5 Hostages Found Dead in Mumbai Jewish Center
11.28.08
posted by pondy
The bodies of five hostages have been found in the Mumbai Jewish center, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official said today. Police say they are in the final stages of wrapping up the operation at the center. At least 146 people, including eight foreigners, have been killed since gunmen sailed into Mumbai on boats on Wednesday and attacked nine locations.
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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!
If there is any Internet Police, I mean, really works and frequently shows everywhere, or initial activated... all the Chinese nuts(like me) logged in iConflict from mainland China should be caught to jail long ago.
hahaha... the site is really anti-china
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.