independent parliamentarian says.Tens of thousands of people are calling for the Yemeni president's ouster in protests across the capital inspired by the popular revolt in Tunisia.The demonstrations led by opposition members and youth activists are a significant expansion of the unrest sparked by the Tunisian uprising, which also inspired Egypt's largest protests in a generation. They pose a new threat to the stability of the Arab world's most impoverished nation, which has become the focus of increased Western concern about a resurgent al Qaeda branch, a northern rebellion and a secessionist movement in the south.Crowds in four parts of Sanaa have shut down streets and are chanting calls for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for nearly 32 years.Hmmmm.....Spreading like cancer?Read the full story here.

• "Life or Death in Iran's Prisons".TAKE ACTION | Jailed Blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki in Urgent Need of Surgery!Detained blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki is in critical condition and is in urgent need of surgery due to a kidney infection.Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki, detained blogger who is held in Ward 350 of Evin prison, is in poor physical condition following a kidney infection causing his health to rapidly deteriorate.Ronaghi’s family told the Human Rights House of Iran that he was transferred to the Prison Clinic last night for treatment and the clinic personnel recommended that he should be transferred to a hospital. Ronaghi has refused to be transferred to a hospital however.Ronaghi stated that he would only agree to a surgery if he undergoes the procedure outside of prison and under the supervision of his family. He has demanded medical prison leave on bail.Ronaghi was arrested on December 13, 2009 and has not been granted furlough since then. After enduring one year of solitary confinement in Ward 2A of Evin prison, he was transferred to Ward 350. The prisoners in Ward 350 are deprived of telephone contacts.The Appeals Court upheld his 15 year prison sentence for “membership in the Iran Proxy internet group”, “anti-regime propaganda”, and “insulting the Supreme Leader and the President”.Read the full story here.

• Jobless Claims Jump to 454,000.The number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose sharply last week as snowstorms in some parts of the country forced companies to lay off workers.Applications surged by a seasonally adjusted 51,000 to 454,000, the highest level since late October.However, much of the increase was blamed on bad weather in four Southern states. That caused some companies to temporarily shut down, a government analyst says.Hmmmmm.....Change you can see"We created a million new jobs"......well at least on paper.You fire two million and hire one million back?Read the full story here.

• Border authorities arrest controversial Muslim cleric east of San Diego.U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a “safe place anywhere in the U.S.”The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines in Canada. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.But Jaziri’s supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.Jaziri is being held as a material witness in the criminal case against the BMW’s driver, Kenneth Robert Lawler, who has been charged with immigrant smuggling. He is at the San Luis Detention Facility near Yuma, Ariz., according to his attorney, Wayne Charles Mayer. His bond has been set at $25,000.In Quebec’s large Muslim community, Jaziri stood out for his outspoken views, and though his mosque was small, he drew outsized media attention for his strict interpretation of the Koran. Jaziri labeled homosexuality a sin and pushed for government subsidies to build a large mosque for Montreal’s growing Muslim population.“His nickname in Quebec was the controversial imam,” said Lise Garon, a professor of communications at Laval University in Quebec City, adding that his case tapped into the anti-immigrant mood in the community. “I think he was deported because people hated his ideas.”Border Patrol agents, alerted by fire fighters who saw the immigrants get in the trunk, pulled the car over near the Golden Acorn Casino, about 50 miles east of San Diego. He told agents that his journey to the border had been a long one. He took a flight from Africa to Europe, then to Central America and Chetumal, Mexico, on the Mexico-Belize border, where he took a bus to Tijuana.Hmmmm.....What interests me is WHO was he going to meet in the US?Read the full story here.

• Medicare Expert: Obamacare Won’t Hold Down Costs and You Can’t Keep Your Plan.Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare's independent economic expert told Congress on Wednesday.The landmark legislation probably won't hold costs down, and it won't let everybody keep their current health insurance if they like it, Chief Actuary Richard Foster told the House Budget Committee. His office is responsible for independent long-range cost estimates.Foster was asked by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., for a simple true or false response on two of the main assertions made by supporters of the law: that it will bring down unsustainable medical costs and will let people keep their current health insurance if they like it.On the costs issue, "I would say false, more so than true," Foster responded.Hmmmm.......Obamacare"You Fail"?read the full story here.

