Afternoon Posting.
- The "Yankee" who will lead BP,Dudley Pick Underscores Importance of U.S. Much of BP's Growth Potential Lies in the States, but Political Minefields Threaten Drilling; 'There Is a Lot at Stake'.
- Barack Obama faces rising pressure to publish Lockerbie bomber release letter.Scottish officials say US memo giving grudging support to freeing Abdelbaset al-Megrahi undermines president's criticisms.The letter was sent to Scottish ministers by a senior diplomat at the US embassy in London last August, eight days before Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from prison because he was dying from inoperable prostate cancer.Obama's administration has refused to allow publication of the letter, in which the US says allowing Megrahi to live at home in Scotland would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya under the prisoner transfer deal brokered by former prime minister Tony Blair in 2007.
- BP boss Hayward to get immediate £600,000 pension.However, a BP source said he would be nominated for a non-executive position at the firm's Russian joint venture.He will also receive a year's salary plus benefits worth more than £1m.
- Cameron: 'Those who are against Turkey joining the EU are playing on fears of Islam'.Is this the result of meeting with Obama?We have a Turkey that deals directly in a friendly manner with Iran and he wants it integrated in Europe?Nuts!
- Updated!Sent to Russia: BP blunderer Hayward to join board of joint venture with'oligarchs'.Removing the 53-year-old Briton from the Gulf and placing him in western Russia was no-doubt at the top the agenda at a crucial London board meeting today.He has been widely seen as a ‘dead man walking’ ever since an oil-rig explosion led to the worst-ever environmental disaster in the U.S.My guess is Hayward knows where to many skeletons are buried ,they won't "sack" him anytime soon.
- Man jailed for Muslim veil attack.A man who ripped a veil from a Muslim woman's face as she walked though Glasgow has been jailed for two years.
- ‘My girl was abducted’.Faisal Ghani and Mohammed Moosa, admitted taking the children without consent. Moosa also admitted sexual activity with a girl under 16 in a hearing at Preston Crown They groomed the girls, aged 15 and 13, over several months in 2009 before abducting them and taking them to a hotel. Islam a religion of .......what?Pedophilia Diagnosis.
- The Lost Gaddafi Tapes.Libya’s heir apparent, at the center of the Lockerbie case, is keeping mum about BP’s alleged role in the negotiations. In a luxury hotel suite in downtown Tripoli, I sat across from Saif al Islam Al Gaddafi, Libya’s heir apparent and the son of Col. Muammar Gaddafi.The handsome 37-year-old playboy had scored a major PR success with the release of the Lockerbie bomber the previous year.I still think the main stream media is conveniently looking in the other direction when it comes to Blair his role in this!
- U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well.Economists worry that America could be edging closer to the trap that cost the other nation more than a decade of growth.
- Turkey to fully implement UN resolutions on Iran, but is not obliged to support extra sanctions, finance minister says.Erdogan ,Ahmadenejad's little valet?Or just partners in killing Kurds?
- Joan Walsh on CNN: Sherrod Can Talk About Race Any Way She Wants to Because Her Farther Was Killed by a White Farmer.
- HT:RiehlWorldView.Sherrod: "We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms ..."The Sherrods also have a daughter, one with a rather interesting name. Pretty cool naming your kid after the Berlin Wall coming down, right? Well, not quite, unfortunately.Son Kenyatta and daughter Russia defended their mother from charges of racism which led to her resignation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture position as director of its Rural Development program in Georgia on Tuesday. Further research indicates she graduated high school in 1985. If she were 18 at the time, that would mean she was born in 1967. That's an interesting time for an American to name their child Russia - and it also happens to be the year Russia celebrated the 50th anniversary of the revolution. Hmm.
- Clintonites Undermine Obama for Hillary 2012 Challenge.“If you ask me where the silver lining is for President Obama, I have to say I cannot see one,” Bill Galston.“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro.
- Containing China Is A Fool's Errand. Yet Obama's Deal with Indonesian Thugs Is Aimed at Exactly That.More on this topic.
- Indonesia's special forces have not been brought to justice -- or cleaned up its act.
- ISNA Conference Again Features Conspiracy Theories.For the second consecutive year, the Obama Administration honored the annual conference of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) with a prominent official to speak on behalf of the President. And, for the second consecutive year, that conference featured false and radical dogma about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and purported Jewish "power" over America.
- United States Central Command in Iraq to repatriate more than 30,000 Nepali workers.The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) in Baghdad has ordered the repatriation within 20 days of foreign workers in Iraq whose countries have banned its citizens from entering that country. The decision also includes 30,000 Nepali workers employed in US military bases. The purpose is to stop human trafficking between South Asia and the Middle East.
- First Female Arab Combat Soldier in IDF is Proud to Serve Israel.Cpl. Elinor Jozef, the first female Arab combat soldier in the IDF:“This will always be my home”
- South Korea signs on to finance first Jordan nuclear reactor.King Abdullah has claimed in the past that Israel was trying to trying to prevent his kingdom from developing a peaceful nuclear program.Sounds more to me like the rush is on for a nuclear Middle East?
