MFS - The Other News

                         Afternoon Posting.

• Pakistan army cancels US trip amid search dispute.Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" at Dulles International Airport in Washington, a spokesman said Wednesday.The nine-member Pakistani delegation, headed by a two-star Navy rear admiral, was already aboard United Airlines Flight 727 when one of them reportedly made a comment to the flight attendant - saying he hoped the flight was his last, in reference to their long day's travel from Islamabad.The comment prompted concern and security officials were notified. The delegation was taken off of the plane and missed the flight.Read the full story here.

• Department of Agriculture Builds a Stonewall Around the Muslim Brotherhood Grants Workshop.We sent an email to the Department of Agriculture yesterday afternoon, asking for confirmation concerning their co-sponsorship (with the Muslim Brotherhood-associated Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations) of the Tuesday, August 31 special workshop on “direct access” grants and financial assistance, combined with an Iftar dinner with Muslim federal employees. The “direct access” grants workshop was promoted by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to “cut the red tape” with several federal agencies (Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, White House, Education, etc) for 20 invited – but unnamed – Muslim groups, under CCMO’s associated Muslim Brotherhood sponsorship.We received a reply email from the USDA at 3:01 pm with the instructions, “You can feel free to attribute this to ‘a USDA spokesperson.’” The email was not sent from the USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Director Max Finberg, nor his colleagues Jon Granberg-Michaelson and Julie Curti, to all three of whom we had directed these questions.So much for "Transparency"!Read the rest of the story here.

• HT:ElderofZion.Hamas distributes candy to celebrate heroic murder of pregnant woman (updated).Read the whole story here.

• HT:ElderofZion.Blaming the victims: The New York Times' sick coverage.I had not realized how truly sick the New York Times' coverage of the terror attack was. In the very first paragraph:The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations.The New York Times is agreeing with Hamas - Jews living on their historic homeland are the main evil in the Middle East, and this terror attack highlights the "disruptive role" of their communities.Read the full story here.

• Arizona Now Has ‘Whopping 30’ National Guard Troops and 15 Billboard Signs Warning Citizens About Drug Cartels Operating on Public Lands.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state’s border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week.“We have a whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,” Babeu told CNSNews.com. “It’s less than a half-hearted measure designed to fail.”Read the full story here.

• HT:TheBlaze.US Muslim Group Releases Video Vowing Not to ‘Take Over This Country’!Al-taqiyya and dissimulation are words used for a practice of Muslims blatantly lying to non-Muslims.Anyway a look at the comments shows the red line!

• HT:IsraelMatzav.It's 3:00 am, the phone is ringing and no one is answering.This ad by an organization called RightChange is phenomenal. Let's go to the videotape.

• Saudi official denies maid had nails driven into her.A Saudi official has denied a Sri Lankan maid’s allegations that the couple she worked for in the kingdom hammered nails and needles into her body.But Saad Al Badah, the head of a Saudi government department responsible for foreign workers, told state television on Tuesday night that Ariyawathi’s allegations were baseless and amounted to blackmail.“The whole story is baseless,” said Al Badah.“It is nothing but blackmail by Sri Lankan labour firms,” he said.Why am i not surprised?Read the full fairytale story here.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Poll: Majority of Republicans Says Obama Favors Muslims Over Other Groups, Sympathizes With Islamic Fundamentalists.A new Newsweek poll of registered voters highlights the divide between Republicans, Democrats, and Independents over the issue of Islam and President Barack Obama.According to the poll, 51 percent of Republicans think it’s definitely or probably true that President Obama”sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world.”In addition, 59 percent of Republicans and 28 percent of political independents think “Obama favors the interests of Muslim Americans over other groups of Americans.”Read more here.

