#China to prosecute prominent rights lawyer on subversion charges #OBAMA

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Friday, 15 July 2016 09:57 GMT

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BEIJING, July 15 (Reuters) - China will prosecute a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer on charges of subverting state power after months of secret detention, prosecutors said on Friday, the latest move by authorities to crack down on dissent.

President Xi Jinping's administration has tightened control over almost every aspect of civil society since 2012, citing the need to buttress national security and stability.

China consistently rejects any criticism of its human rights record, saying it adheres to the rule of law, that all are equal under the law and that those who break the law can expect to be punished.

Dozens of lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui law firm have been swept up in the crackdown and held since last July, triggering concern in Western capitals.

The firm has represented several high-profile clients, including the ethnic Uighur dissident, Ilham Tohti.

State media has accused the firm and its associates of orchestrating protests outside courts and politicizing ordinary legal cases in order to attract international attention.

Zhou Shifeng, the firm's director, will be prosecuted on charges of subverting state power, the prosecutor in the northern city of Tianjin said in a brief statement on its official microblog, without giving details.

An official reached by telephone at the prosecutor's office declined further comment.

It was not clear who Zhou's own lawyer currently is.

Shang Baojun, another well-known rights lawyer, told Reuters that Zhou's previous legal team had all been replaced by government-appointed lawyers.

"To be honest, we don't know anything more about his case than you do," Shang said, adding that a court date could still be two months off, according to Chinese law.

The prosecutor said in the same statement that three other rights activists - Hu Shigen, Cui Yanmin and Gou Hongguo - would also be prosecuted on the same charges.

It was also not possible to immediately locate lawyers for them for comment.

In severe cases, the charges can result in life sentences. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Nick Macfie)

#BlackLIesMatter - 15 NEGROS wounded in shootings since Friday evening @Trib

(John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Megan Crepeau and Deanese Williams-HarrisContact ReportersChicago Tribune

The two young cousins looked out at the West Side crime scene and agreed: The neighborhood was better when the drug dealers were around.

"When the drug dealers had left, that's when everything started getting worse on this block," said Mariah Monae, 16, who didn't want to give her last name. "But when they was here they was protecting us. They ain't let none of that shooting stuff happen."

About half an hour earlier at 9:55 p.m. Friday, a 19-year-old man had been shot while riding a bike in the 1100 block of South Central Park Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood. He was hit in the back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, leaving Mariah Monae and her 15-year-old cousin, who live nearby, to check things out.

"This block is just ridiculous," she said. "That's why I stay in the house."

A $3 million-a-year drug operation used to be centered nearby, according to authorities. In June, more than 40 people were charged in connection with the alleged heroin ring.

"They used to be right here, taking up the whole block," said Mariah Monae, spinning around to point at the intersections of Grenshaw Street and Central Park. "Ain't nothing happen over here, everything was cool."

Special report: Chicago Under the Gun

Violence was bad for the dealers' business, they said. Mariah Monae had even seen the sellers break up big groups of people fighting.

"When they left, that's when everything started acting up," she said. "People come up here shooting for no apparent reason. … People probably scared to walk through here now. I am."

The incident was one of at least 15 shootings citywide since Friday evening:

• At 5:30 a.m. Saturday, a man in his 40s was shot in Little Village on the West Side, said Chicago police spokeswoman Officer Janel Sedevic. He was near the intersection of South Pulaski Road and 31st Street when he was shot during an attempted robbery. He went to Mount Sinai Hospital, and his condition was stabilized.

• At 5:15 a.m. Saturday, a 62-year-old man was shot in Heart of Chicago on the South Side, Sedevic said, citing preliminary information. He was in the 2100 block of South Oakley Avenue when he was shot in the back, Sedevic said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, and his condition was stabilized.

Living around gun violence

• At 4:10 a.m. Saturday, a 31-year-old man was shot during a domestic dispute in Morgan Park on the Far South Side, police said. He was in the 11700 block of South Church Street when he was shot in the abdomen, the right hand and the left arm, Sedevic said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition. Police have someone in custody, and charges are pending.

