United States Postal Service warned today that it may default on some of its financial obligations later this year after reporting another quarter loss.
More here from CNN
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Leading Chinese Christian Dissidents blasted the Obama Administration last week saying, that it has done virtually nothing to advance the cause of religious freedom.
“For the past two years in public its been almost dead silence,” said Bob Fu, Founder and President of the China Aid Association an international Christian Human Rights Group.
Fu said that private pleas to State Dept officials to publicly mention names of jailed and disappeared Christian leaders have fallen on deaf ears.
Rest here from The Washington Times
Related: Li Xiaorong: What I told Obama about Beijing Human Rights Problem
H/T: China View
President Hu, are you bored or is there someplace else you need to be?
While calling human rights in China a very serious issue President Obama chose his words carefully today at a Joint Press Conference between Hu Jintao and Obama this afternoon at the White House.
Human Rights Just An Issue?
China’s draconian One Child Policy under which women who have more than one child are routinely forced to abort any subsequent pregnancies (even in their 9th month) sterilizations and fines of up to one or two years annual wages are routine.
Geng He, spouse of missing Chinese Human Rights Atty Gao Zhisheng says that she hasn’t heard from her husband since he was kidnapped by Chinese Authorities and fears for his life.
Geng now living in the San Francisco Bay Area after having been granted political asylum, traveled to Washington this week, to lend her voice to the growing chorus of people that most certainly realize that human rights is much more than “just an issue” as President Obama described it.
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Mentally Disabled Forced Into Slave Labor at Chinese Communist Party Backed Rescue Center
19 Lawyers Write Anti-Torture Open Letter Response to Hooding of Fan Yafeng & Gao Zhisheng
Ten Things to Know About China as Hu Jintao Arrives in the United States –China View
Just three days after the United States revoked the Visa of Venezuela’s Ambassador in Washington, one wouldn’t know there was any diplomatic rift between the two nations.
Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez chat like Old Friends at the Inauguration of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today.
More here from Breibart
Supporters on Christmas Eve in Hong Kong, carrying posts cards addressed to Chinese Imprisoned Political Dissident Liu Xiao-Bo
Supporters of Liu Xiao-Bo hold boxes containing post cards for the imprisoned Chinese dissident
On the 10 October I posted a video here subsequent to Liu Xiao-Bo winning of a Nobel Peace Prize
Last Christmas, Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of the state” after he helped launch Charter 8 a 2008 manifesto calling for Democratic reforms in China and an end to one party rule.
Related: Nobel Peace Prize: China’s 10 Most Prominent Dissidents –The Telegraph UK
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
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Falun Gong members demonstrating in front of The White House 09 October
The recently appointed UN Special Reporter on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt has spoke out against the mistreatment and persecution of the Falun Gong in China
A series of internal Chinese Community Party documents, some of them posted online reveal the details of a new three year, multi-billion dollar campaign targeting Falun Gong Practitioners across China
The campaigns stated goal is to “transform” 75% of all known practitioners which numbers in the tens of millions despite 11 years of brutal suppression. Specifically, the campaign calls upon security forces to go into “villages and households…to educate and conquer” Falun Gong Practitioners.
“Transformation” is a euphemism forcing practitioners to renounce Falun Gong and pledge allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party—as part of the transformation process individuals are typically subjected to physical and psychological torture, such as Sun Min of Beijing—On the 22 April, 2009 Chinese authorities abducted Ms. Sun from her home after her husband had been detained for distributing DVD’s related to Falun Gong. Within hours of Ms. Sun being arrested, she was found dead.
More here from Falun Dafa Information Center
Related: U.N. Special Reporter on Religion Criticizes Chinese Regime —New Tang Dynasty
Pakistan, Mensch or Schmuck—Friend or Foe?
Today the Obama Administration reiterated-support for Pakistan but are they a Mensch or Schmuck? Friend or Foe?
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani said on Sunday, the the United States and Pakistan are working closely to thwart terrorist attacks anywhere in the world but made it clear that his country would not allow foreign troops on its soil and ‘would follow its own time line for anti-terror actions’ on its side of the Afghan border.
More here Pakistan’s Links to Western Terror Plots –Family Security Matters
Related: Alleged Stoning of Women in Pakistan Condemned by United States—MS. Magazine
Dear Zhiwen:
Birthday celebrations often include gifts of food, cake and other material items. Yet in their most fundamental principle they are celebrations of the person himself. We celebrate the years a person has been on this planet and the contributions they have made to us as individuals and society.
Though the current period of time is difficult and the untold suffering Zhiwen has endured is hard to imagine, we believe when the human rights persecution of the Falun Gong ends in China, the religious dissidents will be recognized in a new light.
More here from Free Zhiwen Wang
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