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• Egypt volatile situation : 160,000 Foreigners have already left Egypt !  - Al Jazeera English - Live Streams From Egypt ! Here .
• Egypt protests on Twitter!  here.
• Liveblog - Egypt's protests erupt. here.

• Developping!Egypt Vice President Omar Suleiman was Target of Assassination Attempt That Killed Two Bodyguards.A failed assassination attempt on Egypt's vice president in recent days left two of his bodyguards dead, U.S. sources tell Fox News, though that information has yet to be confirmed on the ground in Cairo.Such an attempt on the life of Omar Suleiman would mark an alarming turn in the uprising against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who only recently named Suleiman as vice president in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor.White House Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Robert Gibbs declined to address the assassination reports when asked by Fox News."I'm not going to ... get into that question," Gibbs said.Hmmmm.....This is the "Normal" course of events once Islamic extremists get involved!Read the full story here.

• WikiLeaks reveals Obama sold out Great Britain by giving Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets.WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets.The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week. Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal. The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website. Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that: America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US. Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain. Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.” Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”While the US and Russia have long permitted inspections of each other’s nuclear weapons, Britain has sought to maintain some secrecy to compensate for the relatively small size of its arsenal.Hmmmm.......Who else did the "Commander in chief" sell out ?Benedict Arnold is nodding in approval?And then he's suprised he's not welcome at the royal wedding?Read the full story here.HT:BNI.

• Mandarin One? Chinese firm in talks to supply Obama's new helicopter.After Air Force One, it is one of the world's best known aircraft. For more than 30 years America's presidents have been ferried to and from the White House by the iconic Marine One helicopter, made by Sikorsky in Connecticut.But maybe not for much longer. A rival chopper is being proposed, and to rub salt into the wound it's made by the United States' new global rival, China.The manufacturer of China’s new stealth fighter aircraft is working with a small Californian firm to bid together for U.S. defence contracts – including supplying the U.S. president’s helicopter.It comes at a time of growing American concern about the Far East country's expanding armed forces.AVIC is looking at offering China's largest domestically-produced helicopter, the AC-313, to replace the ageing Marine One used by the president, according to reports.The current Marine One fleet consists of 11 large Sikorsky helicopters introduced in 1976 and eight smaller Sikorsky models, which came into service in 1989. Sikorsky is an American company based in Stratford, Connecticut.The U.S. Navy awarded a contract for a replacement helicopter fleet six years ago, to be delivered before 2014 by an American team lead by Lockheed Martin Corporation. But the cost ballooned four years on, and President Obama cancelled the contract, asking the Navy to find a cheaper alternative.Hmmmm.....Knowing how he Apologises for America, it's not difficult to imagine a Manchurian President to fly "Manchurian One".Read the full story here.

• HT:NewsBusters.Chris Matthews: Disloyal Obama Makes Him “Feel Ashamed As An American”….MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews appeared on Morning Joe, Friday, to slam President Obama’s handling of the escalating crisis in Egypt, saying it made him “ashamed as an American.” Matthews, who famously declared Obama gave him a “thrill” up his leg, excoriated what he perceived to be the President’s disloyalty to Egypt’s leader, Hosni Mubarak.The Hardball host berated, “And Barack Obama, as much I support him in many ways, there is a transitional quality to the guy that is chilling.” He added, “I believe in relationships…You treat your friends a certain way. You’re loyal to them.”Matthews has previously lauded the authoritarian Mubarak. Pointing out Mubarak’s stand against Hezbollah and other extremist elements in the region, the anchor on January 31 wondered, “How can you say he’ll easily be replaced? This guy’s the George Washington of peace over there.Hmmmmm......."To Pull an Obama" a new expression for a stab in the back?Read the full story here.

