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• Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world seismic activity situation Equador 5.7 ; Japan 5.1 !More info here.

• Europe - Nuclear Event in MultiCountries situation update  on Wednesday, 16 November..Here.

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

• Canary Islands - El Hierro earthquake and volcano eruption – Update 21.  here , Live webcams here and here.

• Obama’s Abuse of Executive Orders: Worse than Fast and Furious?(BigGovernment).By AWR Hawkins. Operation Fast and Furious has left a hideous scar on our nation to date. It should result in the prosecution of Attorney General Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, and a slew of ATF supervisors who oversaw the ridiculous operation from the word go. As a result of their foolishness and criminality, taxpayer money was used in the purchase of weapons intentionally passed to criminals, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is dead, hundreds upon hundreds of Mexican citizens have been killed, and over one thousand firearms are still unaccounted for. (Although the lion’s share of those weapons will probably be found in Mexico, we know some are undoubtedly in the U.S. because they keep showing up at crime scenes in Arizona and Texas.)Yet as bad as Fast and Furious was, and will continue to be when as more facts unfold, I am persuaded that Obama’s clear usurpation of the Constitution via his misuse of Executive Orders is worse.In other words, although Fast and Furious was a completely lawless situation that has endangered both Mexicans and Americans physically, and which is being used even now to push for more gun control, it was largely conducted under a cover of secrecy. But Obama’s attempts to legislate from the White House are being done right in the open and pose a clear violation to the separation of powers established by our Founding Fathers nearly 225 years ago. This strikes at the very core of our nation’s foundation by disrupting the pattern and order of government set forth in the Constitution, as well as the customs and conventions we’ve trusted heretofore.The Constitution clearly gives the power of legislating to Congress – period. A check on that power resides in the Executive Office, where the president can sign acts into law or not. In this he has some discretion over what kind of acts Congress passes into law, but he has no authority to legislate: no authority whatsoever. And he cannot create authority to legislate because all authority belongs to the people, save that authority which they delegate to various office holders and branches of government in ways plainly outlined in the Constitution.Remember: All powers not delegated to the government by the Constitution, “nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” In other words, original powers outside of those delegated to the federal government continue to reside with the people (see 10^th Amendment).When Obama stands before crowds of zombie-like hippies, freaks, or union employees, and uses the mantra “We can’t wait” to justify legislating in Congress’ place, he’s not only taking a power unto himself that isn’t his to take, he’s also bypassing a check purposely placed on his office by our Founding Fathers. The simple fact is, Congress has checked Obama’s agenda and refuses to pass legislation that would further it. Yet because Obama is even haughtier than your typical leftist, he refuses to be checked.In just the past few months the little emperor has used Executive Orders to reduce the size of student loan payments, to create new gun control laws, and to enable Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to allow borrowers who owe more than their houses are worth to refinance at lower interest rates.We have a serious problem on our hands here folks. This man has absolutely no respect for our Constitution or for the office of the president. He would be king, if we would but be his subjects.Hmmmm.......I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. ~ Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776.Read the full story here.

