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"Symposium: China Rising"
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 26 AUGUST 2005 | Jamie Glazov
Posted on 08/26/2005 2:37:23 AM PDT by rdb3
LOL...
Sorry, some has stolen your shadow, you are out now, so keep joining in.
Your thoughts are on track, as many of the TMer's are watching the utilities.
That is why I was listening to the California news and nit picking them.
Several years ago, back in the late 1990's, I had the short wave on one afternoon and listened to how to use a tree branch to take down the transmission lines for electric.
AND how to make and travel with biological germs.
I thought it was strange and there was never a station there
again.
It was all in great details and went on for several hours.
An American voice, it said you could culture the bio hazards in the kitchen.
Having heard how to do it, I assume that a lot of the reports on things are for real.
No, I didn't have a recorder then and it did not mean a lot to me, as when I was young, we didn't study science in school, or i quit before we got there.
I will always wonder, who it was and why that station was broadcasting.
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"China toasts war games with Russia with a picnic"
BREITBART.COM ^ | J+M+J 26 AUG A.D. 2005 | Reuters composite report
Posted on 08/26/2005 2:49:09 AM PDT by Siobhan
BEIJING (Reuters)
Gilchrist and Chase, of the Minutemen were on the Mark Edwards show tonight.
They talked of this incident and say there is more to the story, to keep an eye on the news, as it will come out.
According to them, there is much more going on at the border than we are hearing.
Including threats to their life, from both mexican and communist groups.
They said the communist groups are going to great lengths to keep the border open. No, not for the poor Mexican worker, but for the ones they want to cross the border.
I watch the various border news sites so I do know it is an interesting situation.
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS GROWS IN SAUDIA ARABIA UNDER NEW KING ABDULLAH
Indian Christians told not to bring in Holy Books and icons, nor to meet in private to pray
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (ANS) -- AsiaNews has reported that, with the death of King Fahd and the arrival of King Abdullah, the persecution by the Saudi Kingdom of believers of religions other than Islam, especially Christians, is on the rise
In a story posted on their website, AsiaNews says that their sources in the Saudi capital have confirmed that the religious police, the Muttawa, has raided the homes of foreigners, especially suspect homes (i.e. those where Christians live).
“This has forced many groups, who used to meet in the privacy of their home to pray, to stop this activity,” said the AsiaNews story. “Furthermore, fear is such that people have stopped meeting out of fear that the police might link them to one another. Indians are particularly targeted. In the last few months, nine Indians were arrested for illegal religious activities.
“According to Indo-Asia News, things have become so tense that India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia sent a circular to Indian nationals living in the country warning them that the number of Indians in detention for engaging in religious activities was growing. He told them not to organize prayer meetings in private homes or preach in any way. He also advised his government to warn all those leaving for Saudi Arabia to leave religious books, Bibles, photos, or icons behind.”
The story goes on to say, “The Saudi government has banned any religious practice other than Wahhabi fundamentalist Islam. Any missionary activity or public expression of faith (having Bibles, wearing a crucifix, holding a rosary, praying in public) is outlawed.
“The religious police, well-known for its violence and torture, makes sure that the ban is enforced.
“Under international pressure, the Saudi monarchy had in the last few years allowed people to practice their religious beliefs in the privacy of their homes. But, the Muttawa did not heed this toleration and continued to arrest, jail and torture people whose only crime was to practice religions other than Islam in private.
“Although it persecutes non Muslims, Saudi Arabia has been recruiting skilled foreign labor for its economy. And only recently has Riyadh promised a 15-year tax holiday to attract foreign capital to invest in its railway, desalination plants, power plants and new industrial zones.”
Open Doors' “World Watch List” of countries where Christians are persecuted has stated that Saudi Arabia comes second only to North Korea in terms of anti-Christian persecution.
Dan Wooding is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). Wooding is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Window on the World" and was, for ten years a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. Wooding is the author of some 42 books, the latest of which is his autobiography, "From Tabloid to Truth", which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, go to www.fromtabloidtotruth.com.
danjuma1@aol.com.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
CHINA: DEFIANTLY INTENSIFYING PERSECUTION
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Two recent news releases from China Aid Association (CAA http://www.ChinaAid.org) document a shocking escalation of persecution in China. There seems (to RLP) to be a direct correlation between increasing Russian-Chinese-Central Asian solidarity and growing persecution of unsanctioned Protestant Christians in those states. The dictators are uniting to protect their totalitarian regimes through alliances that reduce the influence and leverage of Western human rights and religious liberty advocates. Furthermore, China is systematically strengthening its assault on 'cults' (which includes house churches) through ideological training of cadres. These are very concerning developments. But God is in control of his-story for his glory! So we will confidently and dependently approach his 'throne of grace' (Hebrews 4:14-16).
