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                         Afternoon Posting.

• The volatile Lybian situation live streams here.

Live Blog Libya - Al Jazeera. here.

Hmmm....by the way it seems Al Yazeera is now available on cable in Canada?"If you live in Canada, contact the following cable and satellite providers to subscribe to Al Jazeera English" Bell TV: 516 - Cogeco: 182 - Rogers: 176 - Shaw: 513 - Videotron: 173

• HT:IsraelMatzav.A glimpse into one of Gadhafi's palaces.Here's a video from al-Jazeera which takes us on a tour of one of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi's palaces. This one is just outside Benghazi.Hmmm.......Swiss and American knowhow.Read and see the full story here.

• Revolution one on one!Saudi King Abdullah orders to buy Facebook for $150 billion to end the revolt.In what is being termed as pure Wall street Gordon Gecko tactics, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has decided to make an offer of $150 billion to buy out Facebook. Inside sources within the kingdom suggest that he is very upset with Mark Zukerberg for allowing the revolt to get out of control. In a personal meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and King Abdullah on Jan 25, 2011, Zuckerberg had promised that he would not allow any revolt pages to be formed on Facebook even while he allowed Egypt and Libya revolt pages to be formed. But little did King Abdullah know Zuckerberg. Had he seen the movie “Social Network”, he would have been better advised than to trust Zuckerberg.Left with no option, Abdullah advised by Goldman Sachs has decided to buy out Facebook and “clean out the weeds”. The offer on the table is $150 billion. Facebook balance sheet was shown to King Abdullah and his kingdom advisors had mentioned that it is not even worth $1 billion given that it generates no profit. But the King threw the report into the dustbin and fired his advisors and decided to hand over the investment banking mandate to Goldman Sachs who put the value at $150 billion. The deal will be all cash. It is worthwhile to remind our readers that Goldman Sachs had invested into Facebook at an unimaginable $50 billion valuation.According Goldman report, the many advantages of buying out Facebook far outweighs the cost of the transaction. Goldman Sachs made a presentation to King Abdullah of how the facebook could be used to cement his position for ever. Never again will his kingdom see another revolt. The presentation also involved some Facebook pages of bikini clad models profile among other profiles. Sources reveal that King Abdullah had made up his mind immediately and spoke to Lloyd Blankfein to complete the transaction as soon as possible.We are yet to hear back from Mark Zuckerberg on the offer though. But most analysts believe that Zuckerberg will not take the offer and will wait for King Abdullah to up the offer to at least $500billion. In the meanwhile king Abdullah has now logged on the Facebook and was buzy profiling some of the models in the Goldman Sachs presentation.Hmmmm......Good move your majesty.Read the full story here.HT:TundraTabloids.

• Obama anti-smog legislation will cost 7.3m jobs, warn industry officials.Industry officials warn 7.3million American jobs will disappear if U.S. President Barack Obama's administration tightens regulations in a bid to reduce smog.The industry-sponsored researcher who came up with the number cautioned, however, that there was uncertainty surrounding that number.Although economist Don Norman pointed out: 'Even if the numbers are half of that, the number is huge.'Last week, President Obama told his panel of external economic advisers that even though the recovery is considered to be well under way, the U.S. must deal with stubbornly high unemployment. And Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is due to give testimony before Congress this week. He is expected to reiterate that he is dissatisfied with the pace of the expansion of the economy and the amount of time it’s taking to bring down unemployment.Hmmmm......What if Obama is only interested in the money it will bring in from fines paid by companies who fail to adopt the new standards? Read the full story here?

• Your parents should have been gassed: Fresh video emerges of designer John Galliano’s racist ranting at Jewish women in Parisian bar.An explosive new video emerged today of British fashion designer John Galliano telling two young women he believed to be Jews: ‘Your parents should have been gassed’, and ‘I love Hitler’.The devastating film was shot in La Perle – the same Paris bar where the 50-year-old is said to have called another woman a ‘dirty Jew face’ and ‘ugly, disgusting whore’ with no dress sense, while threatening to kill her and her boyfriend last Thursday.Mr Galliano attended a Paris police station to meet his accusers, who have launched a criminal complaint of ‘causing injury of an anti-Semitic and racist nature.’Mr Galliano, who has been suspended from his job as chief designer at Christian Dior pending an enquiry, has in turn accused the couple of defamation.But the emergence of the video – which has been seen by journalists in Paris – will be a severe blow to Mr Galliano’s legal fight to clear his name.It was shot in La Perle in December, with Mr Galliano clearly the worse for drink as he launched his tirade. Nursing a glass while sitting alone at a table, Mr Galliano refers to the Nazi Holocaust ordered by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, in which six million Jews were murdered. Galliano says to the women: ‘People like you would be dead, your mothers, your forefathers would all be fucking gassed. I love Hitler.’When one of the women asks ‘Do you have a problem?’, Mr Galliano replies: ‘With you, you’re ugly.’The same woman says: ‘Where are you from ?’, and Mr Galliano replies: ‘Your arsehole’.Neither of the two women shouted at by Mr Galliano were, in fact, Jewish. One of their male companions started videoing the incident because he was so shocked by what Mr Galliano was saying.Hmmmm......That "outreach to Muslims" brought about an enormous increase of Anti semitisme.Read the full story here.