• Richard Trumka: Occupy the Bridges!(BigGovernment).Richard Trumka, that fearless leader of the AFL-CIO, is a strange bird indeed. He uses the lexicon of Marx and Lenin, has a mustache that looks like it’s glued on, and emanates a rage previously reserved for Alec Baldwin voicemails. As a union man, he’s accustomed to living off the public dole, and since Obama assumed the presidency, has enjoyed seeing billions of taxpayer dollars used to prop up union causes and industries (like the very Detroit automakers unions previously destroyed).And although the money Obama threw at Detroit will result in a $23.6 billion loss for the American people, Trumka is unrepentant because it keeps his union operational and other Leninist outposts going strong as well.Here’s the problem – Trumka is a taker. Take, take, take, take, and after taking, all he can do is demand more. (He’s like a kid whose parents never taught the meaning of “no.”) Thus it comes as no surprise he now stands in “solidarity” with the hippies and freaks that constitute #OccupyWallStreet, which is another group of takers. Rather than work they take over public parks, march in the streets, throw rocks through windows, all while moaning that the rich won’t hand over more of their money to the unwashed masses.To date, the occupy movements have been marred by death, sexual assaults, kidnappings, drug use, attacks on policemen, masturbation in front of children, destruction of property, defecation in the streets, and a couple of bullets fired at the White House (all harmlessly enough I’m sure). And through it all, these takers have been backed by unions who are best served by dividing one portion of Americans against another using the tired rhetoric of workers v. the rich or the 99% v. the 1% or the proletariat v. the bourgeoisie.Of course Trumka isn’t without his supporters. President Obama lets him travel for free on taxpayer funded government jets in September and that freak of nature Michael Moore joins Trumka in outrage over the fact that the police in various cities are finally cracking down on occupiers.Trumka’s latest stunt is to call for occupiers to fill up bridges in cities around the nation today at 4 pm. As part of “National Occupy Bridge Day,” the plan is to shut down traffic on bridges leading in and out of major U.S. cities in order to get Obama’s jobs bill passed. I wonder how creating a public nuisance certain to outrage people driving home from their jobs is going to raise support for legislation designed to dump more money into the pockets of union thugs and hippies like those in #OccupyWallStreet?Trumka is an embarrassment. And with a mustache like that, he’d be hard to take seriously were he not inciting mobs to riot in our streets and wage war on real working people.Hmmm........"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." ~ Kennedy, John F. Read the full story here.

• Union Thug Leo Gerard Calls for a ‘Resistance’ Movement.(BigGovernment).By Matthew Vadum. The United Steelworkers (USW) Marxist president Leo Gerard believes if Big Labor can’t get what it wants through the ballot box it’s time to start cracking skulls.The Canadian-born Gerard loves a brawl. In 1999 he helped the violent anarchists protesting in Seattle block access to the World Trade Organization meetings. USW sent 1,400 goons to shut the talks down. Gerard’s agitation helped to push Algoma Steel of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, into bankruptcy in the 1990s.As the USW president since 2001, Gerard wholeheartedly supports the labor-backed Occupy Wall Street movement and wants it to become even more violent.“You’re damn right Wall Street occupiers speak for us,” he recently told left-wing radio host Ed Schultz. “They do in Pittsburgh, they do in Chicago, they do in Oakland, they do in San Francisco, they do all across the country. And I think what we need is, we need more militancy.”But occupying cities isn’t enough in the view of this man who began his career in labor activism at age 11 by handing out leaflets before a strike.Gerard explained that the left needs to start a “resistance” movement. “If Wall Street occupation doesn’t get the message, I think we’ve got to start blocking bridges and doing that kind of stuff,” he said.“And no wonder people are occupying. We ought to be doing more than occupying parks. We ought to start occupying bridges. We ought to start occupying the banks, places themselves.”Gerard is a member of the AFL-CIO’s executive committee and chairman of its public policy committee.He takes pride in the fact that the New York Times called him the “No. 1 scourge of free traders.” No wonder: A few days after Gerard visited President George W. Bush’s cabinet in 2001 the Bush administration slapped tariffs on imported steel. To help advance the protectionist agenda, President Obama named Gerard to the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.Like Karl Marx, Gerard has an interest in economics. He had planned to become an economics professor before taking a job in the labor movement. But interest doesn’t imply aptitude, and like Marx, he apparently has little understanding of economics.In an economically illiterate screed, Gerard proclaimed that America, with its $15 trillion in national debt and untold trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, doesn’t “have a deficit crisis; we have a jobs crisis.”He complained that the economic policies of the Obama administration aren’t statist enough. “In my own naiveté I was dumb enough to assume that a Democratic Congress and a Democrat in the White House would put us on a different path,” he said, arguing that massive government spending on the twin fantasies of clean energy and green technology would magically reduce unemployment.If Obama won’t move forward with big new spending plans then it’s time to bring out the baseball bats, Gerard said. “We better face up to the fact that we have to hit the streets, kick some ass, and mobilize to do something about it,” he said.I’m sick and tired of us whining about what the Democrats didn’t do. The tougher question is what are we doing, and do we have what it takes. Don’t worry about attacking Obama; attack the money! It’s Wall Street and the banks blocking a recovery and shipping our manufacturing abroad.To Gerard, it is not radical leftist agitation that leads to violence but capitalism itself. Economic “inequality,” he says, “leads to instability and violence.”And unions are on a holy mission to combat the evils of the market, he argues. “Unions are instruments of social and economic justice, and they’re instruments of democracy.”Gerard has close ties to the neo-communist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and to Canada’s socialist party, the New Democratic Party (NDP).In 2007 the Chicago branch of DSA bestowed the Eugene Debs Award on Gerard. The honor is named after the five-time presidential candidate and labor organizer who founded the Socialist Party of America.Other radical labor leaders and community organizers to receive the award are AFSCME Council 31 political director John D. Cameron (2011), SEIU executive vice president Eliseo Medina (2004), AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka (1994), Midwest Academy founder Heather Booth (1987), and United Farm Workers of America co-founder Dolores Huerta (1976).It’s just a matter of time before President Obama gives Gerard the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Hmmm......I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. ~ Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776.Read the full story here.

