Two Evangelists in Vietnam Sentenced to Prison
CDN:
Two Christian evangelists, Ksor Y Du, 47, and Kpa Y Co, 30, were sentenced this month to six and four years in prison respectively for “undermining national unity.”
Ksor and Kpa, of the Vietnam Good News Mission (VGNM) church, received the harsh sentences on Nov. 15. House arrest of four and two years respectively also was added to the sentences, according to church sources and Vietnam’s Phap Luat (Law) newspaper. Both evangelists, who are of the Ede minority, live in Song Hinh district of Phu Yen Province, where there are some 20 VGNM congregations.
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Canadian Women Support Roxanne’s Law
EFC:
For more information about Bill C-510 aka Roxanne’s Law, please visit our website.
On a cold Manitoba night in February 2007, a pregnant Roxanne Fernando was lured outside and brutally beaten at the hands of her boyfriend and the father of her unborn child. Roxanne had refused her boyfriend’s demand that she terminate her pregnancy. Alone and viciously assaulted, mother and unborn baby died in a snowy ditch.
In April 2010, Member of Parliament Rod Bruinooge introduced Bill C-510, also known as Roxanne’s Law. This bill is designed to protect the right of women to safely carry their child or children to term, should they choose to do so. This bill would make it a criminal offence to coerce or attempt to coerce a woman into having an abortion.
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Inspector General Report Details ACORN Fraud
by Publius:
Big Government has obtained an advance copy of Homeland Security’s Inspector General report detailing ACORN’s misuse of a federal grant from FEMA. The report will be released to the public on December 8th. We’ve included it below.
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Pakistan court: Christian convicted of blasphemy must wait for pardon
CNN:
A court in Pakistan on Monday blocked the government from pardoning a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy until her case has been heard by an appeals court, a senior government law officer said.
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What Part of “Hell, No!” Did the Republicans Not Understand?
RushLimbaugh.com:
RUSH: I am literally gonna get sick here. Ha-ha. Literally gonna puke. Who is the author of all of this lack of bipartisanship? Whose mentality is it to defeat your opponents? That’s mine! That’s what I have been suggesting. I’m the hyperpartisan here, I guess. My strategery has been, wipe ‘em out! And that’s what the election meant, wipe ‘em out. They were wiped out. I didn’t see civility on the ballot. Awe, jeez. Okay. That’s it. Look, see where this is headed? (interruption) Well, no, I’ll hold out hope this is just a bunch of BS Republican assumption that the real stuff’s gonna go on. We gotta deal with what is. What does my gut say? Well, my gut could only react to what I heard here and words are just words. What part of “hell, no” did the Republicans not understand? It’s just two words, h-e-l-l, space, n-o. What is hard to understand about that?
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France’s Warning To America
by Rachel Marsden:
It is hard not to notice that French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s efforts to reform France mostly consist of attempting to undo long-held traditions often underpinned by socialism if — not communism. How did Marxistideology ever manage to get France so tightly in its grip in the first place?
The Soviet Union was an ally in defeating the Nazis in WWII, with France being “Ground Zero” in that battle. The fear of cooperation with communists did not exist in France in the same way that it did in America. Ideological boundaries have often therefore been blurred: In the wake of the May 1968 French student riots, dominated by extreme far-left social segregationists, the Communist Party ultimately sided with Charles De Gaulle against the extremist student protestors, despite having opposed his prime ministership 10 years earlier. Later, Socialist President Francois Mitterrand’s Programme Commun reform package resulted from cooperation with the Communists.
In 1976, a TIME Magazine article quoted France’s Justice Minister under center-right president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Jean Lecanuet: “The Communists are in the middle of an identity crisis and are taking up the mask of a certain reformism. If they ever came to power, the mask would fall.”
Some might argue that they have managed to come to power anyway.
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Here it comes, Durban 3
by Fiamma Nirenstein:
The UN never ceases to amaze. Just when we thought we had become immune to all the poisonous concoctions that get dished out, once again, ten years down the road, we are being offered a remake of “Durban 1″, the UN conference against racism which — to most people’s horror — was transformed into a racist conference against Israel and the America. At that time, after the speeches by Mugabe, Fidel Castro and Arafat, who condemned in chorus the “colonialist West” and “racist Jews,” the Canadians, Americans and Israelis walked out. Later, in 2009, when the UN organized “Durban 2″ in Geneva, the Italian government, which had learned its lesson, refused to send a delegation. And, in fact, the entire parliament, from left to right, voted to support a resolution rejecting any anti-Semitic and anti-West sideshow. The protagonist that time was Ahmadinejad, who used the opportunity to repeat his denial of the Holocaust, and promised to exterminate all Jews. Backing him was a plethora of NGOs who, undaunted, assisted the UN in its “anti-imperialist” campaign, as they had done with the violence in Durban in 2001.
So here we are again
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A lethal leak — or a boomerang?
MELANIE PHILLIPS:
Remember all those stories which were so prominent in the media coverage of wars between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah/ Hamas, that Israel committed war crimes by targeting for missile strikes ambulances carrying the wounded? Remember Israel’s answer, that the Red Crescent ambulances were transporting arms and missiles under the camouflage of being ambulances? Remember the reaction of the western media, to assume that Hezbollah/Hamas were telling the truth while Israel was lying? Well, through Wikileaks we now learn that, er, Iran used the Red Crescent in war zones:
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War?
By Jack Curtis:
Franklin Roosevelt’s Democrats needed WWII to bolster their failed depression program; Barack Obama’s Democrats are in a comparable place. Most know that troubled, frightened rulers may turn to war to shore up their positions. Should we expect that?
WWII roared up from the never-quenched embers of WWI in the desperation of a world depression. It was the completion of something never properly finished. Hitler’s economic cure, militarization, couldn’t be sustained in isolation; the European Allies’ depressed economies were weak, tempting Hitler’s needs. The U.S. was both weak and isolationist. We know the result.
Today we’re looking again at world economic weakness and fear, with another newly strengthened and militarized country resentful of the generations of subservience imposed upon it by those same Allies.
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All the News The Times Wants You to Know
By Alan Caruba:
In a long career as a journalist, full time and freelance, I have sometimes said that I knew something was seriously wrong with The New York Times when I began to see my byline show up on stories that appeared briefly.
It’s been decades since I have held The Times in my hands though I have read an article or column on occasion via the Internet because I have long since concluded it cannot be trusted for anything it prints with the possible exception of obituaries.
During the early years when Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union, a Times reporter named Walter Duranty, based in Moscow from 1922 to 1936, would deliberately fail to report outrages such as the starving of the Ukrainians to force their capitulation to Moscow. Duranty would win a Pultizer Prize in 1932 which, to this day, the Times has not repudiated. Duranty, like The Times, harbored a lot of sympathy for Marxism.
My own opinion of The Times was shaped during the Vietnam War when it became apparent that the newspaper was rooting for the Vietcong.
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