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• Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world seismic activity in Japan today 5.2  , 5.8 Indonesia! More info here.

• Volcanic Activity : Mount Hekla -Situation Update No. 6  - Source.

• Japan - Nuclear disaster - Situation Update No. 141 - .Source .

• Japan : For the most accurate info on the nuclear disaster go to : Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog.Here.

• Bolivia hit by snowstorm.Bolivia has been hit by a major snowstorm, the biggest in decades, with thousands of people in the mountains cut off from the rest of the country. Local farmers are sizing up the damage to their crops and nearly 50,000 llamas are desperately looking for grass shooting from under a thick layer of snow. The government has appealed to the neighboring countries for help.Source .

• Breaking News! Three blasts in Mumbai, ten people dead.Home Ministry confirms terror attack.(NDTV).Mumbai: Three explosions have taken place in Mumbai on Wednesday evening - two in South Mumbai at Opera House and in Zaveri Bazar and one at Dadar West, in central Mumbai. The Home Ministry has confirmed a terrorist attack and Mumbai is on high alert.All blasts took place in crowded places. Eyewitnesses said about 15 to 20 people have taken to hospital in Zaveri Bazar. Reports said six people had died in the Dadar blast, four in the Zaveri Bazaar blast.One explosion, in a car at a bus stop in Dadar West, has been confirmed. A police officer said there might have been an explosive in a meter box behind a hoarding at Khau gali, a street filled with eateries at Zaveri Bazaar. Early reports said a police control room had received a call claiming that there were serial blasts in Mumbai. A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has rushed to Mumbai from Delhi to investigate and collect forensic evidence.An unexploded bomb has also reportedly been found in Dadar and a bomb disposal squad is working to defuse it.The police have appealed for calm. Read the full story here ,more here.

• Mutilated Body of missing boy, Leiby Kletzky, 8, found in dumpster in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn.(NYDaily).An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home alone from camp was found dead in a dumpster in Greenwood Heights early Wednesday morning, police sources said.More than a dozen NYPD detectives swarmed the scene outside the Park Slope Auto Center at 651 Fourth Ave. where the dismembered remains of little Leiby Kletzky may were discovered. Sources said the body of the Orthodox Jewish boy was found after police checked the large gray trash container, which had its lid open.Three suspects were in custody, police sources said. "I've never seen a community feel more depression than they are at the moment," Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Borough Park) said he said in an interview broadcast on NY1. "Whoever did this is sick beyond belief."Hikind said the suspected killer is Jewish.Body parts stuffed in a suitcase were found in a Dumpster at 20th Street and Fourth Avenue early this morning and more remains were the suspect's home 2 miles away, and police believe the body is Leibby Kletzky, who disappeared Monday while on his way to meet his parents.Police stormed a Kensington home just before 4 a.m. and arrested a 35-year-old man who told cops where to find the body, sources said. He is currently being held at the 67th Precinct; Investigators tracked him down by tracing credit-card purchases and through video surveillance footage.A massive search by cops and hundreds of volunteers from the Orthodox Jewish community had been underway for Leiby, who had begged his parents to let him walk home alone from camp for the first time. His parents agreed to meet him halfway between his Borough Park school and the family's home on Monday afternoon.But he never showed up - and now cops think his disappearance may be linked to a man he was seen following on the street.The Orthodox Jewish boy was filmed by a store surveillance camera standing alone about 5:30 p.m. at the corner where 45th St., 18th Ave. and Dahill Road intersect, police said. At that point, he was already far off course from a seven-block walk to meet his parents.The video shows a bearded man turn the corner and walk down Dahill Road with the boy walking behind him. The man then gets into a gold-colored sedan and drives off - but the video does not show the passenger side of the car.Leiby is not seen getting into the car or driving away with the man."We have not ruled out that the boy got into that same vehicle," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the department's top spokesman.On an earlier surveillance video, Leiby was filmed leaving the camp at Yeshiva Boyan at 4:50 p.m.About 30 minutes later, yet another video shows him walking alone on 15th Ave. near 44th St., police said. The 4-foot-tall boy was carrying a backpack and wearing blue pants and a blue shirt with green and white stripes. The encounter with the bearded man in the gold car, shown on a third surveillance video, came seven minutes later."Everyone's thinking the worst and hoping for the best," said Shmuel Eckstein, 44, a friend of Leiby's father, before the body was discovered. "He's a very good kid. He's an angel. He has no rebellious streak to him."Cops searched the neighborhood by helicopter and door to door. Agents from the FBI's New York office also joined in the hunt.The Shomrim neighborhood patrol provided dozens of members and arranged for more than a hundred volunteers to join the hunt.Hmmm......May God rest his soul and give swift justice to his killer.Read the full story here , here and here.

• The World from Berlin.For Euro Zone, It's Euro Bonds or Else!(Spiegel).Markets in Europe are being hit hard by fears that the debt crisis will spread to Italy, which is regarded as too big to rescue. German media commentators say the time has come to stop the piecemeal bailout efforts and to make the member states share liability for their debt -- via euro bonds. European markets and the euro are falling on worries that the euro crisis is about to engulf Italy and Spain, which analysts regard as too big to rescue. To make matters worse, the euro-zone finance ministers failed at their meeting on Monday to agree on a second bailout package for Greece. They pledged longer bond maturities and a more flexible rescue fund to help Greece and other European Union debtors, but they set no deadline to act, merely saying new steps would be decided "shortly." They also declined to rule out the possibility of a selective default by Greece, even though the European Central Bank is opposed to such a move.A decision has been postponed due to continuing disagreement over the terms of involving private-sector investors in a second bailout package for Greece. The euro fell below $1.39 on Tuesday, down from €1.42 at the end of last week. and the yield on the Italian 10-year bond rose to 5.9 percent, above the 5.7 percent pain threshold identified by some market participants as putting Italy's public finances under heightened pressure. The yield on 10-year bonds issued by Spain, the euro zone's fourth-largest economy, rose to 6.28 percent. German media commentators say the pressure on Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy which has strong economic fundamentals despite its high debt-to-GDP ratio, shows that investors have no faith in the EU's crisis management. The bailout efforts taken over the past 18 months have been piecemeal and achieved little more than buy time, they argue, adding that a fundamental reform of the euro zone's financial architecture is required: Member states may have to assume common liability for public debt in the 17-nation euro area via the introduction of so-called euro bonds -- a taboo until now because it enshrines the principle that strong euro-zone economies assume liability for the debts of the weaker ones.

