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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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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.

If you don't know much about Justin Bieber's rise to superstardom, James Parker provides a good primer:

How did he do it? With YouTube, that’s how. Kissed in his cradle by the witch of the Web, Justin was throwing up little promo reels by the time he was 12. Singing a Brian McKnight song into the bathroom mirror. Or sitting on some municipal steps somewhere, busking mightily about the Lord: “You’re my God and my Fa-ther!” he bellows through the legs of passersby, the wooden body of his guitar reverberating with his shouts. ...

Bieber wasn’t from the Disney factory, and he didn’t have a show on Nickelodeon, so the marketing plan was skewed toward his already established constituency in social media: lots of Facebooking and YouTubing and sugary tweets to his millions-strong Twitter army.

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In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the number was at 74.04 percent. Last year, it was 61.59 percent. And this year? The number of people visiting our site from Windows machines dipped to 53.84 percent.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

The knee-jerk reaction in the comment section will likely be something like “it’s because you guys cover Apple so much”. But the fact of the matter is that Macintosh share, after rising for three of those four years, fell last year as well. It’s the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.

In fact, if the trend over the past four years continues at about the same pace, in two years, devices made by Apple (Macs, iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads) will surpass devices that run Windows as the top visitors to TechCrunch. And depending on how popular the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and OS X Lion are, it could easily happen next year.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

Windows: 83.24%

Mac: 13.59%

Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

Windows: 80.44%

Mac: 15.15%

Linux: 2.97%

iPhone: 0.77%

iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

Windows: 74.04%

Mac: 20.48%

Linux: 3.01%

iPhone: 1.60%

iPod: 0.28%

Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

Windows: 61.59%

Mac: 28.62%

iPhone: 4.07%

Linux: 3.49%

Android: 0.87%

iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

Windows: 53.84%

Mac: 27.64%

iPhone: 6.72%

iPad: 3.44%

Linux: 3.28%

Android: 3.06%

iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products

Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products

Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products

Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products

Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

In the four year span, Apple has added 25 percentage points to their share among TechCrunch readers. That nearly all of the 30 percentage points that Windows lost in that same span (Android’s growth pretty much fills in the rest).

So it currently stands at Microsoft’s 53.84 percent versus Apple’s 38.42 percent. Again, a big year for iPad, iPhone, and Mac could mean a changing of the guard as soon as next year. But unless something drastic changes, you can be sure that Apple will be dominant among TechCrunch readers in two years.

The latest rumors have Windows 8 showing up sometime in mid/late 2012. But the fact of the matter is that Windows 7, much more widely praised than the disaster that was Vista, hasn’t helped Microsoft buck this trend among our readers. Perhaps they’re only hope of gaining back share at this point is Windows Phone. So far, that hasn’t been going too well. Nokia should help that, but will it be enough to offset the Windows losses?

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

The iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are likely to push the Apple share forward immediately. But don’t sleep on OS X Lion either. The early indications are that Apple has indeed made it much more iOS-like. That means millions of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch owners who have traditionally been PC users, are going to feel a lot more comfortable on a Mac than ever before.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

OS X Lion is going to feed off of iOS users, and vice versa. And the Mac ecosystem is going to continue to expand. Just as happened in the browser world with Chrome taking over, a transition is happening among TechCrunch readers in the ecosystem space. The numbers don’t lie. And Microsoft better pray that our readers aren’t leading indicators of overall trends in the space — which is exactly what you have been in the past.

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Recognizing Women's History Month, New Deal 2.0 tells the surprising story of how women became citizens -- and how their economic lives have evolved along with their rights. Allida Black urges action on UN Resolution 1325, which ensures equal citizenship for women across the globe.

The monumental elections of Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Roza Otunbayeva (Krygyzstan), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), and Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Australia) and the game-changing appointments of Dr. Michelle Bachelet as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNWomen and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State proved that women can govern, run preeminent human rights organizations, set international policy, and place women at the center of diplomacy, development, and peace.

But the question remains -- if women can be president, why can't they be citizens? Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in rights." Yet it took another twenty years after its signing to get the international conventions on political and civil rights and on economic, social and cultural rights -- and, in the United States, another twenty plus years for Congress to adopt legislation ensuring women's political and economic rights. It took another thirteen years for the United Nations to ratify (without the support of the United States) the Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination against Women. And in 2011, the US House of Representatives and other foreign governing bodies still toy with legislation essential to women's identities, ranging from limiting access to reproductive health services and marriage to crafting sentencing guidelines that treat girls and women as felons and charges those that have abducted and abused them with misdemeanors.

