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Got some stories just sitting here, so let’s knock them all out real fast with some Miscellaneous News from around the web.

Reebok will be refunding customer $25 million over deceptive advertising of their toning shoes.

David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a news conference that Reebok made unsubstantiated claims about its EasyTone walking shoes and RunTone running shoes. The company’s advertisements said technology in the shoes’ soles toned and strengthened muscles in the legs and buttocks.

According to the FTC complaint, which was filed in federal court Wednesday, Reebok falsely asserted specific numerical claims, saying, for example, that walking in EasyTone shoes had been proven to lead to 11 percent greater strength and tone in hamstring muscles than regular walking shoes.

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Iran Also Acquires Weapons from Fallen Libya

You know those surface-to-air missiles that Al-Qaeda seized in the fall of Libya, that I reported on?  Well get this, The Telegraph reports that Iran also jumped in on the bandwagon of snagging free weapons.

Acting on orders received from Revolutionary Guards commanders in Iran, they took advantage of the chaos that engulfed Libya following the collapse of the regime of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to seize “significant quantities” of advanced weaponry, according to military intelligence officers in Libya.

Intelligence officials believe the missiles and other weapons seized from Gaddafi’s abandoned arsenals were smuggled across the Libyan border to southern Sudan earlier this month where they are now believed to be held at a secret storage facility run by the Revolutionary Guards at al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur. Some of the missiles are also reported to have been smuggled into Egypt.

For some reason I have this nagging feeling that we made things a lot more unpredictable in the MENA region.

Source: The Telegraph

Missile Shield to Counter NATO’s Shield

The Tehran Times reported on Sunday, that sources informed them Iran, China, and Russia were in discussions to setup their own joint missile shield.

First, all three states have come to the conclusion that U.S. officials’ assertion that their concern over the alleged missile and nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea is the reason for the decision to establish a NATO missile defense shield is just a pretext and the true objective of the shield is to threaten Russia and China.

In addition, now that the proposal to establish an early warning radar system in southeast Turkey, which is one component of the NATO missile defense shield, appears to be a done deal, the U.S. is now planning to establish other components of the new system in South Korea and Taiwan, which clearly shows that Washington is using the alleged threat from Iran and North Korea as a pretext to target China and Russia.

I think we are starting to see clear lines drawn in the sand on who stands where, if another massive war kicks off.  Plus, a missile shield probably works just as well against the in vogue weapon of war, drones.

Source: Tehran Times

Iranian Ships Off American Coast Soon?

Iran has apparently discussed sending ships over to the Atlantic Ocean and setting up shop, off the coast of the U.S..

“Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders,” the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

The declaration comes just weeks after Turkey said it would host a NATO early warning radar system which will help spot missile threats from outside Europe, including potentially from Iran. The decision has angered Tehran which had enjoyed close relations with Ankara.

Will this happen?  I honestly doubt it.

The speech took place during an anniversary ceremony and was probably just posturing.  But if they got the right backing, or prodding, from recently cozy allies China and Russia, who knows.

Source: The West Australian