Russians helping Iran build bomb, HC DOES cover abortion, Secession movement gaining momentum

1) Israel names Russians helping Iran build nuclear bomb Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has handed the Kremlin a list of Russian scientists believed by the Israelis to be helping Iran to develop a nuclear warhead. He is said to have delivered the list during a mysterious visit to Moscow.  Netanyahu flew to the Russian capital with Uzi Arad, his national security adviser, last month in a private jet.  His office claimed he was in Israel, visiting a secret military establishment at the time. It later emerged that he was holding talks with Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, and President Dmitry Medvedev. “I will bring you out with hooks in your jaws“…(see Ezekiel 38) See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6860161.ece 1a) Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/world/middleeast/04nuke.html?_r=2 2) Clinton Issues Holiday Greetings to Muslims, Not Jews (IsraelNN.com) Both Jews and Muslims celebrated holidays in September 2009. However, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem – America's representative in Israel's capital – chose to focus entirely on Islam this year, while ignoring the Jewish holidays of Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur completely. The Consulate's website features Eid il-Fitr greetings from U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Consul General Daniel Rubinstein. Its staff was involved in Ramadan celebrations in Jenin and Shechem, and hosted a meal in Jericho for the Muslim holiday of Iftar. Clinton's greeting was published on September 19 – the first day of Rosh HaShana. However, no mention was made of the Jewish holiday. All three holiday wishes from American leaders to Muslims were apolitical, and focused on messages such as “personal reflection” and “charity.” In contrast, President Obama's Rosh HaShana greeting, which is not on the site, included a brief promotion of his Israel-Palestinian Authority peace plan. See: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133674 3) Bart Stupak, Leader of Antiabortion Democrats: 'Not Very Confident' on Healthcare Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak is leading the charge of antiabortion Democrats who are threatening to vote against healthcare reform unless more restrictions on abortion funding and coverage are added. After months of trying to take his concerns to party leaders, he recently got a call from President Obama—and a meeting this week with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I talked to Stupak yesterday about those conversations, his specific grievances with the House healthcare bill, and why he's "not very confident" he'll be able to support the final healthcare package. Excerpts: …Does the president believe that the Capps Amendment prohibits federally-funded abortions, as pro-choice advocates claim, or that that prohibition is a disingenuous accounting trick, as antiabortion advocates claim? The president did not get into the argument whether the Capps Amendment covers abortions or not. He never went there. He just said, "We have enough other arguments going on with the bill, let's work this one out." So what do you see as the path to resolving the abortion debate—to "working this out"— in the Democratic Caucus? Unfortunately, I don't see a clear resolution right now. …The pro-choice community argues that the Capps Amendment applies the spirit of the Hyde Amendment to the House healthcare bill by barring federally funded abortions in almost all instances. The Capps Amendment says at least one plan [participating in a federal health insurance exchange] must provide abortion coverage and must have one that doesn't have it. For the first time ever, federal policy is saying that abortion is a covered service (emphasis mine). That's completely opposite of Hyde. Second, if I'm in the public plan, I have to give one dollar per month [to abortion coverage]. I'm a man, and I can't get an abortion, but I have to pay for it. Those are two major differences from Hyde. See: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/10/02/bart-stupak-leader-of-antiabortion-democrats-not-very-confident-on-healthcare.html 4) House support for Fed audit passes 300 Hearings already under way on transparency move The prime sponsor of a plan to audit the Federal Reserve, which oversees U.S. monetary policy, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, says his plan has reached 300 co-sponsors in the U.S. House.  The legislation calls for a full and complete audit of the Federal Reserve by the Government Accountability Office, reported to Congress by the end of 2010.  See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111812 5) Feds sued to keep out of state's gun affairs Complaint filed seeking affirmation of Montana Firearms Freedom Act In the second major front in the war over gun rights that has developed in just days, a lawsuit has been filed against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a court order that the federal government stay out of the way of Montana's management of its own firearms.  The action was filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Montana Shooting Sports Association in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Mont., to validate the principles and terms of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, which took effect today.  WND previously reported on the precedent-setting move taken over the course of recent months when the 2009 Montana Legislature approved the bill and the plan was signed into law by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer. The law provides guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana would not require any federal forms; silencers made and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered; and there would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork required.  The idea is spreading quickly. Tennessee already has a similar law, and similar plans have been introduced in many other states.  An organization called the Firearms Freedom Act has created a map of such activity nationwide (see link): See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111759 6) Secession movement spreads well beyond Texas Rising public anger over the way Washington does business has produced a growing outcry for state sovereignty and strict adherence to the 10th Amendment, which says powers not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution belong to the states.  Texas was an epicenter for this year’s "tea party" protests, in which thousands of Americans displayed their contempt for rising taxes and federal intrusion.  Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center in Los Angeles, a think tank that monitors states’ rights activity, said defiance of federal policy is "unprecedented" and cuts across the philosophical spectrum, ranging from staunch conservatives to anti-war activists to civil libertarians. Legislatures in 37 states, he said, have introduced state sovereignty resolutions and at least seven have passed. See: http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1623872-p2.html 7) Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers The premier flu-fighting drug is contaminating rivers downstream of sewage-treatment facilities, researchers in Japan confirm. The source: urinary excretion by people taking oseltamivir phosphate, best known as Tamiflu. Concerns are now building that birds, which are natural influenza carriers, are being exposed to waterborne residues of Tamiflu’s active form and might develop and spread drug-resistant strains of seasonal and avian flu. See: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/47971/title/Excreted_Tamiflu_found_in_rivers