• Jewish teacher suspended in France for teaching 'too much' about Holocaust.A high school history teacher is accused of 'brainwashing' her students, says French news agency AFP.A French history teacher in Nancy, France, has been suspended for breaching the principle of secularism and neutrality after the French education ministry concluded that she was teaching "too much" about the Holocaust and spending too much time organizing trips for her students to Nazi death camps in Poland and the Czech Republic.The principle of secularism and neutrality in France is meant to protect the separation of church and state. The ministry's report cites that in meeting with investigators, the teacher used the word "Holocaust" 14 times while using the more neutral term "massacre" only twice.Hmmm perhaps they should say "It was a terrible misunderstanding between Jews and Nazis?since the truth can't be said."Read the full story here.

• Iranian to get 150 lashes for insulting late Caliph.An Iranian Shia man will get 150 lashes after he was convicted by a Saudi court of insulting a late Muslim Caliph who was one of the closest companions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh), a local daily said on Wednesday.“The Iranian, who is Shia, took off his shoe and started waving it in front of the grave…he then began to curse late Abu Bakr Al Siddiq,”In Shia Islam, Abu Bakr is, however, regarded as a usurper on the grounds the Prophet’s cousin, Imam Ali bin Abi Taleb, was the righteous successor.Read the full story here.

• Major newspaper calls for impeachment of Barack Obama.One of the top 10 newspapers in the country in terms of overall circulation has called for the impeachment of Barack Obama.The Washington Times, which has become known through the years as D.C.'s major alternative newspaper, called for the ouster of Obama in an op-ed column yesterday. The Times is delivered into the mailboxes of every Senator and Congressman in Washington.While the column does not officially represent the editorial board of the newspaper, the fact that WT chose to publish it may indicate the official stance of its publisher and ownership, given that the columnist is one of a select few staff editorialists for the paper, and each column written by staff must have prior approval of the WT brass.In the stunning opinion-piece, columnist Jeffrey T. Kuhner stated the following:"President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached."Read the full story here.

• Report: U.S. threatens to shun military drill with Turkey if it bans Israel.Turkish daily Hürriyet reports that the U.S. relayed its position to Ankara after invitations for a joint drill were sent out to several countries, but not to Israel.Why not remove Turkey from Nato?Read the whole story here.

• Iranian Political Prisoner 'In Grave Condition'.Iranian political activist Arjang Davudi, who launched a hunger strike in jail 50 days ago, is in a grave condition, his wife has told RFE/RL's Radio Farda.Davudi was arrested in 2003 on charges of founding a political group called The Freedom Movement of Iranians. He is currently serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran's Gohardasht prison.He began the hunger strike to protest the alleged violation of his rights."Arzhang‎'s friends informed me that he was taken to prison hospital last night," Davudi's wife, Nazanin Davudi, told Radio Farda this week. She said she was told Davudi could neither talk nor open his eyes.Read the full story here.

• US enters final military phase in Iraq as new commander warns of continuing perils.The U.S. on Wednesday moved into the final phase of its military involvement in Iraq, with administration officials saying the war was ending even as the new commander of the remaining 50,000 troops warned of the ongoing threat from “hostile elements.”While Iraqis are generally happy to see the U.S. military pulling back, they are also apprehensive the withdrawal may be premature as militants hammer local security forces. Iraqis also say they fear their country may still revert to a dictatorship or split along religious and ethnic fault lines.Read the full story here.

• Obama's recovery summer: this president is now a lame duck as we start a 15 year depression.When Ben Quayle said that Obama was the worst president we have had in the entire history of the country he was not exaggerating.Obama has failed at everything he has touched and he reached the point of no return the day he was sworn into office.We now have a rising unemployment rate at 16.5% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.41 million people are on food stamps about 15% of the population. To give you an idea in 1965 there were 500,000 on food stamps 1/2% of the population.Read the full story here.

