List Of Employers Asking For Facebook Passwords

Griper — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:04:50 +0000

Employers and other people in business should bear in mind that this is a double-edged sword. They can be named and shamed online which may end up costing thousands of pounds in lost sales.

You never know when the person in front of you might be a search engine expert (or the relative or partner of one). They may go home and by the next day there could be a web page online with a truthful account of your dirty tricks or rude behaviour. And if they know what they're doing, within the week, it could be in the top ten on Google for your name and the name of your business.

If you're very unlucky they may have recorded you too. These days there are video cameras the size of a keyfob which can record for an hour and this footage could also end up online. Unethical? Perhaps if the camera was secret. But so is asking for passwords to personal information.

You may be unable to get this information taken down (especially if they have proof). So think very carefully about your behaviour and treat people decently.

Are brine injection wells causing Youngstown Earthquakes?

Griper — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:16:20 +0000

The United States Geological Survey says the epicenter of a 4.5 magnitude earthquake was about a 10Th of a mile away from a brine injection well. The earthquake Saturday was the 11Th to hit the area since March and the largest in at least recent memory.

The USGS initially put the epicenter of the earthquake at 3:04 p.m. Saturday in McDonald Ohio. The most recent measurements now have the quake centered just off Division Street, near the D&L brine injection well on Ohio Works Drive.

The fluid injection well there was shut down Friday with an agreement between the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the well's owner following a series of earthquakes.

The well went online just a short time before the first quake occurred on March 17Th. None of the other earthquakes was centered in the Youngstown area.

No earthquakes were reported for a few months, but quakes have been felt at least once a month since August, according to ODNR. Until today, the strongest was a 2.7-magnitude quake in September; the weakest was the 2.1-magnitude March quake.

The injection well is used to dispose of waste water that's a byproduct of oil and gas drilling. Thousands of gallons of brine are injected into the well on a daily basis, and much of it is shipped to Ohio from out of state.

Earthquakes that register above 4 magnitude are typically known to cause surface damage, Minimal damage and no injuries were reported Saturday.

China, Human rights violators.

Griper — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:45:43 +0000

Imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo's selection as the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner in October was a defining moment for China's human rights movement. It also focused global attention on the extent of human rights violations in China, and on its unreformed, authoritarian political system as it emerges as a world power.

The Chinese government tried to censor news about the prize domestically, immediately placing Liu's wife Liu Xia under house arrest and clamping down on rights activists and Liu's supporters. It then attempted to portray the prize as part of a conspiracy by Western countries, insisting that Chinese citizens do not value civil and political freedoms.

That argument was significantly challenged by a public letter that circulated the next week: written by retired Chinese Communist Party (CPC) elders, it called for political reforms to defend the right to free expression and a free press as guaranteed by the constitution. The letter cited the domestic censorship of comments that Premier Wen Jiabao made in New York in October, in which he acknowledged that "the people's wishes for, and needs for, democracy and freedom are irresistible." In an unprecedented move, several newspapers printed Wen's comments the next day, openly challenging censorship orders.

The Nobel Prize and the letter highlighted the growing importance of debate within mainstream society, the party, and the government about the role of "universal values." These ideas were also advocated by Charter 08, the landmark document that called for a gradual overhaul of China's political system. Liu's participation in drafting the charter prompted his December 2008 arrest and his 11-year prison sentence one year later.

Freedom of Expression

The government continued to restrict the rights and freedoms of journalists, bloggers and an estimated 384 million internet users, in violation of domestic legal guarantees of freedom of press and expression. The government requires state media and internet search firms to censor references to issues ranging from the June 1989 Tiananmen massacres to details of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

On January 12, 2010, the US search engine company Google announced it would seek an agreement with China's government to end the firm's self-censorship of Chinese internet users' search results, which it undertook partly because of government requirements. The government refused. On March 22, 2010, Google stopped censoring searches on its http://www.google.cn site and began redirecting them to its uncensored Hong Kong-based site.

On April 22, 2010, the government approved an amendment to the revised draft Law on Guarding State Secrets. The revised law requires internet and telecom firms to "cooperate with public security organs, state security agencies [and] prosecutors" on suspected cases of state secrets transmission.

At least 24 Chinese journalists are jailed on ambiguous charges ranging from "inciting subversion" to "revealing state secrets." They include Gheyret Niyaz, a Uighur journalist and website editor, sentenced to 15 years in June for "endangering state security" related to a foreign media interview he gave after the July 2009 protests in Xinjiang. That same week a Xinjiang court convicted three Uighur bloggers on the same charge. Dilshat Perhat, webmaster of Diyarim; the webmaster of Salkinm who goes by the name Nureli; and Nijat Azat, webmaster of Shabnam, received sentences of five, three, and ten years respectively.

Journalists who overstepped censorship guidelines continued to face official reprisals. Zhang Hong, a deputy editor with the Economic Observer newspaper, was fired after co-writing a March 1, 2010, editorial carried in 13 Chinese newspapers advocating the abolition of China's discriminatory hukou (household registration) system. China Economic Times editor Bao Yuehang was fired in May 2010 in apparent retaliation for a March 17, 2010, story that exposed vaccine quality shortfalls in Shanxi province linked to four children dying and at least 74 others falling ill.

Chinese journalists also continued to face physical violence for reporting on "sensitive" topics. On April 20, 2010, 10 unidentified assailants attacked Beijing News reporter Yang Jie while he photographed the site of a forced eviction. Police at the scene briefly detained the assailants before releasing them, characterizing their actions as a "misunderstanding." On September 8, 2010, security guards beat three reporters from Jilin and Changchun television stations attempting to cover a fire at the City College of Jilin Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Foreign correspondents in China continue to face reporting restrictions despite the government's October 2008 decision to eliminate requirements for official permission to travel the country and interview Chinese citizens. Those restrictions include a prohibition on foreign correspondents visiting Tibet freely.

Legal Reforms

Legal awareness among citizens continues to grow and legal reforms progress slowly, although the government's overt hostility towards genuine judicial independence undercuts legislative improvements. It also defeats efforts to progressively curtail the Chinese Communist Party's authority over all judicial institutions and mechanisms.

Two potentially significant reforms progressed on paper but not in practice. In May the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (the state prosecution), and the ministries of public security, state security, and justice issued two directives regarding excluding evidence obtained through torture. This includes confessions of defendants and testimonies of prosecution witnesses, which underpin most criminal convictions in China.

