Hillary Clinton is one sorry sight on her way to defeat- Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News

It's a virtual toss-up in depravity and insanity for either socialist...really, choosing the worst of the two is an impossible task.

The taller of the clowns did so many drugs when he was younger that he couldn't possible deny it WHILE he was being taught to be a bigoted piece of trash just like his father figure. The other has such a long and pathetic record that it's still difficult to appreciate there could be support from anyone with half a brain...scratch that, anyone with two brain cells;

The Clinton Legacy http://clinton-legacy.org/

Barack Hussein Obama http://bhobama.blogspot.com/

Moonwolf, I think you are right. Its just that I would rather have my own illusions with Democrats than Republicans.....if that counts for anything. I really think that's why I am in China, because America was trashed on 911, by the very people who own America......or at least think they own America. I won't vote anymore in the USA or think Democracy has any validity in the World. The only valid thing I see is the cause to support Nonviolence.

With Bush getting away with his crimes, and Hillary who supported them with her vote for the war, and Obama there to look the other way and let it happen...I see America on its last throes.

Whatever takes shape and whatever we get into. good luck and may Nonviolence and the Lord light your way.

You are in CHINA because you favour non-violence?  May I assume you chose China because it is such a violent country and you want to make a difference?   Because according to Amnesty International (no pawn of the US Government) China's government is pretty bad-ass when it comes to how they treat their own citizens.  I know you are fond of long posts so here is some reading for you....

The latest report from AI.....

CHINA
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Head of state: Hu Jintao
Head of government: Wen Jiabao
Death penalty: retentionist
International Criminal Court: not ratified

An increased number of lawyers and journalists were harassed, detained, and jailed. Thousands of people who pursued their faith outside officially sanctioned churches were subjected to harassment and many to detention and imprisonment. Thousands of people were sentenced to death or executed. Migrants from rural areas were deprived of basic rights. Severe repression of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region continued, and freedom of expression and religion continued to be severely restricted in Tibet and among Tibetans elsewhere.

International community
Before China's election to the new UN Human Rights Council, it made a number of human rights-related pledges, including ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and active co-operation with the UN on human rights. Chinese companies continued to export arms to countries where they were likely to be used for serious human rights abuses, including Sudan and Myanmar.

Human rights defenders
The government crackdown on lawyers and housing rights activists intensified. Many human rights defenders were subjected to lengthy periods of arbitrary detention without charge, as well as harassment by the police or by local gangs apparently condoned by the police. Many lived under near constant surveillance or house arrest and members of their families were increasingly targeted. New regulations restricted the ability of lawyers to represent groups of victims and to participate in collective petitions.

• Gao Zhisheng, an outspoken human rights lawyer, had his law practice suspended in November 2005. He was detained in August 2006 and remained in incommunicado detention at an unknown location until his trial in December 2006. In October he was formally arrested on charges of "inciting subversion", and in December he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, suspended for five years.

Journalists and Internet users
The government's crackdown on journalists, writers, and Internet users intensified. Numerous popular newspapers and journals were shut down. Hundreds of international websites remained blocked and thousands of Chinese websites were shut down. Dozens of journalists were detained for reporting on sensitive issues.

The government strengthened systems for blocking, filtering, and monitoring the flow of information. New regulations came into effect requiring foreign news agencies to gain approval from China's official news agency in order to publish any news. Many foreign journalists were detained for short periods.

Discrimination against rural migrants
Rural migrant workers in China's cities faced wide-ranging discrimination. Despite official commitment to resolve the problem, millions of migrant workers were still owed back pay. The vast majority were excluded from urban health insurance schemes and could not afford private health care. Access to public education remained tenuous for millions of migrant children, in contrast to other urban residents. An estimated

20 million migrant children were unable to live with their parents in the cities in part because of insecure schooling.

