Afghanistan's electoral watchdog said on Tuesday that it has received over 3,000 complaints about irregularities in the run-up to Saturday's parliamentary election and on polling day itself. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said 1,388 complaints had been received specifically about election day irregularities -- which could affect the results -- ahead of a 4 pm (1130 GMT deadline) deadline for submissions.ECC commissioner and spokesman Ahmad Zia Rafaat told AFP that on top of those complaints, another 1,700 had been lodged relating to problems ahead of the vote.

There are concerns that the ECC could be hard-pressed to handle the volume of complaints, which are expected to rise as preliminary results are posted on its website.More than 2,500 candidates stood for the 249 seats in parliament's lower house, or Wolesi Jirga, and many of the losers are expected to lodge complaints. Canada.com: Afghanistan braces for rush of poll complaints.

Israeli FM's "no loyalty, no citizenship" campaign: Israeli-Arabs (1/5th of Israels population, not including Palestinians under occupation) who aren't willing to swear allegiance to Israel as a uniquely Jewish state, could lose the citizenship.

[Editor's Comment:] The Germans came, the police, and they started banging houses: "Raus, raus, raus, Juden raus...." Now the Zionist Jews are saying the same: "Arabs Out!". Some of them (JDL) have even sunk to this level: "Arabs to the Gas Chambers!"

AWIP: FASCISM IN ISRAEL: Israel’s foreign minister demands Arabs be stripped of citizenship
[Stephen Lendman: Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650]
Max Blumenthal & Joseph Dana: As Israel Slides Toward Fascism, Citizens and Supporters Swear Their Loyalty.

Globalists representing 60 nations will meet at the UN this coming week to push a tax on world financial transactions in the name of solving poverty and climate change, formally launching a massive program to bankrupt the middle class and enrich the coffers of global government. "Spearheaded by European Union countries, the so-called “innovative financing” proposal envisages a tax of 0.005 percent (five cents per $1,000), which experts estimate could produce more than $30 billion a year worldwide for priority causes," reports CNS News. As Ira Stoll, editor of FutureCapitalism.com, points out, new taxes always start off small so as to not be resisted by the people forced to pay them, and are then always gradually increased. "When people suggest taxes, they always start out ‘small," said Stoll.

PressTV: Ban urges world leaders to cut poverty.

More than 100,000 children left homeless by Pakistan's floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF. Children already weak from living on too little food in poor rural areas before the floods are fighting to stay alive, as diarrhea, respiratory diseases and malaria attack their emaciated bodies.

Video bears writing - The Sadrist Program. The torturer asks prisoner to confess about a name or killing of someone. The conversation is not very clear due to screams. The prisoner says he doesn't know. The prisoner is insulted with all kinds of slurs. The torturer says - you want the bottle again (referring to sodomy by broken bottle). The prisoner dies. The torturer asks his "aide" if the prisoner is dead. The "aide" says I will bring water to wake him. The torturer says - bring the electrical cables let's see if he is dead. Then another voice says -Piss on him, (maybe he'll wake up)

Television footage shot by the BBC's Natural History Unit has provided the first evidence that tigers can live and breed at extremely high altitudes. The team filmed the animals, normally found in jungle habitats, more than 4,000 metres high in the Himalayas. Experts say the discovery could make it easier to create a conservation corridor, linking populations of the endangered felines across Asia. Jon Kay reports.

Talk about overkill by the cop in question. He broke the poor old mans neck for God's sake. -This has become an epidemic of many cops abusing their power. We see often how the cowards hiding behind a badge get off on going after those that are the most vulnerable among us. What a nightmare these animals must be to live with, I can only imagine. This cop needs to be stripped of his badge and off the streets, period. He's a danger to every citizen that dares to question his so-called authority or happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. He's a bully with a badge and we all know that is not a good mix.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Monday that the United States must be prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — and added that the last-resort step should be taken with the goal of overthrowing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Graham, a military lawyer and a senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, became the first senator to support direct U.S. military intervention in Iran, saying it should not involve ground troops but be launched by U.S. warplanes and ships. Graham was a prominent supporter of the Iraq war, though he criticized Bush and former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld for sending too few U.S. troops.

"If you use military force against Iran, you've opened up Pandora's box," Graham told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "If you allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, you've emptied Pandora's box. I'd rather open up Pandora's box than empty it."

Here's more Graham:

"Jerusalem is not a settlement. No government in Israel will ever look at Jerusalem as a settlement! No government in the United States should ever look at Jerusalem as a settlement! It is the undivided capital of the State of Israel. It is the eternal home of the Jewish faith. And it is now time to move onto other issues." (The Palestine Chronicle)

AWIP: Poll: Most Americans against joining Israel in Iran strike

Japan’s detention of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters in the East China Sea rapidly flared into a major diplomatic row between the two countries over the weekend. Despite repeated Chinese demands for the release of the captain, Zhan Qixiong, a Japanese court on the island of Okinawa announced on Sunday that he would be held for 10 more days. Zhan was arrested on September 7 for allegedly causing a collision with two Japanese Coast Guard ships. Beijing insists that he is a Chinese citizen detained in Chinese territory, invalidating Japanese law.

Forensic experts have discovered a mass grave believed to contain the remains of some 20 Muslims allegedly killed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. The grave was discovered in the Donja Tramosnja- Jankov region, 150 kilometers northwest of the capital, Sarajevo, FENA news agency reported. The nationalities of the victims have not yet been disclosed. The bodies were immediately transferred to the town of Sanski Most, where forensic examination is expected to begin soon. The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place between March 1992 and November 1995. The war involved several sides including Serbs, Croats and Bosnians.

The war ended with the signing of the Dayton Agreement on December 14, 1995, which resulted in the formation of Republika Srpska as an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. The four-year-long conflict claimed about 100,000 lives -- mostly Muslim -- and caused the displacement of 2.2 million people.

JFK telling of the corrupt organization controlling our government (FED) whos intentions are to deceive, lie and manipulate our liberties away from us. He says we are being opposed by a "ruthless" conspiracy and speaks vaguely of "secret oaths". Hmmm... and to think this was 35-40 years ago, imagine now.