However, these new regulations were not followed in the case of Fan Qihang, who in a video made public by his lawyer, described daily torture for six months and failed attempts to retract his forced confession during trial. The Supreme People's Court refused to investigate the torture allegations and upheld the original death sentence.

In August the government announced a draft amendment to China's criminal law that would eliminate the death penalty for 13 "economy-related non-violent offences." But in September a senior member of the legislature's Legal Affairs Committee announced the government would not pursue this initiative. China leads the world in executions: five to eight thousand take place every year.

Human Rights Defenders

Most human rights advocates, defenders, and organizations endure varying degrees of surveillance, harassment, or suppression by police and state security agencies. Several leading figures have been jailed in the past three years, and several NGOs shuttered or constrained. Yet the domestic "rights defense movement"-an informal movement connecting lawyers, activists, dissidents, journalists, ordinary citizens, and peasant and workers' advocates-continues to expand as demands grow for the state to respect its own laws.

Despite pervasive state censorship, rights advocates helped generate public and media debate on issues including illegal detention centers for petitioners travelling to the capital to lodge grievances (known as "black jails"), abnormal deaths in custody, widespread torture to extract confessions, use of psychiatric facilities to detain dissenters, socioeconomic discrimination against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, and endemic abuses linked to forced demolitions and eviction.

Activists nonetheless paid a heavy price for these advances. In addition to routine harassment, they endure aggressive police surveillance, illegal home confinement, interception of communications, warnings and threats, repeated summons for "discussions" with security officers, and short-term detention.

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing for two years. He reemerged in Beijing in early April 2010 after a year of official obfuscation about his status, telling journalists and supporters that security agents had repeatedly tortured and kept him captive. He disappeared again a few days later. In October police rejected his brother's effort to register him as a missing person.

The blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng was freed from prison in September, only to be confined with his entire family in his home village and denied medical treatment for ailments he developed in prison. Unidentified men working at the behest of local police officials threatened and roughed up journalists and activists who tried visiting him.

On November 10 Zhao Lianhai, the father of a child who developed kidney stones due to the contaminated milk scandal, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment on charges of "causing a serious disturbance" for his role in organizing a victims association to file a class action lawsuit.

Migrant and Labor Rights

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) remains the sole legal representative of workers in China; independent labor unions are banned. Labor activism-mainly by migrant workers-in several foreign-invested factories in southern Guangdong province in the summer of 2010 challenged that prohibition, resulting in improved pay and benefits for strikers at production facilities for Japan's Honda and Denso Corporation. In August the ACFTU announced reforms aimed at developing a more democratic selection process for union leaders. Yet its insistence that reforms "not deviate from the leadership of the Communist Party" indicates that restrictions on independent union activity will remain.

The government has yet to deliver on longstanding promises to abolish the hukou system. Access to public benefits such as education and healthcare are linked to place of birth; China's 230 million migrant workers are denied access to these services when they move elsewhere in the country.

In June 2010 the State Council, China's cabinet, announced a proposal to replace the hukou system with a residential permit system, which would extend public welfare benefits to migrants in China's cities. However, the proposal lacks a timetable and financial provisions for the hukou system's elimination.

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

The government decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the official list of mental disorders in 2001 but does not allow same-sex marriage. In March 2010 former vice-minister of health Wang Longde told state media the government needed to end discrimination against gay men in order to more effectively combat the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Despite such indications of progress, entrenched social and official discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in China limits them from realizing fundamental rights of expression and association. Beijing police forced cancellation of the first Mr. Gay China pageant in January 2010 without explanation. In September 2010 Beijing police detained hundreds of gay men rounded up in a Haidian district park in an apparent effort to harass and intimidate homosexuals. The men were reportedly released only after providing identification and submitting to blood tests.

Women's Rights

Entrenched gender-based discrimination and violence continue to afflict Chinese women. Inequality is particularly serious in rural areas, where gender-based discrimination, unequal access to services and employment, trafficking into forced prostitution, and violence are more common than in cities. In June 2001 the nongovernmental Anti-Domestic Violence Network of China Law Society (ADVN) called for revisions to domestic violence provisions of the Marriage Law. The ADVN criticized the current Marriage Law for requiring victims of domestic violence to provide what the organization considers to be impossibly high standards of proof of long-term physical abuse.

Police typically subject suspected female sex workers to public "shaming" parades in violation of their rights of privacy and due process. Public criticism of the practice peaked after a widely publicized June 2010 incident in which police forced two suspected sex workers to walk bound and barefoot through the streets of Dongguan. On July 27, 2010, state media announced an official ban on the practice, although it remains uncertain whether it will be enforced.

Health

The Chinese government moved in 2010 to protect the rights of people with HIV/AIDS. On April 27, 2010, it lifted its 20-year-old entry ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors. And on August 30, 2010, an Anhui provincial court accepted China's first-ever job discrimination lawsuit on the grounds of HIV-positive status. In November the provincial court ruled against the defendant.

However, HIV/AIDS activists and nongovernmental advocacy organizations continued to face government harassment. In May 2010 Wan Yanhai, China's leading HIV/AIDS activist, fled to the United States, citing official harassment of his NGO, the Aizhixing Institute. On August 16, 2010, police in Henan province detained Tian Xi, a veteran HIV/AIDS rights activist pursuing state compensation for victims of the province's blood contamination scandal, on charges of "intentionally damaging property" after a minor altercation at a hospital. Tian faces up to three years in prison.

Government officials and security forces continue to incarcerate suspected users of illicit drugs without trial or judicial oversight in drug detention centers for up to six years under China's June 2008 Anti-Drug Law. Detainees in drug detention centers suffer widespread human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, forced labor, physical violence, and denial of medical services, including evidence-based drug dependency treatment and treatment for HIV/AIDS.

China's rapid economic growth has led to widespread industrial pollution. The government is failing to address the public health repercussions resulting from severe environmental degradation. Lead has poisoned tens of thousands of Chinese children, many of whom suffer permanent physical and mental disabilities as a result. Despite Chinese and international law that purport to protect people from polluted and hazardous environments, Human Rights Watch research to be published next year shows that local governments across China have prioritized concealing the problem, turning children away from hospitals, refusing to test them for lead, and withholding or falsifying test results.

Freedom of Religion

Despite a constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion, China's government restricts spiritual expression to officially registered churches, mosques, monasteries, and temples. Religious personnel appointments require government approval. Religious publications and seminary applications are subject to official review. The government subjects employees, membership financial records, and activities of religious institutions to periodic audits. It deems all unregistered religious organizations illegal, including Protestant "house churches," whose members risk fines and criminal prosecution. Certain groups, including the Falun Gong, are seen as "evil cults," and their followers are subject to official harassment and intimidation.