• At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 46-year-old man was shot in West Englewood on the South Side, said Chicago police spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro. He was in a parked car in the 6300 block of South Hoyne Avenue when someone fired shots from a white sedan, Alfaro said. He was hit in the right shoulder and left forearm and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. His condition was stabilized.

• Also at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 37-year-old man was shot in the 600 block of North Lockwood Avenue in South Austin on the West Side, Sedevic said, citing preliminary information. He walked into West Suburban Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the neck, and his condition was stabilized. He was later transferred to Stroger Hospital.

Sedevic said the man was driving a vehicle when he was bumped from behind. He got out of his vehicle to check the damage when the offender got out of the other car with a gun and shot him. The offender then took the victim's car and drove away. No one is in custody.

• At 3:10 a.m. Saturday, a 15-year-old girl was shot in Englewood, police said. She was on a porch with a group of people in the 6700 block of South Parnell Avenue when someone walked past and fired shots, Alfaro said. She was hit in both legs and taken to University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital.

• At 12:15 a.m. Saturday, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the Dearborn Homes neighborhood on the South Side. He was walking on the sidewalk in the 2900 block of South State Street when someone fired shots from a silver SUV, Alfaro said. He was hit in both legs and went to Stroger Hospital. His condition had stabilized.

• At 10:30 p.m. Friday, a 21-year-old woman was shot in East Garfield Park on the West Side. She was driving in an alley in the 3100 block of West Monroe Street when she heard shots and realized she had been shot in the back. She went to Mount Sinai Hospital, and her condition was stabilized.

• At 10:10 p.m. Friday, an 18-year-old man was shot in Englewood, Alfaro said. He was on the sidewalk in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue when he got into an argument with someone who then shot him, Alfaro said. He went to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the thigh. His condition was stabilized.

• At 9:30 p.m. Friday, a 28-year-old man was shot near 81st Street and Throop Street in Gresham on the South Side, police said. He was sitting in a parked vehicle when someone walked up and fired shots at him. He was hit in the arm and went to Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers. His condition was stabilized. No one is in custody, said police, who said the 28-year-old was a self-admitted gang member.

• At about 7 p.m. Friday, a 31-year-old man was shot in Lawndale, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a Chicago police spokesman. He told police he was walking in the 1500 block of South Pulaski Road and felt pain, then realized he had been shot in the shoulder. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition was stabilized, Sweeney said.

• About 6:10 p.m. Friday, a 66-year-old man was shot in Morgan Park, police said. He was shot in the side in the 11300 block of South Racine Avenue and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.

• About 5:45 p.m. Friday, an 18-year-old man was shot multiple times in Back of the Yards on the South Side, Sweeney said. He was in the 4400 block of South Marshfield Avenue when he was shot multiple times in the upper body. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital.

• Five minutes before the Back of the Yards shooting, a 30-year-old man was critically wounded in Little Village, Sweeney said. He was in the 2700 block of West Cermak Road when he was shot in the back and taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Liberal #MEDIA Sucking on a Crack Pipe, sucking on a Penis !

The 3rd Republican Debate has demonstrated what folks in the "Alternative" Media have know all along:

The LIBERAL MSM is completely out of Touch with Reality!

Beginning in the sixties, the Liberals have made it their mission to bring every low life, every weirdo, every human piece of Crap into American life.

Knowing that REAL GOD-FEARING Americans detest this sort of scum, they have had the audacity to force these things down our throats by fascist laws.

The Election of #HUSSEIN #OBAMA is an excellent example of the triumph of this lie.

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“Politically Correct” Now Deemed Politically Incorrect @Justice

10/22/2015

 / By shawn

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t seems like a headline right out of The Onion.

If there was ever an ultimate Jump-the-Shark moment for politically correct liberals, this would have to be it. At long last, they’ve decided that the term “political correctness” itself is offensive.

This, according to a new campaign called “Just Words” being launched at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. According to this campaign, “politically correct” is a term used to escape responsibility for offending people by calling them “too sensitive.”