• Beijing municipal authorities closed dozens of migrant schools in September, affecting thousands of migrant children. While authorities claimed to have targeted unregistered and sub-standard schools, onerous demands made it nearly impossible for migrant schools to be registered. Some school staff believed the closures were aimed at reducing the migrant population in Beijing ahead of the 2008 Olympics.

Violence and discrimination against women
Violence and discrimination against women remained severe. The disadvantaged economic and social status of women and girls was evident in employment, health care and education. Women were laid off in larger numbers than men from failing state enterprises. Women accounted for 60 per cent of rural labourers and had fewer non-agricultural opportunities than men. The absence of gender-sensitive anti-HIV/AIDS policies contributed to a significant rise in female HIV/AIDS cases in 2006. Only 43 per cent of girls in rural areas completed education above lower middle school, compared with 61 per cent of boys.

Despite strengthened laws and government efforts to combat human trafficking, it remained pervasive, with an estimated 90 per cent of cases being women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation.

• Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-trained lawyer, was sentenced in August to a prison term of four years and three months on charges of "damaging public property and gathering people to stop traffic". He had been arbitrarily confined to his home since September 2005 in connection with his advocacy on behalf of women undergoing forced abortions in Shandong Province. On appeal, the guilty verdict was overturned and the case sent back to the lower court for retrial, but the lower court upheld the original sentence.

Repression of spiritual and religious groups
The government continued to crack down on religious observance outside officially sanctioned channels. Thousands of members of underground protestant "house churches" and unofficial Catholic churches were detained, many of whom were ill-treated or tortured in detention. Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement were detained and assigned to administrative detention for their beliefs, and continued to be at high risk of torture or ill-treatment.

• Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner, was assigned to two and a half years' Re-education through Labour in June for "activities relating to a banned organization" after police discovered Falun Gong literature at his home. He had been working for a US aid organization when he was detained.

• Pastor Zhang Rongliang, an underground church leader who had been repeatedly detained and imprisoned since 1976, was sentenced in June to seven and a half years' imprisonment on charges of illegally crossing the border and fraudulently obtaining a passport.

Death penalty
The death penalty continued to be used extensively to punish around 68 crimes, including economic and non-violent crimes. Based on public reports, AI estimated that at least 1,010 people were executed and 2,790 sentenced to death during 2006, although the true figures were believed to be much higher.

The National People's Congress passed a law reinstating a final review of all death penalty cases by the Supreme People's Court from 2007. Commentators believed this would lead to a reduction in miscarriages of justice and use of the death penalty.

Executions by lethal injection rose, facilitating the extraction of organs from executed prisoners, a lucrative business. In November a deputy minister announced that the majority of transplanted organs came from executed prisoners. In July new regulations banned the buying and selling of organs and required written consent from donors for organ removal.

• Xu Shuangfu, the leader of an unofficial Protestant group called "Three Grades of Servants", was executed along with 11 others in November after being convicted of murdering 20 members of another group, "Eastern Lightning", in 2003-4. Xu Shuangfu reportedly claimed that he had confessed under torture during police interrogation and that the torture had included beatings with heavy chains and sticks, electric shocks to the toes, fingers and genitals and forced injection of hot pepper, gasoline and ginger into the nose. Both the first instance and appeal courts reportedly refused to allow his lawyers to introduce these allegations as evidence in his defence.

Torture, arbitrary detention and unfair trials
Torture and ill-treatment remained widespread. Common methods included kicking, beating, electric shocks, suspension by the arms, shackling in painful positions, cigarette burns, and sleep and food deprivation. In November a senior official admitted that at least 30 wrongful convictions handed down each year resulted from the use of torture, with the true number likely being higher. There was no progress in efforts to reform the Re-education through Labour system of administrative detention without charge or trial. Hundreds of thousands of people were believed to be held in Re-education through Labour facilities across China and were at risk of torture and ill-treatment. In May 2006, the Beijing city authorities announced their intention to extend their use of Re-education through Labour as a way to control "offending behaviour" and to clean up the city's image ahead of the Olympics.