• Ground Zero mosque, between Islamophobia and Islamic fundamentalism.The proposal to build a Muslim place of worship close to the 9/11 site has unleashed a firestorm. The latter has led the Euro Arab Center for Studies to probe the question, eliciting a number of responses with fear, panic and tensions as the main explanations. Father Samir, a Jesuit expert on Islam, stressed the political aspect of the issue, urging Muslims to look into the motivations behind Islamophobia. He also called for the “reinterpretation” of the passages in the Qur‘an that advocate violence.Wedwed, a writer from the United Kingdom, said, “It’s a matter of Moslems' misbehaviour. Moslems keep attacking other religions and make themselves unpopular.” For this reason, Muslim should “bring back the truth of Islam”.Read the full story here.

• White House flirts with Mayor Bloomberg.Is Mayor Bloomberg being wooed to join the Obama administration?Asked about last weekend's four-hour golf game with President Obama on Martha's Vineyard, Bloomberg told reporters yesterday, "The economy was the main subject, other than discussing golf."Now there are whispers that the president went even further and sounded out Bloomberg about whether he would join his foundering economic team as treasury secretary, replacing prime blame-target Timothy Geithner."Obama needs Bloomberg more than Bloomberg needs Obama," a source tells us. "Obama's looking to do something bold and credible before the election.".Hmm another anti-gun member in the Obama team?Read the whole story here.

• HT:Maggiesnotebook.Muslim Brotherhood Gets Direct Access to White House: Texas Governor Rick Perry Gets Nada: Behold Another Iftar Dinner at Taxpayer Expense.A complete roundup of the facts."They don't trust me cause of my middle name"Whatevah!Read the full story here.

• Palaeolithic funeral feast unearthed in Northern Israel.The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.Archaeologists working in Hilazon Tachtit found what they thought was a late Palaeolithic campsite, when they discovered tools and animal bones. However they soon realised they were looking at a large burial site, with huge numbers of animal bones.They found the remains of at least three aurochs - giant extinct cattle - and over 70 tortoise skeletons.The site, from the era known as the Natufian phase, had at least 28 human bodies, ranging from babies to those who would have been elderly for the time - aged about 45.Read the full story here.

MFS - The Other News

                          Morning Posting.

• No Surprise Holder Behind Suspension of USS Cole Bomber Case.There should be no surprise that the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder would put terrorists’ “rights” before their victims and the safety of the American people by suspending the trial of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, mastermind of the USS Cole attack.Holder and the Clinton administration have pandered to terrorists for political gain before.So Cole families, while you press on for justice, remember balance. Remember to cherish the living first, don’t become consumed by the fight, and please never forget that your loved ones would not want you so consumed that your lives are taken too.Obama, Holder, and their terrorist patrons are not worth your lives.Full story here.

• Israel hints Jerusalem compromise in peace talks.Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday the Jewish state would be willing to hand over parts of Jerusalem in peace talks with the Palestinians to be launched by President Barack Obama.A flare-up of violence in the Palestinian West Bank and a deadlock over Jewish settlements there loom as potential deal-breakers for Obama, who will host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for dinner at the White House in Washington.Obama brought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas together for face-to-face negotiations after months of U.S.-mediated indirect talks. But he faces deep skepticism about his chances of success.Defense minister Ehud Barak's rare comments about the need to partition Jerusalem, which is at the heart of the conflict, could signal Netanyahu's willingness to divide the holy city in any final peace deal with Palestinians.Read the full story here.

• Suspicious Fire, Massive Voter Registration Fraud Plague County with ACORN-tied Congresswoman.An article posted at the site Texas GOP Vote highlights the close connection between Representative Kristin Thibuat and ACORN:“The Republican Party of Texas today unveiled a new website, kristiworksforacorn.com. The site documents Democrat state Rep. Kristi Thibaut’s sordid past and her involvement with the notorious leftwing organization ACORN. Thibaut is the incumbent in House District 133.”Read the full story here.