• Boehner rips bid to regulate Internet.Mark A. Kellner.The Washington Times.NASHVILLE, Tenn. | House Speaker John A. Boehner lashed out against efforts to regulate Internet traffic before an audience of evangelical Christian media leaders and pointedly responded to President Obama by comparing the challenge of the burgeoning national debt to the Sputnik-era space race.In a speech to religious broadcasters that received a sustained ovation at his conclusion, he said free expression is under attack by a power structure in Washington populated with regulators who have never set foot inside a radio station or a television studio.“We see this threat in how the FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet,” Mr. Boehner said.“The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller, and potentially running roughshod over local broadcasters who have been serving their communities with free content for decades,” he said to loud applause from members of the National Religious Broadcasters, a trade group holding its annual convention here.Hmmmm.....Take away all tools from the Obama regime.Read the full story here.HT: PrisonPlanet.

• HT:Pajama'sMedia.Iran Has Several Military Bases in Libya.According to an inside source, the military collaborations between Iran's Revolutionary Guards and the Gaddafi government date back to 2006.In an interview today on the Al Arabyia news network, an informed source within the Revolutionary Guards Corps revealed that Iran has several military bases in Libya.The source, who requested anonymity due to his sensitive position within the Guards, elaborated further that the Iranian military bases are located mostly along Libya’s borders with the African countries of Chad and Niger. From there, he said, the Guards actively smuggle arms and supply logistical assistance to rebellious groups in the African countries.According to this source, Guards enter Libya under the guise of oil company employees. Most of these companies are under the control of the Revolutionary Guards.The source, who is a colonel in the Guards, added that Gaddafi and his government are quite aware of these activities and have even signed joint contracts with those Iranian oil companies so that the the Guards can enter Libya without any trouble.The colonel stated that with the current unrest in Libya, over 500 Guards have been unable to evacuate and are under orders to destroy all documents.According to this source, the military collaborations between the Revolutionary Guards and the Gaddafi government date back to 2006.Hmmmm.....Ahmadinejad's 'reich'?Read the full story here.

• HT:AhmadiyyaTimes.Indonesia: 'Best to disband Ahmadiyah,' Religious Minister up to old tricks.Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali told a gathering of Islamic leaders on Sunday that the Ahmadiyah sect should be outlawed, but that the government did not have the power to make the decision.To shouts of “Disband Ahmadiyah” from an audience that included the heads of about 500 Islamic boarding schools and the leaders of at least nine Islamic organizations, the minister seemed to urge religious leaders to take the lead in pushing for the minority Islamic sect to be disbanded.“We [the government] do not have the right to disband Ahmadiyah,” he said. “That right lies in the hands of you esteemed ulema. We, the government, only have the right to regulate and control, not to disband or excommunicate.”Suryadharma told the audience in Mataram, Lombok, which included leaders from the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI), Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Muhammadiyah and Hizbut Tahrir, that MUI branches across the country had declared Ahmadiyah a deviant sect.On those grounds, he said, any request by religious leaders to have the sect disbanded was reasonable and had his approval.The minister’s statement came on the same day that Habib Rizieq, leader of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), called on Muslims nationwide to attend a march on Tuesday demanding the banning of Ahmadiyah.“If we leave them the way the are, the problem will only become much bigger. Ahmadiyah deserves to be disbanded".“Once they are disbanded, harmony will be guaranteed. I have pushed members of Ahmadiyah to form a new sect that is devoid of any and all attributes of Islam, not to ever use the word or symbol of the mosque in any of their prayer halls, and never to accept the Koran as their holy book if they call themselves Ahmadiyah. My preference would be that they all leave Ahmadiyah and follow the right path by entering into Islam.”“ The problem now is that those who oppose Ahmadiyah are fighting against those campaigning for religious freedom,” he said. “If we work toward disbanding [Ahmadiyah], those fighting for religious freedom will accuse the government of getting in the way of religious freedom.“So my question is, does religious freedom mean the freedom to insult someone else’s religion and rewrite the teachings of someone’s religion?”Hmmmmm.......Obama :"Indonesia is an example of religious tolerance" Spoken from the Muslim point of view?Read the full story here.