• Ye Guozhu was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in 2004 for his opposition to forced evictions in Beijing associated with construction for the Olympic games. It emerged during 2006 that Ye had been tortured while in detention. He was reportedly suspended from the ceiling by the arms and beaten repeatedly by police in Dongcheng district detention centre, Beijing, and also reportedly tortured in another prison in the second half of 2005.

Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Government authorities in Xinjiang continued to severely repress the Uighur community and to deny their human rights, including freedom of religion and access to education. An increased number of Uighurs were extradited to China from Central Asia, reflecting growing pressure by China on governments in the region. Seventeen Uighurs remained in detention in Guantánamo Bay.

• The family of exiled former prisoner of conscience Rebiya Kadeer continued to be targeted by the Chinese authorities. On 26 November her son Ablikim Abdiriyim, detained in Xinjiang awaiting trial on charges of "subversion" and tax evasion, was seen being carried out of Tianshan District Detention

Centre, apparently in need of medical attention. On 27 November her sons Alim and Kahar Abdiriyim were fined heavily and Alim sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on charges of tax evasion.

• Husein Celil, a Canadian citizen who fled China in the 1990s as a refugee, was arrested in Uzbekistan and extradited to China in June. He was reportedly accused of "terrorism" and denied access to family or consular representatives.

Tibetans
Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region and other areas experienced severe restrictions on their rights to freedom of religious belief, expression and association, and discrimination in employment. Many were detained or imprisoned for observing their religion or expressing opinions, including Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns. Excessive use of force against Tibetans seeking to flee repression in Tibet continued. In September witnesses saw Chinese border patrol guards shooting at a group of Tibetans attempting to reach Nepal. At least one child was confirmed killed.

• Woeser, a leading Tibetan intellectual, had her weblog shut down several times after she raised questions about China's role in Tibet.

• Sonam Gyalpo, a former monk, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in mid-2006 for "endangering state security" after the authorities found videos of the Dalai Lama and other "incriminating materials" in his house. His family learned of his trial and sentencing when they tried to visit him in detention.

North Korean refugees
Approximately 100,000 North Koreans were reportedly hiding in China. The authorities arrested and deported an estimated 150-300 each week without ever referring cases to UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. They also reportedly implemented a system of rewards for turning in North Koreans and heavy fines for supporting them. In September a new crackdown was reported on North Koreans residing illegally in China.

Abuse of North Korean women in China was widely reported, including cases of systematic rape and prostitution. North Korean women were reportedly sold as brides to Chinese men for between US$880 and US$1,890. Some women knew they were being sold into marriage but did not know how harsh conditions in China would be. Others were lured across the border by marriage brokers posing as merchants.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
All 14 South Koreans charged with "unlawful assembly" after protesting outside World Trade Organization meetings in December 2005 were acquitted in early 2006, sparking renewed calls for an independent inquiry into the actions of the police during the protests.

The UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviewed the human rights situation in Hong Kong in March and August respectively. Both made several recommendations for reform.

In September, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that laws providing a higher age of consent for sexual relations for gay men than for heterosexuals were discriminatory. The authorities announced that they would not appeal the case further.

Asylum-seekers continued to be refused entry without adequate consideration of their claims. Others were detained for over-staying their visas or other immigration offences. Despite lobbying from human rights and social welfare groups, the authorities confirmed that there were no plans to extend the UN Refugee Convention to Hong Kong. The authorities began to offer limited welfare assistance to asylum-seekers after UNHCR ceased its funding in May, but this was reportedly insufficient to meet basic needs.