Police and government officials raided a training session on law and theology organized by a Christian house church in Henan's Fangcheng County on March 11, 2010, and temporarily detained three attendees. On May 9, 2010, Guangzhou police broke up an outdoor house church service in a local park and later temporarily detained the church's leader for questioning. On October 10, 2010, Beijing International Airport immigration officials blocked five Protestant house church leaders from boarding planes en route to an international evangelical conference in South Africa.

Tibet

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and the neighboring Tibetan autonomous areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan province, remained tense. The Chinese government gave no indication it would accommodate the aspirations of Tibetan people for greater autonomy, even within the narrow confines of the country's autonomy law on ethnic minorities' areas. There were no mass arrests in 2010 of the kind that followed the spring 2008 protests, but the government maintains a heavy security presence across the Tibetan plateau and continues to sharply curtail outside access to most Tibetan areas.

Tibetans suspected of being critical of political, religious, cultural, or economic state policies are targets for persecution. In June the 15-year sentence given to Karma Sandrup, a prominent art dealer and environmental philanthropist, on unfounded charges of "grave robbing" signaled a departure from the government's previous willingness to embrace economically successful Tibetan elites who abstained from political pursuits. Multiple due process violations marred the trial, including evidence the suspect and witnesses had been tortured.

In July 2010 the government rejected the findings of a comprehensive Human Rights Watch report, which established that China had broken international law in its handling of the 2008 protests. The report, based on eyewitness testimonies, detailed abuses committed by security forces during and after protests, including use of disproportionate force in breaking up protests, firing on unarmed protesters, conducting large-scale arbitrary arrests, brutalizing detainees, and torturing suspects in custody. The government accused Human Rights Watch of "fabricating material aimed at boosting the morale of anti-China forces, misleading the general public and vilifying the Chinese government," but failed to respond to any of the report's substantive allegations.

Xinjiang

The Urumqi riots of July 2009-the most lethal episode of ethnic unrest in recent Chinese history-continued to cast a shadow over developments in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The government has not accounted for hundreds of persons detained after the riots, nor investigated serious allegations of torture and ill-treatment of detainees that have surfaced in testimonies of refugees and relatives living outside China. The few publicized trials of suspected rioters were marred by restrictions on legal representation, overt politicization of the judiciary, failure to publish public notification of the trials, and failure to hold genuinely open trials as mandated by law.

Pervasive ethnic discrimination against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities persisted, along with sharp curbs on religious and cultural expression and politically-motivated arrests under the guise of counterterrorism and anti-separatism efforts.

In April Beijing installed a new leader for the autonomous region, Zhang Chunxian, to preside over an ambitious economic overhaul. In May the first national Work Conference on Xinjiang unveiled numerous measures that are likely to rapidly transform the region into an economic hub but also risk further marginalizing ethnic minorities and accelerating migration of ethnic Han Chinese into the region.

By the end of 2011, 80 percent of traditional neighborhoods in the ancient Uighur city of Kashgar will have been razed. Many Uighur inhabitants have been forcibly evicted and relocated to make way for a new city likely to be dominated by the Han population.

Key International Actors

China's government became more brazen in thwarting international norms and opinion. In late December 2009 it successfully pressured Cambodia to forcibly return 20 Uighur asylum seekers, despite its record of torturing Uighurs and vocal opposition from the US and others. A few months later, when the US suspended a shipment of trucks to punish Cambodia for violating the 1951 Refugee Convention, China provided a comparable shipment within a few weeks.

The Chinese government also continued to obstruct international efforts to defend human rights by taking steps to derail growing international momentum for a commission of inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. China's United Nations delegation also opposed the release of a UN report documenting use of Chinese ammunition in Darfur in violation of an arms embargo. The Chinese government has still not issued invitations to the UN high commissioner for human rights or a half-dozen other special rapporteurs who requested visits in the wake of the Tibet and Xinjiang protests.

Although more than a dozen countries continue to pursue human rights dialogues with the Chinese government, few of these opaque discussions produced meaningful outcomes in 2010. While most of these governments offered strong support for the Nobel Committee's choice of Liu Xiaobo as winner of the peace prize, many failed to seize other opportunities, such as conducting high-profile visits to China or meeting senior Chinese officials to raise human rights concerns.

The Death Camp of Communist China

Griper — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:41:17 +0000

A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on. In response, the Chinese government actually executed its regulatory head of food and product safety, Zheng Xiaoyu.

How very strange this last point is! In the West, we long ago gave up the idea that these people are actually supposed to carry out their jobs and should be personally responsible for their failure to do so.

What is most striking about these criticisms is how historically insular they appear in light of the modern history of China. This is a subject that is deeply painful, horrifying in its detail, highly instructive in helping us understand politics — and also puts into perspective these reports of recent troubles in China. It's a scandal, in fact, that few Westerners are even aware, or, if they are aware, they are not conscious, of the bloody reality that prevailed in China between the years 1949 and 1976, the years of communist rule by Mao Zedong.

How many died as a result of persecutions and the policies of Mao? Perhaps you care to guess? Many people over the years have attempted to guess. But they have always underestimated. As more data rolled in during the 1980s and 1990s, and specialists have devoted themselves to investigations and estimates, the figures have become ever more reliable. And yet they remain imprecise. What kind of error term are we talking about? It could be as low as 40 million. It could be as high as 100 million or more. In the Great Leap Forward from 1959 to 1961 alone, figures range between 20 million to 75 million. In the period before, 20 million. In the period after, tens of millions more.

As scholars in the area of mass death point out, most of us can't imagine 100 dead or 1000. Above that, we are just talking about statistics: they have no conceptual meaning for us, and it becomes a numbers game that distracts us from the horror itself. And there is only so much ghastly information that our brains can absorb, only so much blood we can imagine. And yet there is more to why China's communist experiment remains a hidden fact: it makes a decisive case against government power, one even more compelling than the cases of Russia or Germany in the 20th century.

The horror was foreshadowed in a bloody civil war following the Second World War. After some nine million people died, the communists emerged victorious in 1949, with Mao as the ruler. The land of Lao-Tzu (rhyme, rhythm, peace), Taoism (compassion, moderation, humility), and Confucianism (piety, social harmony, individual development) was seized by the strangest import to China ever: Marxism from Germany via Russia. It was an ideology that denied all logic, experience, economic law, property rights, and limits on the power of the state on grounds that these notions were merely bourgeois prejudices, and what we needed to transformed society was a cadre with all power to transform all things.