• Prepare For The Barakaclypse.(GraniteGrok).By Steve MacDonald.Hope and Change, Coffee Party, No Labels, Change that matters, F*ck Tea, the Wisconsin Union standoff, OWS....I must be missing some.Every one of these was or is a left wing campaign to make leftist dogma look like centrist mantra. They exist to streamline progressive/socialsit thought into mainstream thinking. They were meant to move Overton's Window further left. But they failed and so the latter iterations have become more destructive. Each "movement" has gotten progressively more unruly, progressively more violent.The next one, and there will be a next one because these are fascist/socialist radicals we are dealing with, will be more violent than each that has proceeded it. It may be Bride of #OWS or something new. The unions and the White house will again will be involved. The goal is to turn what is left of the middle class against the system and then tear it all down leaving 'government' as the only thing left to hang on to.That was always the plan, but we would not go quietly and for a reason.The majority of Americans do not want the kind of oppressive, crappy, top down, backwater, third-world government he left wants, or believes it can do the things the left wants them to believe it will. They tried to be nice but that is not working. So the left is making it's stand as if in fear of cultural extinction. It is the progressive Revolution, executed with the same incompetence typical of progressive" leadership." If the left wing narrative fails and intimidation and threats do not do the job, the Democrat leadership will turn once more to its historical solution of preference: mob violence.Have any of them, after years of fabricating angst about non-existent 'TEA Party' violence, backed away from the real destruction and violence of the #Occupy movement? Where are the denouncements and calls to protect the victims of the movement that they insist represents their ideals? There are no calls because this is what the Democrat Party Leadership wants.This is how progressives get things done. This is who they are. They try to deny you your voice, and take away your right to self defense, then give their advocates special privilege--endorsing inequality before the law and the right of mob rule.But the world is a different place. The internet and millions of cameras have done an end-around on the left wing media narrative, leaving Democrat-socialist patrons of the mobocracy hung out to dry. Gone are the days when the progressive media and the Democrat party controlled the message. #OWS failed because we were not limited to the narratives chosen for us by the left.But that will not stop them from escalating the conflict.  These radicals and their agitator in chief are not walking away from the last best chance they may ever have to finish the impenetrable superstate casting us into a crumbling socialist mediocracy.They will keep trying to draw blood even if they have to do it themselves.Hmmm........"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ~ Proudhon, Pierre Joseph.Read the full story here.

• On the First Tuesday in November, the Dead will walk the Earth and... Vote Democrat.(DougRoss).Not content with its constituencies of felons, illegal aliens, voters from other states, and clueless drones, Wisconsin's Democrat Party appears ready to borrow a page from the Chicago machine:You know what they say: 9 out of 10 Dead Voters vote Democrat. [Ed: Must be a typo on Jim's part: it's usually ten of ten]. Democrats are heading out to the cemeteries to collect names for their petition drive to oust Governor Scott Walker......From the Wisconsin DNC website, via Free Republic.
  Having realized that the site was inadvertently made public, Wisconsin Democrats appear to have taken it offline where they will presumably spread the word via Journolist.Read and see the full scam story here.

• Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader:"Syrians would accept Turkish intervention".(HurriyetDaily).A leader of Syria's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood said today that the Syrian people would accept military intervention by Turkey, rather than Western countries, to protect them from President Bashar al-Assad's security forces.Mohammad Riad Shaqfa, who lives in exile in Saudi Arabia, told a news conference in Istanbul that the international community should isolate Assad's government to encourage people to press their struggle to end more than four decades of Assad family rule.Hundreds of people have been killed this month, one of the bloodiest periods in the revolt since it began last March. The United Nations estimates that 3,500 civilians have been killed in the past eight months in a crackdown on the protests.If Assad's government refused to halt its bloody repression, Shaqfa said it might call for foreign, preferably Turkish, military intervention to protect people."If the international community procrastinates then more is required from Turkey as a neighbour to be more serious than other countries to handle this regime," Shaqfa said."If other interventions are required, such as air protection, because of the regime's intransigence, then the people will accept Turkish intervention. They do not want Western intervention," Shaqfa said.The Syrian authorities have banned most independent media and blame the unrest on armed terrorist gangs and foreign-backed militants who they say have killed 1,100 soldiers and police.NATO-member Turkey had close ties with Assad, but now regards the government in Damascus as untrustworthy. Assad has so far ignored Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's repeated entreaties to halt the violence and make urgent political reforms that the protesters are demanding.Ankara is considering imposing economic sanctions that would target Assad's government without harming the people, and is working with Arab governments to increase pressure on Damascus to halt the attacks.Several thousand Syrians, including army officers involved in the armed struggle against Assad, have taken refuge in Turkey, and the opposition has met regularly in Turkey to form the Syrian National Council.The Syrian National Council is the foremost opposition group, bringing together people ranging from exiled dissidents to grassroots activists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.After mobs attacked Turkey's diplomatic missions in Syria at the weekend, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hosted representatives of the Syrian opposition at dinner on Sunday.Turkish officials have repeatedly denied media speculation that one of the contingencies being planned is the creation of a buffer zone inside Syrian territory to protect civilians, and to make it easier for members of the Syrian military to desert.On Thursday, Turkish officials denied a report in Sabah, a newspaper regarded as close to the government, that said representatives of the Syrian opposition had requested Turkey make plans to implement a no-fly zone a few kilometres inside Syrian territory, and to expand it gradually to cover the city of Aleppo.Sabah said Turkey told the Syrian opposition that three conditions would have to be met, namely; the no fly zone was U.N. mandated, the Arab League took the initiative to support the process, and the United States and European Union acted as guarantors.French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told French BFM Radio on Thursday that France was helping Syrian opposition groups become more organised. Juppe was due to visit Turkey for talks on Thursday and Friday that would focus on Syria.Shaqfa said members of the opposition council would meet British officials soon.Hmmmm........Obama.......Erdogan......Muslim Brotherhood rising in the Midle East.Read the full story here.

• As anxiety over Iran grows, Canada forges stronger defence ties with Israel.(OttowaCitizen).By Lee Berthiaume.OTTAWA — Canada and Israel are about to complete a number of defence co-operation agreements that will significantly tighten military bonds between the two countries as tensions grow over Iran's nuclear ambitions.And Defence Minister Peter MacKay refused Wednesday to rule out a mutual-defence agreement that would oblige Canada to come to Israel's defence should the latter be attacked.Appearing together at a media conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, MacKay and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak said they anticipate negotiations will be completed by the end of the year."Israel needs strong, reliable partners, which Canada is certainly one," MacKay said. "I would argue they could not find a more supportive country on the planet."The ministers said the agreements will cover a range of areas, including intelligence sharing, joint research and development, and military exchange programs."The steps that we're taking today are in fact bringing our countries closer together," MacKay said, "and they are also allowing us to further build on a strong foundation of co-operation that will build tangible results, not just to our two militaries, but to Canada and Israel more broadly."MacKay said the agreements did not relate to basing Canadian soldiers in Israel."The defence co-operation details will be disclosed when we sign," he said.War between Israel and Iran has become a very real possibility since the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, released a report last week that laid out the most details yet of Iran's alleged efforts to build a nuclear arsenal.Neither Barak nor MacKay would talk specifically about military action against Iran, saying world leaders are in the process of deciding the appropriate response. But they also identified Iran as the greatest threat to global stability, and continued to hint at the possibility of military action."We said all along the way that we recommend to all friends around the world not to remove any option off the table," Barak said. "And I'm glad to notice that many leaders in the world recently just repeating this very phrase."While the Conservative government has been criticized for tacking a strongly pro-Israel policy since taking power, Barak said his country appreciates all of Canada's support."Israel and Canada are very good friends," he said. "We highly appreciate the support we get from the Canadian government and people on many issues. And we are proud of the deepening and strengthening of the defence relationship that we have developed."Hmmm....The first Anti-Zionist US President shown the way to go by Canada.Read the full story here.

