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A FIGHT in a Southampton street yesterday reportedly involving people from Hong Kong and China has sparked a hate-crime investigation. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said they received a report of a 'hate-related assault' in which a group of people were confronted and assaulted in Burgess Road at around 4.25pm, leaving two people with minor injuries. According to the Southampton HongKongers group, some people from Hong Kong joined a protest to support political prisoners from the city being held by the Chinese government. But they were allegedly "attacked" by Chinese students from the University of Southampton, holding the Chinese...

What do Cuba and Florida have in common? Book-banning, censorship — and, added into the mix this week, state-mandated school indoctrination for political purposes. They’re hallmark practices of the Communist Party-led regime in Cuba, tools used for six decades to keep Cubans isolated and in the dark about information that falls outside of what the ruling party’s ideology commands people to believe. Ironically, after this year’s GOP-dominated legislative session, the same manipulative tactics are now pillars of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ public education system. Math textbooks and literary books are being banned because some comité a la Cuba — aka “Moms...

Police in Nicaragua have ended the siege of a church where opposition supporters had sought refuge after being attacked by riot police and pro-government militias. Doctors have been allowed to treat the injured inside the church in the city of Masaya. Two people have died. Some 30 people who were inside the church were released after the local Catholic Church intervened. More than 100 people have been killed in Nicaragua in six weeks of violence. … Ortega, the former Sandinista rebel leader, is in his third consecutive term in power. He was re-elected in 2016, after the constitution was changed...

DEM'S NEW AGENDA HAUNTINGLY SIMILAR TO COMMUNISM 'Contract with America' resembles CPUSA manifesto Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 13-point national “Progressive Agenda” that is being touted as the liberal “Contract with America.” The aim is for the “Progressive Agenda” to become the basis for the Democratic Party’s main economic policies, including those of its 2016 presidential candidate. De Blasio has compared his plan to the “Contract with America,” a document released by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election and drawn up by future House Speaker Newt Gingrich to serve as the GOP...

What do Glenn Beck, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Joseph Farah have in common? They're all prominently featured in a new list of 40 "patriots" and "enablers" that a left-leaning group thinks Americans should be concerned about. In its new report titled, "Meet the Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center states: "In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment 'patriot' movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right. This spectacular growth is the result of several factors, including anger over major political, demographic and economic changes in America, along...

August 14, 2009 Protests fail to halt passage of Chavez's 'socialist indoctrination law' Police in riot gear used tear gas yesterday against Venezuelan demonstrators angry about a law that they believe could lead to the "socialist indoctrination" of the nation's schools. Officers fired tear gas into crowds who were protesting in Caracas against President Chávez's plans to broaden state control over the education system. Scuffles broke out as clouds of caustic, white gas wafted through the air outside the predominantly pro-Chávez National Assembly. Inside, legislators began debating a Bill which would order schools to base the curriculum on "the Bolivarian...

Just a reminder for some, vital info for others: "Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":http://www.worldthreats.com/latin_america/Iran-Chavez%20Alliance.htmFrom National Public Radio (NPR):"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and...

The ex-General Jaruzelski? Joanna Najfeld reports On December 13, 1981 martial law was introduced in Poland. Phone lines went dead, military vehicles appeared on the streets, soldiers could be seen on TV. There was a wave of arrests of opposition activists who were imprisoned and persecuted. The solidarity movement was crushed. University historian prof. Pawe³ Machcewicz explains what martial law was for Poland. 'The martial law was a huge military and police operation against the 'Solidarity' movement, against all the reform movement in Poland at that time. This military operation crushed 'Solidarity'. 'Solidarity' was banned and more than ten thousand...

There are many reasons to expect Moscow's deteriorating ties with the West will continue their downward trend this autumn. But the key one may be growing differences over the breakaway regions of Transdniester, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia and their stated desire to proclaim independence from Moldova and Georgia. The issue pushing the frozen conflicts to the fore are two independence referendums -- one in Transdniester on September 17, the second in South Ossetia on November 12. Russia, which has acted as a long-term booster for the separatist regions, is looking at the plebescites in two ways: a chance to bring...

The People v. Harvard Law Harvard Law School graduate Andrew Peyton Thomas presents a different view of the influential school in his just-published The People v. Harvard Law (Encounter, 2005). Mr. Thomas, author of Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos and Clarence Thomas: A Biography, was a legal assistant for the Boston NAACP and lives in Phoenix, Ariz. WORLD: Please tell our readers about Critical Legal Studies and the importance of that mode of analysis at Harvard Law.THOMAS: Critical Legal Studies, an offshoot of Marxism, is a legal philosophy that has become highly influential in...

Much has been written recently about the fact that Democrats, arguably with malicious intent, mercilessly attack Republican positions, programs, and political appointees without offering any positive alternatives of their own. This has been ascribed variously to their hatred of George W. Bush (which is certainly a factor), to the fact that a significant percentage of the Democrat base and their elected representatives are unrepentant '60s-style liberals (this, too, plays into the current scenario), even, as Michael Medved has put it, to "an internal contradiction deep within the liberal soul." The bottom line is that, no matter how we might characterize...

Bishop Julius Jia comes rushing through the lacquered rosewood door dressed like a Chinese peasant, his blue cotton Mao suit topped with a navy sailor's cap. The country's leading "underground" bishop has been flouting a ban on visiting members of his congregation and his disguise is vital for his safety. Only when the elderly leader of hundreds of thousands of persecuted Chinese Catholics, who must worship in secret, pulls his bishop's ring from his pocket and slips it onto his finger is he transformed into a religious figure. Christmas is coming - a season of celebration for most Roman Catholics...

Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the milk. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Democracy: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point that you must sell them both in order to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow which was a gift from your government. DEMOCRAT You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings at your birthday party. REPUBLICAN You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? SOCIALIST You...