CAA reports that in Henan Province on 1 July, 70 Christians in a house church fellowship were holding a baptismal service for 60 new believers when they were raided by police. Pastor Wang Baode and nine others were sentenced to 15 days' administrative detention, whilst all others present were fined, probably unofficially as no receipts were issued. On 7 July Pastor Cai Zhuohua faced court in Beijing charged with 'illegal business operations' for printing more than 200,000 Bibles and other Christian books. (As they were given away and not sold, there was no 'business'.) He is in prison awaiting sentence. On 22 July, 100 High School students were arrested at a Vocational Bible School in Hebei Province. The Public Security Bureau (PSB) interrogated them for hours before releasing them with the order not to gather again. On 26 July, a 400-member house church fellowship in Shanghai was ordered to close.
On 2 August, two touring American theology students were arrested along with 43 South China Church pastors and believers in Zaoyang City, Hebei Province. The two Americans were interrogated for seven hours and their personal Bibles, books and notebooks were confiscated. The SCC believers were imprisoned. All but two have since been released, having suffered torture, humiliation and beatings. A 17-year-old evangelist, Mr He Baobao, had to be hospitalised. The two still in prison are Ms Gu Junqing (38) and Ms Ren Daoyun (60) who had hosted the SCC meeting in her home. Eye witnesses told CAA Ms Ren was severely punished by the Domestic Security Squad of the Zaoyang PSB, being savagely and repeatedly beaten into unconsciousness.
On Sunday 7 August, a house church in Hejing County, Xinjiang Province, was raided during worship. Some 30 believers were arrested by the Domestic Security Protection Squad. Ten of the women were then stripped and paraded naked. Those who refused to remove their clothes were savagely beaten. One woman tried to kill herself by beating her head into a brick wall, such was her humiliation. Three church leaders, Mr Song Jun, Mr He Jiangwei and Ms Liang Fanglan are still held incommunicado.
On 11 August, 35 High School and University students, along with several church leaders, were arrested at a Sunday School teacher training class in Jiangxi Province. Police confiscated money and church property, without receipts. All those arrested have been released but six will be prosecuted for criminal offences. On 15 August, five American church leaders were arrested along with 27
house church pastors. The group had simply been enjoying Christian fellowship together. Where they are being detained is not known.
PLEASE PRAY SPECIFICALLY FOR:
'mercy and grace' in this time of great need, especially for those in prison (Hebrews 4:14-16; 13:3), asking God in his mercy to protect them from brutality and grant them justice.
all those who have suffered, that God will give them healing, strength and grace to love and pray for their persecutors without bitterness, the ultimate spiritual victory.
With this spiritual battle in mind, 'Be alert and always keep on praying for the saints' (Ephesians 6:18 NIV)
God to so use the integrity, gospel witness, and supernatural grace of China's persecuted believers that their persecutors will be convicted of sin and ultimately be drawn to Christ.
revival to sweep through the Chinese Communist Party at every level, and for God to intervene in the life of CCP chief, President Hu Jintao, that he might humble himself before the Lord, renounce his sins, do what is right, and acknowledge that 'Heaven rules'. (2 Chronicles 33; Daniel 4).
Elizabeth Kendal is the Principal Researcher and Writer for the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC) www.worldevangelical.org/rlc.html. This article was initially written for the WEA RLP(Religious Liberty Prayer) mailing list
Elizabeth can be contacted by e-mail at rl-research@crossnet.org.au.
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The "Animal Rights" Movement's Cruelty to Humans
Capitalism Magazine ^ | August 15, 2005 | Alex Epstein
Posted on 08/26/2005 3:43:14 AM PDT by Smile-n-Win
The "animal rights" movement has pulled off a deadly deception: promote a vicious, anti-human policy, while feigning benevolent, compassionate motives. The deception takes the form of opposing life-saving medical research--in the name of opposing cruelty to animals.
[...]
The founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, has declared unequivocally that animal research is "immoral even if it's essential" and that "Even painless research is fascism, supremacism." When questioned what her movement's stance would be if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: "We'd be against it." Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: "If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."
(Excerpt) Read more at capmag.com ...
Hate Radio and global terrorism
Radio al-Tajdeed exploits legal loophole
by Nick Grace*/Andy Sennitt, 25 August 2005
Global terrorism has added a new element to Hate Radio, and exposed a major
weakness in existing legislation for dealing with broadcasts that encourage violence by
one section of society against another. An example of the problem is Radio al-Tajdeed,
whose programmes were produced in London and broadcast to the Middle East via
satellite and the Internet.
