WorldNetDaily: CAIR founded by 'Islamic terrorists'?

Omar Ahmad, CAIR's chairman, announced in July 1998 that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran ... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."

WorldNetDaily: China arrests 100 young Christians

"The Christians had been meeting for a Bible study in Langfang City, Hebei province, when police abruptly arrived and arrested everyone present, according to the U.S.-based monitor Voice of the Martyrs, or VOM."

Gateway Pundit: Critics and Protesters Pressure Chavez

Protesters in Venezuela rally for Democracy!

Weak Brits, Tough French - article by Daniel Pipes

The French may not be so bad after all - at least when it comes to fighting terrorism. Read what Daniel Pipes has to say about it.

Olavo de Carvalho - Brazilian Censorship on Free Press – A Warning

--The following is an open letter from Olavo de Carvalho to his friends & supporters. Sadly, it seems that the last Conservative in the Brazilian media has finally being ousted. --

Dear Friends,

Bad news from Brazil. The Brazilian newspaper O Globo fired me last Monday. This is not just a personal bad luck, but a political fact. For years I had been denouncing by my weekly column the activities of the São Paulo Forum, while the remaining pages of the newspaper (and of all other Brazilian newspapers) kept complete silence on the subject or denied overtly the existence of the Forum or at least its political importance, so that many readers were induced to see me as a kind of lunatic conspiracy theorist. Denial became increasingly difficult during the last weeks, inasmuch as the 12th Assembly of the Forum was gathered in São Paulo from 1st to 4th July. While it was running in Bogota or Havana, it was easy to hide it from Brazilian eyes, but São Paulo is the largest Brazilian city. Moreover, one of the main topics of the discussions was the urgent need for the Latin-American left to give public support to Lula and the Workers Party (PT) against the rising tide of criminal charges, including not only the endemic corruption inside government but even murder accusations (Celso Daniel, the socialist-PT mayor of the industrial town of Santo André, was murdered some years ago and his brother told Daniel was killed by people from his own party whose involvement in corruption he was investigating; later, SIX witnesses of the trial were also murdered by unknown shooters).

Well, last week Mr. Merval Pereira, a member of O Globo’s Board of Directors, wrote himself an article where for the first time after fifteen years of silence O Globo admitted frankly the existence and the political relevance of the São Paulo Forum. Four days later I was fired.

According to representative Roberto Jefferson (the main witness in present investigations about PT corruption), Mr. José Dirceu, the former number one man in Lula government and now a very important leader in the House of Representatives, boasted often of having complete hold over O Globo’s Board of Directors, owing to the huge debt the company had to state banks.

Hundreds of letters protesting against my dismissal are being sent to O Globo (I have copies of many of them), but none of them was or will be published and this is evidence enough of the deliberated occultation of the facts.

With my dismissal, Brazilian big media becomes at last the conservative-free ambience it aimed to be.

Best wishes,

Olavo de Carvalho
Richmond, VA, July 6th, 2005

WorldNetDaily: 5 years in jail for teaching Sunday School?

"Three Christian housewives in Indonesia have been charged with endangering children and face a possible five years in prison after teaching a kids Sunday School class, a human-rights group reports."

Majority in poll see God as direct Creator of man - The Washington Times

"The belief was pronounced along partisan divides: 73 percent of Republican respondents and 75 percent of conservatives believe God is the ultimate Creator. The figure stood at 58 percent among Democrats and 48 percent among liberals."

Centre Daily Times | 07/08/2005 | House to examine campus climates

"A state House subcommittee has been directed to examine whether classes and professors at Penn State and the other state-related universities promote an atmosphere of free thought or one of "indoctrination."

Wired News: Faked Research Results on Rise

"Allegations of misconduct by U.S. researchers reached record highs last year as the Department of Health and Human Services received 274 complaints -- 50 percent higher than 2003 and the most since 1989 when the federal government established a program to deal with scientific misconduct."

WorldNetDaily: Christian survives horror of N. Korean prison

"A Christian missionary jailed in North Korea has done what many prisoners in the communist state never do – he has emerged alive to tell about his horrific experience."

WorldNetDaily: China arrests bishop

"A Catholic bishop who already has spent 20 years in prison was arrested by Chinese authorities for the sixth time in the past 18 months."

WorldNetDaily: Calling for a global currency?

"Recommendations include what several academics have suggested by way of establishing a single international currency or perhaps moving to regional currency blocks such as the dollar, euro and renimbi-yen. A year ago, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker told WorldNetDaily: "A new mechanism was needed for the world financial system" and that "in a globalized world, we should have an international currency."

WorldNetDaily: Uzbek cops torture Christian

"A member of a Pentecostal church in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent has been tortured while in police custody since his June 14 arrest. Uzbekistan is in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan."