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Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing:

Social networks have also been given plenty of credit for the revolution unfolding in Egypt.

So I went and had a look at the numbers over on www.internetworldstats.com to see what they could tell us about these two scenarios. Well, fascinatingly, both Egypt and Tunisia have seen a massive growth in internet users and internet penetration over the last 10 years.

Both have now got internet penetration of over 20% and in Tunisia's case it was as high as 34%.

While it is clearly simplistic to over-state this factor and there must be many more drivers contributing to such a rapid political uprising, it is obviously a factor as evidenced by the Egyptian regime pulling the plug on the country's internet access to try and block the rising tide of revolt.

My back-of-napkin theory is this: that a rapid increase in internet penetration in a repressive regime does play an important role as it provides an unfettered channel of communication allowing disaffected citizens to share views - and more importantly - to rapidly organise and mobilise.

If Egypt and Tunisia are valid case studies, it looks like internet penetration of around 20% is the mark.

Geopolitics & Macroeconomics adds:

Internet penetration: Social networking sites were critical to sustaining the momentum in the recent protests. The internet penetration in Egypt is 16%. In Libya, it is a meagre 5% [1]. The unrest in Libya has thus far remained concentrated in regions that are geographically distant from the seat of ‘real' power (see more on this below). The dependence of momentum on internet communication is far greater in Libya than in Egypt where protests began in Cairo itself.

Taking the conversation to Pakistan, Sabene Saigol writes, on BrandRepublic:

Perhaps one reason for this is that we're still not that used to communicating via the ‘net - maybe we need greater broadband and internet penetration. Personally I think it is more to do with culture - while Pakistani internet users are savvy to using social media to connect with friends, I feel they have not yet ‘crossed over' to seeing SM as a means for professional communications - or even wider social communications that go beyond their immediate circle. Yes, there are no doubt savvy people - both within marketing and tech circles, and outside - however, these people are likely a tiny proportion of the total number of ‘net and social media users.

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I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, security and performance; battery life; and touch.

Adobe began shipping Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile last June, but even Laptop magazine admitted that “Steve Jobs was right,” and that “Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.” Granted, that report was from six months ago, but it still doesn’t bode well for the technology.

There is no doubt that Adobe is making advances with Flash on mobile devices, but I don’t believe future changes will be enough to get Apple to adopt the technology.

Jobs has been very clear that Apple supports HTML5, an open technology that is controlled by a standards committee, not one company. By building support for that technology into Webkit, Apple is ensuring that mobile Web browsers will be able to access what we’ve come to know as the “full web.”

Webkit is used by Google, Palm, Nokia and RIM, so it has a pretty solid base.

One of the arguments often bantered about when the discussion of the “full Web” comes up is video. There is no doubt that Flash made huge strides over the years in having sites like YouTube encode their videos in Flash. But that’s for the desktop.

As Jobs points out, almost all of this video is also available in H.264 format (a format Flash also supports), so it’s viewable on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

“Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video,” wrote Jobs.

You may ask why other companies adopted Flash for their mobile devices when Apple won’t. That’s easy, they are looking for something they have that Apple doesn’t. Considering how hard it is for tablet makers to compete with Apple, any perceived advantage will work.

I’m not an Adobe hater—I know quite a few people that work at Adobe and I think they’ve done some amazing things over the years. Flash for mobile devices isn’t one of them.

Chris Dawson said he gives “Apple a year until they cave [and adopt Flash]. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.”

I have been using my iPhone for years and my iPad for one year. I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a Web site that wouldn’t load because I didn’t have Flash installed. I can load videos from YouTube and a host of other sites too, no problem.

Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices.

In order for Apple to change its mind and adopt Flash, the technology has to be proven to be indispensable and that it will benefit its users. Apple has proven just the opposite is true.

Editor’s Note: Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple and on his Web site at The Loop.

Apple advertises its products as magical. They’re at the intersection of “technology and the liberal arts,” Steve Jobs said today. Something that moves your heart, not just your lust for technology. Will consumers still buy that in 2011?

The big picture question of the day is whether Apple has done it again. With the original iPad, Apple crushed its rivals, taking more than 90 percent of the tablet market in 2010 and selling more than 15 million units. Jobs predicted today that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. Based on what I have seen today, I think he’s mostly, but not entirely, right.