• HT:WZ.Pres. Obama Watching Al Jazeera at White House.The Daily Beast just posted an “exclusive” look inside the White House’s “scramble” to find the right response to the unfolding crisis in Egypt this week.The short version is that the crisis caught U.S. intelligence off guard and they were slow to react. But here’s the line that jumped out at me.That’s right, even the President of the United States is watching Al Jazeera. Needless to say this is a far cry from the time (just two years ago!) thatColin Powell declared on Meet the Press that “those kind of images going out on Al Jazeera are killing us.”Now, huddled in the big office of their boss—one of the administration policy-makers trying to calibrate the U.S. response to the unfolding drama—the advisers watched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s first statement. Two television sets were running, one showing CNN and the other a satellite feed from Al Jazeera.Hmmmm.......The leader of the free world watches an Islamist  Pro Muslim Brotherhood Channel and he asks why we doubt his faith?Read the full story here.

• Gaza smuggling tunnels switch directions.Hamas transfers food supplies to stranded Egyptian soldiers on border through Gaza smuggling tunnels built to illegally transport goods into Strip.Egyptian soldiers isolated on the Gaza border by 10 days of internal upheaval are getting bread, canned goods and other food supplies from the enclave, which is usually on the receiving end of food aid.A source in the border town of Rafah said security forces of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, had been providing the troops with supplies for the past three days.The sources said Palestinian merchants in Gaza have also been smuggling vegetables, eggs and other staples into Egypt, where store owners have run out of stock because normal supplies are cut off by the unrest – reversing the usual flow of goods.Hmmmmm......Wel the Egyptians wanted "Change" start getting used to it!Join the American fools who believed in "Change "!Read the full story here.

• HT:Memri.Islamist Turkish daily, the mouthpiece of Turkey's Muslim Brotherhood, in today’s frontpage headline: "First Mubarak, Then Israel".Turkish Islamist daily Milli Gazete: “The uprisal of the people in Egypt to overthrow the Pharaoh Mubarak, threw the terrorist state of Israel into deep fear. Israel admitted that an Egypt ruled by the Islamist and democratic forces would be their nightmare, and with fear of becoming surrounded by threats Israel embraces Mubarak”.Milli Gazete is the mouthpiece of the political Islamist movement Milli Gorus founded by former PM Erbakan, where Islamist leaders of the ruling AKP, including PM Erdogan and President Gul, come from.Hmmmm......Obama called Erdogan at the beginning of the Egypt Crisis he wants a closer co-operation with Turkey.Who is in the White House acting as a US President?Read the full story here.

• HT:Memri.Iranian Women, Palestinians Who Tried To Incite Against Egyptian Regime Apprehended.The Egyptian daily Rooz Al-Masri reported that Egyptian authorities have apprehended two Iranian women and two Palestinians who were circulating flyers calling on the Egyptian people to carry out a coup against the regime.Source.

• Arab League chief says he may run for Egyptian presidency.Arab League chief Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign minister, said Friday he might run for his country's presidency but said he thought President Hosni Mubarak would remain in power until September."I do not think he (Mubarak) will leave. I think he will stay until the end of August," he told France's Europe 1 radio. Mubarak has said he will not bow to the massive anti-government protests sweeping Egypt and step down immediately but will stay on until elections due in September in which he said he will not run for a sixth term.Moussa, asked if he would stand in the next elections in Egypt, replied: "Why say no?" "I am of course at the service of my country... I am ready to serve as a citizen who has the right to be a candidate," he said.He added that he would also be happy to join a transition government if one emerged to replace Mubarak's regime. His comments came as Egyptian protesters massed for "departure day" demonstrations to force the 82-year-old veteran president to step down.Read the full story here.

• HT:JudicialWatch.Obamacare Moratorium?A decision by a federal court in Florida sent shock waves through the Obama administration on Monday. Judge Roger Vinson ruled the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it is commonly known, unconstitutional in a consolidated lawsuit that involved 26 states challenging the law.According to The Los Angeles Times: “A federal judge in Florida dealt President Obama's healthcare overhaul a sweeping blow Monday, ruling the law unconstitutional because of its requirement that Americans have health insurance starting in 2014.”Judge Vinson did not mince words in his summary judgment:It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place. If Congress can penalize a passive individual for failing to engage in commerce, the enumeration of powers in the Constitution would have been in vain for it would be “difficult to perceive any limitation on federal power” [Lopez, supra, 514 U.S. at 564], and we would have a Constitution in name only. Sure this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended.Indeed, the Florida court Monday found that the whole of the Obamacare law is void as a result of its individual mandate being unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson wrote, "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act (Obamacare) must be declared void."In addition to Virginia, 25 other states have sued to strike down the law in a consolidated case now before a federal court in Florida. Virtually everyone agrees the constitutional challenges are destined for the U.S. Supreme Court a year or two from now.Congress cannot afford to wait until then. It must impose an immediate moratorium on Obamacare now, until the weighty constitutional concerns at issue are resolved in the courts.As it stands, many of the supposed "benefits" of Obamacare's individual mandate and other provisions won't be realized until 2014. And yet, as the law winds its way through the lower courts, American health care consumers and taxpayers are already experiencing significant financial pains through skyrocketing premiums and phased-in taxes that began this year and will cost $502 billion over the next 10 years.Hmmmmm......Dump that hydra called "Obamacare" in the deepest mineshaft of the land and seal it for eternity.Read the full story here.

