Rice wants "serious answer" from Iran
07.21.08
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Monday that it faced more sanctions if it defied a two-week deadline to agree to curb its nuclear program. Rice said Iran was stalling and must give a "serious answer" within the deadline set by six world powers, which offered trade and technical incentives if Tehran halts its uranium enrichment.
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In China, the "Beijing Internet Police" are Watching You
05.10.08
posted by jason
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The images of the "Beijing Internet Police", one male and one female dressed in uniform and saluting, started appearing in September 2007 every 30 minutes on computer screens run by 13 major portals based in Beijing. Virtual police officers will soon begin visible patrols on Chinese Internet sites to warn surfers they are being monitored.
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what we all should admit is that, any place where has industries, there are pollution. China is trying to Energy-saving emission reduction for years. I think people should see these bright sides when some dark sides exist.
About "human rights abuses".
what i want to say is that since i was born, about 20 years ago, untill now, i didn't see any "human rights abuses".
maybe they are hidden by government, but the "human rights abuses" really not appeared in my world. so does my families, my friends.....we all live in good condition.
the patriot act, passed into law in 2001, provides the american government with the legal go-ahead to spy on its own people.
so which country doesn't spy on its own people?
which country doesn't police the internet?
if a country spies on its own people and yet is not a human rights abuse, then why is policing the internet considered a human rights abuse?
like all countries, china monitor for threats to the nation's political and social stability.
to be frank, i am never aware that a web-police is minotering what i am doing...and even if i know it does exist,it has little influence on my life. people around me using computers every day, and i never hear any complaints about the the internet police, and they seems like me, never aware that internet police is watching us....but some hacker who do harmful things.....so , it is normal and nessary for the government to moniter the internet, just like we see police patrolling and securing the city all day....
"like all countries, china monitor for threats to the nation's political and social stability. "
I just want to know why you are so radical!
I have never felt any inconvenience from being monitored, just the opposite, I prefer being monitored. I am only doing what is right on the computer, so what 's wrong with being monitored?
You are saying that behind the economic booms, there are many dark sides in China, can you tell me in which country there are only bright sides and that there are no dark sides?
You do not agree with the one child policy. But let me tell you China has spared the world with thousands and thousands of mouths to be fed.
When there are so many lives dying from hunger in Africa and in so many poor countries, who should feel shameful? Those who spend money in wars should feel shameful, the money they spent in wars can feed the whole globe!
Note on the link: The article linked to this story is from The Independent of the UK, which looks at the downside to China's roaring fiscal engine. The economy is booming but behind the successes lurk some uncomfortable questions - about poverty, pollution, censorship and a catalogue of human rights abuses. How the government answers them may define China's image for decades to come. In that article they also displayed this image, which we feel is just as important an issue to look at as the other issues in the newspaper article.