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  1. Re:A link about "really, really heavy subsidies".. by ibsteve2u · · Score: 1 · on The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs
    lollll...yes, avoiding blame for the wholesale destruction of the planet and India and China in particular is important to me. I realize that it is secondary to profits in your opinion, but still when you think of the world's top three polluters one would think that you would consider 1) trade as it is today did not exist prior to actions by Clinton and Bush, 2) so those countries did not have the massive point-source pollution emitters they have now, 3) the U.S. could have and should have insisted on environmental responsibility when writing those trade treaties, and 4) the U.S. and other "western" countries financed or built much of the industry that is now emitting toxins in those lesser-developed countries without incorporating pollution control.

    That is, your argument that they - the peoples of those lands - "chose" to kill themselves is inaccurate; Corporate America and other Western multinationals "chose" to kill them as that is more profitable than controlling pollution and because they could as their own governments do not value their citizens enough (because they are communistic or because of thousands of years of a "caste" system that views some humans as...disposable) to defend their quality and length of life.

    If you are concerned for no other reason, you should be concerned about giving such a wonderful strawman argument to the PRC for use in motivating their people should they decide they must have more land upon which to grow food.

    They'll need it, you know; to quote the Beijing Review:

    Luo Wenxi, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said earlier this month that one sixth of China's farmland is polluted by heavy metals and only 11 percent of local arable land in Guangdong Province is heavy metal free.

    Investigations done six years ago found that 20 million hectares of land in China, one fifth of the country's total arable land, had been polluted by heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic, chromium and lead.

    Due to heavy metal pollution, the annual grain production of arable land around the country is down by 10 million tons, while 12 million tons of grain have been polluted with heavy metals. Heavy metals can cause chronic diseases.

    Yes, if it turns out the PRC needs more...lebensraum...they'll have quite the handy villains. Like I said, I do hope that the peoples of India and China remember that it was only our 1% - represented exclusively by the Republicans (with a handful of neoliberal Democrats thrown in for spice) - who truly bear responsibility.

  2. Re:No, obviously you don't get it. by kbahey · · Score: 0 · on Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers

    Check the facts please ...

    Saudi Arabia has its share of terror incidents. For example, the Riyadh Compound bombing, and many more incidents, and more. Just a year ago, the Saudi official and member of the royal family was injured in a terror attack. The terrorist had the bomb in his rectum, and activated it via a mobile phone. Source here.

    Dubai being an international hub of trade and commerce, is always facing threats of criminals and spies operating on its soil. Examples are the murder of Suzanne Tamim, plotted by an Egyptian millionaire, and assassination of Mahmound Al Mabhouh conducted by Israel.

    I under no illusion that India, Saudi Arabia, UAE and whomever else, will snoop on Blackberry and whatever else they can get their hands on, be it for legitimate reasons, or for keeping an eye on their own citizens.

    The bad part is how it is reported differently in the media (censorship vs. terrorism) for the same act (asking for backdoors to a certain technology). That is where the spin is ...

  3. Re:Geography 101 by sesshomaru · · Score: 1 · on China Bans Horror Movies
    Well, the reason for this ban is a spate of teenage rebellion "incited" by the Japanese Horror Cartoon Death Note, see article China Continues Crackdown on Japanese "Death Note" Horror Stories.

    Of course, I expect the Chinese government probably doesn't like people thinking about the questions raised by Death Note, such as "do the ends ever justify the means?" and "does the death penalty turn humans into monsters?" considering that their government is a super corrupt and incompetent version of Light Yagami. (Their "Utopia" is built on the corpses of the innocent... and it isn't much of a utopia, after all.)

    I imagine Watchmen will get the same treatment if it ever becomes popular over there...

  4. here it is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry'

    in china, red means happy.

    that's also the color the west use in X'mas

    RED

  5. News and humor by ParticleGirl · · Score: 1 · on Your Take On(line) Reality?

    I go to a number of sites for "news" news; I find that the "same" news is very different coming from different countries:
    BBC News, which everyone's familiar with;
    CNN, the epitome of US government-sanctioned news;
    The Economist, of course;
    The Times of London,
    Japan Today,
    Pravda,
    The Beijing Review,
    Le Monde, and
    The Tehran Times

    ...and a couple of sites for tech and science news:
    EurekAlert, a great site for science and medicine press releases,
    the former, but still running, Hacker News Network,
    BottomQuark,
    the phenomenal journal Nature,
    Science magazine,
    and, of course, The Source.

    Some good comics, most of which you will all know, but which I love; here are a couple you might not know:
    Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, a comic that actually features a female sysadmin/techgoddess, and
    Bateman Political cartoons, a fun political comic updated regularly.

    And, of course, take a look at my sig... Click every day.

  6. Re:Should this even be considered an article? by mgarraha · · Score: 2 · on Chinese Government Perplexed By Internet Cafes

    Lead article currently, how China's students are practicing democracy in their classrooms.

    Middle School Class "Impeaches" English Teacher!
    American Kids Drool With Envy!

  7. Beijing Review article found? by mgarraha · · Score: 5 · on Chinese Government Perplexed By Internet Cafes

    In between the spin of the spy plane incident and the weekly condemnation of Falun Gong, I found a Beijing Review editorial, followed by 1 opinion for and 3 against banning the cafes altogether. For those already baffled by the front page, it's under "Free Forum" in the top navigation bar.

  8. A few more resources on China's brand new net by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · · Score: 1 · on Great Firewall Of China Marches Forward

    Well, Is it so supprising this would happen? Canada's new network, our own Internet-2, euorpe doing a new network, of course china is gona do it. anyway, heres some info I found out and about in my past readings of china's network:

    http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/htm/2000cbh339a .htm
    http://dawning.iist.unu.edu/china/bjreview/98Nov/b jr98-44-30.html
    http://www.bjreview.com.cn/BeijingReview/Spanish/9 8Nov/bjr98-47s-15.html