CARBON TAX, FEDERAL & MINNESOTA : UTILITY BILLS UP $50/$100 /MO.

FEDERAL AND MINNESOTA CARBON TAX - YOUR UTILITY BILL ON AN AVERAGE HOME WILL GO UP ANOTHER 50-100 DOLLARS PER MONTH The last time I heard the statistic, I believe that 48% of the average Minnesotan's income was going toward taxes and government "user fees" aka "taxes"....

Detained activist Hua Huiqi escapes from sleeping Chinese guards

Hua Huiqi, a prominent Chinese Christian activist and 'underground pastor,' escaped from Chinese police after being detained on his way to the Kuanjie Protestant Church in Beijing. Huiqi is now in hiding. "Human Rights in China says underground pastor and religious dissident...

Worldwide tributes for late Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

UPDATE, August 5th, 2008: Russians are paying their final respects to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday. A day-long vigil for the dissident Soviet writer is taking place at the Russian Academy of...

Cuba dissidents back Obama pledge

Barack Obama's announcement yesterday about his plan to change the policy with Cuba if he is elected president was backed by a group of Cuban dissidents. They want him to conduct direct talks with Cuban...

The Mullahs' Achilles heel: Iran's youth

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPretty much technology, mainly the internet has become for the most part Islams bane of existance as interent savy youth with internet access to the world at their...

BBC journalists arrested in Irish probe into dissident republicans

Information is slowly coming out about the BBC journalists arrested in Northern Ireland. This is an interesting story for any journalist, I've flagged it as news wanted and am seeking images of the journalists."Four BBC journalists were arrested at the weekend by Irish police...

Who does Fidel really fear? Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet

When you break it down Fidel Castros real fear is those he must take off the streets. He really fears his own people."The jailed Dr. Oscar Biscet is becoming the public face of the island’s dissident movement,...

US director Mann to direct Litvinenko film

"US actor Johnny Depp is reportedly producing a separate account of his life and death. The confirmation came on the day Marina Litvinenko's book "Death Of A Dissident: The Poisoning Of Alexander Litvinenko And...

Big Squeeze on Citizen Journalists

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A "window of information" is closing in Myanmar as the military junta battles networks of disaffected citizens by restricting mobile phones and Internet access, a leading dissident journalist said on Thursday.

Violent crackdown launched in Myanmar

This is getting ugly.  Brutally suppressing Buddhist monks is not going to win the regime in Myanmar any friends."YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and...

'State of War' in Eastern Congo as Army splits

There's a deep history here of tribal- and community-based animosity, which I have yet to study in great detail. Basically, a general in the Congolese army has gathered those loyal to him and declared war on...

ROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION

The White world has learned nothing from the Nazis, have they?  An already despised and marginalised people, the Roma are now the subjects of yet another genocide programme aimed at "cleaning up"...

Who is BBC's John Sweeney?

"The "Pilger-Baathist Line" One of the more spectacular examples of this kind of propaganda was provided in a recent article by John Sweeney in the Spectator. In it, Sweeney uses both of the strategies outlined...

A Dissident Birthday

"It’s the birthday of Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia (1918). He grew up a committed communist, and never questioned the party line. He even brought a copy of Das Kapital along...

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