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The Uighurs’ cry has echoed round the world The deaths in northwest China are, sadly, the inevitable result of the repression of Turkic peoples over six decades Rubiya Kadeer The massacre of Uighur demonstrators in the cities of Urumqi and Kashgar has been reported in every language, from English to Chinese to Portuguese to Arabic. While the intense repression against Uighurs is normally ignored by both the Chinese Government and the international media, the deaths of hundreds of protesters and the injuries of hundreds more has exposed the brutality of Chinese government actions toward Uighurs in a way that cannot...

VIDEO: Iran Protest Tribute (Michael Jackson)"They don't really care about us"

News/Editorial RoundUp on Islamic (OPPRESSIVE) Republic of Iran June 19-24 2009 Today Everyone is an Iranian American Thinker - Amil Imani - Jun 19, 2009 We must demand justice for our compatriots who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascism in Iran. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/today_everyone_is_an_iranian.html Iran's Pro-Democracy Protestors Call for Our Help Brussels Journal - Jun 22, 2009 The enemy of the pro-democracy protestors is not only an Islamofascist regime, it is an enemy intent on wiping Israel off the face of the earth, ... http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3976 mccain on Iran: 'This Is About Human Rights and Values' FOXNews - Jun 23, 2009 This...

Where's Obama on Iranian oppression? Shore News Today - June 23, 2009 How much blood in the street, flowing from the bodies of pummeled protestors, will he tolerate before he condemns Iran’s dysfunctional and dangerous government in no uncertain terms? When will moral conviction trump nuanced strategies?

Skyscrapercity.com has an interesting thread. It was warned that the Baseej regime thugs would mark homes of suspected rebels with paint. People were tried to be warned to remove it ASAP. CNN has a night time video (the audio is more telling and shocking) of probably these marked homes being stormed by govt. thugs. VIDEO

Haaretz found [video clips] which Palestinians are seen being abused and humiliated by Border Police troops. The faces of the tormenters are rarely seen, and it's also not clear where the clips were filmed - but what is clear is the atmosphere in which this cruel theater is played out.

The jobs are risky, but very lucrative for those willing to take the risks, and require no previous experience or special training. Almost anyone with a driver's license (or at least the ability to drive) can do this job. How did Obama do it? What People Who Don't Smoke Look Like A recent Senate vote brought tobacco under the regulation of the FDA. The effort, spearheaded by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in the Senate and Calif. Democrat Henry Waxman in the House (no doubt because of their medical expertise—Kennedy, for example, is considered the government's chief expert on alcohol consumption)....

News RoundUp on Islamic (OPPRESSIVE) Republic of Iran June 13-15 2009Blood in TehranNewsweek - Tens of thousands march peacefully in Iran. But in the end... violent death. Vahid Salemi / AP By Maziar Bahari | Newsweek Web ...http://www.newsweek.com/id/202045Iran: 12 students reported killed in crackdown after violent clashesU.TV - At least 12 people may have died in violent clashes with Iran's security forces following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, according to ...http://u.tv/News/Iran-12-students-reported-killed-in-crackdown-after-violent-clashes/41811c29-6c81-4d20-b682-bde23c0e4d04Iran Lawmakers Urge Arrests After Tehran University Attack NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906151214dowjonesdjonline000437&title=iran-lawmakers-urge-arrests-after-tehran-university-attackIranian Students: It Seems That We Are All Alone The Weekly Standard http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/iranian_students_it_seems_that_1.aspPeaceful rally in Tehran ended in bloodshed Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/x-6568-San-Jose-Persian-Community-Examiner~y2009m6d15-Peaceful-rally-in-Tehran-ended-in-bloodshedIslamic...

If, like me, you haven't had time over the last few days to keep up with the story of Barack Obama's firing of Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General who has responsibility for the AmeriCorps program (Bruon York) will bring you up to speed. The story is an interesting one that sheds light on the lawless, bullying nature of the Obama administration. Walpin, who by statute is supposed to be independent of White House control, ran afoul of Obama because he investigated a charity operated by former pro basketball player Kevin Johnson, a prominent Obama supporter. The non-profit, St. Hope, received...

The two-storey building was home to the Order of the Brothers of The Holy Family of Banam. Its altar and votive statues were thrown into a rubbish dump. Church properties are being seized by the authorities to be turned into hotels or tourist resorts. Catholic leaders lament the violation of religious freedom in the country. The monastery of the Congregation of the Brothers of The Holy Family of Banam (Frères de la Sainte Famille de Banam) has been demolished by government order, a spokesman for the diocese of Long Xuyen, capital of An Giang province, reported. As a result of...

