Afternoon Posting.
- Iran nuclear sanctions by EU unacceptable, says Russia."This not only undermines our joint efforts to seek a political and diplomatic settlement around Iran's nuclear programme, but also shows disdain for the carefully calibrated and co-ordinated provisions of the UN Security Council resolutions," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
- HT:Elder of Zion.The US Army wants a Torah.The Army wants a Torah scroll.And, in what appears to be somewhat against a fair RFP process, the Torah scroll it wants is so detailed that it can only be written by a specific scribe.
- Iran to pay families to have babies, abandon 'ungodly' family planning.Under new plan, each child will receive $950 at birth, $95 every year until they reach 18.Under the initiative's rules children can withdraw the money at the age of 20 and use it for education, marriage, health and housing.Or leaving the country?
- US Senate Lockerbie hearing postponed.US Senate hearings on the release of the Lockerbie bomber have been postponed because key witnesses have declined invitations to take part.
- Media Matters Defends Hamas-Linked Obama Advisor as Mainstream Islamic.Something like Osama bin laden?Well, I agree, radical Islam is pretty much mainstream, if not a 100% accurate representation of Muslim groups — unless you manage to somehow call those who wish to impose sharia on the west and eliminate Israel anything but radical.
- France declares war against al-Qaida.France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.
- Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million.Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.
- Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh.20-foot-high plume seen; tug boat hit well before dawn, officials say.Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, a wellhead hit by a tug boat is now spewing oil near a Louisiana marsh area, officials said Tuesday.
- Chechen children in Russia holiday camp brawl.Seven people have been arrested after a mass brawl in a Russian holiday camp involving a group of Chechen children."Caretakers say he made nationalist statements. After a while, the director of the camp, his father, brought in a large crowd of local boys, who committed the pogrom. The children sustained major traumas," said Mr Kadyrov.
- Announcing Radical-in-Chief .I am pleased to announce that my political biography of President Obama, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, will be published on October 19 by the Threshold imprint of Simon & Schuster. Here is the Amazon page. Here is the cover.RADICAL-IN-CHIEF marshals a wide array of never-before-seen evidence to establish that the president of the United States is indeed a socialist. Tracing an unbroken thread of socialist activities and political partnerships, from Obama’s youth through his community organizing days and beyond.
- The tax hike nobody's talking about.Get ready for a smaller paycheck.At least that's what could happen if Congress doesn't approve President Obama's proposal to extend the Making Work Pay tax credit soon.
- Anti-Semitic talkbacks in Romania: Jews in control.Reports on Israeli military chopper crash in Romanian media spark wave of racist responses. 'Six fewer Zionist terrorists,' one says.
- Dems fear GOP oversight of Obama administration."We have seen what happens when Republicans take control of Congress with a Democratic president," Franken told the Netroots group, "and it ain't pretty."
- Spotlight on Iran Update, July 27 , 2010.Pictures of the week: industrial workers amidst ongoing power outages.
- Saudi King a No Show as Treasures Glitter in Louvre Exhibition.Paris is abuzz with rumors about King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and why he didn’t show up, as planned, at the opening of the Louvre’s first show devoted to his country.Was he furious at an article in the newspaper “Le Figaro” quoting him on June 29 -- falsely, say the Saudis -- as having said to Herve Morin, the French minister of defense, that two countries, Iran and Israel, didn’t deserve to exist?My bet is on Furious.
- HT:AstuteBloggers:Michelle Obama will take youngest daughter to Spain on the Taxpayer Dollar...And they're gonne be out of the country and away on his "Birthday".(I use " .." because it's just the anniversary of the Christian date of his birth,not the Muslim date -wich was 22 safar 1431 or 02/14/2010 - and they already celebrated it!It wouldn't surprise me if Michelle went to visit the Grand Mosque of Cordoba,anyone wanne bet?
- Thanks for the memories, Barack: Or, how to bankrupt a country in three easy steps.“Europe’s prospects brighten as U.S. fades.” Thus a headline in Reuters this morning.German business confidence is soaring while U.S. consumer sentiment sinks.Britain’s second-quarter economic growth was almost twice as fast as expected, the strongest in four years.Meanwhile, economists have steadily marked down forecasts for Friday’s U.S. gross domestic product report.Thanks a lot, Mr. President. And thanks to you, too, Secretary Geithner. You inherited the richest, most productive country in history. And you have set it firmly on course for economic stagnation.Obama the walking & talking doomsday machine?
- Wyclef Jean 'To Run' For Haiti Presidency.Remember how "Active' he was when the disaster struck?Come to think of it how much has Haity already recieved from the collected funds?