The left-leaning Die Tageszeitung writes:

"The next approaching crisis -- in Italy this time -- shows that the euro states' rescue strategy isn't working. In fact, it shows that one can't even call it a strategy, strictly speaking. Buying time, whatever the cost -- not much more than that has happened in the one-and-a-half years since the Greek crisis erupted.""The problem is that buying time makes no sense. It entails the constant cobbling together of new bailout packages while the speculators and their henchmen, the rating agencies, set their sights on the next crisis candidate." "Even though the Italian economy is fairly solid by comparison with the other crisis countries, the nation is an easy target. All market players know that the Italian debt mountain was the highest in Europe until the Greek crisis and that the Berlusconi government was usually too busy with other matters to worry about the dreary task of balancing the budget." "If a rescue fund were to bail out Italy, it would be expensive. Very expensive. Maybe then the time will have finally come for the euro politicians to put an end to the incessant costly patch-up jobs, and to put the single currency on a new common footing. There has long been a plausible solution. It's called euro bonds. In future, all euro states would borrow funds together. Anyone who wanted to speculate against European government bonds would have to take on Germany, France and 15 other states. That would but up a roadblock to the wandering circus of speculators. It would be an opportunity to restore the primacy of governments over the markets."

The Financial Times Deutschland writes:

"The case of Italy will show whether Europe is truly prepared to defend the euro. It's not enough to call for a few austerity packages or an increase in the rescue fund to €1.5 trillion. If the pressure on the country increases, Europe will have to break what has until now been a taboo: to pool the organization of borrowing and debt -- in a fiscal union with euro bonds. Alternatively, the EU must solve the problem on its periphery so fast, sustainably and decisively that the attacks on its core will cease."Read the full story here.

• Related - Irish Debt Downgraded as Euro Worries Spread.(Spiegel).Just one week after downgrading Portuguese debt to junk status, the rating agency Moody's has slashed its rating of Irish debt. The move comes despite growing official anger in Europe at the power of the big three rating agencies. But a new aid package for Ireland, Moody's believes, may be unavoidable.The European Union in recent days has indicated it is seeking ways to limit the amount of influence rating agencies have when it comes to evaluating sovereign debt. But Moody's on Tuesday made it clear it is unimpressed. The agency cut Ireland's credit rating to junk status on Tuesday and warned that the country, struggling under an immense load of debt, would likely need a second bailout.Moody's has also kept the outlook for Ireland negative, meaning that further downgrades are likely.The move comes just a week after a similar Moody's downgrade for Portugal and as the European Union is struggling to put together a second bailout package for Greece. In addition, concerns about Italy's finances have rocked European markets this week. Collectively, the events have resulted in a rapid fall in the euro's value against the dollar. The European common currency is now at its lowest level against the dollar in four months."This is a disappointing development and it is completely at odds with the recent views of other rating agencies," the Irish Finance Ministry said in a statement. In contrast to Greece, Ireland has met the targets set for it when it received its €85 billion ($119 billion) bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last November. The Irish economy, however, has been sluggish and tax revenues are struggling as a result.In recent days, in response to Moody's downgrade of Portugal, several European officials had indicated a desire to reduce the power of rating agencies. "Europe can't allow three private US enterprises to destroy the euro," European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told the German daily Die Welt, in a reference to the so-called Big Three of Moody's, Fitch and Standard and Poor's -- though Fitch is majority owned by a French company and is based in both New York and London.Both Fitch and Standard and Poor's have so far refrained from downgrading Irish debt to junk status.Reding's colleague, Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, suggested that rating agencies should not be allowed to pass judgement on countries that receive international aid. And German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said that it must be examined whether "the oligopoly of the rating agencies can be broken up." He added that "last week there was a notification from a rating agency related to Portugal that was generally met with total incomprehension."Barnier told SPIEGEL this week that efforts are underway to break the ratings monopoly held by the three large rating agencies. "We will try to create a separate European rating agency ," he said. Such a project, however, faces several hurdles.Hmmmm........Who are the people behind Moody?Read the full story here.