• Tunesia - Islamist Ennahda Party “We are in the sixth caliphate, God willing.”caliphate talk causes outcry.(Hurriyetdaily).Tunisia’s secularists said their fears about an Islamist takeover were being realized Nov. 15 after a senior official in the moderate Islamist party which won last month’s election invoked the revival of a caliphate, or Islamic state.Footage posted on the Internet showed Hamadi Jbeli, the secretary-general of the Ennahda party, telling supporters that “We are in the sixth caliphate, God willing.”The caliphate was a system for governing Islamic empires based on sharia law. There were five caliphates under different dynasties until Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk abolished the last of them early last century.The remarks by Jbeli -- his party’s nominee to be the next prime minister -- complicated Ennahda’s efforts to form a coalition government, leading one prospective partner to say it was partly suspending negotiations in protest.Ennahda has reassured Tunisians it will not impose a Muslim moral code on society and will respect women’s equality, but the comments by Jbeli were interpreted by secularists as evidence the party has a hidden agenda.Khemais Ksila, a member of the executive committee of the Ettakatol party, which is in coalition talks with Ennahda, said the party was suspending its participation in two of the three committees which were working on a coalition deal. “We do not accept this statement,” he said. “We thought we were going to build a second republic with our partner, not a sixth caliphate.”However, an Ennahda official said that the party’s opponents were deliberately misreading what Jbeli had said.“Jbeli was intending to speak about good governance and a break with corruption ... not the establishment of an Islamic regime,” Faouzi Kamoun, the director of Jbeli’s office, said.Read the full story here.

• Turkey to sign deal with Shell for gas exploration in Med.(TodaysZaman).Turkey will sign an agreement with oil giant Shell for exploration of natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said on Wednesday.Yıldız said the deal with Shell would pave the way for exploration of oil and natural gas both in Turkish territory and off Turkey's coasts. He said talks with Shell will begin next week.The planned deal with Shell comes as US company Noble Energy, licensed by the Greek Cypriot administration, drills for natural gas off the island's southern coast. Turkey has protested the exploration, saying Turkish Cypriots, who run their own state in the north of the island, also should have a say in deciding what to do with Cyprus' gas and oil reserves. Turkey has also sent an exploration ship to the Eastern Mediterranean and, raising possibilities of a naval confrontation, said its exploration vessels will be escorted by warships.Turkey's state oil company Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) and Shell have already agreed in principle to a deal and the agreement is expected to be signed by the end of this month, a news report in Sabah daily said on Wednesday. According to the report, Turkey will license Shell to dig for oil and gas in Turkey's exclusive economic zone in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of the southern province of Antalya.If the agreement is finalized as planned, Shell will undertake to finance the drill, which is expected to be at least $300 million. It will bring a massive oil exploration platform to the Mediterranean and will share revenues from hydrocarbon finds with Turkey. According to Sabah, TPAO has ascertained that there are potential oil and gas reserves in three areas in the Eastern Mediterranean. There was no information on the estimated market value of the estimated reserves.Authorities say there is serious potential, particularly in Mersin Gulf, in the Mediterranean and estimate a drill of 5-6,000-meters in depth in this area is likely to find significant hydrocarbon reserves.Read the full story here.