AI country reports/visits
Reports
• People's Republic of China: Abolishing "Re-education through Labour" and other forms of administrative detention - An opportunity to bring the law into line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (AI Index: ASA 17/016/2006)

• People's Republic of China: Sustaining conflict and human rights abuses - The flow of arms accelerates (AI Index: ASA 17/030/2006)

• People's Republic of China: The Olympics count-down - failing to keep human rights promises (AI Index: ASA 17/046/2006)

• Undermining freedom of expression in China: the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google (AI Index: POL 30/026/2006)

Indeed I want to make a difference by the uses of Nonviolence. It's why I created The International Institute of Nonviolence. If I can avert a War between the US and China, so much the better. China is the last big Communist State, and instead of intimidation and talks of War, I am instilling Nonviolence as the answer to government issues, and government ideals to economic prosperity. Amnesty International I find walks and talks similar lines of the same rhetoric as the US.

China has less violence than the United States. The United States has 0ne Billion less people and they have the largest Prison Industry in the world. The United States has more capitol punishment executions yearly than China. I don't agree with some things of China, but on par they are less than US acts. I would consider acts of war outside of America the same to committing violence to its own people, since so many soldiers perish and tax money is money taken out of the pockets of US citizens against their will if they don't favor war. Not to mention a list of atrocites committed domestically, one comes to mind Kent State. Shall we compare lists? I don't think it is necessary...because it is quite long.

I would also call 911 an act of violence against US citizens by America who did the deed, and blamed it on foreigners to protract a never-ending war on terror for the Military Establishment. And I don't buy your Tibetian rhetoric. Clearly the Tibetan violence was created by Tibetians, not the Chinese in this round.

Whatever we deem as reasons to who's side we are on, I seek the side of nonviolence. America does not ring that bell of support. They just as well shoot, me and dump me in concrete off a pier in some bay, because I refuse to fight. This is America's trouble. They are not kind hearted, but brutal, murdering, hypocrites and liars. I know I lived there for 43 years. In other words America conditioned me to hate America....and so you blame me? I wasn't born into money, and when I see people in America also suffering from the same plight and lies, while illegal wars are waged, and people peddle BS and UH. (bull shit and ugly horrors)= BUSH ; who in their right mind can sit back and support that? Not I....

Jesus is a communist. He will never disappear, or leave. And I agree with you "Let's freekin hope so!"  Communism is being expanded into the world because Communism is not about government enforcement it is a belief in the people who labor and do the work are the people who are the original agents of God, not the capitalists who does nothing but sell and buy and has no labor induced incentive. Capitalists are the liars, the murderers, the scourge to earth and the Judas to Religion. Long live Communism and China.

Been there, but Canadian authorities refused to allow me to stay and live and work in Canada, even after I told them that Mormons discovered and settled in Canada's West making Canada really American territory. I'm a Mormon, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, and Christian Commie. Opium in China is a big no no no! You can be shot for selling or using Opium. Suppose you didn't know that? Suppose you didn't know about the Opium Wars in China, with America and Britain forcing China to accept this addictive drug to be freely sold in the marketplace, so they could get rich. Actually Britain and America used Opium as a currency. Britain got its Opium from India, and the US got its Opium from Turkey shipped by railway through Iraq and exported the Opium from Kuwait a key port city they stole from Iraq. When China resisted they killed thousands of Chinese and stole their land. To this day they have not brought restitution to those crimes and apologize for their crimes. Opium is really the cause to WWI and WWII...I have a book coming to be published entitled: Inside History: America Defenders of a Criminal Past.

Hey djermano, business is business.  It's all about making a buck or a yuan.  Just ask the people in China that sell contaminated pet food or lead-painted toys.  As far as opium addiction and the opium wars goes the British and US were no more responsible for that than the Columbians are for cocaine addiction.  It is a demand problem not a supply problem (economics...I know communists don't understand supply and deemand so look it up.  I suggest Lipsey, Purvis, Stiener).

And check your Canadian history the Brits were here long before the LDS wackjobs.  As for our government not letting you stay...that means you must be one messed-up dude if the Canadian government made you leave.  We let all sorts of undesirables stay here.  Killers, drug dealers even capitalists are allowed to stay (although we are taxed to near death).  What sick crime did you do to be on the deport list?  War crimes or child porn, cuz those are the only crimes that get you thrown out of this country.