In a 1946 column, written before she joined the UN Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt urged women to "call on the Governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more conscious part in national and international affairs, and on women to come forward and share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in the war and resistance." More than fifty years later, at the dawn of a new century, the UN Security Council -- pressured by a well-organized international women's lobby, Hillary Clinton, and other stateswomen and embarrassed by the rampant use of rape and genital dismemberment as tools of war -- adopted Resolution 1325. It urged "Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict."

Now ten years later, the campaign -- indeed the struggle -- to enforce this resolution rages across the United States as much as it does across Egypt or the Congo or Afghanistan.

It is tempting to construct this resolution narrowly -- to see it as a tool of armistice rather than reconstruction, as a vehicle to protect women rather than empower them. To do so, to paraphrase Albus Dumbledore, would be to do what is easy rather than what is right.

UN1325 is on the front line in the campaign for women's citizenship. It is a battle to ensure that economic, social and cultural rights cannot be divorced from, or considered separately from, political and civil rights. It is the struggle to reclaim democracy promotion away from post-Cold War politics, self-interested development and the campaign against terror and place it at the heart of citizen participation.

Just as important, it is a campaign to ensure women's rights as citizens as much as it is a campaign to force governments to act responsibly to all its citizens. While equality and human dignity have no sex, policy designed without taking stock of gender differences often perpetuates discrimination.

As Eleanor Roosevelt would say, both citizens and governments must "recognize that the goal of full participation in the life and responsibilities of their countries and of the world community is a common objective" and one "which the women of the world should assist one another" in achieving.

This post originally appeared on New Deal 2.0.

Now ten years later, the campaign -- indeed the struggle -- to enforce this resolution rages across the United States as much as it does across Egypt or the Congo or Afghanistan.

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The family of New York murder victim Caroline Wimmer has filed a civil suit against Facebook and others, including ex-EMT Mark Musarella, who posted a graphic picture of their daughter's body to the social networking website.

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Making Money Through

Marco Arment, the former CTO of the Tumblr blog platform, is best known these days for his time-shifting reading app Instapaper. But he could start a side-job as a financial advisor to start-ups. His motto: Get the money from your customers, not investors.

Arment’s more traditional take is built largely on the idea that if he puts out a good product, there’s no shame in asking customers to pay for it. And the more they pay, the less he needs to rely on outside investors. Arment said many developers are of the mindset that they need to amass a huge number of eyeballs through free services. But they don’t focus enough on building a solid product that can command loyalty and payment from consumers, and instead try to gain profitability through advertising and turning to outside venture capital.

By contrast, Arment says his efforts to monetize Instapaper have been successful because he was able to leverage the hard work he put into his paid versions and the good will he’s gotten back from consumers. And that has allowed him to avoid outside funding, something he plans on doing for the forseeable future.

Don’t Take Funding if You Don’t Need It

“If a service can be profitable and breakeven without VC money, you don’t need to take it,” Arment told me in an interview. “There’s no reason for developers to get a lot of users without charging. There’s another path. My goal is to spread that message: Charge for something and make more than you spend.”

Arment launched Instapaper as a free website in January 2008 and became profitable later that fall when he first began selling a paid iPhone app alongside a free version. He’s been profitable ever since. Arment won’t disclose his revenue, but he said he can cover his expenses and can afford to hire a couple more people if he needed. He left his Tumblr job in September to devote himself to Instapaper.

Though Arment maintains a free iPhone app, he said the focus of the company has been on the paid versions which are updated first (a new update is expected in the next month or so). He has yet to release a free iPad version and has only gotten three emails about the lack of it. Most seem happy to pay for the $5 iPad version. Between 25 and 33 percent of people pay for the $5 paid iPhone version. In fact, as an experiment, he pulled the free iPhone app from the app store for a week a little while back and found that only one person emailed. Sales of the paid version didn’t go up, but they didn’t go down either, he said.

“The free version isn’t really competing as much as I expected with the paid version; a lot of people go straight to the paid version,” he said. “It was only a week but the people who were going to the free version would not have gone to the paid version.”