• Thousands of Kuwaitis ‘storm parliament’.(AlArabiya).Thousands of Kuwaitis stormed parliament on Wednesday after police and elite forces beat up protesters marching on the prime minister’s home to demand he resign, an opposition MP said.“Now, we have entered the house of the people,” said Mussallam al-Barrak, who led the protest along with several other lawmakers and youth activists also calling for the dissolution of parliament over alleged corruption.The demonstrators broke open parliament’s gates and entered the main chamber, where they sang the national anthem and then left after a few minutes.The police had used batons to prevent protesters from marching to the residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, a senior member of the ruling family, after staging a rally outside parliament.Witnesses said at least five demonstrators were injured and treated on the site.Some activists said they will continue to camp outside parliament until the premier is sacked.Chanting “the people want to remove the prime minister,” the protesters started to march to the nearby premier’s residence when police blocked their way.This was the first political violence in the oil-rich Gulf state since December, when elite forces beat up protesters and MPs at a public rally, though activists have been holding protests since March.Tension has been building in Kuwait over the past three months after it was alleged that about 16 MPs in the 50-member parliament received about $350 million (259 million euros) in bribes.The opposition has been leading a campaign to oust the premier, whom they accuse of failing to run the wealthy nation and fight corruption, which has become wide-spread.Earlier on Wednesday, about 20 opposition lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary session, a day after the government and its supporters succeeded in rejecting a bid by the opposition to quiz the premier over allegations of corruption.After the rejection, three opposition MPs filed a fresh request to question Sheikh Nasser over allegations of graft involving MPs and illegal overseas money transfers.The premier, 71, has been a target of opposition criticism since he was appointed to the job in February 2006, forcing him to resign six times. Parliament has also been dissolved three times in the same period.Hmmm.....Iran's next move...go for the 'weakest' link.Read the full story here.

• Egypt Falls Into Darkness.(FrontpageMag).By DanielGreenfield.Rebuilding the Library of Alexandria some 1300 hundred years after its final destruction at the hands of its Islamic conquerors in a country where blasphemy against Islam is still a crime was always a fool's errand. But it was a fool's errand lavishly embraced by every collection of useful idiots from UNESCO to the National Library of France, which kicked in half a million books.Most of the money was spent constructing a massive edifice housing only a fraction of the books that could be found in the Harvard University Library, the Library of Congress or the British Library-- in a country with a lower literacy rate than much of the African continent. The Library was a Mubarak project and as the wonderful Arab Spring turns into the Islamic Winter, the mobs of Tahrir are coming for the library.The Library of Alexandria 2.0 is hardly a beacon of culture and enlightenment, but its arts programs, feeble as they are, have already become a target for Egypt's rising Islamists. There's no room for ballet in a country where women are expected to cover themselves head to toe in black and walk behind a man. To learn its future, we need only go back to the words of Caliph Omar who declared that if the contents of the library accord with the Koran then they are redundant, if they contradict the Koran, then they are heretical and must be burned.Ibn Khaldun, the Berber historiographer, whose statue stands in a Tunis now fallen to Islamic mobs, asked, "Where is the literature of the Persians? Their literature was destroyed by order of Omar when the Arabs conquered the country. And so the literature of the Chaldees, the Babylonians, and a literature still more ancient that of the Copts."This cultural genocide isn't discussed much by modern Western scholars who spend a great deal of time on what the Conquistadors did in South America, but are reluctant to address what the Arabs did in North Africa and the Middle East. Every traveling fair showcasing Islamic science, a misnomer in a religion that denies science, is an obscene spectacle of revisionist history by the conquerors who destroyed much of the knowledge and culture of the peoples they ground under their boot, and now want to take credit for what little they appropriated and put to use.The true picture of Islamic science is of fragments of knowledge that survived despite Islamic barbarism. Caliph Omar's encounter with the rich science of Persia is a frightening repetition of the same formula, according to Ibn Khaldun."We know that the Muslims, when they conquered Persia, found in that country an innumerable quantity of books and scientific treatises, and that their General, Saad Ibn Abi Oueccas, asked Khalif Omar by letter if he would allow him to distribute those books among the true believers with the rest of the booty. Omar answered him in these terms: -- "Throw them into the water. If they contain anything which can guide men to the truth, we have received from Allah what will guide us much better. If they contain errors, we shall well be rid of them, Praise Allah." In consequence of this order, the books were thrown into the water and the fire, and the literature and science of the Persians disappeared."What will happen to the Library of Alexandria, or to any library, under a new caliphate of the Muslim Brotherhood? The same thing that will eventually happen to the National Library of France, the British Library and the Library of Congress if the Islamic conquest continues to advance.The Christians, Jews and pagans living in Alexandria could not have foreseen the crushing dark ages that would come with Islamic rule. And many Persians, Berbers and Copts still resent Islam for what it did to their cultural heritage. New York is the next Alexandria, Paris is the next Constantinople and London is the next Babylon.When Muslims target our freedom of speech, when they tell us what we can say and think, they are acting as the vanguard of the new conquest. The Ground Zero Mosque is another Mosque of Omar, raised to celebrate the conqueror's triumph in bringing down our great buildings and erecting their own mosque nearby.The city of Alexandria once held many of the wonders of the ancient world. The Pharos Lighthouse, the Empire State Building of its day, was turned into a mosque by Muslims and then allowed to decay into ruin. Islamic rulers tore apart what was left of the building for their own projects. According to a story recounted by Al-Suyuti, the Caliph broke the lighthouse looking for the gold that he thought was buried under it and then could not get the lighthouse to work again. An apt metaphor for what Muslims are doing to the modern day wonders of the West.Alexandria's former multiculturalism has given way to Islamic dominance after the Arab-Muslim conquerors seized native women and converted them to their religion. Alexandria was once home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Today it's down to twenty-three people. But it's not only the Jews who have vanished from Alexandria.Life has become increasingly intolerable for Egypt's Christians. In 2009, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life listed Egypt, along with Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia as having the most restrictions on religion. Of the ten countries that scored "Very High" along with Egypt, only two, China and Burma, were non-Muslim. That was in the Mubarak era, the rise of the Brotherhood means that Copts, Bahai and other minorities will be able to look back on those days with nostalgia before the unfiltered version of Islam held sway over Egypt.Al-Azhar University's Islamic Research Council already controls what books may be published. It has succeeded in banning books directly through legal channels or through rioting and threats. Islamic pressure has resulted in the censorship of even the American University library. And the IRC has the power to seize books, magazines and other materials that violate Islamic codes. How long until the IRC's power extends directly into the Library of Alexandria? Not very long.Three years before the UNESCO design competition for the new Library of Alexandria began, an Egyptian court confiscated three thousand copies of "One Thousand and One Nights". If one of the classics of Arabic literature could be seized that way and its publisher prosecuted, then any lesser book could.The Library is a relic of the Mubarak era and it is easy for Islamists to make the case against an expensive building full of heretical books while the population doesn't have enough to eat. The question isn't whether Islam will burn the Library of Alexandria a second time around, but of when it will get around to pouring the gasoline and lighting the flames.Read the full story here.