• HT:TheAstuteBloggers.Times haven't changed!The enemy hasn't changed.Only the courage of Arab leaders and POTUS has changed.King Hussein versus King Abdullah 2 : Hussein fought a war to the death versus Arafat and the "extremists".Abdullah is caving in.Times haven't changed; (there were islamists killing leaders, then as now), but the courage and commitment to Western values of Arab leadership sure has changed.And remember: it was the exit of Arafat from Jordan (forced by King Hussein) and his entry into Lebanon that led to the horrific Lebanese civil war:September 1970 is known as the Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود‎) in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events." It was a month when Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan moved to quash the militancy of Palestinian organizations and restore his monarchy's rule over the country.The violence resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian.Armed conflict lasted until July 1971 with the expulsion of the PLO and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.Hmmmm.....When it comes to true grit they could learn a thing or two from that 82 year old man named Mubarak!Cowardness and Courage both start with the letter C ! Read the full story here.

• HT:Businessinsider.CHART OF THE DAY: The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Looks Totally Awful!There are some weird things going on in this morning's jobs report, but the headline number was a joke, and as such, the scariest jobs chart ever looks horrid.As you can see, via Calculated Risk, the pace of the jobs recovery is not only not in line with past "recoveries" it's not even at the pace it was a few months ago.Hmmmmm......."I will not rest before there are no American jobs left"?Read and see the full story here.

• House Republicans Planning Investigation Into Obama Regime Granting Over 700 Waivers to ObamaCare Rules…The Republican congressman leading the investigation into the Obama administration’s decision to grant more than 700 waivers to the new health care law is questioning whether the law could be effective if so many waivers are needed. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) also noted the high percentage of Obama-supporting labor unions that received waivers -- which exempt them from a provision in the new health care law that bans annual limits on what insurance plans will pay for medical coverage.“The American people repeatedly have been told that the new health care law is an effective and responsible plan for overhauling the nation’s health care system,” Rep. Stearns told CNSNews.com in a statement. “Yet, if the law is so good, why are so many waivers to the law being granted?”Stearns is chairman of the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is investigating the waivers granted to various companies, unions, non-profit organizations and states and municipalities.CNSNews.com has reported that the United Federation of Teachers, representing New York City School Teachers, is the largest recipient of waivers so far. The UFT is a member of the American Federation of Teachers, a major contributor to the Democratic Party.In addition, several locals of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the United Food and Commercial Workers union, both major contributors to Democratic candidates, received waivers.Hmmmm......what will happen to all the Bribes donations that have been given in the past?Read the full story here.

• Google Earth finds Saudi Arabia's forbidden archaeological secrets!An armchair archaeologist has identified nearly 2,000 potentially important sites in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth, despite never having visited the country.David Kennedy, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia, used Google Earth satellite maps to pinpoint 1,977 potential archaeological sites, including 1,082 teardrop shaped stone tombs. "I've never been to Saudi Arabia," Dr Kennedy said. "It's not the easiest country to break into." Dr Kennedy told New Scientist that he had verified the images showed actual archaeological sites by asking a friend working in the Kingdom to photograph the locations. The use of aerial and satellite imaging has been used in Britain to locate Iron Age and Roman sites in Britain, as well as Nazca lines in Peru and Mayan ruins in Belize. But few archaeologists have been given access to Saudi Arabia, which has long been hostile to the discipline. Hardline clerics in the kingdom fear that it might focus attention on the civilisations which flourished there before the rise of Islam – and thus, in the long term, undermine the state religion.In 1994, a council of Saudi clerics was reported to have issued an edict asserting that preserving historical sites "could lead to polytheism and idolatry" – both punishable, under the Kingdom's laws, by death. Saudi Arabia's rulers have, in recent years, allowed archaeologists to excavate some sites, including the spectacular but little-known ruins of Maidan Saleh, a 2,000 old city which marked the southern limits of the powerful Nabataean civilisation. For the most part, though, access to ancient sites has been severely restricted.Read and see the fullstory here.