• A Small City’s Depleted Pension Fund Rattles Rhode Island,how long before it spread to the whole of the USA?(NYTimes).The small city of Central Falls, R.I., appears to be headed for a rare municipal bankruptcy filing, and state officials are rushing to keep its woes from overwhelming the struggling state.The impoverished city, operating under a receiver for a year, has promised $80 million worth of retirement benefits to 214 police officers and firefighters, far more than it can afford. Those workers’ pension fund will probably run out of money in October, giving Central Falls the distinction of becoming the second municipality in the United States to exhaust its pension fund, after Prichard, Ala. “Time is running out,” warns Robert G. Flanders, the state-appointed receiver, who recently closed the public library and a community center to save money. He has no power to cancel the city’s contracts with workers, so instead he has begun approaching retired police officers and firefighters with what he describes as “the Big Ask”: will they voluntarily accept smaller benefits in the name of saving Central Falls? Some of the retirees are in their 90s, and Central Falls, like many American cities, has not placed its police and firefighters in Social Security. Many have no other benefits to fall back on. State lawmakers are trying to contain the damage, mindful that it would be a bad time for any state to seek help in Washington. Last month they rescinded an offer of state aid to Central Falls, just after Moody’s downgraded the city’s credit to “possibility of default.”Some analysts fear that a Central Falls bankruptcy, and a whiff of other problems out there, could scare nervous investors away from bonds issued by Rhode Island’s other municipalities, perhaps setting off a chain reaction that could push the state itself to the brink. There is a precedent: the last American state to default on its bonds, Arkansas in 1933, got in over its head by trying to help struggling municipalities. More recently, when local governments have veered toward bankruptcy — Orange County, Calif., in 1994; Cleveland in 1978 — neighboring municipalities have found it harder to sell their own debt. During the New York City fiscal crisis of 1975, New Jersey suddenly found its bonds harder to sell. “That type of contagion is what you’re trying to avoid,” said James E. Spiotto, a bankruptcy specialist at the law firm Chapman and Cutler, who is not involved in Rhode Island’s problems. Rhode Island has an investment-grade credit rating, but it is in no position to bail out a string of teetering cities, or take over their shaky local pension funds the way the federal government does when some companies go bankrupt. The state treasurer, Gina M. Raimondo, says Rhode Island must first stabilize its own pension fund, which continues to require more and more cash each year, despite four overhauls since 2005 that were supposed to get the cost under control. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating. If the state turns out to have understated its commitments, it could deliver a new jolt to bond markets still nervous after two traumatic years. Lawmakers in Rhode Island are trying to reassure investors. On July 1 they passed a law giving certain bonds, known as general obligations, legal priority over all other payments that municipalities must make, including retirement benefits. The measure, awaiting Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s signature, also requires Rhode Island’s cities, towns and districts to dedicate their general revenue to paying bondholders first, and to raise property taxes as much as necessary to make all payments to bondholders on time.Hmmmm.......Read the full story here.

• Project Gunrunner Tied Directly to President Obama.(BigGovernment).In a Dec. 3, 2009, article about the announced resignation of Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez wrote that Ogden hasn’t been identified with any major Justice Department policy initiatives. Now that this C-SPAN video from March 24, 2009, is making the rounds anew, it appears Ogden’s name — and that of President Barack Obama — is going to be associated with one now.That initiative — which could go down in the annals of presidential history as “Obama’s Watergate“ — goes by the name, “Operation Fast and Furious,” and it’s an offshoot of “Project Gunrunner.” Ogden is shown in the video that resurfaced Friday as he addresses reporters at a Department of Justice briefing.

“The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels,” Ogden begins, “and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the Administration’s comprehensive plan.”

He goes on to outline that plan, using the exact words below:“DOJ’s Drug Enforcement Administration, which already has the largest U.S. drug enforcement presence in Mexico with 11 offices in that country, is placing 16 new DEA positions in Southwest border field operations specifically to target Mexican trafficking and associated violence.”

“The DEA is also deploying four new mobile enforcement teams to specifically target Mexican methamphetamine trafficking, both along the border and in U.S. cities impacted by the cartels.”“DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner which is aimed at disrupting arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.”

“ATF is doubling its presence in Mexico itself, from five to nine personnel working with the Mexicans, specifically to facilitate gun-tracing activity which targets the illegal weapons and their sources in the United States.”

After watching this video, the reasons behind Ogden’s resignation after working for Attorney General Eric Holder for less than a year, appear seem clear: He wanted to reduce his chances of becoming the “fall guy” for the Obama Administration after news of this doomed-from-the-start gun-running operation became public. Nineteen months later, the “cat” that is Project Gunrunner is out of the proverbial bag.Hmmmmm......."GunWalker".These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do, one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'.Read and see the full story here.

• “A shot across President Obama’s bow,”NYC Dem Heavyweight Ed Koch Urges Voters In Weiner Replacement Election To Vote GOP To Protest Obama’s Anti-Israel Policies.(NYPost).In “a shot across President Obama’s bow,” Democratic former Mayor Ed Koch yesterday urged voters in Queens and Brooklyn to make “history” by voting for the Republican candidate to replace randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner in the Sept. 13 special election — as a protest against the White House’s policy on Israel.Koch — a staunch ally of Israel — said he would “vote for Bob Turner” if the Republican-Conservative candidate backs Israel and opposes cutbacks to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.“If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported,” Koch said in his weekly commentary.Koch likened the situation to Republican Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts Senate seat long occupied by Ted Kennedy.“I want to put a shot across Obama’s bow,” Koch said in an interview.He is furious with Obama over the president’s public push to get Israel to use its 1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state.Koch also said he’s upset with Obama for considering trimming Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to get a deficit/debt reduction agreement with the GOP.Koch’s comments are an early headache for Assemblyman David Weprin, the Democratic candidate handpicked to replace Weiner, who resigned in disgrace amid a sexting scandal.Read the full story here.

• Obama said he “cannot guarantee” that the government can pay benefits next month to Social Security recipients.(NYTimes).The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said Tuesday that a bipartisan budget deal with President Obama was probably out of reach, and he proposed a plan under which the president could increase the federal debt limit without Congressional approval for offsetting spending cuts.Mr. McConnell’s proposal reflected a growing sense of pessimism on Capitol Hill about the prospects that Mr. Obama and Congressional leaders could come to terms on a budget deal before the government’s borrowing authority hits its limit on Aug. 2. The negotiators sat down for another round of talks at the White House on Tuesday afternoon.In an interview with CBS News, Mr. Obama said he “cannot guarantee” that the government can pay benefits next month to Social Security recipients, veterans and the disabled if Congress does not increase the federal debt limit, raising the political stakes even as Republicans hardened their opposition to him.Mr. McConnell’s proposal would give Mr. Obama sweeping power to increase the government’s borrowing authority, in increments, by up to $2.4 trillion — enough, it is estimated, to cover federal obligations through next year — only if Mr. Obama specified spending cuts of equal amounts. But Congress would not have to approve the spending cuts prior to the debt-limit increase.It is not clear whether House Republicans would sign on to such a measure, given their drive to extract deep spending cuts in return for any debt-limit increase. Mr. McConnell, who after the midterm elections in November said Republicans’ goal would be to make Mr. Obama a one-term president, said in his Senate speech, “After years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is probably unattainable.”Mr. Obama, responding to a question in an interview with CBS News, said: “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on Aug. 3 if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.”He added, “This is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans’ checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out.”Hmmmm......."Thugocracy in it's natural element".Read the full story here.