• Part 2: Axis of evil--the American political Leftwing and Muslim Extremists.In Part 1 of this 2-part series the focus was on the Ground Zero Mosque as an example of an 'axis of evil'--a marriage of convenience of sorts between the American political Leftwing and Muslim extremists.The 2nd part of this explosive examination will focus on the end-game. What is the ultimate goal of this consortium of evil? Why would the American political Leftwing wish to collaborate with some of the most dangerous extremists in the world who promote the oppressive Sharia Law as the antithesis to human liberty?To understand the answers to these questions one must be absolutely certain that it has nothing at all to do with religion--at least from the perspective of the Left. By their very nature the Left is anti-religion.Faith is viewed as an exercise in fantasy--a crutch or prop for 'weak minds and the hopelessly ignorant masses.'Read the whole story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Your tax dollars at work on behalf of Obama's 'Palestinian' partners.I've reported earlier that USAID is financing a billboard campaign to convince Israelis that 'Palestinian' terrorists will be our partners for peace. There's more to it than that.There's also a broadcast media campaign, which is also being financed by the USAID. Caroline Glick brings us some of the descriptions of the recording sessions that have appeared in the Hebrew-language media this week.By the way, these were all posted to YouTube in December 2009. At your expense.Read the full story here.

• Advertising Standards Authority gets online power.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is extending its remit to cover the online realm.It means that online marketing and ads will, from 1 March 2011, be subject to the same strict advertising rules as traditional media.The ASA will also have the power to ban marketing statements on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.Last year the body received over 3,500 complaints but over half of the adverts were outside of its remit.Full story here.

• While you were sleeping: the rise of a dictator.It is possible that WW2 and communism shaped the world's perception of a what a dictator might look like. An analysis of the crop of dictators from last century showed a variety in style and how they handled manipulation of power and differences in their paths to power. Its likely a new dictator would have a different path to power.Putin is a quiet man who came from the East German KGB shadows. Recently in speaking of the Russian Police breaking up a protest with violence Putin sounds quite reasonable.Read the full story here.

• Letters from 1970’s Show Iman Rauf Wants Israel to ‘Become One More Arab Country, with a Jewish Minority’.As Ground Zero-area mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf heads home a few days early from his State Department-sponsored trip to the Mideast, the Wall Street Journal quotes from two letters he wrote to the NY Times in the 1970s in which he is less-than-committed to preserving the Jewish State of Israel.Read more about it here.

• Economy changing the face of homelessness in US.AJ Goode and his wife Mary lived in their car for five months before getting a room at the shelter in Los Angeles, California.Mary Goode and her husband, AJ greet each other with a kiss and dissolve into laughter. They are irrepressibly upbeat.But their attitude belies their story - and their status as faces of the new, working homeless.The two are not destitute, but they live in one room at the five-storey Union Rescue Mission in downtown Los Angeles.The homeless shelter is a step up from their previous address - a white Chevy pick-up truck.Read the full story here.

• Shocka: Richard Cohen is starting to get it!What the Arab world seems to appreciate is that America will never agree to what the Arab world most wants -- an Islamic state where a Jewish one now exists. This entirely reasonable conclusion is based on what has long been American policy -- not what the State Department wanted but what the American people supported. America has always liked the idea of Israel. The Arab world, for totally understandable reasons, has always hated it. Nothing has changed.Read the whole story here.

• Video:Beck Shows NAACP President What Really Happened When MLK Was Mentioned at Rally.NAACP President Benjamin Jealous predicted that Dr. Martin Luther King's speech would not get applause from the "Restoring Honor" rally this past Saturday. Glenn Beck responds.See the whole thing here.

• NY GOP gov candidate says Obama 'worships himself'.Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino says he doesn't believe President Obama is a practicing Christian "in his heart."Instead, Paladino said Monday that the Democrat is a self-promoter who worships himself.I think he might be on to something?Read the full story here.

• Former Bin Laden Aide Gets Life for Stabbing Federal Prison Guard in the Eye.A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he’s not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell him he will go to hell.U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, deserved a life sentence for his “unusually cruel, brutal” attack in 2000 on guard Louis Pepe at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.Read the full story here.