- Ahmadinejad Rails Against Paul the Psychic Octopus for Spreading “Western Propaganda and Superstitions”Apparently Ahmahomo asked Paul when the Mahdi would return and he said never, that pissed him of…I can see it coming "A fatwa against psychic octopusses"?
- Iran opposition warns of revolution.Iran's opposition leader Mousavi said Monday that Ahmadinejad's regime could suffer the same fate as the deposed Shah if they continue to consolidate their grip on power.
- Audit: U.S. Can't Account for 95% of Iraqi Funds.Defense Department Unable to Trace $8.7B in Iraqi Oil Money Tapped by U.S. for Rebuilding Nation.Obama and transparancy that's like BP without oil?
- Faster please.The Brothel Named Iran.I’ll bet you haven’t seen very much news about Iran during the past week or 10 days, have you? And yet there’s lots of news!
- Disappearing Shemen: Clean-Up Crews Can’t Find Crude in the Gulf.Is this the opposite of the Chanukah miracle? For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there’s one problem — they’re having trouble finding it.
- Now that Bell's $800,000 City Manager has resigned, perhaps San Francisco can examine its 10,000 or so six-figure city workers.
- Pandering to Muslims at Taxpayer Expense.Western governments may be swimming in red ink, but there has been no slowdown in public resources being devoted to placating Muslims and conducting comical exercises in multicultural outreach. A few recent lowlights spanning three countries.
- Youth Vote Cools on Obama.A recession hitting younger workers hardest, frustration with a slow-to-change Washington after the campaign joyride—young supporters are ditching the president. Samuel P. Jacobs on whether they’ll come around by November’s midterms.
- Turkey helping Syria crush Kurds, and implication for Israel.As Turkey builds relations with fellow Islamist neighbors, reports are coming in of Turkey helping Syria crush Kurds in Syria, Iran crush its Kurds, as well as fight its own Kurds and those from Iraq.When will they remove this Islamic butcher from NATO?
- Hamas official says group considering military draft in Gaza.Security official: Financial, demographic considerations will affect decision to conscript.
Morning Posting.
- ‘U.S. and China are Headed for a Generational Crisis War’.The North Koreans are threatening a ’sacred war’ and ‘physical response’ to the joint U.S.-South Korean naval exercises taking place in the Sea of Japan between Japan and Korea, and soon in the Yellow Sea between China and Korea. The exercises are a response to North Korea’s torpedoed sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan.This is typical of North Korea’s bluster, but the confrontation between the U.S. and China is far more significant.
- Dutch sailor, 14, gets OK for solo world trip.A Dutch court has cleared the way for 14-year-old Laura Dekker to set sail on a risky solo voyage around the world.
- China Warns U.S. to Stay Out of Islands Dispute.“What will be the consequences if this issue is turned into an international or multilateral one?” he asked in remarks published on the Foreign Ministry’s Web site. “It will only make matters worse and the resolution more difficult.” The Chinese know Obama is a weak mollusk?
- Indonesia: Record number of anti-Christian attacks in 2010.Between January and July, 28 incidents were recorded compared to 18 for the whole of 2009 and 17 for 2008. Bekasi holds the record. “It seems that people and the government do not realise that the right to worship, as stipulated in the Constitution, comes with the right to have a house of worship,” says the deputy chairman of the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy.So basically you might say since Obama became U.S. president things got a lot worse in Indonesia?
- Not al Qaeda but Hizballah is the world's most dangerous terrorist organization.Hezbollah is the number one Jihadist and terrorist group worldwide much more treacherous, better organized, structured and armed than Al Qaida, and on top, Iran is totally behind it.
- Body of Missing U.S. Sailor Found in Afghanistan.One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday.
- Iranian lawyer missing after interrogation over his support for adulterer who faced stoning.The lawyer responsible for representing an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has gone missing and his wife and brother-in-law have been arrested, after he launched an international campaign to publicise her plight.Give Iran another seat at the UN women rights commission?How about human rights Mr President?Sorry.......ah yes golf ..you will not rest?
- Iraqi Militants Stealing Blood for the Injured.Members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia have been holding up blood banks and hospitals at gunpoint, stealing blood for their wounded fighters rather than risk having them arrested at medical facilities, according to Iraqi doctors, employees at health centers and the Sunni insurgents themselves.Afghanistan can become a success like Iraq?Whatever!
- Sao Paulo to build Temple of Solomon replica.Mega-church in Bras neighbourhood will be made of stones cut exactly like those of original temple.Brazil will build a replica of Jerusalem's destroyed Temple of Solomon in eastern Sao Paulo, in a four-year, 113-million dollar construction project, local media said Wednesday.
- Gingrich to blast Obama's 'willful blindless' in security speech.Newt Gingrich will deliver a major national security address at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Thursday in which he will reprimand the Obama administration's "willful blindness" to the threat of extremist Islam.