It's bizarre to think about it, really: posters of Marx and Lenin in China, of all places, and rule by an ideology of robbery, dictatorship, and death that did not come to an end until 1976. So spectacular has the transformation been in the last 25 years that one would hardly know that any of this ever happened, except that the Communist Party is still running the place while having tossed out the communist part.

The experiment began in the most bloody way possible following the second world war, when all Western eyes were focused on matters at home and, to the extent there was any foreign focus, it was on Russia. The "good guys" had won the war in China, or so we were led to believe in times when communism was the fashion.

The communization of China took place in the usual three stages: purge, plan, and scapegoat. First there was the purge to bring about communism. There were guerillas to kill and land to nationalize. The churches had to be destroyed. The counterrevolutionaries had to be put down. The violence began in the country and spread later to the cities. All peasants were first divided into four classes that were considered politically acceptable: poor, semi poor, average, and rich. Everyone else was considered a landowner and targeted for elimination. If no landowners could be found, the "rich" were often included in this group. The demonized class was ferreted out in a country-wide series of "bitterness meetings" in which people turned in their neighbors for owning property and being politically disloyal. Those who were so deemed were immediately executed along with those who sympathized with them.

The rule was that there had to be at least one person killed per village. The numbers killed is estimated to be between one and five million. In addition, another four to six million landowners were slaughtered for the crime of being capital owners. If anyone was suspected of hiding wealth, he or she was tortured with hot irons to confess. The families of the killed were then tortured and the graves of their ancestors looted and pillaged. What happened to the land? It was divided into tiny plots and distributed among the remaining peasants.

China's abuse of Human Rights is a crime!

Barbie — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:03:49 +0000

Human rights violations in the People's Republic of China (PRC) remain systematic and widespread. The Chinese government continues to suppress dissenting opinions and maintains political control over the legal system, resulting in an arbitrary and sometimes abusive judicial regime. The lack of accountability of the government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) means that abuses by officials often go unchecked. This fact sheet identifies the most common types of abuses, including arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners, severe restrictions on freedom of expression and association and violations specific to women.

On a street in downtown Shanghai, I went into a building of the 20 towers to admire the interior. Inside was a scene that would shock those who had been here five years ago. On the ground floor of the building had become a stock brokerage firm, and hundreds of Chinese citizens were furiously betting on the local bourse.
But this scene, similar to everyday life in the financial capital like New York or Tokyo, it's just a reflection of the freedoms enjoyed by individuals in China. In recent years, multinational companies have flocked to urban areas of China, the country entered the World Trade Organization, and Beijing has hired foreign specialists for packaging public relations image of the country before the Olympic Games 2008. But along with economic liberalization, human rights have deteriorated. religious revivals, labor protests and Internet chat rooms-in fact, anything the government perceives as a threat to the authority, all have unleashed a wave of often brutal repression.
On the surface, China appears to be a rapidly changing, especially foreigners who spend their time in this thriving cities like Shanghai. The home of less than one fifth of the population of China, these cities contain the majority of Starbucks in the country, mobile phone kiosks and stock exchanges. They seem full of young Chinese pushing social boundaries. "There's definitely a public image of eastern China, which could be very attractive, particularly to foreign companies, those who do not dig deeper," says Mike Jendryzcek of Human Rights Watch in Washington.
Thirteen years after the uprising in Tiananmen Square, the world's attention has shifted away from the abuses in China. Many former dissidents have returned, not to speak of his past, a 1989 of the leading protesters, Ya-Qin Zhang, who now heads the Microsoft research center in China. During the past decade, China's secret police have broken the network of dissidents who provided information to the West, and today the best source of information on human rights in China is a man, Frank Lu Siqing, who runs a watchdog of his small apartment in Hong Kong.
The current group of Chinese leaders, experts in human rights for example, is less tolerant than the previous generation led by Deng Xiaoping, and for a time, Zhao Ziyang, a reformer placed under house arrest after the slaughter of Tiananmen 1989. (Zhao continues to be imprisoned for fear it could emerge as a rallying point for reformers. ) As I Qinglian, a prominent Chinese journalist, this current generation of leaders, headed by President Jiang Zemin, reduce their political teeth m 1989, when they were surprised at how quickly joined the protest into a national movement against the government. As a result, Jiang and his followers have developed an almost irrational fear of groups seeking to create a national membership. Not surprisingly, Jiang has allowed the People's Liberation Army, China's ultimate weapon against the protests, to exert more influence in domestic affairs. Jiang has also increased the size of the paramilitary People's Armed Police.
In fact, some experts doubt that the next generation of Communist Party leaders will come to the fore. As Jiang prepares to visit U.S. in October, speculation is running high in Beijing that the president of 76 years is not yet ready to renounce his title as party leader and the military. Jiang claimed to have been its position in the party supporters who elected for another term as army chief, even as a likely successor to Hu Jintao, is being touted as Jiang's heir.
government's war on Falun Gong, a spiritual sect devoted to meditation and breathing exercises, has been well publicized. But rarely is mentioned is the fact that Beijing's security services have routinely tortured and murdered Falun Gong practitioners. The Chinese authorities have blocked the reports, hundreds of followers of Falun Gong in psychiatric hospitals and force fed drugs; imprisoned thousands more in the larger world system of labor camps, and silently executed several Falun Gong practitioners.

Details of executions in China are impressive: According to Wang Guoqi, a pathologist and former employee of a Chinese military hospital, doctors often organ harvesting from executed prisoners, none of which accepted the donation of organs. He talks to a doctor to remove a kidney from a prisoner still breathing who had survived the initial shooting. After the body was removed, the prisoner was left to die.

China has taken the battle against Falun Gong practitioners outside their borders. Beijing confident of Cambodia to deport two Falun Gong practitioners who had fled to Phnom Penh and has used its consulates in the U.S. to harass Falun Gong practitioners. A follower of Falun Gong on U.S. demands that Chinese agents have recorded their private conversations and then to the left of the recordings on the answering machine to intimidate. Beijing also may have influenced the government's position of Hong Kong and the media to Falun Gong. In April, the South China Morning Post, which takes Hong Kong's English language newspaper, suddenly dismissed its head office in Beijing, Jasper Becker, who had written several stories about Falun Gong probe. Then in August a court in Hong Kong who are the followers of Falun Gong, which is not illegal in the country, guilty of "causing a public obstruction" for protesting outside the Chinese government's main office in that country.