• US senators voice worry over radar deal with Turkey.(HurriyetDaily).Two key US senators expressed concerns Tuesday about a possible agreement to base a missile-shield radar in Turkey, citing the NATO ally's strained ties with Israel and relations with Iran.Republican Senators Jon Kyl and Mark Kirk wrote Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seeking reassurances on the possible deal, which was described in a news report last week.The lawmakers asked for "written assurances" that data collected by a so-called X-band radar "will be made available, in real time" to staunch US ally Israel to be "fully integrated into its battlement management and control."They also sought a guarantee that "Turkish entities are not engaged, or suspected of engaging" in activities that fall afoul of various US laws aimed at curbing suspected nuclear weapons programs in Iran and Syria and keeping sensitive know-how from North Korea.And President Barack Obama's administration must also certify that the powerful radar will only be operated by US personnel, and for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except for maintenance breaks, the senators said.Kirk and Kyl, the number-two Senate Republican, also questioned whether the reported decision to locate the radar in Turkey would "ensure the best defense of the United States against the Iranian long-range ballistic missile threat."They cited a US Missile Defense Agency study that found that the South Caucasus to be "the optimum placement" if the system is designed to defend against an eventual Iranian ballistic missile attack."The administration's plans for missile defense will require the cooperation of the Congress; the prospects for such cooperation are jeopardized if the Congress is not provided the information it requests," they warned.Hmmmm.......Finally some good common sense.Read the full story here.

• 50 - year -old U.S. woman and 14-year-old son abducted by suspected Islamists in Philippines.(DailyMail).A 50-year-old American woman and young son visiting relatives in the Philippines were abducted by armed men today. Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, her 14-year-old son Kevin and 19-year-old Filipino nephew Romnick Jackaria were snatched by more than a dozen gunmen from a resort on the island of Tictabon.The island lies in the troubled south, near a stronghold of Al Qaeda-linked militants, officials said.The mother and son are both naturalised U.S. citizens.Suspicion fell on the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which has been blamed for ransom kidnappings, beheadings and bombings in the last two decadesAnother possibility is a Muslim rebel commander whose group has been linked to previous abductions.The 400-plus Abu Sayyaf militants, who are fighting for an Islamist state in the predominantly Christian nation, are holding three other kidnap victims, including a child, as part of desperate efforts to raise funds, according to the Philippine army.The assailants seized the trio before dawn from a house in the island village, part of Zamboanga city, and then fled with their captives in two motorised boats, said police Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo.There has been no contact or ransom demand from the abductors, and their identities remain unconfirmed, de Ocampo said.The abduction took place near Basilan Island, the birthplace and stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf militants, about 550 miles south of Manila.The largest Muslim separatist group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, also has a presence in the area but they have been negotiating with the government amid a ceasefire that has been largely holding in the restive southern Philippines for several years.However, the military said a separatist Moro commander identified as Waning Abdulsalam may have been responsible. Rebel spokesman Von Al Haq said his group would investigate but that it has no such report and will not tolerate criminal activities.Police earlier said the woman was a Filipino married to a German national and that the family lives in the U.S. state of Virginia.Hmmmm......."the religion of peace".Read the full story here.

• Has Islam Replaced Communism As The Top U.S. Enemy?(BigPeace).A radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government – or caliphate – that it distributed a draft constitution during a recent conference outside of Chicago.It calls for the death penalty for apostates and for creating a government department dedicated to jihad.The latest Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) gathering drew more than 300 people to a DoubleTree Hotel ballroom June 26.HT is an international movement to establish a global Islamic state, or caliphate (Khilafah). Although it is officially committed to nonviolence, HT preaches a virulent brand of hatred for the United States, and for Western democracy in general. Its alumni include such violent Islamists as Khaiid Sheikh Mohammad, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and the late Iraqi jihadist Abu Musab Zarqawi. Hizb ut-Tahrir has been described as a “conveyor belt” of terror.At the conference, activists portrayed Islam as the only real force in the world standing up to the United States and the West. With Soviet communism gone, the West is now confronted with the threat posed by Islam, said a speaker identified as Reza Imam. He has served as a spokesman for the organization.“And they see the return of Islam,” he warned. “And this, brothers and sisters, is the shaking [of] the thrones.” Islam’s foes “see the coming revival of Islam, and they know what that means and they know what it means for their policies,” Imam said.At the conference, HT activists distributed a brochure detailing how the Muslim state would be governed. The document is “to be studied by Muslims while they are working to establish the Islamic State that will carry the Islamic da’wah (proselytizing) to the world,” it says. The document would govern “the Islamic State in the Islamic world” and does not target individual countries.The pamphlet, entitled “Khilafah State Structure: Introduction to the Constitution,” contains charts illustrating how a caliphate government would function along with a draft constitution.“Those that are guilty of apostasy (murtad) from Islam are to be executed according to the rule of apostasy, provided they have themselves renounced Islam,” says Article 7. Moreover, “if they are born as non-Muslims, i. e., if they are the sons of apostates, then they are treated as non-Muslims according to their status as being either polytheists (mushriks) or People of the Book.”The caliphate government would establish an “Internal Affairs Department” which would include a division of “Apostasy.”Waging jihad would be a top priority for the government. The caliphate cabinet includes a senior-level “Private Secretary” for jihad. The “Military Department” – which appears to be a cabinet-level agency –would be headed by a “Field Marshall,” who appoints a “Director of Jihad,” his second in command. Included within the Treasury department would be something called a “Department of Jihad.”The Treasury would be divided into two divisions: one handling revenue, which includes a “War booties Agency,” and the other covering expenditures, which includes both a “Dept. of Jihad” and a “Director of Jihad Office” on its organizational chart.Articles 51 through 55 of the draft constitution would establish an “Amir (military leader) of Jihad” who would supervise holy war-related activities in government agencies.The group believes that this year’s revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Syria and other states offer Muslims an opportunity to throw off the shackles of Western colonialism.“No longer are the Muslims afraid of these regimes who have oppressed the masses,” reads a flyer for the conference that appears on the HT website. “Will the Muslim world rid itself of Western colonial interference? Will these events lead to the application of Islam and the re-establishment of the Khilafah (caliphate) State?”Arab rulers are pretending to be legitimate leaders just as Soviet Communist Party leaders used to do, Imam told the conference.For the West, the “front line” in the struggle against Islam is ensuring that the “tyrants” in the Muslim world remain in power, Imam said. Speakers cited Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani as examples of Muslim leaders who must be replaced.The Pakistani Army announced last month that it arrested Brigadier Ali Khan and four majors in an investigation of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s infiltration of the military there. Khan, assigned to Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, is the most senior Pakistani military officer known to have been arrested for alleged involvement with radical groups since 9/11.While Hizb ut-Tahrir has struggled to win followers in the United States, its name has come up in connection with several recent terror-related arrests.At Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s June 26 conference, speakers attacked President Obama as an enemy of Muslims. “Obama visits the Middle East and our [Muslim] public rulers rush to shake his bloody hands. They send up their armies to dance for him,” one speaker said. “They roll out red carpets to welcome the butcher of Iraq.”Under the caliphate, Muslims would not be forced to live “under what ‘Sheikh Obama’ or Assad or Erdogan believed” but under the rule of Islam, a speaker identified as Abu Atallah declared.Middle Eastern leaders “and their masters in the West” have been “shaken to the core,” said Reza Imam, who pointed to statements by former President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld warning of the dangers posed by the establishment of a caliphate.“They see their hard work being undone,” he said. “It’s like a dreaded, fearful occurrence for them – that Muslims want to unite and live under Islam.”“It’s criminal to them,” Imam continued. “And this is why their thrones are shaken. They’re terrorized by this – simply that Muslims want to obey Allah.”Hmmmm......Why Sheikh Obama?Read the full story here.

