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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Thousands of Chinese demonstrators crowded the streets of Urumqi in western China on Thursday to protest what they say is a lack of police protection, witnesses said. Over the past month, more than 400 ethnic majority Han Chinese have been stabbed with tainted syringes by Uyghurs, the Muslim minority, according to local news reports. The stabbings fueled Thursday's protests by Han Chinese in the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Many of those attacked with the hypodermic needles were hospitalized, but there have been no reports of deaths, the reports said. Fifteen suspects have been...

The Toronto International Film Festival is under attack for its decision to present a series of films spotlighting the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, which a group of high-profile artists and celebrities say constitutes complicity in "the Israeli propaganda machine". Canadian filmmaker John Greyson last week pulled his documentary "Covered" from the festival in protest, and a statement published online on Thursday and signed by more than 50 artists, academics, and filmmakers likened the program to a celebration of apartheid-era South Africa. They accuse the festival of taking direction from the "Brand Israel" campaign, which seeks to improve the country's...

Echoes of Clinton in 1993 Could Haunt Obama's Speech to Congress on Health Care FOXNews.com ^ | September 02, 2009 | Major Garrett Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:11:33 AM by kingattax WASHINGTON -- When President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress next Wednesday to push for health care reform, the speech will come nearly 16 years after President Bill Clinton delivered his own address to Congress on the very same topic. Clinton's push for health care reform ultimately failed, but in the short term, his speech in September 1993 succeeded: Afterward, polling showed the country somewhat open...

HILLSBOROUGH -- Police do not expect to charge a 65-year-old Faucette Mill Road homeowner who shot an intruder Friday night. "At this point we believe he was acting in self-defense," Lt. Davis Trimmer of the Hillsborough Police Department said Tuesday. "He was alone in his house. He came out and found three men in his living room." The case will be reviewed by the district attorney's office, Trimmer said. More Local & State * DA recuses self from Soles case * Pit bull that chewed off baby's toes is euthanized * Inmate confessed to woman's murder * Woman guilty in...

Video from Cavuto, plus an update from CNN saying the police are NOT looking to arrest the suspect, just to question him, CNN talked to the Ventura County Police Dept.

Christian pupils are now outnumbered by Muslims at Roman Catholic schools in some parts of England. ___ A survey has found 24 Catholic primary schools in the North West and the Midlands teach a minority of churchgoing children. Fewer than one in 10 children are Catholic at one school in Birmingham, while the Church is ending its involvement with a similar establishment in Blackburn. Overall, Catholics make up 73.34 per cent of pupils at the 2,300 schools linked to the denomination across England and Wales. But The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham...

Cliff Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, has released a copy of his own birth certificate, in order to demonstrate what needs to be done to resolve the growing controversy over the alleged birth certificate of President Barack Obama. "My birth certificate includes the names of my mother and father, my mother's doctor, and the hospital in which I was born," said Kincaid. "This certified copy of an original long form document is what anyone who wants to be president should be prepared to produce." Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, states, "No Person except a...

Is it time for us to get serious about building a "Space Elevator?" On August 13, approximately 280 people gathered at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond Washington for a "Space Elevator Overview" public lecture, with 60 attendees continuing on to be part of the four day long Fifth International Space Elevator Conference sponsored by Microsoft and JPL Foundation. Delegates flew in from Japan, Armenia and other far-off locations. A proposal for a space elevator was first published by Yuri Artsunov in the USSR in 1960. At that time, the west knew little about Artsunov's work, and the idea was re-invented...

Bozeman police officer resigns over Facebook comments Reporting from Z7 in Bozeman A Bozeman police officer embroiled in controversy over comments he posted on his Facebook page has resigned. Cody Anderson turned in his resignation Wednesday, Bozeman City Manager Chris Kukulski said at Thursday's weekly city press conference. The resignation went into effect Wednesday. Anderson resigned because he thought it was in the best interest of the police department in light of the controversial comments he posted on this Facebook page, Kukulski said, adding that he agreed with Anderson's decision. Anderson's decision to resign was his alone and he was...

The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chávista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright? But forget the character witnesses. Just look at Obama's behavior as president, beginning with his first address to Congress. Unbidden, unforced and unpushed by the congressional leadership, Obama...

This woman hits the nail on the head on two accounts. Tort reform and competition.

The microphone wartime traitor Lord Haw Haw used to broadcast Nazi propaganda into British homes has been discovered after 64 years. A pile of scripts the infamous broadcaster - real name William Joyce - wrote and read out over the airwaves with his famous 'Germany calling' catchphrase have also come to light. The items, including copied British newspaper articles, were seized by soldier Cyril Millwood when the Allies invaded Germany in 1945 and are now set to be sold at auction.The conservative pre-sale estimate for the items is up to £4,000 and they will be sold at Bosleys auctions in...

Just a brevity thread. VERY neat video!

Note well: He doesn’t deny that he signed it. He denies that he agrees with it. Which means, I guess, that he’s asking us to create a new standard for public officials by which documents that bear their signature should no longer be used against them. Imagine the contempt you’d need to have for the intelligence of your audience to try a non-defense like this: In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.” He did...

President Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones is apologizing for the second time in two days, this time for signing a 2004 petition for an organization that seeks to expose the "official lies and cover-up surrounding the events of 9/11." This comes after a video that recently surfaced in which Mr. Jones called Republicans a disparaging name at an energy lecture in Berkeley, California last February. He apologized for doing that on Wednesday.... Mike Berger, a spokesman for 911Truth.org, told the Washington Times over the phone Thursday morning all of the signers had been verified by their group. He said...

BOSTON -- The man who fell into a restricted area of Franklin Park Zoo Wednesday remains hospitalized. Police said Arnold Milfort, 27, of Dorchester, lost his balance and fell about 30 feet into an area that was being used as a lion's den by a production crew filming a movie at the zoo. No animals were in the movie set den at the time that the man fell. A member of the production crew told police that Milfort gained access to the closed set by claiming falsely that he was a zoo employee, police said. Witnesses reported that he tripped...

Here is video of Laura Ingraham filling in for Bill O'Reilly tonight and weighing in on the radical views of Obama's "Green Jobs Czar," Van Jones. She talked with a panel about new evidence that has emerged that Jones signed onto the 9/11 "Truther" Document. Ingraham and Angela McGlowan talked with Bakari Kitwana, who defended Jones. He tried to tell Ingraham that she says "he's a communist," and she responded, along with McGlowan, "No he says he's a communist." Kitwana never acknowledged that reality. He simply said, "I don't believe he's a communist." . . . . . (Watch Video)

Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, leader of a fringe political cult that defies categorization, and his supporters have contributed to the divisiveness surrounding the public debate on health care reform by producing and disseminating materials comparing President Barack Obama and other government officials to Hitler, Nazis and fascists, and by attending Congressional "town hall" meeting and other events around the country. LaRouche's organization is built upon a cadre of loyal supporters and publications that promote his conspiratorial world views. LaRouche, 86, has a long record of advancing conspiracy theories linking the AIDS crisis, the drug epidemic and international financial crises to...

As an observer of the Oba-Hussein Administration strategy and tactics, which increasingly seems to misjudge the minds of the American people and bask in the narcissistic glow of accolades from their core admirers and bought supporters, it occurred to me that the choice of Tuesday September 8th to try to hog the national news scene has much to do with another MAJOR event taking place on that date...