Beijing also has shrewdly exploited post-9/11 fears of Islamic terrorism to launch a "tough" campaign against the Muslim "separatists", groups of Uighurs living in the western province of Xinjiang, the site of violent separatist movements diffuse but in the past. However, according to Dru Gladney, an expert on Chinese Muslims at the University of Hawaii, the majority of Uighurs have become less enamored of separation, as they have seen the chaos enveloping his independent neighbors, post-Soviet Central Asia . Uighurs even advocating greater autonomy over all desire more freedom to explore and utilize the Uighur language and stop the flood of Han Chinese province. (There were about 300,000 Han in Xinjiang in 1949, today there are more than 6.4 million.)

However, the "iron fist" campaign has been unusually broad, perhaps reflecting Beijing's fear that some could be linked to Uighur activists and other ethnic minorities Tlbetans unhappy. Vocally linking its offensive to the international war against terrorism (Beijing says al-Qaeda terrorists hiding in Xinjiang), Chinese authorities have deployed 40,000 soldiers new to the province, burned books celebrated in Uighur language "political education" for 8,000 magnets. These campaigns are a disturbing reminder of the brutal Cultural Revolution "education" brainwashing sessions. Meanwhile, security forces have detained thousands of Uighurs and executed several suspected separatists. As Craig Smith, the New York Times said after seeing a man sentenced to death, Xinjiang is "the only place in the country where people are regularly put to death for political crimes."

Despite the vicious campaign against Falun Gong and the Muslim Uighurs, Beijing, probably most of the fears of rural evangelical Christian groups as evangelical surveys helped topple the governments of several pre-communist. "The number of Christians in China is growing strongly and the government knows and cares," said Joseph Kung, president of the Cardinal Kung Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Connecticut that promotes the Catholic Church in China.

In the past three years, public safety officials have targeted prominent sects such as the ray and the Church of God, and underground Catholics loyal to the Vatican. (Beijing officially atheist state sponsors of the Catholic Church does not recognize the Pope. ) Beijing has increasingly pitted against the current charismatic Christian evangelical groups, allowing some Protestant groups to worship in silence if they cooperate with security forces to root out the other sects. Moreover, a series of government's own documents issued between 1999 and 2001 (and smuggled out of the country) reveal systematic efforts to arrest and kill members of evangelical churches. (In the documents, one of the rebels 'crimes' made in the Gospel is "pray for world peace.") In fact, followers of the underground sects have told human rights groups, security forces beat them with bars and electrically shocking genitals.

Another major aim of the government crackdown has been the emerging rights of peasants and labor organizations. According to He Qinglian, at least 150 million farmers have lost their jobs during the last decade. By joining the WTO last winter, Beijing pledged to reduce subsidies to state enterprises, reforms that is likely to make at least 50 million people out of work. Already, state workers are rarely paid, and that many state enterprises have no income and assets have been stripped of their directors. In cities across northeastern China "rust belt, home to many companies that previously subsidized by the state, thousands of unemployed roam the streets, sleeping on benches, selling their bodies for sex, and begging for scraps of food. China expert manpower estimate the rate of unemployment in the rust belt more than 20 percent, and many dismissed workers will never find another job because their skills are best suited for an open economy.

Chinese farmers, who still represent over 50 percent of the population, are also in a precarious position. Most farms in China are less than two acres and will be unable to compete with foreign agribusiness giants now entering China. The per capita income of rural residents is less than $ 300, compared with per capita income of over $ 4,000 in Shanghai. At the same time, farmers actually pay higher taxes than urban Chinese as cough up both the national and local taxes "excise" collected by officials of rural areas. To make matters worse, developers often confiscate land from farmers to build houses for China's expanding cities, often paying no compensation for the property, as most farmers are not technically own their land. Even China, state news agency recently acknowledged that 12 million farmers losing land * of urbanization in the next decade, a figure probably too low by half.
Many farmers and workers have begun to express their anger in their bleak situation. The number of peasant protests and work is increasing and it is likely that some 3 million people. During the course of this protest, 78 police and government employees were killed. In 2000, the latest year for which statistics are available, labor disputes increased by 12 percent, as workers in several cities in the rust belt besieged their factory and won some of the unemployment benefits, encouraging others redundant workers to protest.

In some cases, local governments and state enterprises have tolerated protests have limited or purchased from the farmers and workers with a minimum of unemployment benefits. But if the protests continue over several days, or threaten to spread to other areas, officials show no mercy. State security agents arrested the complainant in the rust-belt province of Liaoning, which exposed corruption in state enterprises, as well as Chinese journalists who reported on peasant protests. Protest leaders were arrested and brutally tortured, their cases widely publicized as a message to other workers.

Foreign companies have been complicit in human rights repression in China. Although the international media have welcomed the Internet as a potential force of liberalization, Beijing recently reverted to Internet freedom. Many Internet cafes have been closed, chat rooms are closely monitored by a force of 40,000 agents of Internet security, and Beijing is building a control system for all Internet users. China has also used the Internet firewall to block hundreds of foreign Web sites as the BBC and practitioners of Falun Gong, the New York Times won a reprieve just when its editor made a personal appeal to Jiang Zemin. Other Chinese who helped found the firewalls have been imprisoned.

In July, Yahoo signed a voluntary commitment in writing self-censorship by Beijing. " Social stability "portals that are not committed to sign a promise to send any information that the Chinese government considers a threat to" state security "or according to Human Rights Watch, an internal note in recent America Online recommended that staff to meet potential Chinese government demands for information on political dissidents. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch's son James, a senior manager of global media conglomerate News Corp., has made public echoed the condemnation of Beijing Falun Gong, a group called "doomsday cult."
Beijing has allowed local and foreign journalists freedom to report some problems in the country's business sector. Beijing tolerates more dynamic business publications, because the government realizes an open financial press helps to convince investors that China is becoming more transparent. However, aggressive reporting, even in the business and financial sectors, can be punished if it involves senior officials. Over the past year, many Chinese companies have used the judiciary plays in the country, which convicts about 99 percent of the defendants, and files suits for defamation win-business reporters.

Today's China is a paradox. No longer the Maoist totalitarian state that has not become liberal society many foreign observers expected. It has opened its economy rapidly, and urban Chinese have adopted many of the practices of industrialized economies with remarkable speed. Urban youth of today can dress as they like, see a number of foreign television programs, even fly to a remote province to enjoy their own "Chinese Woodstock" rock festival. But those who praise Beijing to reform its economy and allow some of its citizens to improve their living standards have overlooked an unseemly fact: China is becoming more repressive, more stifling civil society and potentially more fuel.