• Gallup Poll: More Iraqis Approved of Bush’s Leadership Than Obama.With President Barack Obama preparing to give a speech tonight from the Oval Office announcing the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, recently released polling data from Gallup indicates that the Iraqi people approved of the job performance of the American leadership more under President George W. Bush, who invaded their country and overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, than they do under Obama.That's the trouble people never love dictators acting Presidents?Read the full story here.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Department of Justice ditches red, white and blue stars and stripes.Well, how interesting! It seems the U.S. Department of Justice has changed its website. Gone are the colorful red, white and blue U.S. flag decorations on the page,replaced by stark black and white.And at the top of the page, is a rather interesting quote:"The common law is the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people."No it's not from Comrade Lenin.Read the full story here.

• Iranian sentenced to death by stoning for adultery 'subjected to mock execution'.An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging.In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.But the mother-of-two, who was acquitted of murdering her husband but found guilty of adultery, was not led to the gallows.Her son told The Guardian: ‘Pressure from the international community has so far stopped them from carrying out the sentence but they’re killing her every day by any means possible.’Read the full story here.

• The struggle against jihad.While Muslim parents pack public meetings with pronouncements that 'Islam is a religion of peace,' their sons and daughters are being taught something else.No sooner did news of the Ottawa Terror Plot unfold on national TV, than one could predict the response of Canada's Islamists and their organizations.Across Canada, apologists of the terror suspects repeated the same mantra. The three men arrested were portrayed as "innocent" and the wider Muslim community was positioned as the real victims of the episode. It was as if the Islamist leadership had dusted off the speaking notes from the days of the Toronto 18 trials when leader after leader stood up to claim the young men arrested were framed, not real terrorists.Read the full story here.

• Turkey to not defend itself at the ECtHR on freedom of expression.Turkey will not defend itself in cases concerning freedom of expression that have been filed against it at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).“We don't have to send a defense for every file, especially if they are related to freedom of expression,” Davutoğlu told NTV in an interview yesterday.The second most complained about country in the ECtHR after Russia, most of the files against Turkey are related to fair trials and freedom of expression.Hmmm i wonder if Islam has anything to do with it?“We will also scan the law to find if any contradict with EU norms on freedom of expression and suggest changes to them,” he said.And they are surprised they are kept out of the E.U.?Read the full story here.

• Legal visitors face new $14 charge starting next week.The Obama administration will begin using the latest technology to protect U.S. shores from potential illegal European immigrants Sept. 8. Furthermore, the White House will charge visitors for using the system.Just to be clear, this new law is not just for Europeans. Travelers from Australia, Brunei, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea will also be affected.Read the full story here.

• Obama Regime Continues to Attack Arizona, Files Lawsuit Against Colleges for Requiring Non-Citizens to Prove They’re Here Legally.The U.S. Justice Department says it has filed an immigration lawsuit against Arizona authorities alleging hiring discrimination by schools in the state.The lawsuit alleges a group of community colleges acted illegally in requiring non-citizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs, The Washington Post reported Monday.Read the whole scandal story here.

• Busted! Fox's Carlson Catches Gibbs In A Naked Lie--Asks 6 Times If Obama Will Credit Bush Tonight.Gibbs's lie was so deep, I had to freeze frame so you could see exactly what Obama said about the surge in 2007. He's one smug, flippant jerk too.Read and view the whole thing here.

• Arizona Sheriff on Obama Regime Referring State to UN Human Rights Council: “I Have as Much Regard for the UN as I Do the Vermin That Hides in the Rocks”.Sheriff Larry Dever, whose officers patrol Cochise County along the border between Arizona and Mexico, said he finds it “amazing” that the U.S. State Department would refer the recently passed immigration law in his state to the United Nations Human Rights Council for review. “Well, it’s just amazing to me,” Dever told CNSNews.com.Read the full story here.

• HT:IslamEurope.Germany: Stormy debate about anti-Muslim book.Thilo Sarrazin's new anti-immigration/anti-Muslim book continues to make waves in Germany. The Bundesbank wants to fire him and his party, the Social Democrats, wants to expel him. Both will face legal challenges. The Local and Spiegel have roundups of the German media response.Read the full story here.

