Retired NBA star Yao Ming has added another line to his post-basketball resume — politician — becoming a member of an advisory body to Shanghai’s legislature.

Since the 31-year-old Yao announced last July that injuries had ended his career with the Houston Rockets, he has become a university student and set up a wine business to go with owning a professional basketball team in China.

Photos in official media on Monday showed Yao at the weekend closing ceremony for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee.

“There are about 142 members in the group, and Yao is the youngest,” Kong Rong, who works in the service office of committee, was quoted as saying by the China Daily.

The advisory committee does not have any real power, but the newspaper said Yao is supposed to attend regular meetings, and can make suggestions for the advisory body and government departments.

Yao was quoted as saying “raising proposals is very serious business, and I do not want to be hasty.”

It is common for sports figures to move into politics in China. Olympic gold medal hurdler Liu Xiang is a member of both the Shanghai and national political advisory bodies.

Yao, one of the most popular celebrities in China from his eight seasons in the NBA, is a student at Jiaotong University, one of the top universities in his hometown Shanghai.

In November, he released the first-ever bottles of his new Yao Ming-branded wine, a 2009 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon currently available only in mainland China, where the market for imported wines has boomed over the past decade.

Source: The Daily Caller.

*Taken from NY Daily News.

It’s Anthony Weiner, Jersey edition.

Garden State Democrat Louis Magazzu announced his resignation Tuesday after nude pictures he sent to a woman he had been corresponding with were posted on a Republican activist’s website.

At least two of the photos showed the Cumberland County freeholder’s crotch, two showed him dressed to the nines in a suit, and a fifth showed him waist up without a shirt.

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*Taken from Prison Planet. Written by Steve Watson. Videos at link.

In the videos contained on this page, Infowars reporters Paul Joseaph Watson, Aaron Dykes and Luke Rudkowski interview activists and journalists covering the elite meeting in Switzerland.

They detail how activists from We Are Change Switzerland have a written letter from the Swiss parliament informing police that they must respect the rights of those documenting the meeting and not interfere with their work.

Swiss People’s Party representative Dominique Baettig, who wrote the letter, is going to march to the meeting along with two other leading politicians from the Swiss People’s Party and demand to be allowed inside to confront the elite attendees, including Henry Kissinger, who they wish to see arrested for war crimes.

One of the Swiss politicians, Lukas Reimann, appeared exclusively on the Alex Jones show today to details their plans. We will bring you more details as soon as we have them.

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*Taken from The Local.

Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltrate the luxury Suvretta House hotel where the conference is taking place.

Borghezio was blocked by guards from the security firm Securitas, who then called in the Swiss police. After having their identities checked, the two Italians were told they could not enter the building.

But according to the Italian news agency ANSA, Borghezio’s nose was bloodied during the altercation with the security guards. He told the agency he intends to press charges.

Swiss police spokesman Thomas Hobi said, “We don’t comment on the work of private security firms,” before adding that the police was not at liberty to even confirm the identities of the two men, because of data protection laws.

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*Taken from Prison Planet. Written by Paul Joseph Watson.

A prominent member of Switzerland’s largest political party has called upon federal authorities to arrest Henry Kissinger as a war criminal if he attends the 2011 Bilderberg conference of global power brokers which is set to begin on Thursday at the Hotel Suvretta House in St. Moritz.

Swiss People’s Party representative Dominique Baettig wrote a letter to the General Prosecutor of the Swiss Federation in which he asked, “In the name of Cantonal Sovereignty and independence, but especially of the Justice’s independence from executive power – may it be Federal or Cantonal – I ask you to check abroad for Arrest Warrants delivered by various Courts, Judges and also for all valid criminal complaints against the persons who were, amongst others, cited as mere examples in my (enclosed) letters to Mrs. Simonetta Sommaruga, Federal Counselor and Mrs. Barbara Janom Steiner, Cantonal Counselor and of course, to arrest them before diligent extraditions.”