• Canada - Muslim Women Living In Western Countries Forced To Use Mail-Order Hymens To Avoid Being Victim Of Honor Killing.(CNews).Women who cannot afford to get their hymens surgically re-attached in Canada prior to marriages in their cultural country of origin have a less expensive option: they can order one in the mail.Starting at just $29.95, women can order a false hymen online, shipped from China.The imports are officially banned in many Middle Eastern and North African countries, but women in North America and Great Britain are a fertile market.“We have many urgent requests from women, begging us for urgent delivery before their wedding night,” says Mike Munro, with the Hymenshop.com. The online store opened in March 2010, and sells a couple thousand per month.“There are some cultural notions out there that the ordinary person cannot just challenge and try and change them without paying a very dear price and in some case with their own lives.”In Canada, some young women from predominantly Muslim backgrounds are desperate to appear as virgins, fearing they could be killed by their families if they do not have an intact hymen on their marriage beds after arranged marriages in their cultural home countries.Some are getting plastic surgery in Canadian private clinics to re-attach their hymens.The mail-order version is a thin film containing a packet of red fluid. The website advises to insert the film 20 minutes prior to sex in order to mimic the breaking of the hymen and showing the required “blood.”Hmmmm......."DisHonor killing interuptus"?Read the full story here.

• Germany - Hitler's Nuclear legacy,More than 126,000 barrels of nuclear material lie rotting in an old salt mine.(DailyMail).German nuclear experts believe they have found nuclear waste from Hitler’s secret atom bomb programme in a crumbling mine near Hanover.More than 126,000 barrels of nuclear material lie rotting over 2,000 feet below ground in an old salt mine. Rumour has it that the remains of nuclear scientists who worked on the Nazi programme are also there, their irradiated bodies burned in secret by S.S. men sworn to secrecy.A statement by a boss of the Asse II nuclear fuel dump, just discovered in an archive, said how in 1967 'our association sank radioactive wastes from the last war, uranium waste, from the preparation of the German atom bomb.' This has sent shock waves through historians who thought that the German atomic programme was nowhere near advanced enough in WW2 to have produced nuclear waste in any quantities.It has also triggered a firestorm of uncertainty among locals, especially given Germany’s paranoia post-Fukushima. Germany was the first western nation to announce the closure of all its atomic power plants following the disaster at the Japanese facility following the catastrophic earthquake and Tsunami in March.There are calls to remove all the nuclear material stored within the sealed site but this would cost billions of pounds.Yet the thought of Nazi atomic bomb material stored underground has made headlines across Germany - and the country’s Greenpeace movement has backed a call for secret documents relating to the dump to be released to the state parliament from sealed archives in Berlin.It was in January of 1939, nine months before the outbreak of the Second World War, that German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann published the results of an historic experiment about nuclear fission.The German 'uranium project' began in earnest shortly after Germany’s invasion of Poland in September.Army physicist Kurt Diebner led a team tasked to investigate the military applications of fission. By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible.Although the war hampered their work, by the fall of the Third Reich in 1945 Nazi scientists had achieved a significant enrichment in samples of uranium.Mark Walker, a US expert on the Nazi programme said: 'Because we still don’t know about these projects, which remain cloaked in WW2 secrecy, it isn’t safe to say the Nazis fell short of enriching enough uranium for a bomb. Some documents remain top secret to this day.'Claims that a nuclear weapon was tested at Ruegen in October 1944 and again at Ohrdruf in March 1945 leave open a question, did they or didn’t they?'Ruegen is a Baltic island and Ohrdruf a top-secret bunker complex in Thuringia where local legend has it that an A-bomb was tested by the Nazis in the dying days of the war.Hmmmm.......A warning for those who believe Iran isn't ready yet.Read the full story here.