Competitors will discover that Apple has a lot of inherent financial advantages, including being a low-cost leader. That may not sound intuitive, but I believe it has to be true. It is selling so much volume of its products that it can get discounts on parts and manufacturing services that no one else can get.

When it sells its products in stores, it also doesn’t have to give away 20 percent of the margin to a retailer. That is a huge financial advantage. Carriers are also willing to subsidize the costs of Apple products in a way that they won’t with other tablet vendors. All of these things may explain why the Motorola Xoom, a very cool product, is selling for $800 while Apple has priced its new devices at $499 to $829, (and dropped the price of the old iPad to $399). Apple has also left very little room for rivals here, since it has signed up both AT&T and Verizon. Perhaps there is room for rivals to sell $199 machines, but users probably aren’t going to like them.

Those are reasons why any cool Apple mobile product could beat other rivals. But Apple has also done some smart things with the iPad 2. It has created another rev of its microprocessor, the A5, which has two cores, or computing brains. And it has nine times faster graphics than its old A4 chip. Since Apple designs this chip itself, it doesn’t have to give away much margin to a chip design firm. It only has to give a small margin to a chip manufacturer such as Samsung to make the chips.

Apple has also custom-designed the A5 to run Apple applications on a device with a 10-hour battery life. Apple should have an edge there, as it won’t sell the A5 to rivals. But if this is an advantage, it isn’t likely to last long, as Nvidia is being very aggressive with a new quad-core chip that it could sell to any Android rivals.

The design of the iPad 2 is where Apple has more advantages. The iPad 2 will have faster web-browsing with a new version of Safari. It has two cameras that will inspire a lot of video and photo-related apps. The availability of the Mac applications — iMovie, Garage Band, and Photo Booth — on the iPad 2 will make a lot of users happy. More interesting features will come with new releases of the iOS, or Apple’s operating system in the fairly near future.

There are some users who won’t like the restrictions of Apple’s ecosystem. If they want universal serial bus (USB) and SD card ports, they are out of luck. Apple didn’t change the resolution of its screen either, leaving it at 1024 x 768. Competitors could add these options and put emphasis on them as selling points. (Critics are disappointed that Apple did not improve the display, but that’s a big cost issue others have too).

Apple has also made great improvements in the feel of the product. It’s 33 percent thinner, 2 ounces lighter, and it has a wonderful new screen cover that doubles as a stand for the device. (It wakes up the device when you peel it back and it has micro-fibers that clean the screen when the cover is on).

Now here is why Jobs is not entirely right. Apple has come up with a stunning machine at prices that the competitors will have a hard time beating. But it is almost inevitable that Android-based tablets will gain market share on Apple.

So far, I don’t see the Android machine that will beat the iPad 2. But the potential is there, given ingredients such as Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 chips and other fast microprocessors, and 4G LTE. The latter is the main weakness in Apple’s armor.

LTE is fast, with a minimum speed on Verizon at around 12 megabits a second and actual speeds running much higher than that now. Getting access to 4G LTE is as big a benefit as having access to lots of cool apps, from my point of view. Right now, the timing of the still-young LTE technology means that Apple cannot yet put it into its mass-produced, lowest-cost tablet computers.

If LTE costs come down sometime soon, then Apple can launch a new version of the iPad to incorporate the technology. But it’s not a simple upgrade, as it means that the hardware of the machine — including the radio chip — has to change. And for now, LTE chips are larger than their 3G equivalents, so the heat dissipation and product size are affected. In other words, LTE can force Apple to redesign the iPad.

Apple can do that. But Android tablet makers might be able to move faster than Apple directly into the 4G LTE tablet market. If they do that, then they will have found a scenario where they could steal a march on Apple. Apple is not likely to let that gap last for a long time, but it might be enough for Apple to lose some share this year.

Apple’s leadership position in this market will be hard to beat, but the collective weight and reach of Android rivals could erode it. And here’s a sobering thought: If Apple eventually winds up with only 30 percent of the tablet market, it could still be No. 1, and its place as the largest technology company in the world will not be at risk.

Check out Apple’s overview video on the iPad 2 and Jobs’ comments on technology and the liberal arts below.

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There are many ways to manage your finances online, but many of them handle only the paying of run-of-the-mill bills. A site starting in beta-test mode on Monday, called Manilla, is aiming for something broader.