• New model US-Turkey business council to meet in early March.The newly established U.S.-Turkey Business Council will hold its first meeting in early March in Washington, D.C. as part of an effort to boost trade volume, which has remained virtually unchanged for years.“We have a constant $11 billion bilateral trade volume with the United States. Both Turkey’s and the U.S.’ trade with third parties are increasing but our bilateral trade is not growing. We’ll find out the reason for this and seek how to increase it,” a senior Turkish diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.The U.S. and Turkey established a new model of a joint business council in late 2010 under the framework of the “model partnership” concept between the two states. The new structure aims to bring together U.S. and Turkish business leaders to provide policy recommendations to both governments on ways to strengthen bilateral economic relations.The U.S. has declared a list of eight representatives of American companies and is waiting for Turkey to announce Turkish counterparts, which are expected to be representatives from 12 sectors, including automotives, textiles, pharmaceuticals, mining and information technology. There will be also 12 backup representatives from the Turkish side.Hmmmm.....We have Already seen the job loss (Can - USA )from the automative side(Ford).Read the full story here.

• HT:JIDF.Austria: Jews Press Charges Over Antisemitic Turkish Film.The Jewish Community in Vienna pressed charges Tuesday against cinema operators and a distributor on Tuesday, alleging that a Turkish film, Valley of the Wolves - Palestine, was anti-Semitic.Politicians and Jewish groups in Austria and Germany had criticized the action film ahead of its release on Thursday, which coincided with Holocaust Memorial Day.The film was guilty of incitement to religious hatred and insulting religious faiths, because it uses anti-Semitic stereotypes, the Jewish Community's Secretary General Raimund Fastenbauer alleged.Summing up his view of the film, Fastenbauer said: 'One of the main things is that a Jewish world conspiracy forms the background to all Israeli actions.'He also claimed that Valley of the Wolves indirectly compares the situation of Palestinians to the Holocaust.Hmmmm.....Perhaps it's time a movie is made about the Armenian Genocide?Read the full story here.

• HT:europe.world247. Belgium - Muslim Prisoner demands a “peadophile to kill” ,after strangling Fellow prisoner.The prisoner also claimed a van and five weapons. He killed his cellmate by strangulation when the 23-year-old man refused to participate in the activity.Salek Hilami then attempted to escape the psychiatric wing of the prison by taking four people hostage with a razor blade.Namur’s public prosecutor said that Hilami placed scarves around the necks of two of the hostages, buried in which were more razorblades. The inmate then reportedly pulled on the scarves to cut off air supply of his victims. The prosecutor said that the razorblades would have had dramatic consequences had they entered the victims necks. The man, aged 43, demanded the weaponry and vehicle for his escape, and also wanted a list of prisoners so that he could determine which "peadophile to kill".Previously sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for robbery with violence and taking hostages, Hilami was known as extremely dangerous. In the past he cut the ear of a prison guard.Previous before this conviction he was convicted forrape - drug use & possesion of drugs and carjacking. The hostage crisis ended after an excruciating 19 hours with the intervention of special forces. The four hostages were freed unharmed but deeply shocked. Only one of them was slightly injured as he was hit the shoulder by a rubber bullet from one of his rescuers. Hilami also has few broken ribs. Both men were transported to the CHR Namur. Hmmmm.....A pitty the death penalty is no longer in use.Read the full story here.