• Dozens dead in Iraq bomb blast.At least 37 killed after car bomb hits funeral ceremony in Baghdad's predominantly Shia Muslim neighbourhood of Shuala.At least 37 people have been killed after a car bomb struck a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, officials say.Dozens were also wounded in the attack on Thursday, which took place in the predominantly Shia Muslim neighbourhood of Shuala, in the north of the Iraqi capital."A car bomb that exploded outside a tent where mourners were gathered for a funeral ceremony killed 37 people, and 78 were hurt," a defence ministry official told the AFP news agency.Officials said that police who rushed to the scene were confronted by an angry mob that were throwing stones.The military sent in soldiers to restore order.The funeral attack was the latest targeting Shia Muslims since a spate of car bombings last week killed 57 people outside the city of Karbala in southern Iraq.Hmmmmm.....Obama: "If We Work Hard, Afghanistan Could Be a Success....like Iraq"Succes???Read the full story here.

• It's a cover-up! Iranian media raises Baroness Ashton's neckline in picture taken at nuclear programme talks.Iran has been embroiled in another censorship row after a top worn by Baroness Ashton was doctored in state media because it was too revealing.Photographs of the EU foreign minister with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili at talks in Istanbul on Friday appeared the next day in Iranian media - but showed her wearing a top with a much higher neckline than she actually had on.It appears the garment was too low-cut for the strictly Islamic country and so the image had to be doctored before publication.Some newspapers raised the top to just below her necklace, while others went as far as covering up above her collar bone.Baroness Ashton made sure to follow protocol and not cause offence by touching the Iranian politician as she posed for the picture, but she was blissfully unaware that her relatively modest attire would be too racy for Iran.The EU foreign policy chief was leading an international team of six world powers as they attempted to convince the Middle Eastern country to curb its rogue nuclear activity at the historical Ciragan Palace in Turkey's capital.Hmmmm......It's a .........Fashion statement?Read the full story here.

• Russia: Cyber attack on Iran could be risky.Russian NATO envoy seeks investigation into instigators of Stuxnet computer virus which hit Iran's nuclear facilities last year.A recent cyber attack on Iran's nuclear program could have triggered a disaster comparable to the one in Chernobyl 25 years ago, Russia's envoy to NATO said Wednesday. Dmitry Rogozin urged NATO to join Moscow in investigating who created and unleashed the mysterious and destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet. The virus hit Iran's nuclear facilities last year, temporarily crippling its uranium enrichment program, which can make both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of warheads.Rogozin told journalists at NATO headquarters that the virus could have caused the control system of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor to malfunction, leading to the release of poisonous radioactive dust into the atmosphere, as happened in Chernobyl."The virus which is very toxic, very dangerous, could have had very serious implications," Rogozin said. It "could have lead up to a new Chernobyl." "This is a security-related issue," Rogozin said. "We insist that we have an investigation with the NATO-Russia Council."The council, which meets each month, groups the alliance's 28 states and Russia to discuss security issues and to coordinate responses.Hmmmmm......Whad'Ya Know?The evil Jooooos have he Russian Bear running scared!Read the full story here.

• Fla. Rep. West’s Anti-Islam Comments Ruffles Feathers.Tea-Party backed Congressman Allen West, R.-Fla., has stirred a bees nest with negative comments about Islam. West, appearing on the “Shalom Show,” told producer Richard Peritz that Islam was the “antithesis” of America’s founding principles.At the outset of the 11-minute interview, Peritz asked West how he was going to deal with members of Congress he disagreed with, especially Rep. Keith Ellison, D.-Minn., who is a Muslim.“Well I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles [of the] people that elected me to go to Washington, D.C., and represent them on Capitol Hill,” West responded. “So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you’ve got to be able to defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse, and you just have to be able to challenge each and every one of their assertions very wisely and very forthright.”This, however, wasn’t the first time West made comments about religion. Last March, West began a speech criticizing the “Coexist” bumper stickers, which display symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religions and philosophies.“And the reason why I get upset, and every time I see one of those bumper stickers, I look at the person inside that is driving,” West said as reported by ThinkProgress. “Because that person represents something that would give away our country. Would give away who we are, our rights and freedoms and liberties because they are afraid to stand up and confront that which is the antithesis, anathema of who we are. The liberties that we want to enjoy.” West then continued on to say Islam was a “very vile and very vicious enemy that we have allowed to come in this country because we ride around with bumper stickers that say co-exist.”American Islamic groups are denouncing West’s comments strongly, saying they are disappointed that an elected official would harbor such views.Hmmmm.....Coexist?Read the full story here.