But…if the shoe fits…

The campaign doesn’t end with a warning against the use of that term. They’ve rolled out a whole bunch of words that they claim represent “microaggressions” against minorities. If you want to make sure you’re standing on the right side of history, you have to eliminate these terms from your vocabulary:

Crazy – offensive to the mentally ill.

Lame – offensive to amputees.

Thug – “Ignores issues of poverty, education and other institutional barriers.”

Illegal Alien

Welfare Queen – Assumes laziness.

And so on. Other problematic words include “retarded,” “trash,” and “Nazi,” when used to demean the language police.

But the University of Wisconsin isn’t the only institution crying about political correctness this week. After all, Halloween is approaching. You may have trimmed all of those offensive terms from your speech, but that doesn’t matter if you ruin it all with an insensitive costume.

One article in the Huffington Post warned of any costumes that appropriate Native American culture, explaining that it “glorifies mass destruction, annihilation, and cultural genocide.

Another one at Mic.com said that the same was true of costumes, including ponchos and sugar skull makeup, that played off Hispanic culture.

And for those who say that it’s ridiculous to get offended over something as silly as a Halloween costume, Refinery 29 says that this kind of attitude translates to: “I don’t care that much about the implications of this costume, because those implications don’t affect me.”

You have to wonder sometimes if even a slim minority of liberals really believe this nonsense. Certainly, there are a handful of true believers. Take Rochelle Shapiro, who wrote in a HuffPo blog:

I want to live in the world among the full host of humankind, be able to respect each person, socialize with everyone, make people feel safe in my presence. I want to learn every word, every gesture, of political correctness to help me treat others as they want and deserve to be treated. Political correctness, bring it on!

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Pamela Geller: As #Jihad Advances, Huffington Post Still Pushing #Muslim Victimhood @JIhadatchRS

OCTOBER 28, 2015 10:40 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

And they will keep pushing it right up until the moment that the jihadis are at their door.

“As Jihad Advances, Huffington Post Still Pushing Muslim Victimhood Myth,” by Pamela Geller,Breitbart, October 26, 2015:

As presidential candidates are finding it tougher than ever before to ignore the reality of the global jihad, the Huffington Post is working harder than ever to push the Muslim victimhood myth.

Friday it published a whiny article by a hijab-wearing Muslim political science professor, Dalia F. Fahmy, titled “Silence on Rising Anti-Muslim Sentiment is Racist and Un-American.” This is bitterly ironic coming from HuffPo, which is unflaggingly silent about the worldwide jihad threat.

“Fear of Islam,” Fahmy claimed, “has become more prominent in everyday political discourse than ever before.” Imagine repeating this with a straight face in 2015, when Jews are being stabbed by Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar,” not just in Israel, but inFrance as well, as imams preach sermons in mosques while brandishing daggers andsuicide vests, exhorting Muslims to stab Jews and “cut them into body parts.”

Is Dalia Fahmy okay with this incitement to genocide?

She begins her article with an account of a stabbing of a different kind: “This past Thursday, in Brooklyn, NY, a man was stabbed in the stomach in front of his wife and 5 year-old child. ‘I’m going to stab you because you’re Arabic and deserve it,’ his assailant allegedly stated.”

How do we know that the assailant said he was attacking because they were Arabs? How can we trust such claims after cases such as that of Shaima Alawadi? Kassim Alhimidi was convicted in April 2014 of beating his wife, Shaima Alawadi, to death in their California home. It was an Islamic honor killing, but it was more than that: after Shaima Alawadi was brutally beaten to death, the Alawadi family blamed Americans that oppose jihad for her murder.

Family members said they had found a note near Alawadi’s body, calling them terrorists and telling the family to go back where they came from. They said they had found a similar note at their home weeks earlier, but they didn’t keep it or report it.

The smear merchants, libelous Islamic supremacists, and their apologists went into overdrive. The media’s favorite Khomeinist and Iran nuke deal supporter, Reza Aslan, screamed bloody murder, blaming Robert Spencer and me for the murder. But when Shaima Alawadi’s husband was found to have been the perpetrator, and the “Islamophobic” note a fabrication, these jackals offered not one word of retraction or apology.