Even some Chinese scholars sponsored by the state have begun to predict that if workers inequality among urban residents, peasants sacked and continues to increase, and if the government does little to make room for civil society and tolerate dissent People's Republic could face a social explosion or other national protest movement similar to that of 1989. "There are hundreds of little fires burning," said David Zweig, an expert on rural China at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Will they become a fire?"

Time...

Rebecca — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:50:35 +0000

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
By:Doug Larson

We need to update this, to our time....

For disappering acts, it's hard to bet what happens to the four hours supposedly left after six hours of sleep, twelve hours of work, two hours of driving....Let's see, 1 hour of cooking and eating, cleaning, 45 min in the shower, 15 min of laundry, 30 min of cleaning the rest of the house, 30 min.running kids around, 30 min to fall asleep, knowing your tired, and you have to get up.....30 min of free time...tv????? Weekends... do everything you dont have time for in your 30 min left.... mow grass, pull weeds, wash the car(not mind; it would fall apart.), and all the other great stuff there is to do : )

Dr. Laura Schlessinger's None Racial use of the N-word. Who is right?

Attitude — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:12:01 +0000

AUDIO OF: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's None Racial N-word rant

On August 10, Dr. Laura Schlessinger launched in to a non-racially charged education of a caller, in the coursework of which Schlessinger -- in her own words -- "articulated the 'n' word all the way out -- over two times." Among other things, Schlessinger also told an African-American caller that he had a "chip on [her] shoulder."(Which she did by the way she acted)Schlessinger has since apologized for her remarks, but audio from the discussion appears to have been excised from the recording of that day's show that appears on Schlessinger's website. Not taking sides here, but for petes sake! Schlessinger was just trying to set the record straight on things and their was no racial intent there what so ever. Just a clear cut example that you cannot say the n word in any context without someone saying ah ha! got you now you stinking rasist! Read the transcript or listen to it yourself. I Would also like to know everyones opion on this. Please feel free to comment.

On Tuesday, Schlessinger took a call from a female caller during the second hour of her show and had the following discussion:

SCHLESSINGER: Jade, welcome to the program.

CALLER: Hi, Dr. Laura.

SCHLESSINGER: Hi.

CALLER: I'm having an issue with my husband where I'm starting to grow very resentful of him. I'm black, and he's white. We've been around some of his friends and family members who start making racist comments as if I'm not there or if I'm not black. And my husband ignores those comments, and it hurts my feelings. And he acts like --

SCHLESSINGER: Well, can you give me an example of a racist comment? 'Cause sometimes people are hypersensitive. So tell me what's -- give me two good examples of racist comments.

CALLER: OK. Last night -- good example -- we had a neighbor come over, and this neighbor -- when every time he comes over, it's always a black comment. It's, "Oh, well, how do you black people like doing this?" And, "Do black people really like doing that?" And for a long time, I would ignore it. But last night, I got to the point where it --

SCHLESSINGER: I don't think that's racist.

CALLER: Well, the stereotype --

SCHLESSINGER: I don't think that's racist. No, I think that --

CALLER: [unintelligible]

SCHLESSINGER: No, no, no. I think that's -- well, listen, without giving much thought, a lot of blacks voted for Obama simply 'cause he was half-black. Didn't matter what he was gonna do in office, it was a black thing. You gotta know that. That's not a surprise. Not everything that somebody says -- we had friends over the other day; we got about 35 people here -- the guys who were gonna start playing basketball. I was going to go out and play basketball. My bodyguard and my dear friend is a black man. And I said, "White men can't jump; I want you on my team." That was racist? That was funny.

CALLER: How about the N-word? So, the N-word's been thrown around --

SCHLESSINGER: Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO, listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger.

CALLER: That isn't --

SCHLESSINGER: I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing; but when black people say it, it's affectionate. It's very confusing. Don't hang up, I want to talk to you some more. Don't go away.

I'm Dr. Laura Schlessinger. I'll be right back.

After taking a commercial break, Schlessinger resumed her discussion with the caller:

SCHLESSINGER: I'm Dr. Laura Schlessinger, talking to Jade. What did you think about during the break, by the way?

CALLER: I was a little caught back by the N-word that you spewed out, I have to be honest with you. But my point is, race relations --

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, then I guess you don't watch HBO or listen to any black comedians.

CALLER: But that doesn't make it right. I mean, race is a [unintelligible] --

SCHLESSINGER: My dear, my dear --

CALLER: -- since Obama's been in office --

SCHLESSINGER: -- the point I'm trying to make --

CALLER: -- racism has come to another level that's unacceptable.

SCHLESSINGER: Yeah. We've got a black man as president, and we have more complaining about racism than ever. I mean, I think that's hilarious.

CALLER: But I think, honestly, because there's more white people afraid of a black man taking over the nation.

SCHLESSINGER: They're afraid.

CALLER: If you want to be honest about it [unintelligible]

SCHLESSINGER: Dear, they voted him in. Only 12 percent of the population's black. Whites voted him in.

CALLER: It was the younger generation that did it. It wasn't the older white people who did it.

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, OK.

CALLER: It was the younger generation --

SCHLESSINGER: All right. All right.

CALLER: -- that did it.

SCHLESSINGER: Chip on your shoulder. I can't do much about that.

CALLER: It's not like that.

SCHLESSINGER: Yeah. I think you have too much sensitivity --

CALLER: So it's OK to say "nigger"?

SCHLESSINGER: -- and not enough sense of humor.

CALLER: It's OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It depends how it's said.

CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?

SCHLESSINGER: It's -- it depends how it's said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it's OK.

CALLER: But you're not black. They're not black. My husband is white.

SCHLESSINGER: Oh, I see. So, a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can't do much about that.

CALLER: I can't believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the "nigger" word, and I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: I didn't spew out the "nigger" word.

CALLER: You said, "Nigger, nigger, nigger."

SCHLESSINGER: Right, I said that's what you hear.

CALLER: Everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: Yes, they did.

CALLER: I hope everybody heard it.

SCHLESSINGER: They did, and I'll say it again --

CALLER: So what makes it OK for you to say the word?

SCHLESSINGER: -- nigger, nigger, nigger is what you hear on HB --

CALLER: So what makes it --

SCHLESSINGER: Why don't you let me finish a sentence?