• HT:Islam in Europe.Belgium: Prisoner goes amok after losing Ramadan privileges.Belgium: Prisoner goes amok after losing Ramadan privileges.The prisoner couldn't live with that. At least five wardens tried to keep the prisoner under control, but even that didn't succeed. The prisoner managed to get hold of a chair with which he beat down a warden. In the hospital it turned out that the warden suffered several severely bruised ribs, and would be incapacitated from work for 4-6 weeks.El Khaoui is not a little boy. 'The Little Pirate' raped at least five women around the Antwerp Sportpaleis when he was 17. He was first arrested when he was 12.Islam a religion of peace?Read the full story here.

• Mother of two children denied pill from Tesco muslim pharmacist!A Tesco spokesman supported his right not to sell her the pills!They should be forced to put up a sign saying: "Muslim Pharmacist Will Not Sell the Following:"This shows again according to Muslims women have no rights they are property.Or perhaps it's because of the high number of rape cases in  Britain committed by.......?Read the whole thing here.

• Fiercest hurricane in two decades coming to a coast near you!Hurricane Earl presents tremendous challenges for federal government.Hurricane Earl's most recent projected path (seen below) takes it dangerously near the East Coast of America. The National Hurricane Center has Hurricane Earl's track taking it very close to the shores of North Carolina before making a sharp eastward turn away from the U.S. Coastline. Even under current projections, in which Earl never impacts the U.S. coastline, the storm could cause substantial flooding and bring dangerous winds to the area. The NHC is urging people to keep a close eye on the storm and make necessary preparations should it change it course.Read the full story here.More on Earl here and continuous updated page here. Screenshot of the expected track.

• HT:TheAstuteBloggers.This should be treated as a declaration of war!Sixteen non-governmental organisations planning an "aid convoy" to Gaza: 200 vessels and 600 NGO members are preparing to sail!All these stone-age countries who cannot even feed themselves, gathering "donations" to fund an attack on the Israeli state!Read the whole story here.

• Court rules police can GPS tag your car.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a narrow margin that without a warrant police can sneak into your driveway at night and stick a GPS tag on your car so they can remotely monitor your travels. The 4th Amendment weeps.Curiously, the case was all about whether or not police had the right to enter the man's driveway to attach the device. A point which is likely to be appealed since there is a longstanding precedent for courts recognizing a person's reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a legal term meaning the area around the home. Of larger concern is the apparent legality of the police tagging the car if only they'd had the good sense to get it while it was parked outside the Wal-Mart.Read the full story here,and here.

• Has the lost treasure of the Tsars been found at the bottom of the world's deepest lake?A Russian mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost Tsarist gold on the floor of the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake in Siberia, it was revealed yesterday.Explorers have long searched for treasures dating from the Bolshevik Revolution when forces loyal to the deposed royal family fled the advancing Red Army.Legend has it that 1,600 tons of gold, which could now be worth billions of pounds, was lost when anti-Communist commander Admiral Alexander Kolchak’s train plunged into Lake Baikal.Read the full story here.

• Drink Up NYC: Meet The Tiny Crustaceans (Not Kosher) In Your Tap Water.New York City is known for having excellent tap water, but why does it taste so good? It might be the microscopic shrimp.Tiny copepods were discovered after a reddit user uploaded photos of what they found through the other end of a microscope after adding H&E stain to New York tap water. According to blog Gizmodo, copepods are added to water to eat mosquito larvae, keeping water sources clear.Read the full story here.

• Unmanned Helo Wins Defense Contract.When developing an unmanned vehicle there are two paths to choose from: create an entirely fresh design with no room for a carbon-based pilot, or simply take an existing craft and make it self-sufficient. That’s the direction Lockheed Martin chose for its submission to the the joint Army Marines Autonomous Technologies for Unmanned Air Systems (ATUAS) program, and it turned out to be a winner.Full story here.