In a similar case in New Jersey, a Muslim named Kashif Parvaiz arranged the murder of his wife and told police that his wife had been attacked by “Islamophobes.”

Fahmy doesn’t mention those cases. Nor does she mention the New Jersey Muslim accused of beheading two Coptic Christians. Yet she takes the claims in the Brooklyn case at face value. But with all this precedent of deception, why should we?

Fahmy does mention, and lament, “the arrest of a boy with a clock.” Clock Boy Ahmed Mohamed is a sign of rising anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States? Clock Boy, who brought a clock that looked like a suitcase bomb to school and was then hailed as a hero worldwide and invited to the White House? Clock Boy who was celebrated at the United Nations, where he met world leaders, including the Prime Minister of Turkey?

Clock Boy who went to Sudan and hugged a genocidal and vicious mass murderer, its President Omar al-Bashir? Clock Boy who was showered with gifts by Microsoft and Google, and courted by MIT, all because he was a victim of “Islamophobia” when he wasn’t even a victim of “Islamophobia” at all, but of school officials’ zero-tolerance policy for weapons?

Meanwhile, one non-Muslim boy was suspended from school for reading the Bible during recess. Another seven-year-old boy was suspended for chewing his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun. Where are their invitations to the White House?

Remember: not 24 hours after meeting the President of the United States, Clock Boy Ahmed Mohamed’s family announced they were moving to Qatar because of “Islamophobia.” Ahmed’s sister said that Qatar was a lot like Texas, except that the family would be surrounded by “Muslims like themselves.” Isn’t that racist and supremacist?

There is no greater article of hate and misogyny than the burka. It is the most tangible anti-woman symbol known to the world. Covering up every inch of a woman is deeply offensive and insulting. But in America, Muslim women are free to wear it. In some Muslim countries under the sharia, however, Muslim women are not free not to wear it. Why doesn’t that arouse Fahmy’s ire?

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WELCOME TO BREITBART TECH, A NEW VERTICAL COVERING TECH, GAMING AND #INTERNET CULTURE

by MILO YIANNOPOULOS & NOAH DULIS27 Oct 2015546

Technology and gaming journalism is sick, but Breitbart has the medicine.

Breitbart News has been publishing industry-leading journalism about technology, video games and internet culture for some time. We led the world in truthful reporting about GamerGate, coined the terms “Reddit Revolt” and cultural libertarianism, warned readers about sex robots, took on the block bots and bullies of tech and highlighted the crippling flaws in the United Nations’s “cyber violence” report while other outlets lazily applauded it.

Today, we’re announcing a huge roll-out of that coverage and significant new investment in turning Breitbart News into one of the leading names in global tech and gaming journalism.

Breitbart Tech is a brand new vertical dedicated to coverage of tech, gaming, and web culture. We’re going to report on the stories no one else dares to touch, hold power to account and stick up for the people others lie about and slander. Deputy Managing Editor Noah Dulis has been chosen to head up our news and reviews operation, while Milo Yiannopoulos has today been promoted to Technology Editor of Breitbart News, and will oversee the new channel’s general direction and its comment, analysis and investigations.

MILO YIANNOPOULOSCo-editor

Milo is one of Europe’s best-known journalists and broadcasters. A former technology columnist for the UK’s Daily Telegraph, Yiannopoulos also founded The Kernel, a highly influential technology magazine. He has been responsible for groundbreaking stories on some of the biggest issues in technology, videogames, and internet culture, including the GamerGate controversy, and is a go-to commentator on a wide range of hot-button cultural issues in print and on television. 

NOAH DULISCo-editor

Noah is the Deputy Managing Editor for Breitbart News and has been with the company since 2012. Noah’s been playing games for as long as he can remember, from his earliest memories of his parents’ Apple IIe to creating boot disks and figuring out the command prompt for MS-DOS in grade school to upgrading his first PC to a whopping 32 MB of RAM to meet the system requirements for Ground Control. Since starting with Breitbart News as an Associate Editor, he has worked on covering gaming news and reviews for the site and pushed for a dedicated space for gaming, tech, and geek news.  