Let Users Thank You by Paying You

That’s what’s allowed Arment to really focus on the paid segment. In fact, he still questions the value of the free version at times because it can leave a more negative impression for users with its limited set of features. Arment said his paying users have surprised him with their support. He started a $1 a month subscription plan in October that didn’t actually offer much in the way of extra features. It was more of a way to let users show their support for Instapaper. He said the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“That was a huge surprise to me how well it’s doing given there’s no real incentive to do it besides good will. But it ends up that good will is powerful,” Arment said. “It shows that people will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.”

Arment is testing the theory again with a new API that leverages his subscription plan. For developers who want to build apps with Instapaper integration, Arment said last month he will require their users to subscribe to Instapaper. Again, the response has been very positive, said Arment. Two hundred developers have applied to get access to the API. All this money-making has allowed Arment to sidestep venture capital money. He has had repeated offers, but Arment said accepting VC funding is akin to taking on a new boss, and the act of raising and maintaining money is a full-time job, he said.

Venture Capital Is Like Having Another Boss

“If you can go without funding, you can be a one- or two-person shop without a whole level of bosses,” he said. “You’re not worried about getting more money and getting diluted anymore.”

Arment’s approach doesn’t work for everyone. He was fortunate to be able to this as a side job and build it up while at Tumblr. And he acknowledges that the lack of funding could be a problem if he wanted to build a staff quickly. But he believes his experience shows that a more old-school approach to building a business and developing a following with consumers is a viable one for entrepreneurs that should be explored more. He may not the biggest company, but he can be a profitable one for a while.

“I don’t need the entire market,” Arment said. “I can get five percent of the market and be rich.”

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This is actually a good piece, but a wee bit preachy. But still good.

Anyone complaining about eBay and PayPal fees, please just be quiet. If you are running a home business where you sell things that don't take up too much space or is a hassle, then the fees are trivial compared to the profit in many cases. You think that when you pay $10 for something at a store, 100% of that $10 go to the owner? After rent, salary and even credit card fees real world business often deal with HIGHER fees than someone dealing with PayPal.

But I do agree 100% with his buy something and sell it just to even break even to experiment. That is the BEST way to learn how to sell something and is very little risk.

I got into eBay selling the usual way by selling off things I knew were valuable and could turn a profit. After a while I started to sell off stuff I had but didn't want anymore on eBay; I consider it an endless yard sale. Many times I made back my initial investment or lost money, but after 10+ years of doing this on eBay I started to understand what sold and what I was good at selling.

Then I started to sell Mac upgrades for folks who were tweaking their machines back in the early 2000. For those who don't know, Apple placed an "Apple tax" on many off-the-shelf PC components that either just had an Apple sticker or need a ROM flashing. So I would buy boxes of components, flash them or simply write an eBay explanation as to the item being tested on a Mac and soon enough I was making $20 to $80 profit for a good year or so until Apple basically obsolete the G4 machines. In the case of items that simply cost more as Apple branded I wrote a description that explains what the item was, how it was tested and how my feedback and tech expertise assures that the item will work. Anyone had the choice of buying the pure PC component, but they bought from me for a modest markup to save the hassle. I even had a few people give me PayPal "tips" for advice I provided. It was then I realized I set up a small tech store with loss leaders and consulting! I could not quit my day job on that money, but it helped me through some rough times.

Now I mainly sell old collectible toys from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. I got into it when I started to sell off some of my old childhood toys, realized there was a profit in my childhood investment so I translated my passion and knowledge into buying collectible toys in bulk in the U.S. and Japan, cleaning up and assessing them and then selling them on eBay. Buy a huge lot of toys from a seller who doesn't want to deal with the headache, break it up, ID the parts and assess it, and then I am selling items that cost me about $2 a piece for around $10 a piece. Again, not enough to live on, but a very nice source of extra income.

Also, if you sell online, be prepared to ship. Some sellers never think of packing until after the sale. BAD MOVE! You might end up paying more in packing materials or delaying shipment while you hunt for boxes and screw up your sales transaction. I only sell items online I am 100% positive I can ship. And with that in mind, I have moved over to buying small collectible items in bulk I know I can stick in a padded envelope and ship. The weight assures first class shipping which is less than Priority Mail, but gets there as quickly in many cases. And the light weight makes it easier to carry.

Also, if you know you will ship items—like books and CDs—in bulk, buy a box of mailers from an online seller. It will end up costing you 25 cents per envelope which you might penny-pinch over, but it is a lot less than buying individual envelopes from the Post Office or drug store. And you have them on hand so it saves time.

I would also recommend investing in a small scale and even a nice label printer. The scale will help you give your customers a better estimate of cost and the printed labels will assure that the address is clear/legible on the package so it goes through the system correctly. Labels can be bought in bulk for thermal printers for tons less than local stores, and are just as good.

Oh, as far as shipping goes, my eBay shipping & handling rates are incredibly reasonable and always less than others but guess what? Buyers ALWAYS complain or have second thoughts on shipping & handling charges. ALWAYS! I charged someone $2 for shipping and they complained that shipping was $1.95. Don't worry about shipping other than the tips I give above, because ultimately nobody wants to pay for shipping and everyone complains. You'll never make them happy so don't sweat it.

Also Craigslist... Oy vey... I mainly sell items on there that weight too much or are too bulky to ship. And it works well somewhat. But folks on Craigslist want bargains and are lazy when picking up. Not worth the effort.

Phew! I just wrote that.

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Search News & Headlines Around the Web - March 28, 2011 #SEWatch

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Interview and Discussion

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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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.

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

by henry upon Dec 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been actually in doubt, information acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese federal government fears more than its ongoing charge of the location this calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from U.S. diplomats show the extent that Chinese language authorities attempt to persuade governments worldwide to consider it's position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally show the actual U . s . States' concerns and sights regarding the on going repressive measures in the region.

Most lighting associated with Chinese language federal government pressure are the wires directed to Chinese language anger, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A Dec 29, 08 cable television applies how Chinese Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador to China to voice Beijing's strong opposition of launch in order to any nation other than The far east, and that when the U.S. did certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the February 2009 cable explains the way the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" along with a "slap in the face". The U.Utes. federal government stood firm within not really releasing the actual detainees in order to The far east illustrates the degree from the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are understandable, however in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture and execution when they returned to The far east

Chinese language government stress in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the U.S. government, but also to New Zealand along with a number of Western government authorities that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as Eu fellow member says all appear to have paid for the actual impact of Chinese language federal government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, which was initially prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been much less preferable to additional detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs might have upon relations along with China. The May Eight, 2009 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Germany had knowledgeable The far east of the U.S. ask for to accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned through The far east of ‘a heavy burden upon bilateral relations' if Germany had been to accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic cables also talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the regional funds, within This summer '09. The This summer Thirteen, '09 cable discussing bulk incidents in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 of 2008 differ markedly in origin and nature through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious trouble for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Celebration leadership wouldn't wait to open fireplace on Uighurs or even Tibetans when they deemed this necessary to restore order. Mass incidents present another type of risk, he said, since the management is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking massive public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence presented by 50 percent reports released this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness accounts of the use of lethal live fire against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. In addition, the actual declaration which fireplace wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for that various strategy taken by Chinese security forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese protests within September 2009. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that had required he inform them regarding federal government responses in order to protection concerns. An identical request to satisfy using the Party Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators within July was not fulfilled.

The actual wider consequences of the unrest also noticed a brief dialogue on the impact it might possess upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Press Membership in Canberra in July '09. Within the second option case, china government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie bank that sponsors the nation's Press Membership to use it's impact to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The United States' concerns concerning the situation in the Uyghur region also come through within the cables. In a dialogue on plan path within Tibet, U.S. officials explain that it will be not possible for Chinese language leaders to adopt the softer collection "if they appear like doing so under international pressure". The cable dated 04 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the observation "that domestic stability remains the leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being no rest from the present hard line upon Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The information included in the cable also sheds light about the extreme sensitivity with which china federal government views territorial integrity, and also the possible drip over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of solutions to stress in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil society tend to be discussed in a Feb Twenty-four, 08 cable television. Whilst recommending that China's financial achievement will increase its resistance to democratic reform, the cable television also talks about exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a restricted growth associated with civil culture, such as enhancements in the rule of law and a stronger role with regard to authorized beliefs, NGOs, charities and other stars in areas which bring about social balance and do not problem Communist Party guideline." This is a significant change in thinking, that has seen Ough.S. officials promote the notion that Chinese language economic improvement, and economic relationships with China brings about a steadily democratic society; however, much more faith appears to be put into a grassroots movement than one that begins in the top levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism leads to tight restrictions on the development of municipal culture." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the Ough.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious issues more than Beijing's human privileges record and attract China's growing consciousness that higher respect with regard to human privileges, spiritual independence and also the rule of law assists to promote the improvement and sociable stability that China looks for as well as to enhance China's international picture." Such a strategy might take substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern that the Usa privately encourages routine alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the actual daily business of diplomacy that is rarely afforded to the general public, which is interesting to notice the amount of work carried out nowadays on Uyghur issues. The significance of the role of the United States like a keep track of of Uyghur human privileges problems within private discussions is made clear, and contrasts using its tactful open public position. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Rights Project is well aware of the pressure china federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language federal government pressure upon its alternatives is actually illustrative from the diploma which Chinese language officials make an effort to suppress contradictory stories. With more facts in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not grab the actual headlines, however the cables have shed new gentle on the documentation of individual rights conditions within the Uyghur region.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