CALLER: OK.

SCHLESSINGER: Don't take things out of context. Don't double N -- NAACP me. Tape the --

CALLER: I know what the NAACP --

SCHLESSINGER: Leave them in context.

CALLER: I know what the N-word means and I know it came from a white person. And I know the white person made it bad.

SCHLESSINGER: All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Can't have this argument. You know what? If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race. If you're going to marry out of your race, people are going to say, "OK, what do blacks think? What do whites think? What do Jews think? What do Catholics think?" Of course there isn't a one-think per se. But in general there's "think."

And what I just heard from Jade is a lot of what I hear from black-think -- and it's really distressting [sic] and disturbing. And to put it in its context, she said the N-word, and I said, on HBO, listening to black comics, you hear "nigger, nigger, nigger." I didn't call anybody a nigger. Nice try, Jade. Actually, sucky try.

Need a sense of humor, sense of humor -- and answer the question. When somebody says, "What do blacks think?" say, "This is what I think. This is what I read that if you take a poll the majority of blacks think this." Answer the question and discuss the issue. It's like we can't discuss anything without saying there's -isms?

We have to be able to discuss these things. We're people -- goodness gracious me. Ah -- hypersensitivity, OK, which is being bred by black activists. I really thought that once we had a black president, the attempt to demonize whites hating blacks would stop, but it seems to have grown, and I don't get it. Yes, I do. It's all about power. I do get it. It's all about power and that's sad because what should be in power is not power or righteousness to do good -- that should be the greatest power.

Veteran ripped off by illegal aliens

Attitude — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:34:08 +0000

My name is d'Lynn. I'm a disabled Vietnam vet. I don't look too bad for a beat-up old fart, do I? And that's my ride. She's looking pretty good also, especially when you consider that she'll turn twenty this summer. That's right, it's a 1990 with a 1990 sidecar. I can't ride a solo bike, ergo the sidecar rig. It's my sole means of transportation - rain or shine, snow or wind, and this summer also marks a milestone in both of our lives, as I will finally be able to pay her off. Twenty years old? What? Why did it take so long? You weren't paying attention, were you? It's right at the beginning of this paragraph.

I am a disabled vet, which means I receive a veterans administration disability pension, which also means "I'm broke!" Just one step ahead of being homeless every month, and that's not an idle statement or an "Oh, woe is me" dire complaint. There’s a point to this, so hang in there a minute or two and read on.

There's a 25-year-old illegal immigrant woman living in Florida , with eight kids. Yes, eight "anchor babies" and she receives just shy of $1,500 per month per kid, plus medical, plus food stamps.

Oh, wait. I've been informed that I shouldn't call them Food Stamps anymore. That's not PC. It's all called “Social Assistance” now. You do the math on that yourself. I'd say that she was schooled early in how to make it in the system. Twenty-five years old, eight kids . . . . . yep, she started early.

You can whip out the calculator if you want, but this woman, who never has paid a dime in taxes of any kind, (and still doesn't – she's 'illegal,' remember?) is here in this country illegally. She hasn’t paid out one cent in medical for all the “anchor babies,” makes more in one month, legally, than I receive in over a year and a half in disability payments and I can't even get food stamps! Oops, I mean “Social Assistance.”

Technically I am eligible for “Social Assistance.” I was told it would be a walk through – a gimme – being disabled. No problem, and in the very next breath I was also informed that under the law the amount I received in “Social Assistance” would be deducted from my disability pension.

Let's say I take a great photograph. It was just luck, a one of a kind accident, in the right place at the right time shot. My local newspaper offers me fifty bucks to use the photo in a featured story. (I live in a small town and fifty bucks is all they could afford.) I have to report that fifty dollars to the VA as earned income, which will immediately be deducted from my next month’s disability check. If I don't report it I’m in violation of federal law and technically they can stop my disability pension and prosecute me under a federal felony. Pretty cool, eh? For fifty bucks.

I see no point in dealing with two federal bureaucracies, so I don't bother. What's the point?

She's here illegally and with just one kid would make over twice what I receive per month. She has eight and she’s not a stand-out case. She’s not alone. That's the way the system works. Millions of illegal immigrants know this, know how the system works and know how to use it. (Haven't you seen the pamphlet? It's handed out all along our borders, "The Illegal Immigrants' Guide to Keeping America Just The Way It Is.") and that's just the way it works.

Did you know that the federal government provides a “refugee” in this country with a monthly “stipend” of $1,890, plus $580 a month in “Social Assistance?” That’s $2,470 a month, tax-free. That's two and a half times what I’m allowed to receive as a disabled vet. And just what did they do to earn this? All you have to do is show up on our collective doorstep, raise your right hand and swear that you're a refugee and, bingo, receive $30,000 a year, tax-free. That's more than someone making $15 an hour, and they have to pay taxes to boot!

Now, in defense of the Veterans Administration, they are doing what they can with what they've got. This is precious little compared to what they should have to get the job done. At least this country has a VA.

It's the Senate that keeps passing laws, rules and guidelines, cutting their budget, denying requests for more staff and computer systems to handle the massive work flow. Their hands are tied by the very government that's supposed to give them what they need to get the job done, by the government you voted into office. Don't scream at the VA. I have. It's misguided anger.

The point to this “story?” Just why are you paying such high taxes to support this incredibly screwed-up government? Why? And I’m not proposing you stop paying your taxes. That's wrong. There are good programs and reasons to pay your taxes and support our government.

What am I proposing? It's quite simple. Vote.

The government, our government, is broken and we as the voters serve as the maintenance crew. We fix it . . . . . by voting. If your state Senator has been in office more than two terms, vote 'em out at the next election. If your state representative has been in office more than two terms, vote 'em out of office. We put term limits on just about every publicly-elected official in the country except the House and Senate.

Why? Believe me, they know this and love it! Ahhh - the power!

I don't care how much you believe your Senator or Representative is doing a good job. They're not! Look at the government you have....that we have. How can you state they are doing what you want as the voter that put them there? How?

Vote them out of office. Do it.

Change the course of this country's history by what you are granted and guaranteed under the law. Vote! And if you have the guts, the anger, the outrage, start a petition in your state for a state-wide initiative to be placed on your next state ballot. Limiting the terms of office for your state senators and state representatives to your federal government to two terms.

The federal government will never pass such a law, but you can. You can get it done. You can force it. You can make it a law.

