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Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus in the Syrian capital, the Iranian embassy consular chief in Damascus told Iran's state television.
"Armed terrorist groups kidnapped 48Iranian pilgrims on their way to the airport," Majid Kamjou told the IRIB network on Saturday,which gave the report on its website.
"There are no reportsabout the fate of the pilgrims. The embassy and Syrian officials are trying to trace the kidnappers," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranianstravel each year to Syria to visit a Shia pilgrimage site, the shrine of Sayeda Zaynab, in Damascus.
Tehran is the staunchest ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces are locked in a bloody conflict in Damascus and other cities against rebels his regime describes as"terrorists".
Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Amman, the capital of neighbouring Jordan,said the pilgrims were travelling to the airport after visiting the shrine when they were kidnapped.
Our correspondent said that though the Syrian government was blaming what it"calls terrorists connected to the FreeSyrian army", it does not know "exactly who is holding the 48[pilgrims]".
"We don't have any idea about their whereabouts or exactly who is holding them, but certainly it is not a great time for Iranian pilgrims to bevisiting Syria right now," she said.
Several dozen Iranianpilgrims and engineers were abducted in December and January, with most being released months later.
Earlier in May, 11 Lebanese Shia pilgrims were also kidnapped by an armed group inside Syria.
The group first claimed the pilgrims were member of the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, but then back-tracked, claiming to be holding the men until the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, publicly apologises for voicing support for al-Assad.
A local Lebanese television network broadcast a telephone interview with one of the kidnappers who said the pilgrims were in good health and thatthey were "guests", not hostages.
It was also revealed that they were being held in the area of Aazaz in Aleppo province.
Lebanese media reported on Saturdaythat several of the pilgrims had managed to escape from their kidnappers after shelling occurred in the area, but there was no independent confirmation of the reports.

One thing is certain this fall: there will be a lot of talk about taxes. But without a broad agreement, a series of automatic increases will take effect next year.
While there are still three months until Election Day, recent action in Washington did little to suggest the spirit of compromise is in the air. The Senate has voted to raise taxes on the wealthy, while the House has voted to keep taxes low for everyone.

President Obama is turning 51 on Saturday, with just three months until Election Day. So he will celebrate in truepolitical fashion: spending “downtime,” as an e-mail invitation putit, at a party at his Chicago home with abunch of strangers who made campaigndonations to be there.
That party, on Aug. 12, will mark another milestone inthe transformation of the president and his wife, who once tried to limit the roleof politics in their lives and now seem to be increasingly giving themselves over to it. Even somelongtime Obama fund-raisers expressed surprise over the party’s site: the Obamas have limited their schmoozing hours inWashington, sequester themselves while on vacation and seldominvite many outsiders into the White House living quarters. Until now, they have kept their Chicago home mostly sacrosanct, allowing only limited photographs of the interior.
The party raises questions about how far the Obamas will go in mortgaging their personal appeal for political gain in the months ahead. In poll after poll, votersgive Mr. Obama higher marks as a person — a trustworthy leader, acommitted father — than as a steward of the economy. Aside from their house, how much of themselves are the Obamas willing to offer up?
Consider the shift in Mr. Obama’s birthday celebrations since hearrived in office in 2009. That year, withre-election still distant, Michelle Obama gave him an entirely private surprise party at Camp David, Md., with a few old friends. His 2010 party was splashier, a basketball tournament that made news because of the professional and college stars who played.
A year later, he celebrated his 50th birthday with a fund-raising gala at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom, where Jennifer Hudson sang“Happy Birthday.” Toscrape up extra dollars, the Obama campaign sold commemorative birthday merchandise, including party hats. Even the private party he gave at the White House mixed old friends with allies who might assist in his re-election fight, likeTom Hanks and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Every year, some Obama supporters have gathered all over the country to “celebrate” his birthday — that is, to share his messageand sign up converts. But in the coming days, they will hold no fewer than 1,000 birthday-themed events, fromNorth Carolina (knocking on 51 doors) to California (calling 51 voters).
Birthday fund-raisersare a familiar tactic that may have reached an apotheosis in 1962, when Marilyn Monroe sang to President John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden rally attended by 15,000 people and broadcast on television. In 1996, President Bill Clinton filled Radio City Music Hall for a 50th-birthday fund-raiser that brought in $10 million.
But the one at the Obamas’ home will have a specific 2012 spin, reflecting the illusion of intimacy on which campaigns now thrive. In recentyears, win-a-visit-with-Barack (or Mitt or Ann or Joe, or Sarah Jessica Parker or Marc Anthony) sweepstakes have become a signal fund-raising tactic for both sides. A recent Obama event at George Clooney’s home demonstrates why: The campaign collected $15 million , according to organizers. Less thanhalf of that came from the Hollywood types who paid$40,000 a ticket; the rest came from a seaof supporters who made small donations and entered an online contest to win seats.
The formula has proved so lucrative that Mitt Romney’s campaign advertisedthe chance to be introduced to Mr. Romney and his vice-presidential nominee: a contest to meet a political partner who does not yet exist. Aside from harvesting newe-mail addresses, thecontests allow the campaigns to “drive their small-dollar contributions off their big-donor contributions,” said Anthony Corrado, a campaign finance expert at Colby College.
Months after winning the Clooney contest, Karen Blutcher, 45, a communications manager for a utilitycompany in St. Augustine, Fla., still sounded thunderstruck that she had met the president and mingled with stars. “The entire event was a lifelong memory,” she said inan interview.
A warning to this month’s lucky winner: The celebration at the Obama home will be considerably less cozy than the e-mailed invitations suggest. The event isnot a social gathering; it is one of four fund-raisers that Mr. Obama will race through that day in Chicago. Despite a gracious invitation that the first lady e-mailed tosupporters, she is not planning to attend, a campaign official said.
Donors may dream of tinkling the keys on the family piano or leafing through private photos, but much of the action will take place in thebackyard. The finalists will be chosen at random, but the contest winners will be selected as reality show contestants are, to make sure their stories fit. (Ms. Blutcher comes from a hotly contested state and supports Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul because she has a son with special needs.)
Even the promise of being allowed in theObamas’ house is a bit of a mirage: the first family rarely spends nights there anymore, and many Chicago friends predict they will never move back in.
Also — and the campaign does not play up this bit of fine print — charging money to enter contests is illegal. So the legions of contestants who reached into their own pockets may not know it, but they could have entered free.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/us/politics/obamas-birthday-party-as-fund-raising-opportunity.html?_r=1

Sweden's ambassador in Belarus expelled.
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Friday that Belarus has expelled Sweden's ambassador Stefan Eriksson over actionsto support democracy.
"The Lukashenko regime in Belarus has decided to expel our ambassador," Bildt told reporters, Reuters reports."They have made accusations against the ambassador. They are groundless.Fundamentally, this is about Sweden being engaged in democracy and human rights in Belarus."
Last month a plane chartered by Swedish public relations firm Studio Total dropped hundreds of teddy bears over Belarus ina pro-democracy stunt, prompting President Alexander Lukashenko -- described as Europe's last dictator-- to sack his air defence chief and the head of the border guards.
Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the accusations against Ambassador Stefan Eriksson were"ridiculous" and"groundless".

Belorussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko fired theborder-guard and air-force chiefs after Swedish pilots illegally flew a small airplane from Lithuania to Belarus this month.
Major General Igor Rachkovskiy, chairman of the Border Committee, and Major General Dmitry Pakhmelkin, Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Force commander, were dismissed “for failing to fulfill their duties in ensuring national security,” the presidential press service said today in an e-mailedstatement.
A group of Swedish citizens illegally flewa small plane from Lithuania to Belarus on July 4, dropping teddy-bear toys withsigns calling for free speech over the capital, Minsk, Lukashenko told a meeting of military and border-guard officials last week. The pilots were able to return to a Lithuanian airport without being intercepted and posted video footage of their flight on the Internet.

Kofi Annan's bitter resignation and the collapse of Obama's Syria policy.
http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/03/kofi_annans_bitter_resignation_and_the_collapse_of_Obamas_Syria_policy
Kofi Annan's bitter resignation yesterdayfrom his hopeless assignment as the UN's Special Envoy forSyria merely confirmswhat has long been apparent: the Obamaadministration's Syria policy has failed. The policy seems to have thus far consisted of a combination of sternly-worded denunciations , persistent outsourcing of international legitimacy to Russia and China, and belated, unenthusiastic, and possibly ineffective provisions of non-lethal aid to some Syria rebels for communications and logistics. As Peter Feaver has observed , this is not just"leading from behind" but rather"following from behind." Meanwhile, the fact that Syria represents a confluence of strategic interests and moral imperatives has not prompted a proportionate response from a White House wary of action in an election year.
Into this void comes a compelling op-ed by Anne-Marie Slaughter in the Financial Times . Slaughter, an eminent Princeton professor who servedas Obama's director of the Policy PlanningStaff at the State Department during the first two years of the administration, makes an impassioned call for meaningful action. Specifically she urges that the United States lead a coalition of nations in providing "heavy weapons (and possibly air cover)" toall Syrian opposition leaders who show their commitment to democratic principles.
Though now returned to the halcyon groves of academe, Slaughter remains one of the more influential foreign policy voices today. Recall her NewYork Times op-ed shortly after she left the State Departmenturging American intervention in Libya,which anticipated (and very likely influenced) the Obama administration's eventual decision to do just that.
Slaughter's latest op-ed takes seriously the many factors and risks that argue against intervention, including the possibilities of arms ending up in the hands of jihadists, or of exacerbating the conflict and increasing tensions with Russia and China, not to mention the potential unintendedconsequences of taking sides in a civil war. It also contains a head-snapping concession when Slaughter admits that "sending arms without U.N. approval would put the U.S. on the wrongside of international law." The fact that one of the most eloquent proponents of international law and multilateral organizations is now channeling her inner John Bolton shows how grave the situation in Syria has become. One would hope that this point will also chasten some of the sanctimonious voiceswho are so quick to denounce any perceived violations of international law.

America's future is bright. Yes certainly a whopping Depression is at the doorstep, but our future is certainly NOT Mad Max either. I promise you, it will be bright, beautiful, and gloriously free country again, betterin fact, than it ever was.
For those of us who think it will be, we need to read all we can about the beforeand after of crises in Argentina 2001. Life goes on. Certainly it goes on in a new way, a much tougherway for sure, but its not a Black n White thing with no grey areas.
Life in the Grey Zone,that is what we will have. Life in the Grey. Sure there is to be bouts of vandals, police state crackdowns, shortages, military curfew areas.... but that is not the worst of it, that is not the real danger to freedom in America. Sure, life will go on, people will adjust, people will downsize, cut back, trade in cars for mopeds and scooters, home growveggies, and figure out other power sources. Yes we Americans will rise above this. We will overcome this because we know how life can and should be.
So just what is the"real danger" to us, ifnot that? Its the stories we hold in our minds as true, the stories we hold that are false. The story that was spun and accepted in 1929---from pool halls to the halls of academia---was that Capitalism had failed.Not true! Government had failed. With that one Assumption unchallenged, we have suffered each year more and more government "help".
Think about that. Then realize that today, Government has Failed AGAIN. Government is the one Bankrupt, not 98% of us. Government cannot save anyone, but we sure can. Govt causedthe Credit Bubble, caused the those of us in the real estate market to get the wrong price signals, cause mal investment, and caused our bad investments. But GOVERNMENT Failed.
This is the simple truth, GOVERNMENT FAILED.
As much as we struggle, we must Make that one Message Clear, GOVERNMENT FAILED. Government BOTH cause the problem and failed to save us from the result.
In our daily lives, we must never let any comment go un challenged that says or assumes otherwise.
This is HOW we will overcome this. We must make it"common wisdom" that Government is not the answer, government is the Problem.
That is the Military Battle Line that we all must Shoot our words across. From TV to Newspapers to the internet, we must NEVER allow there to be any otherassumption.
GOVERNMENT FAILED. GOVERNMENT CAUSED THE PROBLEM, GOVERNMENT CAN ONLY MAKE IT WORSE.
Its time we give the Constitution, the freemarket, and ourselves the freedom to be as gloriously wonderful as we can be. We willfind another energy power platform, other than oil. We will build and rise upto be the Great and Free Country on the Planet.
China is not the new light of Freedom, America is and for ever will be.

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war after American spy planes discovered that the Kremlin hadstationed medium-range atomic missiles on the communist island of Cuba in the Caribbean, barely over the horizon from Florida.
The weapons placed large swaths of the Eastern U.S. — including Washington, D.C. — within range of attack and sparked atwo-week showdown between the superpowers that Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. historian and Kennedy advisor Arthur Schlesinger Jr.called "the most dangerous moment in human history."
Six months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, a parallel drama had played out on the other side of the world as the U.S. secretly brought near-identical missiles to the ones the Russians stationed on Cuba toanother small island — Okinawa.
While the full facts ofthat deployment have never been officially disclosed, now for the first time three of the U.S. Air Force's nuclear pioneers have broken the silence about Okinawa's secret missiles, life within the bunkers and a military miscalculation of apocalyptic proportions — the targeting of unaligned China at a time when China-Soviet polemics were in full public view.
John Bordne, Larry Havemann and Bill Horn were all born during the early daysof World War II, but their motivations in joining the U.S. Air Force were very different. Coming from a family steeped in military tradition, Bordne signed up out of a sense of patriotism.
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/10441-seconds-away-from-midnight-us-nuclear-missile-pioneers-on-okinawa-break-fifty-year-silence-on-a-hidden-nuclear-crisis-of-1962

The many peculiar aspects to the icon’s death include a strange bruise on herlower back and the number of sleeping pills she allegedly ingested
FILE - In this June 2, unknown year, file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe smiles in a car after arriving tousled froman all-night plane flight from Hollywood to Idlewild Airport, in New York. She said she planned to rest in New York before going to England to make a new movie with Sir Laurence Olivier. Sidestepping questions as to whether she and playwright Arthur Miller plan to wed, she said: "No comment, we're really good friends." (AP Photo, File)
Did a “hot shot” kill Marilyn Monroe during the night of August 4, 1962?
Her last hours have animated conspiracy theorists for 50 years.
The many peculiar aspects to her death — officially a “probable suicide” —include a strange bruise on her lower back, the number of sleeping pills (more than 50) she supposedly ingested without a handy water glass and the disappearance of her phone records.
J.I. Baker’s “The Empty Glass” is a fast-paced, smart andnoirish novel narrated by the deputy coroner who becomes entrapped in a web of deceit involving doctors, the White House and the Mafia.
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Here’s an excerpt from an interview:
So was the suicide verdict widely accepted?
Baker: Yes, but the whisperings started almost immediately. For instance, three days after the death, a New York Daily News columnist named Florabel Muir noted that Monroe’s phone records had gone missing, apparently at the behest of some powerful people, andthat this was highly unusual in the case of a so-called suicide.
Your title points to the puzzling absence of a glass by her bedside. How could she chew so many pills?
Baker: Not only that but a) a glass mysteriously later showed up in the room and b) according to the handyman, the waterhad been turned off in her bungalow because of renovations.
Some experts say that the high level of drugs found in her bloodstream would be absolutely impossible to attain by swallowing pills, as there were massive amounts of poison involved — only part of which would have killed herbefore it was all absorbed.
The fact that it was absorbed points to a very rapid process, which could be explained by injection, a “hot shot” in police slang.
But the coroner said he didn’t see any needle puncture. Of course, it’s not exactly clear when she died. What do you think happened?
Baker: I don’t necessarily think she was murdered, but it seems absolutely clear that a cover-up of something was engineered — for instance, her relationship with JFK and his brother Bobby.
What’s a possible scenario?
Baker: She’s an unstable personality. JFK has an affair withher, and she gets weird and clingy. He wants to dump her, so he does what he almost always does when he has a problem: He gives it to Bobby.
Bobby goes out to LAto intervene, but then — perhaps — begins his own affair.When he also becomes overwhelmed by her persistent fantasies and aggressive instability, he splits up with her, too.
Did Marilyn threaten to call a press conference? Show the world what she knew about the Kennedys? It’s just a scenario, but not an impossible one.
In your novel, Bobby blathers on about the Bay of Pigs and poisoning Castro to impress Marilyn, whoprefers his brother.
Did she really think JFK might install her in the White House?
Baker: Marilyn knew what she was doing, and she could turn “Marilyn” on and off like a light, but in some cases I think she lost sight of where the fantasies ended and reality began.
Let’s also remember that she came from afamily with a history of mental illness. Her mother was a paranoid schizophrenic.
So is it possible that she somehow convinced herself that JFK might leave Jackie for her? Yes. JFK, too, might have said almost anything to win her, and as weknow he was a preternaturally charming man.
There’s a diary in your novel. Is it certain she kept one?
Baker: It’s not certain, though several people claim to have seen it. And aman named Lionel Grandison, who had the deputy coroner position that I gave to my protagonist (though there’s no similarity between the two), claims the diary was found in the Monroe home but later disappearedfrom the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.
Are the tapes your invention?
Baker: It’s all circumstantial, unfortunately, but the notorious Hollywood PI Fred Otash claimed that he was hired to bug actor Peter Lawford’sSanta Monica beach house and Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood hacienda.
He (and others) claimed the resultingtapes included the sound of Marilyn having sex with the Kennedys (though not together, of course).
A lot of folks are taping each other in your book.
Baker: The really intriguing and scary thing is the possibility that a tape exists of Monroe’s death. A number of people claim to have heard it, and they all tell basically the same story — of Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford arguing with Marilyn about something they had come to find.
Well, what was that? The diary? The very bug that was taping them? Again, there’s no hard and fast evidence of this tape — but there’s enough circumstantial evidence to make you wonder.
http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/celebrity/marilyn-monroe-s-death-still-a-mystery-after-50-years-1.1056020