Manilla, which is owned by the publishing company Hearst, wants to help people organize four categories of accounts: household bills, like phone and cable; magazine subscriptions; air travel rewards programs; and financial bills like mortgages and credit cards. Once users sign up for Manilla they can link their personal accounts to the service and are supplied with a simple and clean interface to manage them.

Jessica Insalaco, an executive vice president at Manilla, said people the company surveyed said they were constantly baffled by the bills, subscriptions and other programs they have to manage. People also feel overwhelmed by the piles of paper bills they face on a daily basis, she said.

I tested Manilla ahead of its introduction and found that the process of linking and managing a bill was simple. I linked my AT&T phone bill to the service and it took only a few seconds to hook up the two sites and begin managing my account from Manilla.

Manilla isn’t only trying to help people organize their household finances. The company is teaming with businesses, too, hoping to offer a less expensive alternative to paper bills.

According to the United States Postal Service’s 2010 Annual Report, businesses in the United States send 48 billion account notices, statements and bills to customers each year. That’s a lot of paper that ultimately ends up in garbage dumps and paper shredders.

“Right now, some companies can spend up to 75 cents on a single paper bill,” Ms. Insalaco said. “We want to work with these major companies to send us the bill, reducing the cost of the paper version, and we will act as the middleman to the consumer.”

To make this process even more seamless, Manilla plans to create “premier partnerships” with some companies. Manilla said in a company blog post that it was opening with Comcast as its first premier partner, where cable customers who sign up for Manilla will no longer receive a paper bill, but will instead be billed directly through Manilla.

The company plans to add several premier partners when it has its full introduction in coming months.

There are many ways to manage your finances online, but many of them handle only the paying of run-of-the-mill bills. A site starting in beta-test mode on Monday, called Manilla, is aiming for something broader.

Manilla, which is owned by the publishing company Hearst, wants to help people organize four categories of accounts: household bills, like phone and cable; magazine subscriptions; air travel rewards programs; and financial bills like mortgages and credit cards. Once users sign up for Manilla they can link their personal accounts to the service and are supplied with a simple and clean interface to manage them.

Jessica Insalaco, an executive vice president at Manilla, said people the company surveyed said they were constantly baffled by the bills, subscriptions and other programs they have to manage. People also feel overwhelmed by the piles of paper bills they face on a daily basis, she said.

I tested Manilla ahead of its introduction and found that the process of linking and managing a bill was simple. I linked my AT&T phone bill to the service and it took only a few seconds to hook up the two sites and begin managing my account from Manilla.

Manilla isn’t only trying to help people organize their household finances. The company is teaming with businesses, too, hoping to offer a less expensive alternative to paper bills.

According to the United States Postal Service’s 2010 Annual Report, businesses in the United States send 48 billion account notices, statements and bills to customers each year. That’s a lot of paper that ultimately ends up in garbage dumps and paper shredders.

“Right now, some companies can spend up to 75 cents on a single paper bill,” Ms. Insalaco said. “We want to work with these major companies to send us the bill, reducing the cost of the paper version, and we will act as the middleman to the consumer.”

To make this process even more seamless, Manilla plans to create “premier partnerships” with some companies. Manilla said in a company blog post that it was opening with Comcast as its first premier partner, where cable customers who sign up for Manilla will no longer receive a paper bill, but will instead be billed directly through Manilla.

The company plans to add several premier partners when it has its full introduction in coming months.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you start your personal website there are lots of ways you will have to market it and one of the best ways is by using Search engine optimization Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services would be the top way of getting good traffic to your website and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you're not an online business - however, if you do not come with an online presence if you are an offline business, then you will not allow it to be very far.

 

It's a well known fact that if you are planning to make it within the offline world you need to have an online business. This really is something which all business people are learning hard way. One thing that you should also know is the fact that it's not as easy as just setting up the web site and leaving it to do its things.

 

This can be done in all types of ways, however these companies usually make use of multiple techniques to create the perfect marketing technique online. It is possible to employ them to write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags towards the images and much more.

 

It is crucial that you do this because otherwise the organization you have worked so difficult for could end up losing all the money. If you have an internet site you want to create, then you will also use the expertise of a search engine optimization company, which means seo company. What this company does is basically take the best areas of your website, check the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your website is placed near the the surface of the list for that major search engines.