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied soldiers clambered aboard heaving landing craft and braved six-foot swells, waves of machine gun fire, and more than 6 million mines to claim a stretch of sand at a place called Normandy. Their mission was to carve out an Allied foothold on the edge of Nazi-occupied Europe for the army of more than one million that would follow them in the summer of 1944. This army would burst forth from the beachhead, rolling across Europe into the heart of Germany, liberating millions, toppling a genocidal regime and ending a nightmare along the way. But...

Twenty years after China turned away from democratization, that nation has emerged as a fearsome competitor for world economic dominance. The playing field, however, is not exactly level. The anniversary this week of a major event, such as the brutal killing of the pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Red Army, presents a sobering opportunity to reflect on the impact of such a despotic act. Reporter Claudia Rosett was in the square that fateful day, and in a Wall Street Journal piece shares what she saw at Tiananmen. The question occurs, however, as to how many in today's...

WHITE HOUSE MOVES TO SILENCE CRITICS OF THE STIMULUS PROGRAM! FRONTAL ATTACK ON FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!

Hello everyone, I'm working on a book about my passion (and, I think, yours): American exceptionalism through the eyes of immigrants who haven't always had the fortune of living in freedom. This book consists of first-person stories of Americans who lived under authoritarian regimes: Cuba, Eastern bloc countries (Poland, Russia/former USSR), Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Laos, and so on. Unfortunately, there are many, many such countries to choose from. The local talk station I listen to has broadcast calls from new Americans who came here for liberty, which they weren't accorded in their homeland. Every call I've ever heard from one of...

This article examines the continuing assault on human liberty that occurs in the Cuban Communist regime. Little has changed since the Communists came to power 50 years ago, and the latest example is a blogger who was denied Internet access by the government.

Thinking of having a yard sale this weekend? Before you do, be sure to consult CSPC Publication #254 [PDF]. This handy 28-pager from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reminds the American people that, thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the government is totally in charge of your yard sale: This handbook will help sellers of used products identify types of potentially hazardous products that could harm children or others. CPSC’s laws and regulations apply to anyone who sells or distributes consumer products. This includes thrift stores, consignment stores, charities, and individuals holding yard sales and flea markets....

“In 2007, the University of Delaware’s Office of Residence Life used mandatory activities to coerce students to change their thoughts, values, attitudes, beliefs, and habits to conform to a highly specified social, environmental, and political agenda. Following FIRE’s campaign, which called the attention of the national media and the blogosphere to the Orwellian program, university President Patrick Harker terminated the program, effective immediately. This video explains the program’s invasive thought-reform activities, the horrified reactions of students and the press, and FIRE’s response. ” Professor Jan Blits, of the University of Delaware Honors Program said: “The immediate effects were to intimidate...

Communism (or call it fascism or socialism if you will) has reached its high watermark in America with the election of a Marxist President who promised the American people they will be well cared for pets. With Marxist now in control of the Executive and Legislative branches of government, only a slim majority in the Judiciary stands between the elitist pet owners and American patriots who cherish the risks of liberty above the security of the leash and cage. That too will change as a rogue government with no regard for its limited Constitutional powers works to perform its Machiavellian...

RACELAND, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Tempers flared Tuesday night during a Raceland City Council meeting when a payroll tax was discussed. Railroad union official Woody Lane and Raceland Councilman Mike Wilson almost came to blows in the lobby after the council passed an amended 1 percent payroll tax. A 2 percent tax was passed earlier this year but never enforced. Even with the tax cut in half, no one seems happy. The city's two biggest employers -- Progressive Rail and Raceland Schools -- said they feel targeted by the tax. Mayor Don McKee and the Council said the tax could help...

I’m about to become the killjoy by saying I don’t think the hosting of a seder by President Obama is funny, or even appropriate for that matter. I firmly believe that Obama’s actions as president, such as the ones itemized by Mr. Witkov, and his voting record as senator clearly reveal that Mr. Obama is against the side of freedom. ... In short, President Obama is the last person to attend a Passover seder, let alone host one. Unlike George W. Bush before him, President Obama doesn't know the first thing about freedom. And just because he is black—and especially...

It starts off simply enough...you get an email from a friend and it says something like: "OMG You have to see this video about [fill in the blank].  Because you're very interested in [fill in the blank] as a topic, you click over to the link to see what's a highly charged video about [fill in the blank] and the video urges you to 'tell all your friends about this video and send them the link...'.   If you're not computer/military/PowersThatBe savvy, you're likely to pass on the link without giving it a second thought.  But you should give...

