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Top 10 Trending Stories
Welcome to the Before It's News Top Trending Stories. Each weekday we
deliver the most important and interesting alternative stories to your
inbox. Be the first among your friends and colleagues to get the scoop
on the stories everyone should be talking about today.
Eric Holder, Obama Propose To Use Executive Orders To Impose New Gun Control Laws Video (video)
CURATOR: Josey Wales.
One week ago, a lone lunatic took the lives of 20 children and six
adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Sadly --
yet, predictably -- before the crime scene was even secured by police,
the Obama administration took to the bully pulpit to issue endless
demands for...
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8,000 People a Day Join NRA After Sandy Hook Shooting
CONTRIBUTOR: Vision To America .
The National Rifle Association, while staying mostly quiet in the
immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Connecticut, has registered
an average of 8,000 new members a day since the tragedy, an NRA source
told Fox News. While this broadly aligns with trends seen after similar
incidents in the past,...
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Aftermath of Newtown, Connecticut Overwhelming Sadness
CURATOR: Frosty Wooldridge.
By Frosty Wooldridge You may be as sick of what happened in Newtown,
Connecticut as I am sick to my stomach. What makes me sick stems from
the fact that it keeps happening across our country quite regularly, too
often with too much insanity. When I researched the facts about...
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Doomsday Report: Apocalypse Now In Bugarach - France (video)
CURATOR: youngneill.
CNN has reported Aliens are said to be residing Inside a Bugarach
France Mountain. Bugarach has a population 200. The claim is ancient
lost civilizations of Lemuria & Atlantis are from here. At times
UFOs fill the sky above this area. This local mountain allegedly hides a
gateway to aliens...
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Obama's Gun Ban List
CONTRIBUTOR: NESARA.
Just Days After School Shooting That Killed 26 Children & Adults,
2008 Proposed Gun Ban List Is Being Floated Again... (Final List Will Be
Worse) November 29, 2012/⚑ RedFlag You never let a serious crisis go to
waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things...
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Task Force To take away guns
CONTRIBUTOR: NESARA.
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/12/20/nancy... Mollie Reilly House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced at a Wednesday press
conference that Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) will lead a new task force
focused on reducing gun violence in the wakeof Friday’s tragic shooting
at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Thompson, a
former co-chair of...
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12 Years Later Columbine Student Rachel Scott's Father Speaks Out On The School Shooting Video (video)
CURATOR: Josey Wales.
Do what the media did NOT, let the nation hear this man's words!
SHARE!! COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !! Guess our national
leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of
Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in
Littleton, Colorado, was...
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Does Benghazi Probe Drop Unintentional Bombshell? - Report Contains Clues Hinting At Undiplomatic Activities
CURATOR: John Rolls.
Aaron Klein * WND TEL AVIV – The results of an independent
investigation released this week probing the Benghazi attack contains
information indicating the U.S. mission in Libya was involved in
activities outside the diplomatic realm. The 39-page document uses
phraseology and descriptions not previously utilized to describe the...
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Cop Conducts Shocking Cavity Search On Two Women, Video (video)
CONTRIBUTOR: Alton Parrish .
ADGUKNEWS·to subscribe Two Texas women are suing after state troopers
subjected them to a humiliating and invasive 'roadside body cavity
search' that was caught on video. Female trooper Kellie Helleson is seen
in the footage aggressively searching the private parts of Angel Dobbs,
38, and her niece, Ashley Dobbs, 24,...
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The People Of Britian Send A Warning To All Americans About Gun Control Through This Video. (video)
CURATOR: Josey Wales.
Americans, like Brits, have grown complacent allowing the government to
assume the responsibilities of free and independent citizens. Our
natural rights include among them the right to defend ourselves. The 2nd
Amendment was intended to limit the power of the government by
providing the each and every citizen with the...
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Firearms Supplier Sells More Than Three Years Worth Of Magazines In Just Three Days
By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
Brownells, the world's largest supplier of firearms, has reportedly sold three-and-a-half years worth of magazines in just seventy-two hours.
Brownells CEO said:
"I wanted to take a minute to shed some insight on the magazine situation if I can. First of all I wanted to offer an apology for the situation... with magazines being 'In-Stock' and back-ordered moments later... [The] demand for magazines actually exceeded the ability for the system to keep up with the volume that was being ordered."