Radio al-Tajdeed served as the mouthpiece for the militant Party for Islamic Renewal (Tajdeed)
and its founder Dr Mohammed al-Massari. Al-Massari, a Saudi exile who received asylum in the
United Kingdom in 1994, has publicly advocated attacks on British troops serving in Iraq and the
assassination of Prime Minister Tony Blair. His ties to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden are also
widely documented.
Links to al Qaeda
The Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights (CDLR), a group that al-Massari runs to oppose the Saudi government,
has been tied directly to Khalid al-Fawwaz, former bin Laden spokesman in Europe who is now fighting extradition to the
US, and Tarik A Hamdi, an American citizen who was arrested in August 2005 while working for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.
Al-Massari, according to The Seattle Times, recently went so far as to openly describe CDLR as the "ideological voice" of
al-Qaeda.
Ostensibly broadcasting to undermine the Saudi regime, Radio al-Tajdeed also targeted Iraq, Israel, Egypt and Western
civilization. Two hours of new programming each day were recorded and looped for a full 24-hour period. In between
militant Islamist chants and music that hailed bin Laden and called upon Muslim youth to fight non-Muslims, al-Massari
fielded live phone calls from listeners across the Middle East who directly incited violence. Rather than preach tolerance or
moderation al-Massari and the station's hosts, however, would stoke outrage by reminding the audience of perceived Arab
grudges against the West and Israel. Its satellite footprint covered the entire Middle East.
Raid
On 6 May 2005, the studios were raided during the recording of a programme and its listeners
were treated to a spectacle. Reports indicated that the raid was connected to an investigation into
the fate of an Australian hostage in Iraq. After a two-week period of silence Radio al-Tajdeed
resumed its broadcasts, and al-Massari broadcast a 40-minute long speech by "Sheik" Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi in which the chief of al-Qaeda in Iraq justified Muslim "collateral damage." According
to Clandestine Radio Watch (CRW) Cairo monitor Marwan Soliman, al-Massari's station was the only Arab-language
media outlet to air a majority of the speech unedited.
Listeners, meanwhile, were encouraged to participate in the group's Arabic-language Internet community, the Tajdeed
Forum. The message board served as a platform for the proliferation of instructional videos on terrorism, gory footage of
terrorist attacks in Iraq, scores of images, links to al-Qaeda Web sites, al-Qaeda audio and video, and the like. The
Al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade and other al Qaeda-related terror groups often posted
messages and promotional materials on the Tajdeed Forum.
While it's clear that the station played a strategic role in al-Massari's organisation by stoking Arab prejudices and inflaming its
audience, less clear is if Radio al-Tajdeed broadcast coded tactical information and commands to extremists inside Iraq or
elsewhere.
No means of regulation
British regulators, however, were powerless to act, according to a representative of the British regulatory authority Ofcom
who spoke with Radio Netherlands Media Network partner ClandestineRadio.com on condition of anonymity. Although the
programmes were recorded in London and could be received in London and the UK, Radio al-Tajdeed's satellite feed was
physically located in Paris, France, where jurisdiction of the nature and content of the programming ultimately fell.
To outwit British laws, the station used the services of an airtime broker based in Belgium, to locate facilities outside of
London's jurisdiction. The same broker had previously arranged airtime for Saad al-Fagih's Movement for Islamic Reform in
Arabia (MIRA). The MIRA station, Sawt al-Islah (Voice of Reform), initially broadcast on shortwave, where its signal was
quickly obliterated by Saudi jamming. To overcome the obstacle, the broker placed them on a satellite through the uplink
facilities of T-Systems in Germany. The German firm quickly dropped the programme as a client after its uplink feed was
jammed and legally threatened by the Saudi government. MIRA were eventually forced to use a dedicated uplink facility for
Sawt al-Islah to both hide its location from the Saudis and isolate the programme from other commercial programming in the
event of jamming. Now renamed "Debate," the programme continues to broadcast from London to an undisclosed uplink
facility believed to be located in Europe.
Ignoring the evidence
Sawt al-Islah faced an uncertain future in December 2003 when the US added al-Fagih
and MIRA to the State Department list of terrorists. Shortly thereafter, al-Fagih was
added to the United Nations Consolidated List of Terrorists. Despite these developments
and alarming ties with al Qaeda, the Belgian airtime broker retained the programme as a
client, and then took on Radio al-Tajdeed and a third Arabic-language program called
"Al-Balagh," of which little to nothing is known.
