Politics

Communist send Bible owners to Labor Camp

Communist China sends Bible owners to Labor Camp
Owners of Bibles are the target of a crackdown on "illegal religious organizations" by police in southern China's Guangxi province. Up to 40 policemen descended on the homes of Christians in villages in Xilin county in the middle of the night, ransacking them in search of Bibles and other religious materials, according to written testimony supplied to Agence France-Presse.

China Charges Christian Church Leader
With Leaking State Secrets, Report Says
Police have charged an activist for China's unofficial Christian church with revealing state secrets more than a month after he was detained while investigating church demolitions, a U.S.-based church activist said Wednesday. Authorities in the eastern city of Hangzhou issued a formal arrest notice for Liu Fenggang on Tuesday, said Bob Fu, citing unidentified police sources. That step clears the way for Liu's likely indictment and trial. Authorities have not said what sort of secrets Liu was accused of revealing, according to Fu, who heads the China Aid Association, which is based in Pennsylvania. China's officially atheistic Communist authorities allow worship only in tightly controlled state churches and those who meet outside are routinely harassed and fined, and sometimes sent to labor camps.

Bush's China Curbs Seen as Poll Strategy
US officials believe a minor trade spat with China will help score points with voters, says Leon Hadar in Washington. The announcement by the Bush administration that it was considering a plan to limit Chinese textile imports indicates that the White House is now placing a higher priority on getting George Bush re-elected as president in 2004 than on advancing Sino-American relationship and maintaining the stability of the global trading system. In fact, against the backdrop of continuing unemployment in the manufacturing sector, which many in the US are blaming on alleged 'unfair' trade practices by China, President Bush and his aides have apparently decided that bashing China, even if it would ignite new Sino-American trade battles, could prove to be a relatively cost-free strategy to win support in important states that have politically powerful textile industry and labour unions.

Bush Brother Details Sex Romps in Divorce Case
HOUSTON -- Neil Bush, younger brother of President Bush, detailed lucrative business deals and admitted to engaging in sex romps with women in Asia in a deposition taken in March as part of his divorce from now ex-wife Sharon Bush. According to legal documents disclosed on Tuesday, Sharon Bush's lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over five years. Marshall Davis Brown, lawyer for Sharon Bush, expressed bewilderment at why Grace would want Bush and at such a high price since he knew little about the semiconductor business.

Commercial Pressures Help Industries
Turn Off Our Moral Tap
History has shown that the world has not always been well served by scientific research that has been driven by commercial pressures... The apparent strategy of facilitating scientific debate in order to induce apathy so that persons will not negatively affect the commercial enterprise is common and very effective. Perhaps the most senseless commercial battle where this strategy is used is within the abortion industry. The abortion industry is build upon the assertion by scientists that the aborted material is merely tissue while it is clearly a baby. The last 20 years have seen a merciless slaughter of unimaginable proportions that makes slavery seem comparably tolerable. Yet we sit comfortably in the mist of the horrific torture and death, much as the Europeans did during slavery. The Europeans justified their apathy with the scientists’ conclusions – they are only savages. Our response is similar – it is only tissue.

Adultery, Porn Charges Added
Against Army Muslim Chaplain
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Muslim chaplain accused of taking classified material from the U.S. prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba was charged Tuesday by the military with adultery and storing pornography on a government computer. The military released Army Capt. James Yee from custody and will allow him to return to duty at a base in Georgia, said Raul Duany, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command.

Germany, France to Run Up Big Deficits Too
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Germany and France pushed through a deal with their euro-zone partners yesterday allowing the European Union's economic powerhouses to sidestep fiscal rules so that they can try to spend their way out of an economic slump. For Germany and France, the EU's decision to let them run up big deficits offers a possible way out of economic stagnation. For Europe's central bank, it's a threat to the stability of the continent's infant common currency.

San Diego police to train in Israel
Four San Diego County Sheriff's Department deputies will travel to Israel on Sunday for a weeklong training seminar with that country's national police and will focus on suicide bombings, large-scale terrorist attacks and weapons of mass destruction. This will be the first time a law enforcement agency in the county has sent officers to train with Israel Police, an agency with an international reputation of having a top-notch anti-terrorism program, sheriff's Lt. Dan Papp said Tuesday.

Posted by Editor at November 26, 2003 11:17 AM