"To shed some more light on the magazine situation at present, it really has been unprecedented in the last 5 days. During a roughly 72 hour period...we sold the 'average demand' equivalent of about 3.5 years worth of PMAGS, and an even greater amount of our Brownells magazines."
When I visited Brownells online, I was met with a disclaimer at the top of the website that read:
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Extreme Volumes, and Winter Storms, Order Shipment May Be Delayed.
Thank You For Your Patience.
A blog on Military Times had a similar report: "AR magazines are disappearing."
The post read:
"I just did a quick survey of a few of my favorite online retailers and found ZERO AR magazines were in stock. Brownells, Midway, Cabelas, Rainier Arms... All are out of 30 round AR magazines. In fact, it looks like they have run dry on nearly every variant of AR magazine.
I'm not shocked. It's a small sample set to draw a conclusion from, but it seems that the Panic has really taken hold."
My advice to you liberty lovers: Get 'em before they're gone!
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/firearms-supplier-sells-more-three-years-worth-magazines-just-three
Brownells, the world's largest supplier of firearms, has reportedly sold three-and-a-half years worth of magazines in just seventy-two hours.
Brownells CEO said:
"I wanted to take a minute to shed some insight on the magazine situation if I can. First of all I wanted to offer an apology for the situation... with magazines being 'In-Stock' and back-ordered moments later... [The] demand for magazines actually exceeded the ability for the system to keep up with the volume that was being ordered."
"To shed some more light on the magazine situation at present, it really has been unprecedented in the last 5 days. During a roughly 72 hour period...we sold the 'average demand' equivalent of about 3.5 years worth of PMAGS, and an even greater amount of our Brownells magazines."
When I visited Brownells online, I was met with a disclaimer at the top of the website that read:
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Extreme Volumes, and Winter Storms, Order Shipment May Be Delayed.
Thank You For Your Patience.
A blog on Military Times had a similar report: "AR magazines are disappearing."
The post read:
"I just did a quick survey of a few of my favorite online retailers and found ZERO AR magazines were in stock. Brownells, Midway, Cabelas, Rainier Arms... All are out of 30 round AR magazines. In fact, it looks like they have run dry on nearly every variant of AR magazine.
I'm not shocked. It's a small sample set to draw a conclusion from, but it seems that the Panic has really taken hold."
My advice to you liberty lovers: Get 'em before they're gone!
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/firearms-supplier-sells-more-three-years-worth-magazines-just-three
Execution of Drug Dealers in China
China maintains the death penalty for a large number of
offenses, including non-violent crimes and economic crimes. A large
proportion of sentences and executions are imposed for drug-related
crimes. Execution is by shooting.
Based on public reports available, Amnesty International estimated that at least 1,010 people were executed in China during 2006 year, although the true figures were believed to be much higher.
Credible sources suggest that between 7,500 to 8,000 people were executed in China in 2006. The official statistics remain a state secret, making monitoring and analysis problematic.
View the pictures at:
http://www.charonboat.com/item/2
Based on public reports available, Amnesty International estimated that at least 1,010 people were executed in China during 2006 year, although the true figures were believed to be much higher.
Credible sources suggest that between 7,500 to 8,000 people were executed in China in 2006. The official statistics remain a state secret, making monitoring and analysis problematic.
View the pictures at:
http://www.charonboat.com/item/2
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China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers
Associated
Press/Richard Drew, File - FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2011 file photo,
masks, including "V for Vendetta," left, are displayed at a Ricky's
Halloween store in New York. Television audiences across China
BEIJING (AP) — Television audiences across China
watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government
and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet was
crackling with quotes of "V for Vendetta's" famous line: "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
The airing of the movie Friday night on China Central Television stunned viewers and raised hopes that China is loosening censorship.
"V for Vendetta" never appeared
in Chinese theaters, but it is unclear whether it was ever banned. An
article on the Communist Party's People's Daily website says it was
previously prohibited from broadcast, but the spokesman for the agency
that approves movies said he was not aware of any ban.
Some commentators and bloggers think the broadcast could be CCTV producers pushing the envelope of censorship, or another sign that the ruling Communist Party's newly installed leader, Xi Jinping, is serious about reform.
"Oh God, CCTV unexpectedly put
out 'V for Vendetta.' I had always believed that film was banned in
China!" media commentator Shen Chen wrote on the popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service, where he has over 350,000 followers.