As a result the Search engine optimization company can not only improve your traffic, but also ensure that your website is fully optimized for the internet search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are used to analyze your website and place it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you wish to use the SEO services Vancouver then all you've got to complete is discover the top companies. It is through these that the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to choose from you have to be sure that the main one you're going for is reliable. You ought to be in a position to ask for a failure of what you want, and the company also needs to have the ability to tell you know long they have been operating for. This can limit their email list to reveal the top ones.

 

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The Vancouver SEO company services are very beneficial for business growth because they provide quality services. If you are planning to create a website for the internet business, then you've arrived at right article when i will be explaining below how Search engine optimisation Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking making it popular.

Before that, you should know what Search Engine Optimization is. It's not that complicated and i am sure you will get a grasp from it reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to get increased traffic aimed at your website and audience. It's a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this sort of work, which means that your website can be listed in search engines like google.

There is no point in you using a website with no website ranking whatsoever while you won't get any business and profits to outlive. It's a very tough atmosphere out there because there are a lot of internet business people exactly like you, who desire their share of pie. You have to be familiar with the fact that nearly 85% of internet traffic could be got from web sites.

Whenever a user types in a keyword or keywords for which he/she wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to get web sites using the relevant content and index them according to algorithms. You don't have to worry about the algorithms which these websites use as that is not important.

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When the traffic gets high, it's a sign that you're getting a service that will enable you to get more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the next to create your site appear inside the first page of search results.

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SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics which is a significant part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords is the method to begin a SEO campaign. So, make sure you choose the best SEO Vancouver company.

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What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofer

When it comes time to repair or even substitute your roof, it can be a challenging job to find someone who is actually competent for the job. There are many roofing contractors available, however the types who'll do a congrats for any sensible price are not often simple to find. If you are in the market for the contractor, use the tips beneath with regard to interviewing and employing the right one.

Job interview and Discussion

The majority of roofing companies provide free consultation services. This is particularly important, since it gives them an opportunity to assess what your homes roof requirements, and it provides you with a chance to evaluate all of them. As with all of companies, trust your instincts concerning the people a person let up onto your roofing. No issue exactly how good a contractor's status or even recommendation, he or she should start by presenting you with a business greeting card. If a service provider occurs searching as well as speaking within an less than professional method, chances are that the job he is going to do may also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you ought to expect companies to arrive in suits. They will be hiking in your roofing, so most will be dressed up in denim jeans as well as work boots or even athletic shoes. If the actual contractor seems to be interested in speaking on their mobile phone while on your homes roof than he's in analyzing your roof's needs, that may be an additional indication that he is not really the main one for the job. For the legal safety, make sure that the service provider offers adequate legal responsibility insurance.

Roof Assessment

Anticipate the service provider is going to be rising in your roof. Actually, any contractor who not want to go up in your roof to evaluate the problem ought to be immediately discounted. Those who're serious about their own function will either make a sketching of the roof's surface as well as mark problem areas on it because they undergo their evaluation, or even they will consider pictures or video of the surface area while they are up there. This is a very essential action, since it allows you to observe just what the troubles are as well as know how they'll be set.

Estimation

The next step would be the written estimation. The service provider will take out his calculator and are available up with a written estimate. Some companies will go to their vehicle or van as well as write down the suggestion, while some will crisis the actual amounts for the job prior to you. Once you're given the proposal, make sure that you understand which items is going to be used, how long the task will take and when you will find any extra or hidden costs that could occur throughout the restore from the roofing. The service provider should be able to solution many of these questions effortlessly and forewarn a person of any extra costs that could be incurred should the roof's integrity be damaged inside.

After you have received a few written estimations from roofing contractors, evaluate what each company or contractor is willing to offer you for the cost. Do not necessarily discount the greatest bet, because sometimes the highest bid will in reality be the service provider who the job properly. Additionally, be skeptical associated with bids which are significantly less than others. They might be utilizing inferior products or perhaps be unethical about the possibility of concealed costs. Above all, believe in intuition as well as opt for the actual contractor who enables you to feel most comfortable about handing over your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

 

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A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

 

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

 

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

 

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

 

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

 

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

 

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

 

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

 

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

 

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

 

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

 

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

 

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

 

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

 

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

 

Earlier cases

 

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

 

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

 

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

 

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

 

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

 

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

 

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

 

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

 

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

 

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

 

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

 

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

 

New training scheme

 

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

 

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

 

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

 

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

 

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

 

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

 