Why does a soap opera become a huge success in the Arab world? According to the Guardian the Syrian television program “Bab al-Hara” (The Neighborhood Gate) has set “the Arab World Agog” and is watched by millions. Generally, the article explains the phenomenon by saying that it is great entertainment and the hero is, “A hearthrob who looks like Johnny Depp.” But there’s another dimension the story misses, which tells us a great deal about Arab society and politics today. Here’s how an expert who watched the show explains it: “These dramas give Syrians a "breathing space," time off from...

I am really proud of Islam. We all should be proud of Islam. It has released women into freedom! Islam is such a tolerant and merciful religion. Therefore, never forget to repeat ad nausea “Peace be upon Him” every time you mention the Prophet’s name. Here is the proof: Women who pass by a praying man annul his prayer: Narrated 'Aisha: The things which annul prayer were mentioned before me (and those were): a dog, a donkey and a Woman. I said, "You have compared us (women) to donkeys and dogs. By Allah! I saw the Prophet praying while I...

The NAACP is accusing Wells Fargo and HSBC of forcing blacks into subprime mortgages while whites with identical qualifications got lower rates. Class-action lawsuits will be filed against the banks Friday in federal court in Los Angeles, Austin Tighe, co-lead counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told The Associated Press. Black homebuyers have been 3 1/2 times more likely to receive a subprime loan than white borrowers, and six times more likely to get a subprime rate when refinancing, Tighe said. Blacks still were disproportionately steered into subprime loans when their credit scores, income and...

Every day, women are under attack by Islamic supremacism that supports and approves of oppression, mutilation, and murder of women. According to leaders and followers of Islamic supremacism, they have the right to commit violence against women. Islamic supremacism views oppression of women as a legitimate "right," violence against women as a legitimate "right," and murdering women as a legitimate "right." Humanity's inalienable human rights include equality and liberty, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, and the freedom to pursue happiness. No one has the "right" to oppress women, no one has the "right" to violence against women, and no...

Newsweek recently ran an article by Fareed Zakaria titled, Learning to Live with Radical Islam. In this article Mr. Zakaria contends that in our quest to prevail over the virulent factions within the fundamentalist Islamic culture we in the West must learn to discern the radical Islamist from the jihadi; the fundamentalist from the terrorist. Although Mr. Zakaria touches on a few noteworthy points – specifically the West’s need to engage in the war of ideas – his thesis that, “We can better pursue our values if we recognize the local and cultural context, and appreciate that people want to...

“If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses. And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means...

Fresh unrest in Tibet can not be ruled out nearly a year after riots in the capital Lhasa, because exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is determined to foment trouble, regional officials said on Tuesday. Cao Bianjiang, deputy mayor of the Himalayan city, said he was focused on fostering growth that would ensure stability, but exiled Tibetans were scared this would make them irrelevant. "There are some people who do not want to see the peaceful development of Lhasa's economy," Cao said, after criticising the Dalai Lama and his supporters. "So it cannot be entirely avoided that some people continue...

  The WHY? of Terrorism in IslamI am an American living in Asia. I am not Moslem, but I am a writer and historian. I would like to share some information with you: information concerning Moslem terrorism, and why the United States, its military forces, and its intelligence services must continue to be vigilant, and when appropriate, respond to Islamic terrorism with relentless, overwhelming, and deadly force. This information may help you understand what is going on not only in India, Pakistan, and China, as well as other parts of Asia, but also the Middle East, as well as Africa,...

Back in April of 2008 a district court in The Hague ruled that anti-Islamic European politician Geert Wilders did not break the law by comparing Islam with Fascism and calling the Koran the Islamic version of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Whistleblowers sent to mental ward, Chinese paper says By Andrew Jacobs Monday, December 8, 2008 BEIJING: Local officials in Shandong Province have apparently found a cost-effective way to deal with gadflies, whistleblowers and all manner of muckraking citizens who dare to challenge the authorities: dispatch them to the local psychiatric hospital. According to an investigative report published Monday by a state-owned newspaper, public security officials in Xintai city have been institutionalizing residents who persist in their personal campaigns to expose corruption or to protest the unfair seizure of their property. Some people said they were committed up to two years,...

--Warning--Not for all Audiences-- Graphic Pictures of Islamic Violence Against Women This film Was Produced By the Horowitz Freedom Center: The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam, is a graphic, nightmarish, and profoundly unsettling glance into the darkest recesses of our fellow man. this film accurately depicts the dehumanizing theology, brutal abuse, and degredation that comprise the daily lives of millions of women in the fascist portions of the Islamic world.Taken together, the images of this video are a grotesque and disturbing assault on the integrity of women.