• German state risks Muslim anger after becoming first in the country to ban the burka.A German state yesterday became the first region in the country to ban Muslim women from wearing burkas.The country has been gripped for several months by an angry debate on multiculturalism with many Germans voicing their concerns over immigration.Hesse, a state run by Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, has now became the first German region to ban Muslim face veils for public sector workers.Hesse Interior Minister Boris Rheinsaid it was 'not acceptable' for a teacher in Frankfurt to wear a face veil because 'public sector workers are obligated to have neutral religious and political views'.The decision was prompted by a local teacher who had told her school she wanted to wear a burka in the classroom after returning from maternity leave. She had not previously worn one.In a landmark speech, she broke one of Germany’s last taboos and courted anti-immigration support by claiming those from a different background failed to live happily side-by-side with native Germans.She said that the concept where people would 'live side-by-side' did not work and immigrants needed to do more to integrate.Merkel followed the speech with more comments a short time later by saying that more immigrants should work for the state.Germany's former central banker, Thilo Sarrazin, inflamed opinion by claiming that Arabs sponged off the state and refused to integrate.Sarrazin's controversial book 'Germany Does Away With Itself' has added to the anti-Islamic feelings in Germany.In particular he singles out Muslims for failing to integrate and having low IQs.‘Muslims immigrants don’t integrate as well as other immigrant groups across Europe. The reasons for this are apparently not based on their ethnicity,but are rooted in their culture of Islam,’ he told Welt am Sonntag.Since then some of of Merkel's conservatives become more critical of Muslims, who make up an estimated 4 million of Germany's 82 million population.Hmmmm.....Just look at the Numbers how democratic is it when a minority dictates a majority?Read the full story here.

• 'Dating site' takes pictures and names of 250,000 unsuspecting Facebook users.Creators of a fake dating site have taken personal information from 250,000 Facebook profiles - and reproduced it without the knowledge of the members of the popular social networking site.Lovely-faces.com uses the names and photos of Facebook members and then gives users the option to 'arrange a date' with the unsuspecting volunteers - which leads them to the original profile page of the person. The unwitting people have been grouped into smarmy categories, such as 'Smug Women' and 'Climber Men', on the site - which is apparently an art project to highlight the dangers of social networking sites.The creators, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovic, have tried to justify their actions by claiming that the site is a merely a bid to magnify the breach of privacy permitted by Facebook.'Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating - unfortunately, without the user’s control. But that’s the very nature of Facebook and social media in general,' a statement on their website said.'If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be.'Scraping people’s information violates our terms. We have taken, and will continue to take, aggressive legal action against organisations that violate these terms,' Facebook’s director of policy communications, Barry Schnitt, told Wired.com. In total, the public profiles of more than a million Facebook users were gathered, claim Cirio and Ludovic.Hmmmmm.........Next >>>>>>Lovely court room faces?Read the full story here.

• And now for something completely different!Putin's blonde ballerina poster girl quits over erotic pictures row that upset 'old biddies'.What she did not realise is that the Maldives are under a strickt Islamic rule she may face a penalty ranging from a warning to a fine.A former Bolshoi ballerina who became a poster girl for Vladimir Putin's party has quit after posting erotic pictures of herself online.Anastasia Volochkova, 35, brought glamour to the United Russia party when she joined amid a huge fanfare in 2003 to support Putin's campaigns.But the blonde prima ballerina has angered party chiefs after she posted nude photographs of herself on her blog on January 11.Ms Volochkova joined the party in 2003 after falling out with Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre who claimed that she was too tall and heavy to be a ballerina.The former dancer endorsed various Putin campaigns and many felt that she won support by bringing glamour to the party.In an interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service, Volochkova also said she was tricked into signing a letter denouncing jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2005.'I was really deceived,' she said. 'I respect Khodorkovsky very much. He paid a lot of attention to people and to children. And I'm very sorry for his mother.'Volochkova said she never saw the actual text of the letter, which was published in 'Izvestia' and signed by 50 celebrities. She said United Russia officials told her that it was in support of Khodorkovsky.'And I can tell you that I am defending Mikhail Khodorkovsky from the heart and soul of today,' she said.Hmmmm......Senior party boss Alexei Chesnakov said Thursday that Volochkova's decision was a display of 'women's unpredictability,'Read the full story here,photoshoot here.