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

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Wikileaks and the Uyghur

by henry upon December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were ever in doubt, info obtained through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese federal government fears over its continued control of the region it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese government bodies make an effort to persuade governments globally to consider its position on problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the actual United States' issues and sights concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting associated with Chinese language federal government pressure are the wires pointing to Chinese language anger, or even the specter of Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. The Dec 29, 08 cable television applies how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to China to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with release in order to any kind of country other than China, which when the Ough.S. did indeed accede for this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". Furthermore, a February '09 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable act toward us" and a "slap in the face". The U.Utes. federal government stood company within not really releasing the detainees to The far east illustrates the actual extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine issues more than terrorism are understandable, however in the U.S. government's observe the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture and delivery if they returned in order to The far east

Chinese language federal government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual U.Utes. federal government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to European Union member states all appear to have paid for the brunt associated with Chinese language government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, that was at first willing to think about two Uyghurs on purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relations along with The far east. The Might Eight, '09 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented that Indonesia had informed China from the Ough.S. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently cautioned through China of ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic cables also discuss the unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July 2009. A This summer 13, 2009 cable television discussing mass occurrences in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 2008 vary substantially in source as well as character through mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing severe problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration management wouldn't hesitate to open fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed this necessary to restore order. Mass occurrences present another kind of risk, he said, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for anxiety about sparking massive open public outrage that will change against the Party."

This is a relaxing opinion, particularly when one considers evidence presented by 50 percent reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Human Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fire towards Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the observation which fire wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that various approach used through Chinese protection causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders within September 2009. During individuals protests, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that had required that he let them know regarding government responses in order to protection concerns. A similar ask for to satisfy using the Celebration Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators within July wasn't met.

The actual wider consequences of the unrest additionally saw a brief discussion on the impact it would have on Iran-China relationships, and on relations with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra in August '09. In the latter situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank which sponsors the nation's Push Club to use its influence to block the Kadeer speech there".

The United States' issues about the scenario within the Uyghur region also come via in the wires. In a discussion upon plan path within Tibet, U.S. officials explain that it'll end up being impossible with regard to Chinese language leaders to adopt the much softer collection "if they look like doing this under worldwide pressure". The cable television dated April Sixteen, 2008, 30 days following the outbreak associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual declaration "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest from the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in locations like Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable additionally sheds light on the severe level of sensitivity that china federal government views territorial ethics, and also the possible spill more than of unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of methods to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are debated in a Feb Twenty-four, 08 cable television. Whilst suggesting which China's financial achievement increases it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable additionally discusses exactly how Chinese frontrunners see the usefulness of "a limited expansion associated with municipal culture, such as improvements in the rule associated with law and a stronger role for authorized beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other actors in areas that contribute to sociable balance and do not problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a significant alternation in considering, which has observed Ough.Utes. officials promote the idea which Chinese financial development, as well as economic relationships with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, more belief appears to be placed in the grassroots movement compared to one which starts from the best levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable concludes which "[i]n areas for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the development of civil society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the official, that suggests that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human rights record and appeal to China's growing awareness that higher regard with regard to human privileges, religious independence and the rule associated with regulation assists to advertise the development as well as social balance which China seeks in addition to to improve China's international picture." Such a strategy might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern the Usa privately encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The cables provide understanding of the actual daily business of diplomacy that's rarely afforded to the general public, which is fascinating to notice the quantity of work carried out nowadays on Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual role of the United States as a keep track of of Uyghur human rights conditions within private conversations is made clear, and contrasts with its tactful public position. Employees of the Uyghur Human Rights Project is comfortable with pressure china federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; still, the facts associated with Chinese language government pressure on it's counterparts is illustrative of the degree which Chinese authorities attempt to control contrary stories. With increased facts to come through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not get the actual headlines, but the wires possess get rid of brand new light on the paperwork associated with human privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

 

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from the how-nice-of-them dept

While the folks at Homeland Security keep telling me that they simply cannot speak publicly about the seizure of various domain names -- and specifically the numerous mistakes they've made that appear to clearly violate both the First Amendment and Due Process rules -- it seems they have no problem talking about the domain seizures to folks in the press who don't bother to ask tough questions.



ICE boss John Morton did an interview with Politico, where he trots out a bunch of highly questionable statements about the domain seizures, including claiming that it's all okay for them to do this because they're trying to "protect U.S. industry" rather than "regulate the internet." But that's not the role of Homeland Security or ICE. And there are limits on what ICE is actually allowed to do, and Morton's technically clueless agents seem to have ignored many of those rules.