Court bailiffs have barred Russian opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny from entering the Khamovniki Court in Moscow in order to testify as a witness inthe ***** Riot punk band trial.
Defense lawyers said Navalny's testimony could have helped greatly in the case
President Vladimir Putin spoke out against "judging too harshly" three ***** Riot band members facing hooliganism charges for a February performance at a Moscow cathedral denouncing President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill.
Meanwhile, Moscow'sKhamovnichesky District Court began studying evidence in the case, video recordings of the band's performances at Christ the Savior and two other churches.
"There is nothing good in it. … Nevertheless, I don't think that they should be judged tooharshly," Putin told journalists in London , answering a question about the band's performance.
"I hope that they [the defendants] will make some conclusions themselves, althoughthe final decision must be delivered by the court," Putin said, reported."I hope that the court will make a correct decision that is justified," he added.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny faces as much as 10 years in jail after being charged with embezzlement, marking an escalation in President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on the biggest unrest of his 12-year rule.
The Investigative Committee increasedthe severity of the charges against Navalny, accusing him of defrauding a state timber company of 16 million rubles ($496,000) in the Kirov region, the agency said on its website today. Navalny, 36, an anti-corruption activist who helped organize mass protests against Putin, previously risked a maximum sentence of five years for causing a 1.3 million-ruble lossto the firm.
Navalny was barred from leaving Russia by investigators, who said that two more people linked to the case will soon be charged. The accusations are “astonishing,” Navalny said on his blog.
Putin, 59, who won another six years at the Kremlin in March, has responded to the largest demonstrations since he came to power in 2000 by tightening controls over the Internet and prosecuting opposition activists and leaders.

Houdini commits suicide!