Arabism - Violence Arabism & Violence: Dictatorship, Oppression, War, Terrorism The front runners of Pan-Arabism, brutal tyrants and waged large scale wars, such as Egypt's Nasser [168], Saddam Hussein [169], Syria's Assad (on Lebanon [170] [171] [172] and on it's own people [173] [174] including the Hama massacre [175] [176] and the dictator in Sudan Al Bashir [177] [178].The linkage to terrorProtecting terrorism, Pan-Arabism: the inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism [179]. "Terror was used by the Arabs against the Jews in the Land of Israel since the dawn of Zionism." [180].An Arabist group called Jamiat-e Dawa el al Qurani Wasouna....

Bazooka or Burka & fear of criticizing Islamofascism... thesun.co.uk — Many people are scared to criticise the worst excesses of Islamofascism while being hysterically sensitive to the perceived wrongs of our own culture, especially when it comes to the oppression of females. http://digg.com/arts_culture/Bazooka_or_Burka_fear_of_criticizing_Islamofascism

Syria, Iran harboring terrorists - Jul. 21, 2003http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/21/bush.terrorA NATION AT WAR: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS; Syria Harbors Iraqis and Grants Transit to Hezbollah, U.S. Asserts... a major terrorist threat to American and Israeli interests around the world. ... [Published: April 15, 2003] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EEDD113BF936A25757C0A9659C8B63Syria: A 101 Course in Mideast Dictatorships - SPIEGEL ONLINE ...When his powerful father died in 2000, Bashar al-Assad promised the end of political repression in Syria. But ... [2005]http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,343242,00.htmlCleric's Slaying a Rallying Cry for Kurds in Syria - Los Angeles Times The death of the mild-mannered sheik robbed Syria’s Kurds of a ... He called for rights; he spoke...

Last Chance, vote for national survival Undoubtedly the Bush Administration wasn’t brilliant in managing the Iraq strategy. Surely there were other choices after Tora Bora in 2002 than Iraq. I’ll address them in future writings. But since President Bush’s team decided to do justice in Baghdad first, it could have done it faster, better and finished earlier. That is a valid critique of the Iraq war. Senator Obama’s criticism is diametrically different. He was opposed to remove Saddam or any other dictator, by force or by any other means. The reality is that for a candidate “for change” as it...

1995 Obama Race Baiting Video Discovered YouTube video of Obama can be seen at: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-race-baiting-video-discovered.html It sounds like those first 10 years with Rev. Jeremiah Wright rubbed off on The One... The post racial candidate Barack Obama slams "white executives" living out in the suburbs who do not want to pay taxes to inner city children in a 1995 interview: Obama talks redistribution and salvation- bashes whitey: YouTube video is at:http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-race-baiting-video-discovered.html Obama admits his Redistribution of Wealth is to SAVE the African American community SO HE CAN ENSURE HIS OWN SALVATION! (and Our Countries Salvation) He compares the plight of...

I'm going on my own personal rant against FEMA here. Flame if you want--you don't know the bad stuff they've done here in Galveston-Houston. I admit that only one account is first-hand; the rest are from a close friend who works for the county and has been dealing with Hurricane Ike recovery since September 13. My simple and personal experience comes from volunteering at a POD one day with my children. People were coming in for ice (understandable), MRE's (meant for our troops, IMO), and water. While we were loading nice, expensive cars with these items, it wasn't hard to...

Taxes could get sky-high with aerial technology By RICHARD DEGENER Staff Writer, 609-463-6711 Published: Monday, September 29, 2008 Images like this from a new high-tech aerial photography system can reveal an illegal porch from 5,000 feet and give tax assessors a way to grow revenue. A new high-tech aerial photography system that can spot an illegal porch from 5,000 feet is being marketed to tax assessors as a way to grow revenue. Pictometry International Corp. says it offers tax assessors 12 different views of every square foot of building or land in a jurisdiction that buys their system. They call...

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- A simple question about Kim Jong Il's health provokes a torrent of angry, broken English. "It's a pack of lies," declared Oh Keum Suk. The 26-year-old North Korean tour guide jumped from his seat at a coffee shop and in an exaggerated motion stormed away. Then he turned on his heels to chew out the foreigner who had dared ask about reports that the North Korean leader had suffered a stroke. "Kim Jong Il is my father, my grandfather, my family. How do you talk about my family that way?" The topic is so taboo that...