• Canada - Mallick: Time for someone to speak up for shy young girls.(TStar).Isn’t it odd how stories about Muslim school prayers now being conducted at Valley Park Middle School in Don Mills are all about religion making its way into public schools? I don’t discuss religion, ever. Feminism is my credo, and my eye was instantly drawn to the fact that girls are placed in the back, behind the boys, separated by benches used as shields.And menstruating girls are segregated, off in their own little group, like this paragraph.Stigmatized, bleeding mysteriously and bewildered by maternal instructions, these girls are not allowed to pray (I am told other religions require this as well). You can see them in the Star’s photograph, the boys at the front, the girls hidden behind, flattened in prayer, and the girls with periods sitting cross-legged or kneeling. These girls are in grades 7 and 8. OMG I am like totally remembering myself at that age and I would like have died of embarrassment except that I noticed even then that no one ever actually does. That’s unfortunate.The girls at this school aren’t toughened for ridicule, which is only part of the reason I hate their being singled out for a female function we are still learning to discuss openly in the modern West. They are sensitive, as are all young girls despite the toughness they parade. They probably won’t do what I would have done in this situation, which is lie and join the rest of the crowd because no one need know when you have your period. (Girls, this is only one of the joys of tampons. Go to Shoppers, buy the box, study the diagram carefully, and good luck.)The Toronto District School Board cares about building self-esteem for girls. Trustee Michael Coteau says he’d like the services, since they are during school hours, to follow the board’s gender-equity policy. Essentially, that would mean girls pray beside boys, not behind them.As for singling out girls who have their periods — why not just make them wear a hat with a big arrow or a flag? — no one’s discussing that. Except me, in this column. Why should it fall to me? Can some school trustee, male or female, please stand up to defend shy girls of tender age?Hmmmm......Hear,Hear!Read the full story here.

• US to sell F-16 jets to Iraq?(Ynet).Talks over sale of fighter jets, aerial defense systems focus on curbing Iranian regional influence.The United States and Iraq have renewed talks over the sale of American F-16 fighter jets and aerial defense systems to Baghdad.The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the US is hoping the deal will help reestablish Iraq's regional status and block Iranian influence on neighboring countries.Iraq had stalled the purchase of 18 fighter jets following the wave of uprisings in the Arab world, which raised concerns over the country's internal stability. Now, Iraqi officials are considering raising the number of jets to 36 and purchasing aerial defense systems that will include surface-to-air missiles and radar-guided shells.While these new systems are expected to contribute to Iraq's security and help it deter Iran from flexing its muscles, it will also pose a problem for a potential Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.Officials in Washington have stressed that if such a deal was to be signed, it would include a clause that would ensure the sensitive technology does not spill over to hostile elements.The sources noted that while it is hard to estimate the value of the sale, the former jet purchase deal, which included 18 aircraft, spare parts, training and airborne weapons was worth an estimated $4.2 billion.Hmmmm......Tanks for the Muslim brotherhood , planes for the Mullahs.Read the full story here.

• Indonesian Maid saved from beheading in Saudi Arabia Reunites With Family in Jakarta.(JakartaGlobe).An Indonesian migrant worker spared from being beheaded in Saudi Arabia for murder was greeted by the open arms of her father and children upon returning to Jakarta early on Wednesday.Aside from her family, Darsem binti Dawud Tawar, who was granted a reprieve after the Indonesian government paid Rp 4.6 billion ($534,000) in “blood money” to win her freedom, was met by a crush of photographers and reporters who had gathered at the Foreign Ministry in anticipation of her arrival.The resulting press presence unnerved the mother of three from West Java, who refused to speak and grimly tolerated the cameras. The chaos prompted Linda Gumelar, the women’s empowerment minister, to issue a plea to give Darsem space so that she could recover from her ordeal.“After she returns, we should give time for Darsem to recover from her shock and trauma,” Linda said. “We also need to make people understand to help her calm down.”Darsem’s family, represented by legal adviser Elyasa Budianto, thanked the government for facilitating her return.Darsem was convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and sentenced to death despite her claim that she had killed her victim in self-defense because he had attempted to rape her.On June 25, spurred by the public outcry over the earlier beheading of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia, the government intervened with the blood money payment.The Foreign Ministry said Darsem’s return was a heartening cooperative effort between the ministry and the president, but that the job of saving Indonesians from death in Saudi Arabia was far from over. There are 23 Indonesians facing death in that country. Hmmmmmm.........How many did loose their heads?Read the full story here.

• Police Open Fire at Islamic Boarding School Siege, Three Wounded.(JakartaGlobe).Security forces besieging a radical Islamic boarding school in eastern Indonesia have opened fire on student protesters, wounding three, National Police confirmed on Wednesday.National Police have also confirmed that they have dispatched additional forces, most likely members of the elite Densus 88 antiterror police, to the Umar bin Khatab Islamic Boarding School in Bima, Sumbawa, nearly 48 hours after a homemade bomb detonated prematurely and killed a suspected terrorist.It is understood that four platoons of local Mobile Brigade (Brimob) and antiriot police, as well as additional forces from the Indonesian Military (TNI), have surrounded the school, which is understood to house 45 students, as well as teachers and an unknown number of supporters.Students armed with sticks and machetes have been preventing investigators from reaching the scene of the explosion in a tense stand-off.National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam told the Jakarta Globe that police at the scene had opened fire on a group of students who had been hurling stones at police.“The students were throwing stones at the police chief and his personal aide. They suffered minor injuries,” he said. He said police had retaliated, opening fire and wounding three people.The report is at odds with local police officials, who have been claiming that they are adopting a nonviolent approach.“We are still using persuasive ways to avoid casualties,” NTB Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Sukarman Husein told the Jakarta Globe in Mataram on Wednesday.National Police Operational Assistant Insp. Gen. Badrodin Haiti told the Globe that “there was not a single piece of land in Indonesia that was untouchable by our officers” whenever the law had been violated.He said police would try their best to achieve a negotiated settlement and to avoid major bloodshed.The school is associated with Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), a hard-line group founded by convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir.Hmmmm......"The religion of peace".Read the full story here.

