Afternoon Posting.
- Jakarta, wave of fatwas against transsexuals, temporary marriages, gossip and sperm bank.
- Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered.Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic,more here.
- Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published.Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant.
- French police find eight dead newborn babies.French police have arrested a couple after finding the bodies of eight newborn babies in a village, officials said.
- Durable goods orders fall as growth picture dims."The number was weaker than expected and it could add to the idea that the economy is slipping into a double dip recession," said Bruce Bittles.
- Caught in police sting: Airport staff filmed rifling through passengers' suitcases and stealing valuables.They were captured by covert police cameras over a period of six weeks helping themselves to cigarettes, jewellery and electrical goods.
- Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To The Internet.These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web "in the event of a catastrophic event."
- Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII.Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. Jan Oldakowski, the director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, said the film "City of Ruins" is mainly meant for young people who do not realize the degree to which Poland's capital was destroyed from 1939-45.
- Snapshot of global internet speeds revealed.The fastest broadband city in the world is Masan in South Korea.
- U.S. Long-Term Debt Situation Is One of the World’s Worst.By 2030, the CBO projects that debt will more than double to 146 percent of GDP.If second term for Obama make that 2014.
- Saudi Arabia: Medical Clinic Specializes in Treating People Possessed by Demons…MAKKAH: A clinic in the Eastern Province that provides treatment to people possessed by jinns has volunteered to help Turki, a 29-year-old Saudi from Makkah who according to his father is possessed by a female jinn and has, as a result, been chained to a bed for more than six years.Welcome to A.D. 613.Windigo's-Mummies and Trolls not covered!
- Israel: Palestinians have set 'impossible' conditions for direct peace talks.Vice PM Shalom slams Palestinian terms for direct talks, AFP reports; Abbas expected to tell Arab League that indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face negotiations.
- Oil tanker damaged by freak wave, not 'terrorist attack'.Ship's owners originally reported an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Ex-Nazi charged in deaths of 430,000 Jews.88-year-old German 3rd on most-wanted Nazis list.Samuel Kunz, 88, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, prosecutor Christoph Goeke said Wednesday. Kunz is believed to have served as a guard there from January 1942 to July 1943.
- Is Fighting for Smaller Government Racist?When the NAACP allowed itself to be used by the Democratic party to try and smear a grass roots movement for smaller government as racist, the resulting controversy shone a light on more than just racism by individuals associated with the NAACP, but with the organization's inability to delink class warfare from racism.
- Say argh! Prisoners forced to have teeth pulled out with no anaesthetic.With the pain etched across their faces, these inmates are forced to have their teeth extracted with no anaesthetic.It is part of a medical services programme which offers free dental care to prisoners with financial difficulties in Manila, Philippines.
- Weep for Britain: 1940 this is not.Today’s truly shocking and quite astoundingly stupid speech in Turkey has now laid bare the fathomless shallowness and frightening ignorance and idiocy of Britain’s new Prime Minister.I would call it a political Gallipoli.
- DEVELOPING: Coast Guard mishandling of emergency may have led to sinking of BP oil rig.An inquiry into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon rig's sinking on April 20 has revealed that the Coast Guard may have contributed to, rather than lessened, the chaos on board the rig following the explosion.
- Lucky escape for grizzly bear who comes face-to-face with Sarah Palin... she's only got a fishing rod in her hand!A gathering of "Mama bears?"
- YouTube signs local TV news deal.Partnership lets people living in San Francisco area upload photo or video reports for use by ABC7 News.
Morning Posting.
- Iran stoning case woman fainted on hearing sentence, says cellmate.For days, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtian was like 'a ghost wandering in shock' after receiving death penalty.
- Germany: Turkey is not yet ready to join the European Union, but it is essential that it be “on Europe’s side,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was quoted as saying on Tuesday.“If the question had to be decided today, Turkey would not be ready for membership and the EU would not be ready to absorb it.”Hooray for German efficiency!
- A Girl Triumphs Over an Unspeakable Crime.Nine months ago, The Daily Beast reported on an horrific crime: An Afghan teenager's nose and ears were cut off by vindictive in-laws after she tried to run away from an abusive marriage. Now, after national media attention, Bibi Aisha will travel to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery.
- Video:Tennessee Official Says Islam May Be a ‘Cult’.Tennessee’s lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, has been asked to explain recent comments captured on video in which he suggested that Muslim Americans might not have a constitutionally protected right to worship in the United States.
- Hungary Sued in Holocaust Art Claim.For more than two decades the heirs of a world-renowned Jewish collector have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or placed after being stolen by the Nazis and later returned to Hungary.
- Video:Female Genital Mutilation in the U.K.A truly horrifying expose of how Muslim girls in the UK are being taken back to the old country to have their genitals mutilated and prepared for forced marriage. Warning contains shocking testimonies and images!
- Does the Obama Regime
orchestrate Support UN Creation of Palestinian State?Palestinian Authority officials say if Israel and the Palestinians fail to reach an agreement to create a Palestinian state, the Obama administration will support a resolution at the United Nations that would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state."Last year, Ahmed Qurei, former PA prime minister and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, told WND in an interview that the PA "reached an understanding with important elements within the administration" to possibly bring to the U.N. Security Council a resolution to unilaterally create a Palestinian state.Asked to which "elements" he was referring, Qurei would only say they were from the Obama administration.