Together, we’ll take aim at some of the tech world’s most sacred cows. We’ve already done quite a bit of that over the past year, but now it will become a central part of what Breitbart does every day: we’re moving in on gaming, Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence, the private sector space race, hacking, robotics and all the associated ethical and social issues.

We’ll examine the relationships between Google, Facebook, Apple, and world governments: who’s spending money in Washington, and on what? And why is Silicon Valley, for all its professed social justice credentials, sucking up to China? And we’ll tackle important free speech questions: why are social media sites so happy to censor and ban conservative commentators for making jokes about feminists while allowing ISIS members to recruit on their platforms?

Like some other sites, Breitbart Tech will stand at the crossroads of science, technology, gaming, and web culture. But if you’re expecting a right-wing version of Buzzfeed or VICE’s Motherboard, think again. We won’t shy away from stories that don’t fit within a politically-correct narrative. Expect scandalous stories from Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and hard-hitting features on the rapid decline of freedom and free speech on the web.

Breitbart Tech will peer into the deepest recesses of internet subcultures and report on what we find there without fear or favour, all the while hewing to robust values of freedom and free speech. It’s going to drive the hand-wringing social justice warriors of the tech industries and their weaselly, sycophantic press out of their minds. Readers, we are sure, are going to love it.

Tech and gaming journalism is broken. It has become an echo chamber, repeating the myths of progressive elites and ignoring big stories. It has become hostile to its own readers, shutting down comment sections and labelling readers “trolls” simply for disagreeing with the pronouncements of underqualified and uninspiring new media bloggers.

Some outlets and commentators are so unnerved by web freedom that they’re dreaming up new ways to suppress it. But Breitbart Tech will embrace internet subcultures, trends, and communities and explain to everyone else what makes them so special. We will stick up for anonymity, freedom of expression and creativity and against authoritarians, censors, language police and overbearing progressive hand-wringing.

Breitbart News has a long history of calling out pearl-clutching and dishonesty in mainstream media coverage. Breitbart Tech will be no different. We will continue to report on the hypocrisy and gross ethical failures of the tech and gaming media establishment and their credulous attitude to reporting on important cultural trends.

What to read

Our lead story today is an exclusive interview with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who shares his views on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the internet.

When he’s not interviewing the most famous people in the world, Milo Yiannopoulos steps with delicacy and tact into sensitive sociopolitical debates. Today he asks why so many female tech CEOs are disappointments and frauds, christening the current generation of underperformers “the She-E-Os.” (It works better out loud, he insists.)

He also takes aim at the SXSW conference in Austin for chickening out of hosting crucial debates about the gaming industry and asks why publications that are forever banging on about diversity and representation in video games do so little to report on real-world progress in widening access to the games industry.

Allum Bokhari has identified a new enemy of the left-wing media: their own readers. He explains why authoritarian progressives are closing the comment sections on their websites and running scared from public opinion. Elsewhere, Yiannopoulos and Bokhariteam up to defend online anonymity and explain why some liberals are so terrified of free speech on the internet.

The prolific Bokhari also presents an essay on why Americans should be worried about their government’s attitude to free speech and some thoughts on where artificial intelligence is taking us.

Continuing our political coverage, columnist Lizzy Finnegan wonders why women are being forced into careers in tech against their wishes, while Sabrina Lianne confesses to the ultimate social justice sin: she’s a cultural appropriator!

If you’re into long reads, we’ve got an introduction to eSports, the most exciting entertainment medium of the future, by veteran reporter Richard Lewis, who also provides an inside look into Riot Games, one of the major players in the space. Also in gaming we present a review of Ironcast by Will Ross and an assessment of Rock Band 4 by Nate Church.

Finally, of course, don’t miss the backbone of our operation: our regular news-breaking service headed up by deputy managing editor Noah Dulis and manned by Will, Nate and Allum with help from Breitbart’s global network of staff writers and contributors, which you can always find lower down on the Breitbart Tech homepage.

OK, what now?

You can check out the core Breitbart Tech team here. Expect to see some familiar faces as well as several brand new hires, including rising stars of tech journalism, a veteran esports reporter and a raft of sharp, eager new voices.