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Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

previously

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

An Indian Air Marshal points out that there are gaps in Indian radar coverage near Bhutan. http://news.oneindia.in/india/...

"Master's degree in information systems and 17 years of experience" does not tell us that she was more qualified than the Bangladeshi hired. I have interviewed too many people who look good on paper only.

In theory that could be true but in practical reality I am sure it's not. The school systems in India are mostly theoretical; There are attempts at reform the systems of higher learning but it's difficult, it's mostly been a socialized system. http://education.oneindia.in/news/2013/05/27/higher-education-in-india-past-and-present-005112.html
These companies say in bold we are unable to find anyone qualified and in small type that are willing to work for what little pay we are willing to offer.

When pushing a youth into a field they do not want / enjoy you could end up with this http://news.oneindia.in/2011/02/02/1styr-it-girl-student-commitssuicide-aid0126.html
I think we should instead look at why do so many students not enjoy math / science or any other "hard" subject when many of them enjoy other hard tasks such as master sports activities, games, musical instruments and other "fun" activities?

Apparently* it's an external problem and there will be "no need for a system software update.".

Makes you wonder about who can do what with your Windows Phone 7...

*As I noted in my submission. Which was earlier. WTF editors!?

Or your Android device or your iPhone. Newsflash, it's a smartphone and it's tied to a carrier, just about every smartphone platform has had this very same issue - pretty much exclusively on AT&T - yet some people aren't noticing the pattern.

Apparently* it's an external problem and there will be "no need for a system software update.".

Makes you wonder about who can do what with your Windows Phone 7...

*As I noted in my submission. Which was earlier. WTF editors!?

I believe the Negroponte's goal is to get computers into the hands of students in developing countries. Not to promote open source software. Now, I know from experience that open source software is significantly less expensive on a per seat basis... All Negroponte is doing is adjusting to his customers to get the hardware through the door. Now I'd prefer he use his bully pulpit to drive the cost savings and flexibility open source provides, but they've chosen not to. The technology is easy, the politics are hard.

The customer was the third world education minister - and he didn't like the product. Summary of Laptop Orders

The demand for Windows and Office came from the bottom up.

A US-based non profit organization called One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is planning to distribute three million XO laptops, each costing Rupees 11000, among children entering schools by the end of 2009.

It has already distributed 1000 laptops in 20 schools in UP, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on an experimental basis.

Its ultimate mission is to ensure that all school children, aged between five and 12, are able to effectively engage with their own personal laptop.

Each XO PC comes with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office pre-loaded, besides many other features.

Satish Jha, President and C.E.O, OLPC India, said the project is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Bright star Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, Microsoft, SES, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat.

Each company has donated two million dollars. Microsoft is contributing through its features that are fitted into the XOs

The OLPC has set up its India office in New Delhi.

US-based outfit to distribute three million laptops to poor Indian rural kids [Reuters July 10]

The largest single deployment of the the XO ever.

Ten times that of anything which came before - it triples the XO's installed base - and it is the first significant deployment of the XO in Asia.

These are hugely significant landmarks.

But not a word, not a breath, of the story seems to have penetrated Slashdot.

Interestingly, several countries have ignored that part of the charter in previous olympics, to the chagrin of the French. http://thatscricket.oneindia.in/olympics/2000/news/09/12/120900paris.html

Fascism has spread throughout history under a populist garb. The Nazis were supposed to help restore German pride

The big difference is that the Reich was not fighting any injustice. They completely manufactured claims that they were "oppressed" by Jews and used it as an antisemitic canard against them to try to wipe them out.

The same thing is not the case here, or are the various massacres perpetrated against Hindus by Muslims all over South Asia,from the Talibanized Bangladesh to the Jamaatis in Pakistan, the massacre of Hindus in Marad by Islamists, the open pro-taliban riots by Islamists in Malegaon and bands of Islamic terrorists bombing temples, trains and schools all "Windmills"? Eh?


Besides, if the RSS was so "obsessed with Muslim/Christian/Communist Bashing", why did they rescue poor Muslims during the Surat floods. Why did they rescue Sikhs from massacres perpetrated against them by the Congress Party in 1984 (Read the works of Khushwant Singh praising RSS for it's relief work among Sikhs)? Why did they rescue Muslim children from terrorists in Kashmir? Why do they cooperate with Catholic missions?

During Israel prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to India, Leftists and Muslims openly attacked Sharon, called him a "Filthy Jew", and publicly called for re-enacting the holocaust. It was the RSS that welcomed him and helped cement better ties with Israel. Funny how a "Fascist" movement would do that, eh?