through henry on December Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever in doubt, info obtained through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese federal government worries over it's ongoing charge of the location it calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked cables through U.S. diplomats demonstrate the actual degree that Chinese language authorities attempt to persuade government authorities globally to adopt its position upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the actual United States' concerns as well as sights regarding the on going repressive steps in the region.

The majority of lighting of Chinese language federal government stress are the wires directed in order to Chinese anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. The December 29, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.S. Ambassador to China to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with launch to any nation apart from The far east, which if the Ough.Utes. did indeed accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". Furthermore, a Feb 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave toward us" along with a "slap within the face". That the U.Utes. government was firm within not really releasing the detainees to The far east demonstrates the actual extent of the politicized character from the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are understandable, but in the actual U.Utes. government's view the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture and execution if they returned to China

Chinese government pressure regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just put on the U.S. federal government, but additionally in order to New Zealand along with a handful of European governments that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, as well as Eu fellow member says just about all have the symptoms of paid for the actual impact associated with Chinese language government disappointment. In the case of Germany, which was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs on purely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were much less better than other detainees due to the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have upon relationships with China. The Might 8, '09 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Indonesia had informed The far east from the Ough.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned through The far east associated with ‘a large burden upon bilateral relations' if Germany had been to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the regional capital, within This summer 2009. The This summer Thirteen, 2009 cable television talking about bulk incidents within The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within 03 associated with 08 differ markedly within origin as well as nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Party management wouldn't hesitate to open fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed this essential to restore order. Mass incidents pose another type of threat, he said, since the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive public outrage that would change against the Celebration."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one considers evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of deadly live fire against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the observation that fire would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different approach taken by Chinese protection causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September '09. Throughout individuals direct orders, then Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, that had required that he let them know regarding federal government responses to security issues. An identical request to satisfy using the Celebration Assistant through Uyghur demonstrators within July was not met.

The actual broader repercussions of the unrest additionally saw a short discussion about the effect it would have upon Iran-China relationships, and on relations with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra within July '09. In the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie financial institution which vendors the National Push Membership to use it's influence to block the Kadeer talk there".

The actual U . s . States' issues about the situation within the Uyghur area are available via in the cables. Inside a dialogue on plan direction within Tibet, U.S. officials clarify that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language leaders to consider the softer collection "if they look like doing so below worldwide pressure". The cable out dated 04 Sixteen, 2008, one month following the episode associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the declaration "that household stability continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' be no relaxation from the present hard line upon Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also storage sheds gentle about the extreme sensitivity with which china federal government views territorial integrity, and the feasible drip over of unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to stress within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture tend to be discussed in a Feb 24, 08 cable. Whilst recommending which China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the actual cable television additionally discusses how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a restricted growth of municipal society, including improvements in the rule associated with regulation and a more powerful role with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other actors in areas which contribute to social stability and don't problem Communist Party guideline." This can be a notable change in thinking, that has seen U.S. authorities market the idea that Chinese language economic improvement, and economic relationships along with China brings about a steadily democratic society; nevertheless, much more faith appears to be put into a grassroots motion than one that begins from the top quantity of a Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the growth of civil society." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the official, that suggests that the actual U.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's individual rights report as well as attract China's developing awareness that greater respect for human privileges, religious independence and also the guideline associated with law will serve to promote the improvement and sociable balance which The far east seeks as well as to improve China's international picture." This type of technique might consider considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern the Usa privately encourages regime change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The cables provide insight into the actual daily business associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever afforded to the general public, which is fascinating to note the amount of function done nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual part of the us as a keep track of associated with Uyghur individual privileges problems in personal conversations is created obvious, and contrasts using its tactful public position. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese federal government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese federal government pressure on it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the degree which Chinese language authorities attempt to suppress contradictory stories. With more revelations in the future through Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs may not get the actual head lines, but the wires have get rid of brand new gentle on the documentation associated with human privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Little about the Uyghurs

