Using the Baidu Photo Identification Tool this photo was found to show ant-Japanese demonstrations in Beijing in April, 2005
More here BBS Anti-CNN in Chinese
Related: Face of Middle East Unrest, Chinese Communist Party Closes Ranks –Epoch Times
China Tells Foreign Journalists to Respect Rules after Scuffles Non-Protest –CDT
Chinese Regime Slammed for Assaulting, Detaining Foreign Journalists –New Tang Dynasty
Police Accused of Misconduct–226 Incident’s Must be Investigated –David on Formosa
“We have two branches of government, Congress and the Courts expressing grave concerns with our agency becoming increasing unmoored from our statutory authority. By seeking to regulate the Internet now, we exceed the authority Congress has given to us and justify those concerns.” –FCC Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker
Should federal regulators in Washington set the rules for the Internet?
FCC to Vote on Internet Regs in Time for Christmas –Heritage Foundation
Related: Congress must Stop FCC Internet Regulation –Big Government
Tech at Night: Free Press, Net Neutrality, FCC, Google, Comcast, Amazon
Sen. Jay Rockefeller: FCC should take FOX News & MSNBC Off the Air
Pentagon Journalists with the popular Defense daily Stars and Stripes are prohibited from researching leaked cables Via WikiLeaks readily available on line, prompting charges of censorship.
Censorship—Global Internet Liberty Campaign
“The control of information and ideas circulated within a society has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the Press and that cannot be limited without being lost.” –Thomas Jefferson
Federal Communication Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined his plans today to regulate the Internet, which drew immediate criticism of Congressional Republican, which vowed to have him become a frequent guest on Capitol Hill beginning in January, to answer questions, as to what constitutional authority gives a federal agency the right to violate the First Amendment and stifle free speech?
More here from PC Mag.com
Related: 95 Democrat-Socialists who Supported Net-Neutrality Lost 02 November –TPM
Rep. Fred Upton, (R-MI) Battling Net-Neutrality, Keeping GOP Pledge –The Hill
The Obama Administration becomes more like their Communist Party allies in China—FCC Announces: May Regulate Internet Lines 3 Days Before Christmas when was the 1st Amendment Repealed?
Obama Administration Double Standard on Free Speech
Its unknown how the Obama Administration has exempted themselves from the UN Charter on Human Rights that upholds the Right to Freedom of Speech, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has used to argue against Censorship in China, Egypt & Iran.
Hillary Clinton: Unrestricted Web Access Top Foreign Policy Priority
Riiight
At one time the 1st Amendment and a U.S. Senator’s Oaths to Defend the Constitution of the United States actually meant something other than merely a recitation of words, unfortunately Democrat-Socialists that are in charge of the U.S. Senate, first allegiance is no longer to the Bill of Rights and our Founding Documents.
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill that would give the Attorney General new authority to shut down suspected websites that “may” have participated digital piracy and other “infringing activities” without due process–whether or not any criminal activity has even occurred.
More here from The Daily Caller
Related: Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV: FCC Should Ban FOX News & MSNBC—Asian Conservatives
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR Threatens to Block Online Censorship Bill—PC World Business Center
National Public Radio (NPR) termination of Juan Williams subsequent to his Monday evening appearance on The O’Reilly Factor FOX News is nothing short of disgraceful, shameless and reprehensible.
NPR claims, “A functioning democracy depends on a free press…an informed citizenry.”
Riiight—just as long NPR contributors say what is politically correct.
“National Public Radio is a public institution that directly or indirectly exists because the taxpayers fund it and what do we get for this,” writes Sarah Palin “we get to witness Juan Williams being fired from NPR for merely speaking frankly about the very real threat this country faces from radical Islam.”
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in Fiscal Year 2008 received $393 Million Dollars in public money, during Fiscal Year 2009 NPR seen an increase in their appropriations, receiving $400 Million Dollars on the public trough. In Fiscal Year 2010 which ended on 30 September, CPB received $420 Million courtesy of the taxpayers and during the new Fiscal Year which began on 01 October, Congress appropriated $430 Million Dollars for CPB
While I have my share of disagreements with Juan Williams politically, for NPR, a quasi federally funded news agency to censor the free speech rights of one of their contributors is sacrilegious and outrageous, to a nation founded on principles of unalienable rights, independence and liberty.
“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.” —Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood—No 8, July 1722
Related: NPR Axes Juan Williams for Opinions on Muslims & Post 9/11 Travel–Michelle Malkin
NPR leaps to do the bidding of Hamas linked CAIR fires Juan Williams—Jihad Watch
NPR finally finds an Excuse to Fire Juan Williams –Guy Benson, Townhall.com
In what was supposed to be an “Off the Record” policy briefing between President Obama and Senior members of his administration with African American Bloggers and Journalists on Monday, didn’t stop a Blogger from writing about the event and posting a group photo of the participants.
The Obama Administration provided the Bloggers and Journalists with the ground rules: The first half of their briefing was to be on background the second half of their meeting was to be off the record entirely.
So much for that here is one post of the meeting courtesy of White House.org on Blogger
More here by Media Decoder—The New York Times
Cronies in the Obama Administration, that used to lose sleep over the alleged civil rights violations of Islamic Jihad Terrorists held at Gitmo, now want to make it easier for Fed Super Snoopers to go peeping into suspected terrorists and alleged criminals private Internet, e-mail communications and social networking sites such as Facebook.
Who is a Criminal or Terrorist threat, Conservatives?
Just last year, the Obama Administration classified their political foes as the Bogeyman, dangerous right-wing extremists.
“The rhetoric in Washington about taxes is about millionaires and the super rich but the relevant dividing line between millionaires and the middle class is pegged at family incomes of $250,000…that makes me super rich and subject to a big tax hike if the President has his way” wrote University of Chicago Law Professor Todd Henderson before his post was taken down but lives on in cached form.
Law Professor Todd Henderson acknowledged that he along with his spouse a physician earn more than $250,000 making them eligible for President Obama’s proposed tax hike but he sees a problem. “A quick look at our family budget, which I will happily share with the White House, will show him that like many Americans we are just getting by despite seeming to be rich,” said Henderson, “we aren’t.”
Henderson’s blog post prompted a flurry of responses in the blogosphere, not all of them sympathetic…and a revelation of threatening emails he has since received. The firestorm later spurred Henderson to “hang up my blogging hat” he later revealed at Truth on the Market writing, “…I was a fool and I didn’t anticipate how this kind of thing could happen.”
Full post here from ABA Journal
Related Post: Earning $250,000 Does Not Make You Rich, Not In My Town—Above The Law
H/T: Xiao-Mei—Xiexie