Are these the actions of "Fascists"?Oh, yes, these filthy urine drinking Hindu fascists are such cosmic swine that they dare to actually build bridges with the Dalit Community, aggressively champion for their right to worship in temples, and enagage in interfaith dialogue with Muslims and Christians. What filthy Hindu "kuffar" idolater fascists they are!
The terms "Fascism", "Nazism and "Communalism" are much abused terms in India, thanks to the far-left propaganda.They have a distinct connotation in the European context that can hardly apply to the Indian milieu.

The term fundamentalism was first coined in the context of the emergence of the Protestant movement in the Christian church in America in the twenties. The ideology of the RSS and the way in which it is interpreted by the Sangh leaders borrowing modern terminology have no camparison to the sense in which the term fundamentalism was used in America. So also, fascism and Nazism do have distinct meanings in the socio-political contexts that prevailed in Italy and Germany which have no bearing in the Indian context.

Communalism is not at all a part of religion. Communalism is nothing but mobilisation of people on communal lines to serve a specific cause. RSS can, therefore, be said to be communal only in a limited sense. RSS has not committed any acts that could truly be described as fundamentalist, fascist, or communal. In fact, one of the first acts of A B Vajpayee after taking over as Prime Minister last time was to call on Mother Teresa and Delhi Archbishop.
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The socio-political milieu of India offers a fertile ground for the RSS to grow. One admirable aspect of the RSS, is its flexibility to move with the times and to adopt the best from other socio-cultural-religious movements. It learnt the rudiments of social work from the missionary organisations of the church and mass mobilisation techniques from the communists.

RSS has a dedicated and disciplined set of cadres, the simple life style of its pracharaks, the moral teaching it imparts to the younger generation in its daily sakhas, an

RSS's mother organization (ABHM, Godse) killed Gandhi.

And rightly so. Gandhi was a racist (remember what he wrote about Africans), a totalitarian dictator, an anti-Semite (read what he wrote about Jews), a pedophile and a fool. He would have dragged our country back to the middle ages with his "ruralization" nonsense instead of industrializing and modernizing our armies and today we would all be under the authority of the Beijing Politburo. You should be thanking Godse for what he did, get rid of the leader of a personality cult (again, much like Stalin or Mao).

RSS activists indulge in arson, without ANY provocation on every valentines day.

Your tangible that RSS was involved in all those things is... where? Remember, fabricated reports from Communist propaganda outlets and their derivatives don't count, you know. Most of those incidents were
the work of disorganized groups of morons. It is very chic in India today to blame all the ills of society on Hindus. I place as much credibility on them as I would on "Zionist Conspiracy theories".

They participate in every hindu-muslim riot.

In response to Islamist gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawood_Ibrahim), Islamil Latif, the Deobandi clerics and the JIH (The Indian division of the REAL fascist Jamaat-e-Islami : http://idp.world-citizenship.org/idp/index.php/wp- archive/50, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ26Df02.h tml)/SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/terr oristoutfits/simi.htm) nexus of hatemongers who burn babies alive in trains, bomb other trains in cities and blow up temples of parishioners. For the most part, RSS actually tries to intervene in Muslim-Hindu riots to try to rescue it's victims, but get bashed in the fray. Or is it a lie that the RSS rescued numerous militancy-hit Muslim children in Kashmir, or rescued poor Muslims from floods in Surat while the Islamic Ulema of India watched and laughed because the poor Muslim were lower-caste Dalit Arzal Muslims and the Ashraf upper-caste dominated Islamic Ulema didn't give a rat's ass about them? WHere was the "eternal and all-powerful and all-forgiving Allah" for the Surat flood victims? Nowhere...

Here is an interesting article about a paper written by a Roman Catholic priest (ie a non-Hindu, so there is just about Zero chance of a pro-Hindu bias) on the RSS:

http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19980823/2355 0294.html


Note, in particular, this paragraph.

The conclusion drawn by Fr Kundukulam is that RSS cannot be considered as a nationalist organisation in the sense in which the term `nationalism' is generally interpreted in India. Nationalism represents the collective consciousness of the people transcending all barriers of caste, religion, etc. A nationalist is one who is primarily indebted to the nation. Religion has no place in nationalism. In this sense, Fr Kundukulam argues, RSS whose primary loyalty is to the Hindus can hardly be called a nationalist organisation. In his view, RSS is a multi-faceted organisation which is political, cultural, religious and voluntary in nature and approach. Different facets gain upperhand at different times depending on social and political exigencies.

At the same time, Fr Kundukulam argues against branding the RSS ideology as fascism, Nazism, fun