• Iran continues to execute in secret.(Persian2English).Iran Human Rights has reported on recent executions that were carried out in Iran without any announcement or follow-up report by Iranian authorities. The reports include information on secret mass executions in Vakilabad and Ghezel Hesar prisons.Mohammad Reza Mir-Heydari, the head of the security forces in Qom said in a press conference today that four people convicted of smuggling drugs have been executed in Qom prison during the last two weeks.The main theme of the press conference was about the arrest of more than 200 people, including 32 drug dealers, 79 “dangerous drug addicts”, and 137 drug users. Mir-Heydari described the four executions as “marginal”.None of those executed were identified by name and the Iranian media did not announce the news of the executions earlier.Since Iranian authorities fail to announce all the executions, human rights groups believe that the real number of executions are much higher than those announced by the Iranian media.Earlier, Iran Human Rights reported that 25 people in Ghezel Hesar prison (in Karaj, west of Tehran) had been hanged on July 3rd.…all those executed were men convicted of drug-related offences. The executions took place in the prison’s yard.These executions have not been reported by the official Iranian media.According to the group “Iranian Activists for Human Rights and Democracy”, 7 people were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison also on July 3rd. Six of the prisoners were transferred from Ghezel Hesar prison and one was transferred from Rajai Shahr prison. One of the men, who was not identified by name, was an Afghan citizen. The other six men executed were identified as, Hamid Nader, Seyed Abolfazl Azimitabar, Mehdi Bashir, Javad Abdollahvand (54 years old), Asghar, and Masoud Ali Moradi (30 years old, transferred from Rajai Shahr prison).Iranian authorities have not reported on these executions.Several human rights groups had reported earlier about secret mass executions in prisons in the province of Khorasan. According to our reports, secret mass executions have also been occurring in other Iranian prisons like Ghezel Hesar.It is believed that the number of executions in Ghezel Hesar prison might even exceed those in Mashhad’s Vakilabad prison.According to the IHR annual report on the death penalty in 2010 , in Iran, at least 474 people were executed as a result of the secret mass executions in the Khorasan province. At least 205 of the executions were not included in the annual report due to ongoing investigations.Most of the people executed were convicted of drug-trafficking.The Prosecutor of the southern Khorasan province confirmed in a press conference last week that 140 prisoners convicted of drug-trafficking had been executed in that region from the period of March 2010 to March 2011. The majority of these executions had not been reported by the Iranian media.IHR urges the newly appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur Mr. Ahmad Shaheed to pay special attention to the reports concerning the secret mass executions in Iranian prisons.Hmmmmm.......Perhaps give Iran a few more seats in the UN human rights commissions?Read the full story here.

• Iranian Authorities Block Google+ Social Networking Site.(Persian2English).Radio Zamaneh — The Google+ social networking site has joined the long list of websites filtered by the Islamic Republic.ITNA, Iran’s Telecommunications News Agency, reports that Google Plus which was announced two weeks ago, will no longer be accessible to Iranian users.Google Plus is still not officially available to all users but it would have been over the next few months; however, Iranian authorities have already blocked the site without any explanation.Iranian authorities have expanded their efforts to block internet sites since the controversial presidential election of 2009, which triggered widespread protests.Protesters used social networking sites to rally demonstrators and also to report on the protests using text and photos.Google+ is Google’s new social networking site, announced on June 28 on Google’s official weblog. It claims to offer users more possibilities than Facebook and has been designed with Facebook’s limitations in mind.Read the full story here.

• Muslim Brotherhood challenges Jordan’s king.(JPost).Upcoming demonstrations may usher in new, harsher phase of protests; Brotherhood may increase rhetoric on regime overthrow, says journalist.As it prepares for a large-scale demonstration on July 15, Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood has stepped up its criticism of King Abdullah II’s monarchy, going so far as to risk breaking the law by questioning its legitimacy."Any authority that does not rely on the people does not represent it nor does it express its interests," declared the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the Brotherhood's political wing, in a press statement issued Tuesday. Since March, the Brotherhood has vociferously criticized the government's snail-pace political reforms, organizing weekly demonstrations throughout the kingdom.Friday's demonstration may be different, experts say. Organizers plan an open-ended sit-in in Amman's Gamal Abd Al-Nasser Square, where a previous demonstration organized by a youth coalition on March 25 was violently dispersed by government security forces and pro-monarchy thugs. One man was killed and dozens injured as pro-monarchists hurled stones at opposition demonstrators."An open ended sit-in would mean a scenario similar to Tahrir Square in Cairo," Assaf David, a Jordan expert at Jerusalem's Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, told The Media Line. "The regime's big fear is that more and more people will join the demonstration and things will get out of hand."Abdullah, a key US ally in the region, has failed to snuff out protests and other political activity that has surfaced this year and grown bigger and increasingly critical of his rule in recent weeks. He has promised reforms and has re-shuffled his cabinet twice, most recently last week, but protesters have been encouraged by their Arab Spring peers across the region and by revelations of corruption in the government.  Like mass protests elsewhere in the Middle East this year, young, mostly secular figures mobilized through social media have been leading the way. But the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was formed in 1942, is the kingdom's largest and most organized opposition group and its decision to up the stakes poses a bigger threat to the king. Fahed Khitan, a political columnist with the independent Jordanian daily Al-Arab Al-Yawm, said the crowd's size scared the government less than its chants. "It‘s not unlikely that the demonstrators will raise the famous banner of Arab revolutions: 'The people want the regime to fall'," he wrote on Tuesday, adding that such calls would lead Jordan to a disastrous civil war.The Brotherhood's growing assertiveness was made clear in an interview given by Zaki Bani Arshid, a senior member, to the Qatari daily Al-Shourouq on Sunday. Bani Arshid told the newspaper that his movement was leading the popular mobilization against the government of Jordanian Prime Minster Maaruouf Al-Bakhit. The Brotherhood has refused to participate in the national dialogue initiated by the king in March to appease the opposition movement."The majority of Jordanian society is religious and believes that those who raise the banner of Islam should be trusted," Bani Arshid told Al-Shourouq.The Brotherhood is quite popular on the Jordanian street, said Fatima Al-Smadi, a journalism professor at Zarka University and columnist for Al-Arab Al-Yawm. She said the group's power was recently boosted by an American announcement that the administration would engage Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Jordanian movement’s parent organization. An expected rise in gasoline prices would also push the average Jordanian away from the government and towards the opposition, she added."The Muslim Brotherhood is the best organized opposition group, and the most capable of mobilizing the street," Al-Smadi told The Media Line. "The government's reaction to Friday's demonstration will determine whether the situation will escalate further." But Al-Smadi said it was all but inevitable that the government and Brotherhood are headed for conflict in the coming days.David of the Truman Institute said Friday's demonstrators may call for the resignation of Bakhit's government and even the dissolution of parliament, but would likely not call for the king to step down. Criticism of the King and the royal family is illegal in Jordan. But Al-Smadi said calls to topple the regime were already heard, albeit limitedly, during demonstrations in southern Jordan last Friday. She said the Muslim Brotherhood is capable of fanning the flames or extinguishing them at will."It depends on the Islamists," she said. "They can raise the rhetoric to that level." Hmmmm........Obama's "Partners"the Muslim Brotherhood.Read the full story here.