"We don't have any interest in going after bloggers or discussion boards," he said. "We're not about what is being said by anybody. We're about making sure that the intellectual property laws of the United States, which are clear, are enforced. When somebody spends hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the next movie or a billion dollars to develop the next heart medicine, the innovation and the enterprise that went into that effort is protected as the law provides. It's that simple."

There's so much wrong in that statement that it should be grounds for dismissal. Morton is not representing what has happened, the law or the facts accurately here. He's lying to the American public (and to Politico, who appears to have failed to call him on any of it). First of all, if they don't have any interest in going after bloggers or discussion boards, why did they? Second, if the intellectual property laws of the US are "clear" -- why did ICE not use them and actually get anyone charged with infringement? Third, the laws aren't that clear -- which is why we (normally) have trials to make sure there was actual infringement. If ICE had been willing to let due process play out, it would have avoided embarrassing mistakes, like taking down 84,000 websites because a few may have had illegal content. Or seizing a blog (yes, a blog, despite what he says) that posted links to music elsewhere that was sent by the labels and artists. And, when someone spends all that money to develop something, there are plenty of business models for them to use, and they have every right to use civil laws to go after those who violate their rights. What they shouldn't have is some government agents taking down websites with no due process, seizing plenty of protected speech in the process.



Finally, for Morton to claim "it's that simple," when the law is anything but simple should get the man fired. Seriously. No one who knows anything about the law thinks it's that simple. He shouldn't be in charge of ICE if he thinks that the laws are as simple as he makes out. It's not, and either he knows it and he's lying or he doesn't know it and he's unqualified for the job. Which is it? I figure I'll send these questions to my friendly press contact at Homeland Security, and I imagine the answer will be the same: "I'll have to direct you to the Justice Department on those questions." Because actually responding to American citizens whose rights he seems to have no problem trampling is not in his job description. Helping Hollywood by violating multiple parts of the Constitution is much more fun.



Morton also seems to think there's simply no legal questions in seizing domain names:

"We can seize and forfeit them just like we seize and forfeit bank accounts, houses and vehicles that are used in other crimes," he said. "Any instrument of a crime is subject to our jurisdiction in terms of seizure and forfeit."

Again this is incorrect on a number of levels, and again raises questions about Morton's competence to hold the job he holds. You can seize property, but the case law is pretty clear on the different rules when it comes to seizing speech. And he's never responded to that at all. Because, of course, he cannot.



John Morton seems to think it's fine to be censor-in-chief and to violate multiple parts of the US Constitution, because it protects a few businesses who have failed to adapt their business models. This is a sickening display of the takeover of the American government by corporations.

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Founded in 2009 by Amanda Steinberg, DailyWorth is actually a day-to-day electronic mail newsletter that includes information on financial literacy and funds management skewed towards a female audience. DailyWorth’s topics range from ways to organize your finances to tax ideas to saving help. And DailyWorth has an amazing editorial staff to make subject matter. MP Dunleavey, previously a own finance columnist using the New york Occasions and currently a contributor with Capital magazine, is primary DailyWorth’s editorial team.

Inspite of unions’ extended hatred of Scott Walker, the new governor is shifting to address equally the signs and symptoms from the disorder along with the ailment itself-the public-sector union scheme which has molested Wisconsin’s taxpayers and their young people by gaming the strategy. Unions like Wisconsin’s teachers’ union [WEAC] (which was Wisconsin’s biggest-spending lobby in 2009) are actually extraordinarily adept at correcting the product because of spending millions to elect politicians who, in flip, reward the unions on the expense in the taxpayers.

the Wisconsin battle, when as compared to private-sector negotiations is about: one) the Scope of Bargaining, two) Union “Income” Safety [Right-to-Work vs. Pressured Dues], 3) whether or not Wisconsin have to be the unions’ dues collection company [payroll deduction of dues], and 4) no matter whether public-sector unions have to be ‘recertified’ by holding elections any yr.

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On Monday evening, I watched my initially, The Final Word host Lawrence O’Donnell.
Whilst O’Donnell laudably attempted to concentrate the audience’s awareness onand hopefully last, Charlie Sheen trainwreck interview, courtesy of the tragic undertow that threatens to pull Sheen underneath for good, I was overtaken, not by the pulling about the thread, as well as voracious audience he serves. It did not make me depressing, it manufactured me angry.