Baettig is no fringe figure, he’s the equivalent of a US Congressman, representing the Canton of Jura on the National Council of Switzerland. His party, the Swiss People’s Party, is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of the Council of States.

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*Taken from Prison Planet. Written by Paul Joseph Watson.

A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of the planet” and kill over a hundred million people using secret weather weapons if the United States, the UN or Georgia tried to stop Russia’s entry into the WTO.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Vice-Chairman of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the first officially sanctioned opposition party after the fall of communism. The LDPR has deep links with the former KGB and Communist Party and has become a significant force in Russian politics, despite Zhirinovsky himself being branded as a militant neo-fascist.

According to a translation provided by a Russian speaker, during the interview Zhirinovsky went off on a bizarre tangent after he was asked how Russia should treat countries like Georgia and the United States who try and block Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization.

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John “Sans Quincy” Adams was the second president of the United States and the first vice president under General George “I killed dem red coatz lolz” Washington. He was also the father of sixth president John “Yes Quicny” Adams, as well as the father of a drunk kid who died, only to came back and haunt him as a zombie. John Boy was one of the founding fathers of our glorious and grandiose nation. He helped write the Constitution. In reality, he … Read More

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*Written by Rob Rimes.

Let me start this bitch off with a bang and keep it real, Earth Day is lame as fuck. It is a stupid ass tradition that pretty much forces the whole world to participate in this anti-human “we’re all evil” hippie asshole festival. I don’t know about you but I’m not a hippie nor do I want to be forced to party with them and plant a fucking tree to replace the one I cut down because I thought it was in the way. Wait, I think you plant a tree on Arbor Day. Why do we have two of these stupid hippie holidays? One of them is fucking more than enough! Besides, have you ever been around a hippie? They talk stupid, act stupid and reek like the area between the ball sack and the asshole of a sweaty gorilla.

You see, it is not global warming, pollution and deforestation that we need to worry about. The real enemies here are the crazed anti-human eco-fascist environmentalists who want to force us to put the rights of a leaf before our right to freedom and our right to live. Why do I say such insane and outlandish things? It’s pretty easy to have this opinion when you’re sporting a fair amount of common sense like myself.

Environmentalists aren’t concerned with a clean Earth and making the world better. They are about “saving the planet” but they want to save it from the evolution of the human mind. They want to limit humanity and its greatness by punishing innovation and technology. Earth Day itself isn’t a celebration of the planet, it is a call to arms against human beings, the greatest thing on this planet.

It has become the “Great Holy Day” for sick sadistic eco-nuts that worship the Earth like religious zombies. They feel the void due to a lack of Jesus and can’t handle it, so they have their green religion to help make them feel relevant. Why can’t they be more like me? I have a lack of Jesus and I’m just fine. Well, that’s because I stopped having faith in an imaginary friend and started having faith in myself. Environmentalists have no faith in themselves; they are sad shitty joiners looking for a morally superior, holier-than-thou cause to make them feel important. Their parents failed to give them enough love.

You can’t look at Earth Day without looking at why it even exists. It was created over 40 years ago by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was an environmentalist. Yes, Gaylord. It grew in popularity from its creation in 1970 and all the hippie leftovers from the 1960′s latched onto it like hideously disgusting barnacles. The hippie leftovers created a large movement towards “saving the planet” and Earth Day was a seemingly harmless way to get the country to participate and learn about environmentalism.

Considering it was a leftist movement, it wasn’t hard to get this crap in public schools where the masses could be indoctrinated from the very beginning of their educational process. They always made me participate in this idiot holiday when I was in elementary school and that was before Earth Day was even an international phenomenon. I was just taught that Earth Day is something we celebrate because (insert scary environmental threat here) was real and we had to appreciate Mother Earth and repent our green sins. I didn’t know it at the time because I was like 7 and shit, but I was being indoctrinated with green guilt and the pseudoscience faux-fact that mankind was evil and not respecting the rock it was raping like drugged Vegas hookers.