- HT:JIDF.Videos:Maryland Hate Crime: Synagogue Defaced with Swastikas and Hate Against Jews.Shows again how "Intelligent' these morons are they can't even spell right in German"Sieg Heil" not Seig Heil another example of idiots on the rampage!
- President Obama Once Again Makes Erroneous Claim That Foreign Entities Can Spend Unlimited Amounts in U.S. Elections.“Tomorrow there’s going to be a very important vote in the Senate about how much influence special interests should have over our democracy,” Obama said. “Because of the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year in the Citizens United case, big corporations -- even foreign-controlled ones -- are now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on American elections.”He must be confusing his own election again?
- Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment.No, it’s not about slavery; like so much of our politics these days, it’s about Barack Obama.
- Passenger Plane Crashes Near Pakistani Capital.A Pakistani passenger plane carrying at least 152 people crashed on Wednesday in the hills near Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, civil aviation officials and local media said. Rescuers were struggling to reach the aircraft and news agencies reported that at least 20 bodies had been recovered so far.
- What BP Knows About the Size of Gulf Disaster.While BP publicly stuck to claims that its blow-out well was leaking at rate of 5,000 gallons of oil per day, the company was privately operating under the assumption that at least five times that amount was gushing into the Gulf, according to documents released today by congressional investigators.
- Olbermann: The Tea Party Is The New Ku Klux Klan.Disgusting, disgraceful, pathetic: a better way to describe Olbermann and the mainstream media in general is hard to come up with.
- Video:Gingrich: Forget Ground Zero -- They Can Build A Mosque Near Central Park Or Columbia Instead.During his appearance, Gingrich ended up making it clear that he doesn't oppose mosques in all of New York -- just in this particular spot.
- U.S. withdraws ‘pain ray’ from Afghan war zone.A ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves hasbeen pulled out of Afghanistan by the US military.US army chiefs in Afghanistan have stayed silent about the reason for the U-turn.They can't find the enemy?
- Economy erodes election hope for Democrats.Americans by a large majority believe President Barack Obama has not focused enough on job creation, as economic fears threaten Democrats ahead of November 2 congressional elections, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.
- Obama Undermining Intelligence Collection on Terrorists?Nabhan might have provided the United States with invaluable intelligence -- information available nowhere else about his terror network, its American recruits and its plans for new attacks. But thanks to a decision by Obama, all that intelligence was vaporized. Why did the president choose to kill, rather than capture, Nabhan?
- Obama administration risks over $100 million trying to "save" a few thousand dollars annually on carbon emissions?Some say that Ka Le is haunted -- and it is. But it's haunted not by Hawaii's legendary night marchers. The mysterious sounds are "Na leo o Kamaoa"-- the disembodied voices of 37 skeletal wind turbines abandoned to rust on the hundred-acre site of the former Kamaoa Wind Farm.The ghosts of Kamaoa are not alone in warning us. Five other abandoned wind sites dot the Hawaiian Isles -- but it is in California where the impact of past mandates and subsidies is felt most strongly. Thousands of abandoned wind turbines littered the landscape of wind energy's California "big three" locations -- Altamont Pass, Tehachapi, and San Gorgonio -- considered among the world's best wind sites.
- Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen and NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco.
- City and County Government Associations: Obama Economy Will Create or Save, Eh, I Mean Destroy or Eliminate 500,000 Public Sector Jobs.A report by a consortium consisting of the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties doesn't beat around the bush. It's title: "Local Governments Cutting Jobs and Services: Job losses projected to approach 500,000".
- The new, improved Obama.You can give a hyena an "Ultimate Makeover" it will still remain a hyena!No matter how many Rabbis he invites at the White house he will still be Anti -Israel.
- UK: “Allahu Akbar” Screaming British Islamists Protest in Front of Downing Street Over WikiLeaks Documents…“British soldiers go to hell, hands off Muslim lands”- chorus.
- Videos Rouse Russian Anger Toward Police.One day last fall, a police officer here put on his uniform and sat on a drab tan couch before a video camera. In a halting monotone, he recorded two video appeals to Vladimir V. Putin, 13 minutes in all.
- Will the burka's biggest foe soon be praising Allah? French Minister Eric Besson promised his Tunisian fiancee's family he would convert to Islam, and then passed a law banning religious veils.
- India Struggles To Stem Rise In '
DisHonor Killings'.Traditional Indian values are clashing with modern mores in northern India, where there has been a reported upsurge in so-called honor killings, the murders of young couples who elope in defiance of caste boundaries and their families' wishes.Nearly every day, Indian media carry reports on the murders of young people who tried to defy very specific local rules about who can marry whom.
- Hayward exiled to Siberia; will Obama be next?Many have complained that Barack Obama's detachment far outweighs that of Hayward.
- Freezing temperatures threaten thousands in Peru.Plan is providing emergency supplies to thousands of children and pregnant women in Peru who are suffering from a cold snap that has already caused the deaths of more than 200 people from pneumonia.Temperatures have plummeted as low as -24C° in some areas, far below the average for July.