When it comes to celebrities, we are able to be considered a heartless country, basking within their misfortunes like nude sunbathers at Schadenfreude Beach. The impulse is understandable, to some degree. It may be grating to pay attention to complaints from many people who enjoy privileges that the majority of us can not even just imagine. In the event you can not muster up some compassion for Charlie Sheen, who helps make even more cash to get a day’s do the trick than the majority of us will make in a very decade’s time, I guess I can’t blame you.



Along with the rapid speed of occasions on the web as well as the facts revolution sparked by the The web, it’s rather easy for your engineering industry to assume it is special: often breaking new ground and performing things that no one has ever done ahead of.

But you can get other kinds of enterprise that have previously undergone a lot of the same exact radical shifts, and also have just as good a stake during the potential.

Get healthcare, as an example.

We regularly suppose of it as being a enormous, lumbering beast, but in truth, medicine has undergone a sequence of revolutions from the past 200 a long time that are not less than equal to people we see in engineering and information and facts.

Much less understandable, but nonetheless inside the norms of human nature, may be the impulse to rubberneck, to slow down and look at the carnage of Charlie spectacle of Sheen’s unraveling, but of your blithe interviewer Sheen’s lifestyle as we pass it with the best lane of our everyday lives. To be honest, it may possibly be difficult for most people to discern the distinction involving a run-of-the-mill awareness whore, and an honest-to-goodness, circling the drain tragedy-to-be. On its very own merits, a quote like “I Am On a Drug. It is Named Charlie Sheen” is sheer genius, and we can’t all be anticipated to consider the complete measure of someone’s existence every single time we listen to one thing funny.

Quick ahead to 2011 and I'm looking to examine means that of becoming a little more business-like about my hobbies (for the most part new music). Through the conclude of January I had manned up and began to advertise my blogs. I had made a lot of unique blogs, which have been contributed to by good friends and colleagues. I promoted these activities due to Facebook and Twitter.


2nd: the very little abomination that the Gang of Five on the Supream Court gave us a 12 months or so back (Citizens Inebriated) definitely comprises a little bouncing betty of its personal that could extremely very well go off in the faces of Govs Wanker, Sacitch, Krysty, and J.O. Daniels. Seeing that this ruling prolonged the idea of “personhood” to both firms and unions, to try out to deny them any right to operate within the legal framework that they had been organized beneath deprives these “persons” with the freedoms of speech, association and motion. Which means (after yet again, quoting law school trained friends and family) that possibly the courts need to uphold these rights for the unions (as person “persons” as assured by the Federal (and most state) constitutions, or they've to declare that these attempts at stripping or limiting union rights need to utilize to big companies, also.

I know that memories are short on Wall Street. But are they short on Main Street too? Reading Linda Stern’s latest paean to leverage and housing risk, it certainly seems that way. Saving for a down payment is hard, she says. It can take time!

And that doesn’t seem to pay. If you think about the cost of paying rent for five or more years, you may be better off jumping into a home with a low down payment now. That’s true even if you have to spend more money on fees and mortgage insurance to get one of those low down payment loans.

Well, yes, let’s think about the cost of paying rent for five or more years. In fact, let’s plug all our numbers into a rent-vs-buy calculator and see where we’re at after five years. The problem with Linda’s formulation here is that it helps to reinforce the common fallacy that 100% of rent payments are “wasted,” in a way that mortgage payments are not. But that’s simply not true. In both cases you’re paying money every month for your shelter; in the rental case that money goes to the landlord, while in the ownership case it goes to the bank.

Some small part of your monthly payment may or may not end up helping you build equity in your home, if house prices move up rather than down and depending on how much of your payment goes towards principal. But remember that the alternative here is saving up for a down payment — which is essentially the same thing as building up equity in a future home. If you save up $250 per month for five years and then put down $15,000 as a down payment, then you immediately start off with $15,000 of equity in your home. By contrast, if you buy today with no money down and start making mortgage payments, there’s a good chance your equity will be much less than $15,000 in five years’ time.