Radio al-Tajdeed was placed on Globecast, a French broadcast service provider that rents bandwidth to al-Massari to feed
the audio up to the Hotbird 6 satellite - a satellite administered by another French firm, Eutelsat. Neither Globecast nor
Eutelsat would respond to inquiries about Radio al-Tajdeed.
According to industry insiders, international broadcasters monitor foreign language commercial programming and hire
translators when needed, to avoid potential legal trouble. While it is not known if either Globecast or Eutelsat took the effort
to monitor Radio al-Tajdeed, it is unlikely that the station would have remained on the air had they done so.
Finally, someone pays attention
The British political establishment and press finally woke up to the situation in mid-August after BBC Radio 4's Today
programme broadcast a feature about Radio al-Tajdeed and used recordings supplied by ClandestineRadio.com to
demonstrate the type of programming broadcast by the station. Al-Massari refused to speak with journalists, and
transmissions of Radio al-Tajdeed had already been put on hold.
The fact remains that current laws in Europe have, up to now, been insufficient to prevent
this type of operation. Programme producers whose material is broadcast by satellite do
not have to register with the authorities in the country where the programmes are
recorded, only in the country in which the satellite uplink is located. And nobody, it
seems, is legally required to take responsibility for the content of the broadcasts. At this
very moment, there are probably other groups making similar extremist programmes in
London or other European cities, and nobody is able to do anything about it. New legislation is urgently needed to close the
loopholes that allow this to happen.
EU legislation needed
Introducing legislation at a national level in the European Union would cause huge problems, as the domestic legal systems
vary so much from country to country. You would end up with 25 different versions. This is surely something which ought to
be agreed at EU level, so that someone committing an offence in the UK would be committing the same offence regardless of
which EU member country he or she was in. Making the laws tough enough to deal with hate broadcasts while ensuring press
freedom for everyone else will not be easy. But the current situation is clearly not acceptable, and the lives of ordinary people
are being threatened by allowing it to continue.
The EU has already indicated that it will "propose bans on indirect incitement, glorification or apology for terrorism following
bomb attacks in London." The European Commission and national governments are to consider measures to tackle
‘radicalisation’ this autumn. But while websites are specifically mentioned as likely to be affected, there is no mention of
radio programmes. Separately, the UK government has said it will create a database of foreign-born radicals accused of
encouraging acts of terrorism. On 24 August 2005, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke published a list of activities which
might fall under this definition, but producing radio programmes was not on it. It so happens that Britain holds the Presidency
of the EU until the end of 2005. Surely getting legislation passed that will make it difficult for operations such as Radio
al-Tajdeed to function anywhere in the EU would be a far more worthy cause than arguing over whether or not Britain should
get a rebate for its contribution to EU funds.
*) Nick Grace is Managing Editor of the Washington Bureau of Clandestine Radio Watch, and runs the website
ClandestineRadio.com.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the personal views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Radio Netherlands.
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www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/media/wot050822.html
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Humphries20050825.shtml
"Debunking Three Years of Media Lies"
Part 2 with link to Part 1
By Rusty Humphries
I heard Rusty talk of his trip, a few days ago.
I do not as a rule read about the prison at Cuba, have heard all I need to know.
I am very glad that I read this article, complete with photos.
I thought that same thing. I don't have the time right now, but we should check that out.
I saw that on the news last night, that was just about the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!! Sub-human scum. I hope they catch them and hang them from the nearest tree.
Prayers up for Laurie.
How horrible, I can only imagine how devastating hitting a deer with a motorcycle would be. I fear hitting them with my truck which is big!
Oh my goodness gracious.
I will certainly keep Laurie in my prayers.
Well now, I've got chills.
You've got quite the radar!
LOL at babelfish bingo
Your hostile crowd gathering:
Nation Of Islam Leader Arrested During Vigil
Tony Muhammad Released On Bail Early Friday
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4900165/detail.html
Lipinski pays visit to mosque
Bridgeview hosts ask freshman Congressman to be a 'champion of justice' in D.C.
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/263nd1.htm
Sept. 11 Fuels Boom in Gulf
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050826/NEWS/508260335/1001/BUSINESS
Muslims urge Bush to attend convention
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-muslims26.html
British Intelligence Bares Link Between Detainees, Al-Qaeda
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=69052&d=26&m=8&y=2005
(Comment: I thought it was a SARIN attack that was being planned in UK. This article states RICIN)
Terrorist Hunting in Hamburg
Since Wednesday, Hamburg's streets have been filled with heavily-armed police officers. Clues indicate an impending terror attack, but so far officials have drawn a blank.
***The phrase "tomorrow we will stand before Allah as heroes" was reportedly heard.***
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,371574,00.html
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