Just the Facts...

I think we all know that politicians will say almost anything to get elected including stretching the truth, distorting fact and telling outright lies. Fact Check is a nonprofit, non-partisan website run by the Annenberg Foundation that checks the facts behind what both candidates are saying to the voters. Personally, after reading how both parties are playing fast-and-loose with the truth, it amazes me they still continue to practice these obvious deceptions especially when their statements can be checked so easily. If you find this site helpful, please pass it along to others. In other news... I saw this item today from the Associated Press on several news feeds: Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing execs while asking for rescue. And even better, a Wall Street insider was appointed "Bailout Czar". Nice. So, they're giving control of the taxpayers bailout to a guy that was part of the same exclusive club of rich white ivy-league geniuses who got us into this mess in the first place? Wow. CU

Berlin 1936 - Beijing 2008

The first sentence of the U.S. State Departments Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007 is: "The People's Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which, as specified in its constitution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power".

So while you're enjoying the 2008 Olympics and you begin to think the Chinese aren't so bad, here are a few things to consider:

• Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• Chinese Forced Labor Camps
• Shandong No. 2 Labor Re-education Camp
• Human Rights
• Tibet
• A Holocaust of Little Girls
  

Of course, none of this information gets into the news very often because while there's money to be made, human dignity will always take the back seat.

Just like the Berlin 1936 Olympics, everything you see during the Beijing 2008 Olympics will be fresh paint and window-dressing: A well-orchestrated subterfuge designed to promote the false reality that everything is a-ok in the world's largest police state. But only while the world is watching. Underneath the pretty picture the labor camps remain open. Even on Christmas.

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