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FRIDAY, MAY 02, 2008
News of the Day (May 2)
Underground submarine base on Hainan Island exposed: The London
Telegraph has the story (and pictures) on "a substantial harbour . . .
which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and
a host of aircraft carriers." The Hainan base could pose a major
threat to several southeast Asian nations, and is a sign on Communist
China's increasing ambitions to be the hegemon in Asia and beyond,
although I'm not sure if CIA Director Michael Hayden got the memo
(Economic Times, India).
Jewish leaders call for Olympic Boycott, cite Communist sup****t for
terrorism: Nearly 200 leading American Jews are "urging Jews worldwide
to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing" (UAA). Among the many
reasons for this were "China's sup****t for the genocidal government of
Sudan; its mistreatment of the people of Tibet; its denial of basic
rights to its own citizens; and its provision of missiles to Iran and
Syria, and friend****p for Hamas" (emphasis added).
Has the world had enough of "the ugly Chinese?" That's the question
John Pomfret asks in light of the Olympic torch violence in Seoul (h/t
Uyghur American Association).
More on the Long Arm of Lawlessness: In Canada, where the Communists
appealed to the values of free speech to get their networks on the
air, the regime is using its embassies to silence the anti-Communist
New Tang Dynasty Television (broadcast sister group to the Epoch
Times).
More Olympic news: The torch goes through Hong Kong (BBC and CNN).
Amnesty Int'l highlights the Communist abuses of human rights as the
Games approach (Guardian, UK, via Boycott 2008); Samuel Spencer (Epoch
Times) and Shao Jiang (Independent, UK, via UAA) also note the
dichotomy. The Society for Threatened Peoples (via UAA) takes Interpol
to task for falling for debunked Communist propaganda on the Games and
"terrorism." Finally, Greg Pollowitz (National Review Online - Media
Blog) marvels at the stupidity of the Los Angeles Times.
Congressional leaders ask Communist China to stop sending back
refugees from North Korea: The request will come in a letter to be
released today (New York Sun), and is especially pertinent given that
a new famine has begun (One Free Korea).
Tibet news: As the Dalai Lama's envoys head for Beijing (BBC), the
government-in-exile laments the cadres' treatment of Tibetans (Epoch
Times).
Organ harvesting confirmed: A former prison inmate gives the details
on the Communist organ harvesting methods to the Epoch Times, while
MountEverest.net provides the entire story on this grisly enterprise
(h/t Boycott 2008).
Intestinal virus covered up by the Communists for weeks: Call it SARS
redux; the Enterovirus 71 (EV71) intestinal virus "emerged in Fuyang
city in Anhui province in early March" (BBC), but the cadres kept a
lid on the news until this week, by which point the "highly
contagious" disease had killed 21 and sickened nearly 3,000.
Stalinist North Korea will pretend not to want nukes if we pretend
their not terrorists: In yet another example of American diplomacy
laid low, Kim Jong-il's regime "has agreed to blow up the cooling
tower attached to its Yongbyon nuclear facility within 24 hours of
being removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of
terrorism" (Wa****ngton Post). This is being touted as a major
concession in Wa****ngton, even though "its destruction would be mostly
symbolic." No wonder Frank Gaffney is so upset (NRO).
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