• ACLU Leaders Are Supporting Censorship of Israeli Speakers.The international campaign to prevent speakers from delivering pro-Israel talks at universities has been assisted by leaders of the American Civil Liberties Union—an organization that is supposed to protect freedom of speech for all. The method used to silence these speakers and preclude their audiences from hearing their message is exemplified by a now infamous event at the University of California at Irvine.Michael Oren—a distinguished scholar and writer, a moderate supporter of the two-state solution, and now Israel's Ambassador to the United States—was invited to speak. The Muslim Student Union set out to prevent him from delivering his talk Here is the way Erwin Chemerinksy, Dean of the law school, described what the students did : "The Muslim Student Union orchestrated a concerted effort to disrupt the speech. One student after another stood and shouted so that the ambassador could not be heard. Each student was taken away only to be replaced by another doing the same thing."Chemerinsky understates what happened, as anyone can see by watching a video of the event, available online (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfLs_ptJzQA). This was more than a "concerted effort to disrupt the speech." It was a concerted effort to stop it completely—to censor Oren's right to speak and his audience's right to hear him. The efforts to disrupt succeeded; the effort to stop ultimately failed. Moreover, Chemerinsky fails to mention what happened both before and after the concerted effort. There is undisputed evidence that there was a well-planned conspiracy to censor Oren's talk, and then to lie about it, which the students did after the event.The fact that radical anti-Israel zealots would support censorship of a pro-Israel speaker comes as no surprise. But the fact that the letter of support was signed by two ACLU leaders should shock all civil libertarians and supporters of the ACLU. I have been a supporter of the ACLU for half a century and was a national board member. I supported the right of Nazis to march through Skokie and I defend the right of the most virulent anti-Israel speakers to participate in the marketplace of ideas. The ACLU policy has always been to oppose concerted efforts to prevent speakers from delivering their remarks. While supporting sporadic heckling and jeering that merely demonstrates opposition to the content of the remarks, the ACLU has always condemned concerted efforts to silence invited speakers.Yet signatories of the letter—which never once criticizes the censoring Muslim Union students while condemning those who wanted to hear the speaker—include "Chuck Anderson," who identifies himself as President ACLU Chapter, Orange County and Chair, The Peace and Freedom Party, Orange County;" (a hard left anti-Israel group), and "Hector Villagro," who identifies himself as "Incoming Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California."Dean Chemerinsky, while also opposing criminal prosecution, made a point to condemn the censoring students:"The students' behavior was wrong and deserves punishment. There is no basis for the claim that the disruptive students were just exercising their First Amendment rights. There is no constitutional right to disrupt an event and keep a speaker from being heard. Otherwise, any speaker could be silenced by a heckler's veto. The Muslim students could have expressed their message in many other ways: picketing or handing out leaflets outside the auditorium where Ambassador Oren was speaking, making statements during the question and answer period, holding their own events on campus."Unless the ACLU explicitly renounces its' leaders support for students who seek to censor pro-Israel speakers, that organization will lose the backing of many who believe that all speech should be protected—not only speech approved of by its leaders.Hmmmmm.....Welcome to Obama's new "World order"?Read the full story here.