Zhang Ming, a supervisor at a
real estate company, asked on Weibo: "For the first time CCTV-6 aired 'V
for Vendetta,' what to think, is the reform being deepened?"
The 2005 movie, based on a comic
book, is set in an imagined future Britain with a fascist government.
The protagonist wears a mask of Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century English
rebel who tried to blow up Parliament. The mask has become a
revolutionary symbol for young protesters in mostly Western countries,
and it also has a cult-like status in China as pirated DVDs are widely
available.
Some people have used the image of the mask as their profile pictures on Chinese social media sites.
Some people have used the image of the mask as their profile pictures on Chinese social media sites.
Beijing-based rights activist Hu
Jia wrote on Twitter, which is not accessible to most Chinese because of
government Internet controls: "This great film couldn't be any more
appropriate for our current situation. Dictators, prisons, secret
police, media control, riots, getting rid of 'heretics' ... fear,
evasion, challenging lies, overcoming fear, resistance, overthrowing
tyranny ... China's dictators and its citizens also have this
relationship."
China's authoritarian government
strictly controls print media, television and radio. Censors also
monitor social media sites including Weibo. Programs have to be approved
by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television,
but people with knowledge of the industry say CCTV, the only company
with a nationwide broadcast license, is entitled to make its own
censorship decisions when showing a foreign movie.
"It is already broadcast. It is no big deal," said a woman who
answered the phone at movie channel CCTV-6. "We also didn't anticipate
such a big reaction."
The woman, who only gave her surname, Yang, said she would pass on questions to her supervisor, which weren't answered.
The spokesman for the State Administration of Radio, Film and
Television said he had noticed the online reaction to the broadcast.
"I've not heard of any ban on this movie," Wu Baoan said Thursday.The film is available on video-on-demand platforms in China, where movie content also needs to be approved by authorities.
A political scientist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who used to work for CCTV said the film might have approval, or it could have been CCTV's own decision to broadcast it.
"Every media outlet knows there is a ceiling above their head," said Liu Shanying. "Sometimes we will work under the ceiling and avoid touching it. But sometimes we have a few brave ones who want to reach that ceiling and even express their discontent over the censor system.
"It is very possible that CCTV decided by itself" to broadcast the film, Liu said. If so, he added, it would have been "due to a gut feeling that China's film censorship will be loosened or reformed."
"V for Vendetta" was released in the United States in 2005 and around the world in 2006. China has a yearly quota on the numbers of foreign movies that can be imported on a revenue share basis, making it tough to get distribution approval. Other movies that failed to reach Chinese screens in 2006 include "Brokeback Mountain" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Chinese moviegoers that year were able to see "Mission: Impossible III" with Tom Cruise and "The Painted Veil," which was filmed in China and set in a Chinese village.
Warner Brothers, which produced and distributed "V for Vendetta," declined to comment.
China doesn't have a classification system, so all movies shown at its cinemas are open to adults and children of any age. A filmmaker and Beijing Film Academy professor, Xie Fei, published an open letter on Sina Weibo on Saturday calling for authorities to replace the movie censorship system that dates from the 1950s with a ratings system.
The airing of "V for Vendetta"
raised some hopes about possible changes under Xi, who was publicly
named China's new leader last month. He has already announced a
trimmed-down style of leadership, calling on officials to reduce waste
and unnecessary meetings and pomp. His reforms are aimed at pleasing a
public long frustrated by local corruption.
State media say they have reduced
reports on officials' trips as part of this drive. The official Xinhua
News Agency warned this week that media outlets should "learn to play
professionally in today's information age as an increasingly picky
audience is constantly" putting them under scrutiny.
An American business consultant
and author with high-level Chinese contacts said there is no less
commitment to one-party rule in China, so any media reforms will only go
so far.
"You can't have a totally free
media as we would have in the West and still maintain the integrity of a
one-party system," said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who wrote the book "How
China's Leaders Think." He said he thinks restrictions are being eased,
"but it has to be limited."
The new leadership has to tread carefully, Kuhn said, because in the age of the Internet, talk about reforms won't be forgotten.
"High expectations, if they are not fulfilled, will create a worse situation," he said.
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AP researchers Flora Ji and Henry Hou contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-airing-v-vendetta-stuns-viewers-062649111.html
http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-airing-v-vendetta-stuns-viewers-062649111.html
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