But Linda’s on a roll here, and manages to come out with one of the most astonishing pieces of personal-finance advice I’ve seen since the crisis hit:

Even if you have the money for a bigger down payment, there can be good reasons to save your cash. Mortgage rates continue to skirt all-time lows: Why not put your money to work for yourself and borrow as much as you can reasonably afford, on a monthly basis, at today’s rates? You can put the money you’re not paying into a down payment to work elsewhere. If home values rise, you will have done your best to leverage a small down payment into bigger equity. If they fall, you’ll have less skin in the game, and that could put more pressure on your banker to improve your loan terms lest you walk away.

This, in a nutshell, is everything that was wrong with the housing market before the crash — everything that we want to avoid going forward. Can’t Linda look around at the current devastated state of many people who bought with little or no money down, and see the dangers here? Evidently not. Instead, she seems to think it’s a bright idea to borrow more money than you need, to the point at which you’re pushing the envelope of what you can reasonably afford. And then take the cash you’re not using for a down payment, and “put your money to work for yourself.”

I barely know where to start on this. Here’s one way of thinking about it: banks are not charities, and that they expect to make money from their loans. They have a cost of funds which is lower than the mortgage rate that you’re paying; the difference between the two rates is their profit. You, however, if you follow Linda’s advice, have a cost of funds which is your mortgage rate: if you wind up getting a lower return on your savings than you’re paying on your mortgage, you would have been better off just using the money for a down payment. Needless to say, if there was an easy way of getting a higher return on capital than the mortgage rate, the banks would have done it already, rather than lending you the money. And it’s pretty delusional, frankly, to think that you can invest better than say JP Morgan. Yes, there are tax benefits to having lots of mortgage-interest payments. But they’re not sufficient to make the difference here.

Here’s another way: let’s say you own your home outright. Would you take out a mortgage against 95% of your home’s present market value, and then invest that money in the market somehow, trying to “put it to work for yourself “? Of course not: you don’t have remotely that kind of risk appetite. Borrowing money against your house to invest in the market is, always, stupid. But that’s exactly what Linda’s proposing you do.

And here’s one more: shit happens. Sometimes, you end up needing money, in an emergency. If you’re already borrowing as much as you can reasonably afford, that’s a big problem. If you have a bit of fiscal breathing room, you’re much better off. If you end up in a situation where you’re in a position to put pressure on your banker to improve your loan terms lest you walk away, that’s not a good situation to be in. It means you’re broke. It’s something you want to avoid, whereas in Linda World it seems to be something to actively court.

Linda’s also convinced that house prices are going to rise: if you buy now rather than later, she writes, that means you’re buying “while housing prices are low.” That’s debatable — they still seem quite expensive, on some measures: the price-to-rent ratio, for instance, is still well above its historical average. And more generally, buying low doesn’t help you in the slightest if prices just continue to grind lower.

Linda’s conclusion is that “the less you put down, the better off you are.” Which is true so long as you keep on making all your mortgage payments without any problem, and nothing goes very wrong either with your personal economic situation or with the US economy as a whole. That’s the way that leverage works: it makes everything sunny, so long as things go right. And then it plunges you into misery when things go wrong.

The scariest part of Linda’s post, for me, is when she talks about how it’s a good idea to “do your best to leverage a small down payment into bigger equity.” It’s not the dollar amount of the equity she’s talking about here, it’s the leverage used to get there, and the higher the leverage the better off you are. Following that advice got us into our current mess. And taking it now is a recipe for disaster.

The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau isn't even up and running yet, and already it seems its funding could be in trouble. Prof. Elizabeth Warren, the champion of the bureau, is trying to protect her project in the face of a conservative House majority.

The organization, birthed last year during the Dodd-Frank financial reform, would bring together the seven government agencies already in place with consumers' interests in mind. Reuter's Prism Money blog contends that Harvard Law School's Warren is a champion worth protecting.

Warren is a bank watchdog, intent on protecting consumers who might be subject to banking and credit abuses.

Warren feels the problem lies in the hits the middle class has been taking in the face of the credit industry's determined, bank-friendly marketing. Fees, finance charges, high rates are all big problems for families struggling just to pay the bills.

The agency won't be up and running until July and Warren has yet to be dubbed its head. Prism urges those who'd like to see the bureau get off the ground to contact your senators and congressman to "urge them to leave the bureau's funding alone." You can also ask your credit union or community bank directly to support the independent funding of the organization.



CLICK HERE for a list of U.S. Senators and HERE to write your rep in the House of Representatives.

Why Elizabeth Warren needs your help to police the banks [Reuters]

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