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The only way to fight fascism is with freedom. Freedom means returning the USA to a capitalist country, i.e., lowering all the taxes, massively and permanently reducing government spending, phasing out existing entitlement programs that are going to go bankrupt anyway — all the while preserving our freedom of speech and freedom of association, things routinely denied in China.

Twin bomb attacks on a paramilitary force academy in north-west Pakistan have killed 80 people, police say. The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack to avenge the death of Osama Bin Laden earlier this month. – BBC

Forbes columnist Claudia Rosett, journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, addressed the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group on Capitol Hill. She discussed the nexus between North Korea and Iran, and their partnership in military technology and other anti-American pursuits.

[Osama] bin Laden “resisted.” And then the man behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil died from an American bullet to his head.

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” -Winston Churchill. THANK YOU Navy SEALs!

Chinese President Hu Jintao, who with his peers evidently is alarmed by the growth of Christianity in his country….

Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven. Level seven previously only applied to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where 10 times as much radiation was emitted.

Experts say due to the severity of the initial quake aftershocks exceeding 7 could continue in a wide area.

The more strength the Chinese economy gains with each passing day, which it does, the weaker the American economy becomes, making it ever more impossible for China to keep the cost of pegging the currency to dollar at a comfortable level.

Tokyo’s utility company said on Wednesday that black smoke has been seen emerging from Unit 3 of the crippled nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, prompting a new evacuation of the complex. Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on Wednesday that workers from the entire Fukushima Dai-ichi plant have been temporarily evacuated. Operators of the power station have been desperately trying to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools at the plant after it was damaged by this month’s tsunami, which knocked out power to the cooling systems.

Tokyo’s tap water is unfit for babies to drink after radiation from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant affected the capital’s water supply, officials said.