• HT:AhmadiyyaTimes.Egypt: Al-Azhar Imam Offended, Orders Niqab off, Wants Ban.Azhar Imam Orders Niqab off, Wants Ban: “The niqab is a tradition and has nothing to do with Islam,” said Sheikh Tantawi, vowing to ban it in Al-Azhar schools.CAIRO – The head of Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni world, has ordered a school girl to remove her niqab during a visit to an Al-Azhar school, saying he would seek an official ban for the face veil in schools, Al-Masri Al-Youm newspaper reported on Monday, October 5. “Why are you wearing the niqab while sitting in the class with your female colleagues?” Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi asked the 8th grader.The young girl was shocked with the question coming from the country’s top scholar.A teacher intervened to explain.“She takes off her niqab inside the class, but she only put it on when you and your entourage came in.”But Sheikh Tantawi was not satisfied and insisted that the young girl takes off the face cover. “The niqab is a tradition and has nothing to do with Islam.”After the girl complied he insisted she should not wear it any more.“I tell you again that the niqab has nothing to do with Islam and it is only a mere custom. I understand the religion better than you and your parents.”Most Muslim women in Egypt wear the hijab, which is an obligatory code of dress in Islam, but an increase in women putting on the niqab has apparently alarmed the government.The ministry of religious endowments has recently distributed booklets in mosques against the practice.The majority of Muslim scholars believe that a woman is not obliged to cover her face or hands.They believe that it is up to every woman to decide whether to take on the face-cover or not.Ban. The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar imam vowed to issue a ban against the face-veil in all schools linked to Al-Azhar.“I intend to issue a regulation to ban the niqab in Al-Azhar schools,” he said.“No student or teacher will be allowed into the school wearing the niqab.”Established in 359 AH (971 CE), Al-Azhar mosque drew scholars from across the Muslim world and grew into a university, predating similar developments at Oxford University in London by more than a century.Al-Azhar, which means the "most flourishing and resplendent," was named after Fatima Al-Zahraa, daughter of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).The first courses at Al-Azhar were given in 975 CE and the first college was built 13 years later.Al-Azhar first admitted women students in 1961, albeit in separate classes.Also in 1961, subjects in engineering and medicine were added to classes on Shari`ah, the Noble Qur’an and the intricacies of Arabic language.Sheikh Tantawi’s remarks coincided with those of Higher Education Minister Hani Hilal who has banned the face-veil in student hostels.“Face-veiled students are free to do what they want outside the hostels but there is no room for the niqab inside the women-only hostels,” he said earlier this week.Many students demonstrated against the minister’s statements and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights plans to take him to court.“The minister’s decision violates the principles of privacy, personal freedom and freedom of faith, which are guaranteed by the constitution.”Hmmmm.....The West should engrave this 'Fatwa' and show it to each Muslima who claims she must wear the niqab for her faith!Read the full story here.

• Turkish PM blames archaeological 'stuff' for Marmaray Tunnel delay.The discovery of “archaeological stuff” on the Bosphorus seabed kept the Marmaray Tunnel from being completed by the end of 2010, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday during his visit to the underground project site.“Actually, the Marmaray [project] did not have to be postponed to October 2013,” Erdoğan said, adding that the tunnel could have been finalized in 2010 but was hindered by many barriers.“First [they said] there was archaeological stuff, then it was clay pots, then this, then that. Is any of this stuff more important than people?” the prime minister asked, comments that were criticized by archaeology experts.Countless artifacts pertaining to prehistoric eras, the first agricultural societies and an ancient Bosphorus village have been extracted from Yenikapı’s seabed, making it “one of the world’s most precious underwater collections,” said Necmi Karul, a professor at Istanbul University’s Prehistory Department, according to a report by daily Radikal on Sunday. Karul said the findings were unique in the world and indicated how important Istanbul and Anatolia had been since prehistoric times.“The extracted works are so important that they changed Istanbul’s history,” said the chair of the Marmaray excavations, İsmail Karamut.“They are very important for the history of humanity and the world’s archaeology. They brought Istanbul’s history back 8,000 years,” said Istanbul Archaeological Director Zynep Kızıltan.Two female students meanwhile protested Erdoğan during his speech at the “1st Turkey Children’s Rights Congress” organized at the Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul on Sunday. The two students stood up during Erdoğan’s speech to protest the country’s education system. They were escorted out of the hall by security forces.“It is impossible to understand how they were raised that they think they can be so provocative during these kinds of meetings,” Erdoğan said afterward.Hmmmm.....Probably raised in the same 'place' where they call archeologial treasures "STUFF"?Read the full story here.

• Pictured: The horrific world of dog fighting tournaments in Pakistan as baying mob urges animals to fight to the death.These horrific images show a baying mob forming a human ring for a dog fighting tournament outside a Pakistan village.Covered in blood and limping from their injuries, the specially-trained dogs tear into each other as their owners urge them on.The animals are pulled apart from each other and then thrown back together as spectators goad them into a frenzy, before one eventually emerges the winner.The gathering took place outside the village of Lora in Abbottabad District, north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province yesterday afternoon.Dog fighting and other forms of animal fighting are common in rural areas of Pakistan, where some 70 per cent of the population of 167million reside.The tournament took place on the same day ten people were killed when two bombs exploded among a crowd of villagers watching a dog fight in Afghanistan.The explosions went off in the Arghandab district, on the outskirts of Kandahar city, where Nato and Afghan forces have been working to push out Taliban and establish order.Though dog fights are against the law in Afghanistan, they are still common and often ignored by the authorities.In this case, however, police had heard about the fight and had just arrived to break it up when a bomb exploded. Another blast went off as security forces got out of their vehicle.Hmmmmm........Islam "Dogs are unclean" but that doesn't stop them from betting on their sadistic habits,welcome to A.D. 620?Read the full 'story' here.