This is the first step in “getting it right.” Just vote. It's simple. It's easy, dammit!
This first step will send a very clear message. It’ll work. It’ill put “us” back in control of “them.” As it should be. As it was intended in the first place.

Are you an American? Born and raised? Then vote!

Minutemen groups taking a lead in Arizona.

Attitude — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:48:51 +0000

Jason "J.T." Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on "narco-terrorists" and keeping an eye out for illegal immigrants. So far, he says his patrols have only found a few border crossers who were given water and handed over to the Border Patrol. Once, they also found a decaying body in a wash, and alerted authorities.

Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert.

"We're not going to sit around and wait for the government anymore," Ready said. "This is what our founding fathers did."

But local law enforcement are nervous given that Ready's group is heavily armed and identifies with the National Socialist Movement, an organization that believes only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn't white should leave the country "peacefully or by force."

But Ready, a 37-year-old ex-Marine, is different. He and his friends are outfitted with military fatigues, body armor and gas masks, and carry assault rifles. Ready takes offense at the term "neo-Nazi," but admits he identifies with the National Socialist Movement.

An escalation of civilian border watches have taken root in Arizona in recent years, including the Minutemen movement. Various groups patrol the desert on foot, horseback and in airplanes and report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol, and generally, they have not caused problems for law enforcement.

"These are explicit Nazis," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. "These are people who wear swastikas on their sleeves."

Ready is a reflection of the anger over illegal immigration in Arizona. Gov. Jan Brewer signed a controversial new immigration law in April, which requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if officers have a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally.

Law enforcement officials said patrols like Ready's could undercut the work of the thousands of officers on duty every day across the border, especially if they try to enforce the law themselves in carrying out vigilante justice.

Ready said his group has been patrolling in the desert about 50 miles south of Phoenix, in an area where a Pinal County Sheriff's deputy reported he was shot by drug smugglers in April.

But Brewer hasn't done enough, Ready said, and he's not satisfied with President Barack Obama's decision to beef up security at the border.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said there haven't been any incidents with the group as they patrol his jurisdiction, which includes several busy immigrant smuggling corridors. But Babeu is concerned because an untrained group acting without the authority of the law could cause "extreme problems," and put themselves and others in danger.

"I'm not inviting them. And in fact, I'd rather they not come," Babeu said. "Especially those who espouse hatred or bigotry such as his."

Border Patrol spokesman Omar Candelaria said the agency appreciates the extra eyes and ears but they would prefer actual law enforcement be left to professionals.

Former Minutemen leader Al Garza recently created the Patriot's Coalition, which uses scouts and search-and-rescue teams to alert the Border Patrol and provide first aid to illegal immigrants.

Depending on the availability of volunteers and the scouts' evidence of border crossers, patrols can vary from several times a week to once a month, Garza said. The operation is about 500 people, and includes a neighborhood watch program, legislative advisers and a horseback patrol, he said.

Bureau of Land Management rangers met Ready's group during one patrol, and they weren't violating any laws or looking for a confrontation, said spokesman Dennis Godfrey.

The patrols have been occurring on public land, and militia members have no real restrictions on their weaponry because of Arizona's loose gun laws.

The militia is an outgrowth of border watch groups that have been part of the immigration debate in Arizona. Patrols in the Arizona desert by Minutemen organizations brought national attention to illegal immigration in 2004 and 2005.

Such groups continue to operate in Arizona, and law enforcement officials generally don't take issue with them as long as they don't take matters into their own hands.

"Sitting out there with a bunch of volunteers looking for people is generally a tremendous waste of people and time," Spencer said. "And it's also dangerous."

Ready said he's planning patrols throughout the summer.

"If they don't want my people out there, then there's an easy way to send us home: Secure the border," he said. "We'll put our guns back on the shelf, and that'll be the end of that."

Technology, rather than manpower, is the focus of Glenn Spencer's American Border Patrol. The group is based at his ranch near the border. The five-man operation flies three small airplanes to ensure that the Border Patrol is present and visible along the international line.

Spencer also uses Internet-controlled cameras and works with a group called Border Invasion Pics, which posts photos of people they suspect are crossing illegally.

How to get police to respond faster.

Griper — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:17:55 +0000

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE

WHEN YOU'RE OLD

AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.

George Phillips , an elderly man, from Meridian, Mississippi, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light onin the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. Georgeopened the back door to go turn off the light, but saw that there were peoplein the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?"
He said "No," but some people are breaking into my garden shed and stealing from me.

Thenthe police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. You should lock yourdoors and an officer will be along when one is available.."

George said, "Okay."

He hung up the phone and counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again..

"Hello,I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealingthings from my shed.. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shotand killed them both, the dogs are eatin' on them right now." and he hung up.

Within five minutes, sixPolice Cars, a SWAT Team,a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed upat the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of thePolicemen said to George , "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"
George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

(True Story) I LOVE IT!

Don't mess with old people.

Are You Facing Long Term Unemployment?

Griper — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:18:10 +0000

For anyone that is facing long term unemployment, the Committee of Ways & Means is having a Hearing this morning at 9:30am, & you can go to link below to hear it live also. There are millions of people unemployed, and many have either extinguished their Unemployment Benefits, are waiting with baited breath on another extension, or were never qualified to receive them to begin with.

What many people are not aware of, is there are thousands & thousands of people that are being turned down for employment due to an ever growing popular discriminatory act that creates a death spiral of catch 22. Companies are pulling your personal & private information, which is your credit report, & using it against you; No Job=Bad Credit & Bad Credit=No Job.

This Hearing is to address why they think so many people are facing long term unemployment. We've all heard about a Jobs Bill, but no Jobs Bill is going to put people back to work as long as this dispicable & heinous act of using your credit report against you is allowed to continue.

If this is affecting you, you can submit a written statement to be entered into the hearing record. Deadline for the submission is June 24, 2010 by close of business. Please be sure to follow all of their directions so that your submission will be entered.

Only "HR 3149 Equal Employment For All Act" will stop this on a national level, but it's been sitting stalled on the House floor since it was drafted by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) & Rep. Luis Guttierz (D-lll) back in July 2009. The only reasons it's being stalled is from the propaganda the big 3 credit bureaus & others like them are dishing out so they can become richer, saying it depicts your integrity, character, & moral ethics, as well as all the dirty backroom deal making going on with the credit bureaus, lobbyists, & PAC $$ being used to "bribe" the politicians to kill this bill.

I beseech you to submit your testimony & send it in. Thank you all so much & here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/l/bbd63;waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10951

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