• HT:TheJawaReport.UK: Fatwa Against Home Secretary Theresa May - US/Candian Companies Providing Services to Website.Posters have been put up in Tooting, South London, calling for a fatwa against Home Secretary Teresa May. They appear to be linked to radical Anjem Choudary's Muslims Against Crusades (MAC) group. London, UK.Hmmmm.....Yup we don't need any terror warning system anymore.Read and see the full story here.

• Angry Egyptians defy protest ban. At least two people killed as thousands take to the streets in second day of anti-government demonstrations.A protester and a police officer were killed in central Cairo as anti-government demonstrators pelted security forces with rocks and firebombs for a second day, according to witnesses.Activists had called on people to rally again on Wednesday after a "Day of Wrath" the previous day had seen thousands of people take to the streets across Egypt to complain of poverty, unemployment, corruption and repression.A total of six people, four protesters and two policemen, have been killed so far in the largely unprecedented mass anger at the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president. "The people want the regime to fall," protesters chanted. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that the protests represent an opportunity for the administration to implement "political, economic and social reforms to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people".In the unusually blunt remarks regarding the longtime US ally, Clinton also said that the Mubarak government should not prevent peaceful protests or block social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook, which have helped Egyptians plan and spread news about the unrest.The White House said it was monitoring the situation in Egypt "quite closely," but unlike Clinton did not call for reform. Robert Gibbs, a spokesman for President Barack Obama, told reporters on Wednesday that the government should "demonstrate its responsiveness to the people of Egypt" by recognising their "universal rights."Asked whether the United States still "backed" Mubarak, Gibbs said only that "Egypt is a strong ally."Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, said that he believes "the Arab citizen is angry, is frustrated.""That is the point," he said. "The name of the game is reform."El Baradei called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to enact sweeping reforms in the country or face a growing danger of unrest like the events unfolding in Tunisia, the Muslim Brotherhood noted on its official Ikhwanweb site.Hmmmmm....El Barradei is calling for protests,probably he's working with the Muslim Brotherhood to take power as their straw man,lets see what comes.Read the full story here.

• Egyptian president's son 'flees to London with 100 pieces of luggage as country is rocked by second day of violence'.The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is said to have fled to London after the country was rocked by two days of riots over poverty.Gamal Mubarak, 48 and believed to be his father's choice of successor, boarded a private jet from Cairo to London with his wife, daughter and around 100 piece of luggage, according to reports.His sudden flight, reported by the U.S. based Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab came as hundreds of demonstrators hit the streets despite a government ban on protests. But strengthened forces quickly moved in and used tear gas and beatings to disperse them.Security officials said a total of 860 protesters have been rounded up nationwide since yesterday, when tens of thousands turned out for the largest protests in years - inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.They demanded president Mubarak's removal and a solution to grinding poverty, rising prices and high unemployment.After nightfall today more than 2,000 demonstrators were marching on a Nile-side road when dozens of riot police with helmets and shields charged the crowd. It was a scene repeated throughout the day wherever demonstrators tried to gather.They were the latest in outbursts of political discontent in Egypt that have been growing more frequent and more intense over the past year.Hmmmm.....The first sign of what was coming was the money withdrawals last week from foreign investors in the Egyptian stock market.Read the full story here.

• ‘Captain America’ title will be changed to ‘The First Avenger’ in Russia, South Korea.How do you sell a movie called “Captain America” to an overseas market? In South Korea, Russia and the Ukraine, apparently, the answer is you don’t even try.In private, Marvel insiders said that early on in the project’s planning there was talk that the title might need to be changed in numerous international markets but that there was a ”pleasant surprise” — the brand recognition of the comic-book superhero was so strong that it overrode those considerations in many places. That was not the case in Russia, South Korea and the Ukraine.It’s not uncommon for American films to undergo name changes for overseas to suit the international variables in taste, translation and temperament. Still, this particular title tweak might not sit well with those pundits and purists who frowned on comments last year by the film’s director, Joe Johnston, that suggested that Captain America and his alter ego, Steve Rogers, would be more measured in the way they saluted their country.Hmmmmm.......More "change"?Read the full story here.