• Saudi Religious Police to Crack Down on Women with Alluring Eyes.(TranslatingJihad).Saudi Religious Police Pledge to Pursue Women with Eyes that Provoke Fitna. Dunya al-Watan, 17 Nov 2011 . The Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil (the religious police) in Saudi Arabia confirmed Wednesday that it will force women cover up their eyes, especially those which "provoke fitna." The media spokesman for the Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil, Shaykh Mutliq al-Nabit, said in Ha'il (north) that "The men of the council will intervene to compel women to cover up their eyes, especially those which provoke fitna." Arab media outlets picked up a short video clip on YouTube, which states that, "The Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil in Saudi Arabia pledges to take the necessary actions against any girl or woman who has eyes which provoke fitna." Shaykh Mutliq al-Nabit said, "The Council will compel the owner of those eyes to cover them up," pointing out that the Council "has the right to do that." A Saudi citizen entered the hospital at the end of last year after suffering stab wounds in his hand and back after a fight with one of the members of the Council in the Barzan market of Ha'il, after a demand from one of the members of the Council that he cover up the eyes of his wife who was with him at the time. The District Court in Ha'il issued a ruling which justified the member of the Council and condemned the husband and a man who was with him for assault (behaving arrogantly towards another). The first was condemned to 8 months in prison and 300 lashes dispersed over 6 sessions. The second was condemned to 18 months in prison and 700 lashes dispersed over 10 sessions.Hmmmm.....Think i saw a 'fashion model' presenting the new 'style'?Read the full story here.