China reiterates sovereignty over Diaoyu islands

Beijing, May 9 (IANS) China has reiterated its claim over disputed Diaoyu islands, stating that they are its “inherent territory”. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday that the Diaoyu island and its affiliated islets were part of China’s inherent territory and had never been part of Liuqiu or Okinawa, reported Xinhua. The ministry reacted after the People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Wednesday published an article –”On the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the Diaoyu Islands Issue” — which discusses Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa island. Continue reading

No freedom of speech in Cuba despite easier foreign travel: activist

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The Castro government’s easing of foreign travel restrictions on Cubans has not led to greater freedoms on the island, a leading dissident said on Wednesday. Continue reading

Censorship in the age of freedom

Freedom of speech is a corner stone of Western democracy but my next guest believes liberal democracies have become almost as terrified of free speech as Communist States. In his new book ‘You can’t read this book: Censorship in the age of freedom.’ Nick Cohen passionately argues that censorship is alive and well. Continue reading

China to survey islands amid tension with Japan

BEIJING: Beijing is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea, state media said yesterday, the latest salvo in an increasingly tense dispute with Tokyo over the uninhabited territory. The announcement came as Japanese fighter jets were scrambled in response to a Chinese state-owned Y-12 plane flying close to but not inside the islands’ airspace, according to Tokyo’s Defense Ministry Continue reading

China to survey islands disputed with Japan — Xinhua

BEIJING – China is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea at the center of a bitter dispute with Japan, state media said Tuesday. The survey of the Diaoyu islands — known as Senkakus in Japan, which controls them — was part of a program to map China’s “territorial islands and reefs,” the Xinhua news agency said, citing a state geographical agency Continue reading

Central Banking: Marxism, Not Freedom – Video




Central Banking: Marxism, Not Freedom Every two months the chiefs of more than a dozen of the world's largest central banks meet in Basel, Switzerland, to manage their national economies. This is in accordance with the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848 as an action plan for communizing nations on the road to creating a communist one world government.From:TheJohnBirchSocietyViews:4 0ratingsTime:09:36More inNews Politics Continue reading

Wartime Falklands Islands Governor Sir Rex dies at 86

THE British Governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 Argentine invasion Sir Rex Hunt has died at the age of 86. He will be remembered for his courage and dignity after Argie troops invaded the South Atlantic territory, the Islands government said Continue reading

China’s Hu Jintao Resigns As President 8/11/2012 – Video




China's Hu Jintao Resigns As President 8/11/2012 As Hu Jintao steps onto the stage of the Great Hall of the People his party will seek to portray him as having presided over a “golden decade” for China. When the Communist Party made him the leader 10 years ago, China's economy was only a little bit bigger than Italy's. It is now the world's second largest economy and may take over as economic superpower of the world during the political life of China's next president Continue reading

China takes islands dispute with Japan to pages of U.S. newspapers

(Reuters) – With world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, China has taken its dispute with Japan over the ownership of a chain of islands to the ad pages of major American newspapers. China Daily, an organ of the Communist Party and the country's official English-language daily newspaper, took out full-page-spread advertisements on Friday in the New York Times … Continue reading

China achieves first manual space docking

With the presence of China’s first female astronaut Liu Yang on the Shenzhou-9 mission already a huge source of national pride, China’s increasingly ambitious space programme took another leap forward on Sunday when the three-member crew of Shenzhou-9 performed China’s first-ever manual space docking. Mastering the technique of joining spacecraft together manually is seen as a vital step towards China’s goal of having an operating space station by 2020 Continue reading