Zhengding (AsiaNews) - More than a thousand underground Catholics defied police controls to meet in a church in Wuqiu (Hebei) to celebrate mass on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary with their bishop, Julius Jia Zhiguo, who has been under house arrest and police surveillance around the clock. Sources told AsiaNews however that the bishop is isolated and that priests and seminarians cannot see him in person. Monsignor Jia is bishop of the underground diocese of Zhengding (Hebei), which has more than 110,000 Catholics with 80 priests and more than 90 nuns. For the Olympics public security officers...

Olympic Games show China through a glass, darkly As the opening approaches, preparations reflect a disturbing side of the communist regime Jonathan Fenby Olympic Games news The opening of the Beijing Olympics in eight days' time will, as always planned, attest to China's spectacular material progress since Deng Xiaoping launched market-led economic reform exactly 30 years ago. The array of venues, the gleaming new buildings, the urban infrastructure installed for the Games, will also reflect the genuine pride of a nation that, while still far from rich by Western standards, has made more people better off in a shorter time...

Do Democrats Care about Chavez and his Oppression of the Jews? Ed LaskyAmerican Thinker has long noted that many leading Democrats seem to have a special warm spot for Hugo Chavez, the increasingly dictatorial President of Venezuala. He is a supporter of the FARC terrorist group operating inside our ally Colombia's territory. He is a fomenter of radicalism throughout South America, a partner and good friend of the Iranian regime. In short, he is an anti-American tyrant who lately has been trying to impose Nazi-like police powers in Venezuala. He has had a high-level summit meeting with the Holocaust-denying, Holocuast-planning Presdient of Iran,...

SEA Jails Amish Criminals A Sign of Very Bad Things to Come You may never have heard of the SEA, and may not believe it when I tell you what it is. I am not making this up. The SEA is the "Sewage Enforcement Agency." The, "Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency," protecting society from two dangerous Amish outhouse operators, apprehended them for violating Pennsylvania state sewage laws. They "were sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail." Their crime? "Andy Swartzentruber and Sam Yoder do not have permits for outhouses at a school and have been disposing of waste "improperly." The...

A price to pay for alternative fuels Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil. So last fall the Charlotte musician and guitar instructor spent $1,200 to convert his 1981 diesel Mercedes to run on vegetable oil. He bought soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at Costco, spending about 30 percent more than diesel would cost. His reward, from a state that heavily promotes alternative fuels: a $1,000 fine last month for not paying motor fuel taxes. He's been told to expect another $1,000 fine from the federal government.

The charge levelled against Maclean's by the Canadian Islamic Congress is that, in publishing an excerpt from my book, this magazine exposed Muslims to "hatred and contempt." Alas, at the first day of the Great Maclean's Show Trial at the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal, the well of my book excerpt's "hatred and contempt" pretty well ran dry in the first hour. So Faisal Joseph, counsel for the plaintiff Mohamed Elmasry, was forced to bus in a huge pile of miscellaneous generic "hatred and contempt" from all kinds of other sources. And even then much of it seemed less like...

Islamic apartheid suppresses Jewish people Just another example of how Jewish people speaking the truth and reading the truth is called an "insult" and an excuse for Islamic apartheid. Why don't people protest the MIddle Eastern Islamic apartheid against the Jewish people? Why do Muslims claim to have the right to supress, humiliate and destroy everyone else? Why is apartheid, homophobia, sexism, racism, facism, religious coercion, expansionism, imperialism and mass murder of civilians ok as long as the Islamic empire chooses it? Why do they claim Islam and Arabism more important than all human beings and all human cultures? Mara...

Alaskans are tired of being told what to do with their lives, that they can’t drill their oil or what to do with their land and wildlife by ignorant, pompous politicians thousands of miles away. You can help them rise against the thumb of oppression! Even if you’ve never been to Alaska, write their governor, senators and congressmen and encourage them to stand up to the feds. Tell them they should make their own decisions about their land. Tell them they should stop bowing to the pompous, self-involved elitists of Washington. Alaska can be the first in a wave of...

Yoani Sánchez was a student at the University of Havana when she did the unthinkable and wrote a thesis about dictatorships in Latin American literature. It wasn’t a direct criticism of Fidel Castro, but it was too close for comfort in a country where there’s so much that’s officially unthinkable. Ms. Sánchez eventually fled Cuba for Switzerland in 2002, with her son and husband soon joining her. Then she once again did the unthinkable and in 2004 moved back to Cuba when her husband couldn’t find employment in Europe. It’s not unheard of for people to return to Cuba to...

SANYA, China (AP) -- After a much-protested journey, the Olympic torch reached this southern Chinese seaside resort Saturday night, beginning what organizers and Chinese citizens promised would be a trouble-free national tour.