- HT:WeaselZippers.Saudi Arabia: Mutaween Go High-Tech in Bid to Keep Women From Escaping, Text Message Sent to Male Guardian if She Tries to Leave Country…American feminists to express their outrage in 5..4..3..2..1..1..1.. hey, where are they?…
- Chelsea's wedding: The Wedding Is Talk of the Town, but Nobody’s Talking.Indeed, you can practically feel the shopkeepers biting their tongues, wishing they could share details of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, which, according to wedding planners, will inspire many copycat choices among brides in the coming year.
- Video: Pretty Wild's Alexis Neiers: "Lindsay Was Crying"."Crying. She was crying," Neiers exclusively tells E! News. "I could hear her. "
- 'Convincing' Revolutionary Guards Who Support Green Movement 'Better Than Eliminating Them'.The commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has officially acknowledged that some members have been supportive of the country's opposition movement. General Mohammad Ali Jafari said that it is better "to convince" guards who support the opposition than to get rid of them.
- Did Bradley Manning Act Alone?The massive dump of U.S. military secrets about the Afghan war is believed to have come from the detained Army intel analyst. Philip Shenon reports he may not have been the lone leaker. Plus, the seven most shocking secrets from the WikiLeaks files.
- President Obama to Appear on ABC's 'The View'.Will Become First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Daytime TV Talk Show.Remove all crosses and install the teleprompters?
- Iowa Lake Vanishes in Hours.One day, Lake Delhi was filled with summer revelers swimming and tubing. The next, it was a mere fraction of what it used to be, after a privately owned dam that had created the Iowa lake in the 1920s broke down from heavy rain, sending its water cascading away.
- HT:AmericanThinker: We the Serfs.The Constitution of the United States of America under President Barak Obama is being transformed from a nation of "We the People" to "We the Serfs."
- UAE says BlackBerry is security threat.The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse.What's next a fatwa against BlackBerry use?
- NT:AbbuAmnon.On this day in 1972 ...Three members of the Japanese Red Army attacked Lod (now Ben Gurion) Airport near Tel Aviv. Two of the JRA members involved killed themselves after killing 24 people.
- Support for Sharia drops by 10 per cent in Indonesia.Support for Sharia has dropped in Indonesia. When asked whether “Sharia should be introduced in my area”, the number of respondents in favour of the proposition declined from 43 per cent to 36 per cent between April 2009 and March 2010.
- HT:PoliticallyIncorrect.Geert Wilders comes to Berlin.The Dutch Islam critic and head of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders (middle of picture), is coming to the German capital of Berlin on October 2, 2010, at the invitation of Berlin Representative Rene Stadtkewitz.
- A Little Reminder to the FEC to Complement Anita MonCrief's Revelations: Barack Obama's 2008 Campaign Website Supported Money-Laundering.Far in advance of the 2010 midterm elections, I would like to remind the Federal Election Commission of the unprecedented steps taken by the Obama administration in 2008 to facilitate electronic money laundering. This summary should nicely complement Anita MonCrief's formal complaint to the FEC, "which both Obama and ACORN will have to respond to – on-the-record."
- Video:Taking a dive in a research sub in the Gulf of Mexico.Scientists are diving to the bottom of the sea to research the potential environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Fog from peat fires blankets Moscow amid heat wave.An acrid fog from forest and peat fires has blanketed Moscow, as the Russian capital swelters in a record heat wave.
- Attack Against the Synagogue in Malmö Revives Threat Concerns for the Jewish Community.In the early morning hours on Friday a large explosion was reported outside Malmö’s synagogue. The explosion is suspected to have been caused by a substantial firecracker and is seen as an attack on the synagogue. The attack can also be seen as a resurgence of the threat against the Malmö Jewish community.
- Rebels against Allah.Nobody knows Islam better than one who knows it from the inside, who grew up with it and read its canon in Arabic. One such cognoscenti came to us from Iraq to share his knowledge.
- Chinese search for Ming shipwreck off Kenyan coast.Chinese archaeologists are due to begin searching for the remains of a Chinese ship believed to have sunk off the Kenyan coast 600 years ago.The shipwreck could provide evidence of the first contact between China and east Africa.More about Adm Zheng He here!
- Indigenous groups occupy Brazil hydro-electric plant.Indigenous protesters in the Brazilian Amazon have occupied the site of a hydro-electric plant they say has been built on an ancient burial ground.
- Evil weed in Baltic Sea puts marine life at risk."These huge algae carpets hit the marine environment most," said Jochen Lamp, a WWF project spokesman. "They kill plants and encourage the spread of dead zones on the sea bed which have no oxygen left in them."
- The Book of Job, part 5: Job's wife – did she bless or curse?A little-known legend adds to the story of Job a story about his first wife, her sufferings and her dealings with Satan.