MOSCOW - Senior Syrian officials havepleaded with Russia for financial loans and supplies of oil products, a sign that the globalfallout from President Bashar Assad's crackdown on a rebellion is squeezing his regime.
While the Syrian delegation was holding talks in Moscow, a squadron of Russian warships was approaching Syria's port of Tartus, the only naval base Russia has outside the former Soviet Union. The Russian Defence Ministry said that some of the ships may call at the port to replenish their supplies.
Syria's Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil, who led a delegation of several Cabinet ministers on a trip to Moscow, told reporters Friday that they have asked for a Russian loan to replenish Syria's hard currency reserves, which have been depleted by an international embargo on Syrian exports.
He said Damascus also wants to get diesel oil and other oil products from Russia in exchange for crude supplies.
Jamil refused to mention specific figures, but said that the deals couldbe finalized within weeks. There was no immediate comment from the Russian government.
Syria is believed to be burning quickly through the $17 billion in foreign reserves that the government was believed to have at the start of Assad's crackdown on a popular uprising that erupted in March 2011. The conflict has turned into a civil war, andrights activists estimate more than19,000 people have been killed over thepast 17 months.
The Syrian regime has blamed U.S. andEuropean Union sanctions for the shortages that haveleft Syrians across the country standing in long lines to pay inflatedprices for cooking gas, fuel, sugar and other staples. But inMay, the U.S. ambassador to Damascus denied that the international sanctions were to blame for the shortages.
"Our sanctions purposefully do nottarget oil and dieselimports, because we know that the Syrian people need both for their day-to-day lives," Ambassador RobertFord wrote on the embassy's Facebook page. Ford said the government is using fuel imports for its tanks. He was forced to leave Syria in February citing security concerns.
Russia has protected Syria from U.N. sanctions and continued to supply it with weapons throughout the conflict. The Kremlin, backed by fellow veto-wielding U.N. Security Council member China, has blocked any plans that would call on Assad to step down.
Russian news agencies reported Friday that two of the three amphibious assault ships which are part of the squadron heading to Syrian waters will call at Tartus while the third will cast anchor just outside the port.
They said that each of the three ships iscarrying about 120 marines backed by armoured vehicles. It wasn't immediately clear whether some of the marines will stay to protect Tartus. Some Russian media said the marines were supposed to ensurea safe evacuation ofRussian personnel and navy equipment from the Tartus base if necessary.
The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that there was no immediate plan for the ships to call at the port, but addedthat some of them may do that if the navy considers it necessary to replenish onboard supplies.

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http://zeenews.india.com/sports/london-olympics-2012/topless-ukrainian-feminists-protest-against-iocs-support-for-bloody-islamist-regimes_746717.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/topless-women-stage-london-protest-155035128--spt.html
http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/ukrainian-women-stage-topless-protest-at-london-olympics-8554.html

London, Aug 2: Four topless activists froma Ukrainian women'srights group Femen were detained by police today after they carried out a protest at City Hall, central London.
Police were called totake the topless protesters in to custody. The protesters accused the International Olympic Committee of supporting 'bloody' Islamist regimes.
Pictures showed officers holding women on the ground and coveringtheir chests.One woman screamed as officers held her. Oneof the women carried the message 'No Sharia' on her bare chest.
The demonstration near Tower Bridge, described as an 'Islamic marathon' by the protesters, was organised by the Ukrainian feminist group Femen.
Femen, a group based in Kiev, was founded in 2008.
The organisation hasbecome internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills.
Its stated goals include developing 'leadership, intellectual and moral qualities of the young women inUkraine' and to 'build up the image of Ukraine, the country with great opportunities for women'.
In a statement published on its Facebook page, the protest group said a number of its French members had been arrested.
It called on the IOC to 'condemn violence towards women from Islamist states'.
It said: 'Femen requires the states that apply the laws of sharia be shut outof the Olympic games, because of the inhumanity of these laws, which are in total contradiction with Olympic principles that are peace and philanthropy.
'Femen accuses these states of simulating democratic changes regarding the position of women.
'With the support of the IOC, these Islamist governments use theparticipation of women in the Olympic games to hide thousands of victims and dead.
'If the IOC keeps flirting with radical Islam, new Olympic disciplines, such as stoning or speed raping will be addedto the competition.'
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: 'At approximately 11.30am today police attended the site of a demonstration outside City Hall.
'Four topless female protesters were arrested under section five of the Public Order Act for disorderly behaviour. They are currently in custody.'
The protest was staged less than three months after Femen activists snatched football's European Championship trophy on two occasions.
They grabbed the cup in May while it was on display in a central square in Dnipropetrovsk, south-east Ukraine.
One activist took off her top to reveal an offensive slogan before picking up the trophy.
As security guards moved in on her, another activist, standing next to the cup, stripped off to the waist to display the same slogan.
Activists staged a similar protest in theUkrainian capital Kiev earlier that month.
In February the protest group clashed with Italian police during Milan Fashion Week after ademonstration against the use of anorexic models.
The topless protesters wore jeans and had handwritten sloganssuch as 'Fashion = Fascism' and 'Anorexia' scrawled across their chests.
A similar protest washeld in January in the Swiss resort of Davos in January, where the World Economic Forum held its annual meeting.

