California Libertarian Alliance

“A Federal Bureau of Investigation video was released over the weekend that exposed an American defense official with one of the nation’s top security clearances passing classified secrets to a spy for the communist Chinese regime. And according to U.S. officials, the case is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.”

“The explosive FBI surveillance tape, obtained using hidden cameras, was made public on Sunday for the first time by CBS’ 60 Minutes. It showed Pentagon analyst Gregg Bergersen with the Defense Security Cooperation Agency traveling in a rental car with a spy for the People’s Republic of China, Tai Shen Kuo.”

Alex Newman reports on a new China spy scandal @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/3073-communists-caught-spying-on-us-again

“World government and world socialism. Those are the explicit goals of the Socialist International (SI), one of the planet’s most influential organizations, but one that is virtually unknown to the vast majority of Americans, since it is rarely mentioned in the major U.S. media.”

“For the last two weeks of December 2009 and throughout all of January 2010 the headline story at the top of the home page of the Socialist International’s website boasted of the organization’s prominent influence and clout at the recently concluded United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the brief article, entitled “SI at COP15 in Copenhagen: reaffirming social democratic priorities,” does not begin to do justice to the Socialist International’s central role, not only in pushing the current alarmism over global warming, but also in building a global militant environmental lobby from 1970 to the present.”

William Jasper exposes the Socialist push for world government @ http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/2947-the-grasp-of-socialist-international

“How resilient is the ghost of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary who ably assisted the Castro brothers’ sadly successful mission to turn Cuba into an island hellhole? His legend survives even a lackluster, long-winded biopic released in 2008 and now just out on DVD.”

“More important, Che’s legend survives the facts of his own life. Born in 1928 and gunned down in 1967 by drunken Bolivian soldiers, Che rarely missed an opportunity to make life miserable for those who opposed him. During the fight against the Batista regime, Che ordered the summary executions of dozens of real and suspected enemies, becoming the very thing he said revolutionaries must be: a “cold-blooded killing machine.” As a leader in post-Revolution Cuba, Che became known as the “butcher of La Cabaña” prison, where he oversaw hundreds of murders of political prisoners and “counter-revolutionaries.” ”

Nick Gillespie show how Che’s violent life undercuts his mythic image @ http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/22/exorcising-the-ghost-of-che-gu

Germany’s recent elections saw a big drop in vote for the Social Democrats, and the emergence of The Left Party as a growing force of ex-Communists and left Socialists. In Brandenburg, the Social Democrats and the Left Party have formed a coalition government.

Now the coalition is rocked by revelations that many Left Party members of the state parliament were informers for East Germany’s secret police – the Stasi. Spiegel reports on the scandal @ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,665059,00.html

“Few would deny that Muslims too are victims of Islamist terror. But a new study by the Combating Terrorism Center in the US has shown that an overwhelming majority of al-Qaida victims are, in fact, co-religionists.”

“In the battle against unbelievers, can one also kill Muslims? Even the terror network al-Qaida is troubled by this question.”

Germany’s Spiegel magazine reports on a surprising study by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point @ http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,660619,00.html

The Center’s Study is online @ http://www.ctc.usma.edu/Deadly%20Vanguards_Complete_L.pdf

“Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats were deemed the big winners on election night, increasing their vote to almost 15 percent. Yet almost a week later, there are concerns that the party and its leader Guido Westerwelle may not be capable of pushing through their demands in a future coalition with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.”

Spiegel Germany’s leading newsweekly, looks at reaction to the Free Democrat surge in Germany’s late September election http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652848,00.html

The Free Democrats received nearly 15%; the Social Democrats declined to about 23%. Left-wing Social Democrats voted for The Left Party while other ex-SDP voters opted for the Liberals. This dynamic should continue as the Free Democrats emerge as a viable alternative in future elections.

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the sentences of 12 years of “reform through labour” which a North Korean court passed today on American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee after convicting them in a sham trial of an unspecified “grave crime” and illegally entering the country.

“These 12-year sentences are a terrible shock for all those who have repeatedly insisted on their innocence,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The sentences are much more severe than anything we had imagined. The authorities in Pyongyang must urgently reverse this decision and allow Ling and Lee to rejoin their families.”

Complete statement from Reporters Without Borders @ http://www.rsf.org/American-reporters-get-very-severe.html

James Dorn, Vice-President of Cato Institute, issued this statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Tienanmen Protest:

“After 20 years China has made substantial economic progress, but the ghosts of Tiananmen are restless and will continue to be so until the Goddess of Liberty is restored.”

“The Chinese Communist Party’s “Human Rights Action Plan” (2009-10) addresses several human rights abuses, but it fails to establish a well-defined boundary between the individual and the state that protects rights to life, liberty, and property. Until China limits the power of the CCP and allows people to exercise their natural rights, there will be corruption, and the goal of “social harmony” will be elusive. The lesson of Tiananmen is that the principle of nonintervention (wu wei) is superior to the heavy hand of the state as a way to bring about true harmony. “ 

Source: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/06/04/tiananmen-square-20-years-later/