- Obama Won’t Speak In-Person at Boy Scouts’ 100th Anniversary Celebration But Will Appear on ABC TV’s ‘The View’. President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization's 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The View.”
- Scout oath:On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country;
To obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.Sounds like Obama ....right?
- The Unpresidential President.Barack Obama has managed a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature.The better he gets at golf?
- White House Flipflops on Spain Trip AGAIN:Michelle Obama heads to Marbella for Spanish holiday with daughter and friends.The first lady will make an official visit to King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain per their invitation, but all activities on the trip are closed to the press.Hmmmm ...friends?
- Ahmadinejad: US, 'Zionists' to start new Mideast wars.Iranian president says his country has 'precise information' on American plot to stymie his country's growth and 'save Zionist regime' through military confrontation.
- HT:JIDF.Is Facebook Manipulating the Number of "Likes?"As many of you know, we don't trust Facebook whatsoever. Considering all the facts about the company and the people behind it, no one should. They have gone out of their way to censor material they don't like. They have invaded the privacy of millions of their members. They allow Holocaust denial, Islamic jihadist content, as well as good ole' antisemitism, while they proactively target and censor Jews and Jewish groups.
- HT:WeaselZippers.Colorado GOP Chairman Suddenly Outraged Tancredo Once Threatened to Bomb Mecca in Response to Islamist Nuke Attack on U.S.Note to the Colorado GOP Chairman: Most people in America would gladly bomb Mecca if jihadists set off a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil…
- China considers big rocket power.According to Li Tongyu, general manager of the marketing department at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), engineers are currently studying a rocket engine with the thrust of 600 tonnes, burning highly potent liquid oxygen and liquid oxygen propellant.
- HT:WeaselZippers:France Kisses Pali Butt – Increases Diplomatic Status.The Palestinians have been represented by a delegation, led by a general delegate. Mr. Kouchner, left, said in a statement they would now have a mission led by an ambassador.
- IRGC Commander: Iran Able to Mass-Produce Ballistic Missiles."We have reached a never-ending point in (increasing) the quantity of ballistic missiles," IRGC Lieutenant Commander General Hossein Salami said, noting that Iran has made great progresses in this area based on its home-grown capabilities and capacities.And that's it for the never ending "Baloni" story?Nope there's more: Iran to Stage Massive Air Drills.
- Video:BP to set aside $32.2bn to cover oil spill costs.The company said the charge gave it a loss of $17bn for the three months between April and June - a UK record. BP also confirmed that chief executive Tony Hayward would leave his post by mutual agreement in October.He will be replaced by fellow executive, Bob Dudley, who is currently in charge of day-to-day clean-up operations in the Gulf.
- The latest updates and pictures from the BP oil spill.Now that Tropical Storm Bonnie has passed, BP and the government are resuming operations to try and provide a permanent solution to the disaster. Fortunately, the storm died off and caused no significant damage to the site of the spill. The race is now on to finish the relief efforts before the next tropical storm system comes through. Here are the latest updates from Gulf Coast oil spill.
- Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war.The warnings from Hezbollah and Berri could be as much for domestic consumption as directed as Israel, aiming to press for the passage of a long-delayed draft oil law, needed before any Lebanese fields can be developed.I have mentioned this gas discovery before as a reason for a next conflict.
- Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran.Move sends Tehran clear message that behavior is unacceptable, foreign ministry says, calling on more nations to impose extra measures.
- SAUDI ARABIA: Growing condemnation of illegal "tourist marriages".Saudi men who go abroad, especially to poor countries, for "short term marriages" with local women, argue that in this way they do not commit adultery. But all the major schools of Islamic law deny the legality of such marriages. And there are those who, once unmasked, are forced to always bring their "permanent" wife with them.
- Rarrrrrr! Asia's Computer-Animated Vision Of Mud Wrestling, Pole Dancing, Dope Smoking, Lara Croft Version Of 2012 Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin.OMG you got to see it to believe it!
- Video:Cameron: Gaza 'cannot remain a prison camp'.And Turkey should join the EU.I'm thinking him talking to Obama didden't do Israel much good?
- Nevada Ignores ACORN PR Head Fake, Proceeds With Election Fraud Prosecution.The attorney general of Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto, isn’t buying into radical advocacy group ACORN’s efforts to convince America it doesn’t exist.A Las Vegas judge determined this week that ACORN and Busefink will proceed to trial Nov. 29.But the nation goes to the polls for congressional elections on Nov. 2.
- President Obama attacks GOP for its blockage of campaign transparency legislation.As we all know Pres Obama is the textbook example of transparancy?.......Anyone?