Record 46.5mil Americans on foodstamps. Charts show significant rise in number collecting foodstampssince Oct 05.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/465-million-americans-record-223-million-us-households-foodstamps

The rise in joblessness among 16-to-24 years olds reflects the ongoing recession after the 2008 property collapse.
Spain's unemployment rate rose to 24.63pc and 53pc among the young in the second quarter, despite the start of the tourist season.
The increase in the overall jobless numbers was smallerthan in the first quarter, with the number of eligible people out of work rising to nearly 5.7 million people.
Between April and June, 53,500 people lost their jobs, compared with 365,900 in the first quarter, the nationalstatistics office said .
The unemployment rate rose from 24.4pc recorded in the first quarter - already the highest in the industrial world - as Spain entered its third straight quarter of economic contraction.
Among those aged 16 to 24, the rate rose to 53.27pc from 52.01pc the previousquarter, reflecting the ongoing impact of Spain's double-diprecession following the collapse of a construction boom in 2008.
The number of households in which all eligible members are unemployed roseby 9,300, reaching more than 1.73 million overall.
Catalonie was the hardest hit region with a rate of 33.92pc. The lowest rate was 14.56pc in the affluent Basque Country.
Spain's regions became a focus of financial concerns this week when Catalonia and others indicated they would need to borrow from a central government rescue fund in order to keep paying their debts.
The country is in its second recession in four years, hit hard by the bursting of the property bubble that threw millions out of work.
On Monday the statistics office will publish its provisional figure of economic output in the second quarter. The Bank of Spain last week estimated this would be a contraction of 0.4pc, after a 0.3pc decrease in January to March.
Spain's conservative government has approved tens of billions of euros' worth of spending cuts, tax hikes and other measures to appease eurozone partners and ensure a $100bn bailout of its banks.
However, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy package of measures to save a further €65bn over three years has led to street protests.
Mr Rajoy says the steps will help cut the public deficit in line with targets agreed with the European Union and strengthen the economy in the long term.
Spain borrowing costs, which have been well above 7pc for 10-year government bonds this week on increasing fears that the nation will need a full sovereign bailout, eased on Friday morning to 6.6pc. The fall followed comments by the German government that it stood ready, like the ECB, to do all in its power to ensure the survival of the euro .
On Thursday Mario Draghi, the ECB President, triggered a rally in stock markets and the euro when he said inLondon that the the ECB do all it takes within the central bank's mandate to preserve the euro.

I was born pure twotens years ago
Enjoying my mum's **** knowing nothing ‘bout this world
Now I'm grown up, and I've gone up to University
And now I feel I'm thrown up
They just raise you like plants willing toget the best brand
For their own needs and they grow mad
If you dare to oppose they just tread you down andthrough
If you follow their words oh, they worship you
No one care if you'll die, no one care if you'll be
No one risks not to lie and you start to believe
In'em promising words and new programs
Peaceful intentions and political slogans
Cry whenever you cry, see whatever you see
If you try to deny, you will never be free
Thinking of what and how and why it should be
But you're just a small pawn in their big deal
[Refrain:]
I hate being sold
And my state's getting colder
I try to resist and I fall but I hold on
Cuz when you're here I feel stronger
I ate just a part of this **** I belong to
I break with the future I stop and I don't go
But you're my lust to live longer
Can't stand watchin'children grow into these beasts
Their toys turn into real weapon, serve for their needs
Aimed at million hearts included to their black-lists
‘Cuz they're missed and they're hurt, gotta keep tight fists
They wanna gain power not still knowing how to use it right
Look how they handle it without any insight
Settle the problem right, use bomb fight, adjust the sight,
Demonstratin' their might they'll never see the light
Pressin' their order, cursin' they murder
Vultures they gain their aim spit and go further
Cannot live without things one won't think about
I'm lost and exhausted, Jesus, it brings me out
I don't need any stakes, I just feel what I feel
Wanna belong to the next generation that's real
Just wanna live and love, be loved and be free
I don't need any rules designed to twist me
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I hate being sold
And my state's getting colder
I try to resist and I fall but I hold on
Cuz when you're here I feel stronger
I ate just a part of this **** I belong to
I break with the future I stop and I don't go
But you're my lust to live longer