• IDF - New Flickr Set: Hezbollah Weaponry and Tactics in Lebanon.(IDF).Photos showing captured Hezbollah weaponry and tactics from 2004-2009 are now available on the IDF’s official Flickr account, as today the IDF marks five years since the Second Lebanon War broke out.The captured weapons further highlight Hezbollah’s connection to Iran, as an RPG launcher depicted in the album bears the insignia of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Iran not only supplies Hezbollah with the means to fight Israel, but it also trains Hezbollah forces as forces are flown to train in Iranian bases. Hezbollah is an immensely dangerous enemy: it is an active violator of human rights and will stop at nothing to destroy Israel.On July 12, 2006, two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were kidnapped by Hezbollah, one of many terrorist acts committed by Hezbollah at that time, leading to the Second Lebanon War. The war came to an end following UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and the release of abducted IDF soldiers.Since the war, Israel has fully withdrawn from southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah has taken advantage of in order to violate Resolution 1701, strengthen its grip on the Lebanese civilians of the area, and to instill intimidation in the minds of Israelis.This album outlines the various techniques and weaponry that Hezbollah has employed against Israel. Hundreds of rockets, grenades and rifles which were captured by the IDF were to be used in guerrilla warfare tactics and constant rocket fire at Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers as Hezbollah did everything it could to inflict maximum damage on the state.Read and see the full story here.

• And now for something completely different.Wife locked fugitive husband in cupboard and only let him out for sex.(DailyMail).A broody wife hid her murderer husband in a cupboard after he escaped from prison - and only let him out to have sex, a court heard yesterday.Claire Thomas, 40, was 'desperate' for a baby after her killer husband Wyndham Thomas had been behind bars for 12 years.Mrs Thomas hid him in a storage closet in their home in Caerphilly, South Wales, when police came looking for the fugitive after three days on the run.Thomas, 33, would only be let out of the closet for sex with Claire - in the hope she would get pregnant before he was caught.Jenet Treharne, defending, said: 'They wanted an opportunity to spend some intimate time together to start a family.'She knows that she was very foolish.'Newport Crown Court heard that Thomas knew his wife was 'very anxious' to have children when he fled his open prison in the baby jailbreak.Mrs Thomas did not know he fled - but when he turned up on her doorstep she said: 'Quick get upstairs.'Miss Treharne described Thomas as a 'very, very sad case' desperate to have children.She said: 'She had sent a letter to the justice secretary asking for IVF treatment.'Mrs Thomas is still not pregnant - nine months after her husband escaped.Her husband was serving a life sentence for murdering a father trying to protect his home.Judge Rees said she accepted the couple were anxious to have children - but that the 'foolish escapade' had pushed their plans back two years.She said: 'Wyndham Thomas has paid a very high price for it and dashed all hope for several years of regaining freedom. That, of course, means that you too have to be punished in that way'.Hmmmm.....Sentenced to 'hard labour'?Read the full story here.

• And now for something completely different.Woman: "he deserved it', she Cut Off Husband's Penis, Threw It in Garbage Disposal.(NBC).Warning: This article includes content of a graphic nature.A woman was in custody Tuesday for allegedly poisoning her estranged husband, cutting off his penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife and throwing it in the garbage disposal.Lt. Jeff Nightengale said the crime occurred Monday night at the man's Garden Grove home. According to authorities, this was the first time police have ever been called to the home. No neighbors reported any signs of fighting or screaming.Catherine Kieu Becker, 48, was booked for aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning, and spousal abuse. She was being held at the Orange County Jail.The woman, who was later identified as the suspect, called 911 to report a medical emergency at about 10 p.m."The suspect called 911 and told responding officers that he 'deserved it,'" Nightengale said.When officers arrived, they found the man tied to a bed and bleeding from the groin area. He told officers the woman had given him a drug in the dinner she had made for him.Investigators said she tied him to the bed after he fell asleep. When he awoke, the woman grabbed his penis and cut it off with a 10-inch kitchen knife, according to police. She then threw it in the garbage disposal and turned on the disposal, police said.The 51-year-old man was hospitalized at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. He was listed in serious condition. Pieces of the penis were taken to the hospital, but it remained unclear whether surgeons were able to reattach it.The rope used to tie the man to the bed and a knife were seized as evidence.Nightengale said an initial investigation indicated the two are married and going through a divorce. According to courts records, the victim filed for divorce on May 16, and is representing himself.Hmmmm......Nothing as lethal as the wrath of a woman.Read the full story here.