• HT:Memri.Iranian Draft Bill Prohibits Walking Dogs in Public.A group of 39 Majlis members have submitted a draft bill that prohibits walking dogs in public, and imposes a sentence of imprisonment on offenders. The draft bill explains that the dog is an unclean animal in Islam, and that keeping dogs is an act of imitating the West.Hmmmm......How long before Bo gets the same treatment?Read the full story here.

• HT:IslamInEurope.Wilders: 'The anti-Islam wave is unstoppable'.From an interview with Geert Wilders, translated from NU.nl:

Q: But do other countries also want those far-reaching measures in the field of immigration?

A: If it's not because they want it, it's because they fear they themselves will get a PVV party. Look at Germany. Or at Cameron in England. People are waking up there too. People don't take it any more."

The times when CDU and CDA could ignore problems are definitely over. It's not a passing comet or something similar. The genie is out of the bottle and will never go back. Never.

We're having here our own little revolution.

Q: What's happening in Germany and England, do you also see that as a sort of fear of the PVV?

A: Merkel lost half of her electorate in Hamburg. and that is yet one of the richest cities in Germany. I hope that Stadtkewitz will do well with his freedom party in the next elections.

And look at what the book "Germany Does Away With Itself" by SPD member Thilo Sarrazin has released there. He's not a charismatic man, otherwise he could have gotten 20% of the votes.

And if in England somebody would establish a party between the racist BNP and the conservatives, they'll also get 20% of the votes.

I would love to establish a party in all those countries. The people want it. A sort of anti-Islam wave which, I apologize if it sounds too fanatical, is unstoppable.

Q: The de-pillarisation [ie, breaking down the old religious and socio-political barriers] already changed a lot. How will the landscape here and in Europe look in a few years?

A: In my view we're in an intermediate stage. People aren't listened to anymore. Especially when it comes to the multicultural society, but also other things. Look at the referendum on the European constitution. Two thirds of Parliament said 'yes', two thirds of the Dutch said 'no'.

This will happen more often if we have referendums more often. Many politicians are afraid of it. It affects their existence, their power, their job, subsidy, world image, illusion. Those times are over.It's also about political culture. Politicians think they can change the contents with small steps. The times when people followed the politicians is over. Politicians are waking up frightened and are seeing that they must follow the people. That's not always up their alley.Read the full story here.

• Israeli ambassador warns of anti-Semitism in Serbia after incident in reality show.BELGRADE, Serbia - Israel's ambassador in Serbia has warned of growing anti-Semitism after a popular singer publicly blasted Jews in a reality show.Singer Maja Nikolic was expelled last week from the Dvor (Court) reality show on Serbia's Pink television after she said she "disliked Jews."Nikolic also faces possible criminal charges for spreading racial hatred.Ambassador Arthur Koll said Monday he is "appalled" by the incident. "Lately an increase of anti-Semitic incidents has been recorded in Serbia, this being the latest and most visible one," he said.Koll urged the "full attention of relevant state and civic organs."Serbia recently has seen a rise in right-wing extremism, including violence against foreigners and anti-Semitic incidents.Hmmmm.......Obama "Islam is a great religion",come to think of it when was the last time he went to church?With all these parties i'm loosing track of the expression of his 'Christian' faith.Read the full story here.

• It seems Google's email service wipes entire email accounts of tens of thousands of Gmail users.About 150,000 Gmail users have had their accounts deleted, including every email, application, contact and calendar information, Google confirmed today.The problem first arose late yesterday when thousands logged onto their accounts, only to find all their personal information had been erased.Many found that their accounts had been effectively reset, as they were greeted by the message Google welcomes new users with.Their frustration swiftly found its way onto online message boards where they complained that everything had been lost.One frustrated user wrote: ‘I have lost ALL on my emails/folders etc from Gmail. Why would this happen? How can I restore everything?’ Earlier today a Google spokesman told the Huffington Post: ‘We’ve already fixed the problem for some individuals.'Our engineers are working as quickly as possible and we hope to have everything back to normal soon. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience to our customers.’Initial estimates were that 0.23 per cent of all users were affected, but this was revised down by Google to 0.08 per cent, or around 150,000 users.Hmmmm......Obama having a meeting with Google does yield results it seems?Read  the full story here.