When I was in 4th grade, Florida Governor Bob Martinez came to my school to celebrate Earth Day. I was all excited because he was the governor and I had never met a politician before. He wasn’t even a Democrat but apparently he had bought into the Earth Day scam. It was 1989 and the Republicans had already become victims of this anti-human epidemic. Oh, how the epidemic would evolve.

Earth Day and the environmental movement are part of a long-term plan. This is a plan to make money. While they attack big business, technology and innovation, they have become a big business and utilize technology and innovation in their own way. The environmental movement has poisoned government and now eco-fascist bureaucrats have implemented governmental regulation and meddling that stifles the market and every industry in it. The environmentalists practice the worst kind of crony capitalism.

Now these eco-fascists want to force us to conform to the threats of global warming, now known as “global climate disruption” because the term “global warming” just doesn’t fly anymore. Why the change? Well, we have had record cold winters lately. However, the whole cold thing is caused by the whole warming thing or so they say. They can never get their story straight. Just like the oceans are going to rise a hundred and seventeen feet in six weeks but Al Gore, the greenie messiah, is buying beach front property. The hypocrisy between their scary rhetoric and their actions is pretty clear to anyone not wearing green goggles.

To give you an idea of how evil this movement is here is an excerpt from environmentalist philosopher Paul Taylor’s book “Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics”:

The ending of the human epoch on Earth would most likely be greeted with a hearty ‘Good riddance!

In 1989, biologist David M. Graber wrote this in the Los Angeles Times:

Human happiness (is) not as important as a wild and healthy planet…Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

In response to these two insane passages, Dr. Michael Berliner of the Ayn Rand Institute wrote:

Such is the naked essence of environmentalism: it mourns the death of one whale or tree but actually welcomes the death of billions of people. A more malevolent, man-hating philosophy is unimaginable.

Pretty profound shit, eh? Dr. Berliner’s statement is spot on. These eco-tyrants are calling for the death of mankind! Whether they have completely succumbed to green guilt or they are evil architects working the minds of the masses into accepting a green police state doesn’t really matter. The fact is, the essence of this movement is pure evil.

Environmentalists put scrub jays, fire ants, mice and trees before homebuilding, industrial development, practical energy sources, medical research and human ingenuity. If they had it their way we’d all be living like Ewoks in hippie communes worshipping snails. Environmentalism is the enemy of humanity. Therefore, I refuse to ever celebrate their anti-human holiday, Earth Day.

I hate the fact that kids in public schools and many private schools are seemingly forced to participate in the festivities. Unfortunately, most parents and people in general are completely ignorant to the real green agenda and are already buying into the green message. God forbid they leave behind a giant carbon footprint. All that carbon must be horrible to trees since that is what they breathe naturally. I mean, oxygen is horrible for humans, right?

The thing is, the fucking Earth has been here pretty much forever. Humans have been on this planet a fraction of that time. Man made global warming is bullshit and even if we are slightly warming the globe, big fucking deal. It is a massive and complex ecosystem that can self-correct and adapt. The Earth goes hot and cold all the time and not because of man. The global warming data.. sorry, global climate disruption data has been manufactured by dishonest scientists. This fact has been out for quite some time now, yet the masses and the media like to ignore it because no one wants the truth, they just want to believe in the romanticism that comes with “saving the planet”.

The weather changes and species die without human intervention. Nature does its thing. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be conscious of what we do. We have to be responsible and respectful to our environment but we don’t have to be fascist fucking morons. The world isn’t going to end tomorrow because you forgot to recycle that tuna can. In fact, the world won’t even notice.

All this movement is, is a way to control you. The green disease starts in your mind and before you know it, they own your body. In a green utopia, there would be no innovation, no human rights, no progress and no future. They want your bodies and they want your money. Sounds like the ultimate system for tyranny to me and there are more of you that are on board with it than those of us who aren’t.

So if you love tyranny and hate human rights, celebrate Earth Day. If you hate that shit, kick a fucking tree in the face. End of rant.