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang is the least populated land while it covers near to a sixth with the country's area. Getting resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Muslim mainly, the Uyghur people have a deep religious identification that, in specific, allowed them to maintain a strong big difference in opposition to the Chinese invader. Definitely, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a amazing civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their historical past, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly converting to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result opening the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

Under the influence of the beliefs which they adopted, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own unique graphic system.

The coming of Islam was a great modification because it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

If their writing, their language and their religion mark a real difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different from their characteristic, so aspect of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features pointing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek roots of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only eight million inhabitants - a little for this huge region. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been well-known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular statute allows these people a few privileges in a land exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, looks very illusory. The presence of natural resources in Xinjiang, and its area with locations recognized as very sensitive, highly encouraged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher responsibility job opportunities.

In reaction to this true will to assimilate the Uyghur people into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Asserting more freedom, but mainly the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in area Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The events of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly maintain their identity and their culture , despite the fact that they become a minority on their own land.

For more information about Uyghur people, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Being Right or Making Money

All right, so we knew former Bell officials were bellying up to the public trough. But is there a difference between a pig and a hog?

I decided to check after reading about this e-mail exchange between former Bell Assistant City Administrator Angela Spaccia and Randy Adams, who was about to become the police chief:

ADAMS: "I am looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell's money?!"

SPACCIA: "Okay … just a share of it!! LOL … well you can take your share of the pie … just like us!!! We will all get fat together … Bob has an expression he likes to use on occasion … Pigs get Fat … Hogs get slaughtered!!!! So as long as we're not Hogs … All is well!"

Bob, of course, is Robert Rizzo, the former city administrator who made nearly $800,000 a year. Bob is looking at 53 felony counts in the alleged looting of the city of Bell, so I think you could say the slaughter has begun.

Adams was paid more than $400,000; and Spaccia, who made $376,000, is charged with misappropriating funds. They all got fat together, in other words, and whether you use the term pig, hog or wild boar, what can you say to any of this but oink, oink, oink?

The exchange between Spaccia and Adams was released in the midst of Monday's preliminary hearing, and Spaccia's attorney Russell Petti wasted no time in putting a cloven hoof into his own mouth. He told Times reporter Jeff Gottlieb we shouldn't get the wrong idea about those e-mails, because Spaccia was actually "trying to save the city of Bell money."

Thanks, counselor. I'll believe that when pigs fly, as they say.

Petti also said: "The intent of that is, 'Look, we're all very well compensated by the city and let's not be pigs about it.' "

Yeah, sure. Spaccia tells Adams they'll all get fat together, Adams ends up making more than police chiefs in Los Angeles and New York, and she's out to save Bell money?

But I digress. Is there a difference between a pig and a hog?

Apparently so.

The dictionary says a pig is "any of several mammals of the Suidae family." Or, "any person regarded as being pig-like, greedy or gross."

A hog is defined as a pig weighing over 120 pounds, and also as a "self-indulgent, gluttonous or filthy person."

So are they pigs or are they hogs?

To be safe, should we just go with swine?

-- Steve Lopez

Photos: (Left) Randy Adams in June 2010. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times. (Right): Angela Spaccia in October 2010. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

Over the weekend, a minor firestorm erupted over a new feature in the official Twitter iPhone and iPad clients known as the “Quick Bar,” a strip at the top of a user’s tweet-stream designed to show trending topics. As users started criticizing the feature for being too intrusive, however, it quickly became known as the “dickbar,” in reference to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. Although the company has since said that a new update is on its way that will make the feature less annoying, the outrage over the #dickbar is a symptom of a larger problem for Twitter: it wants to be a business, and users have gotten used to it being a utility.

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One of the big complaints about the new feature is the way the trending topics bar gets overlaid on top of the Twitter stream, appearing whenever the feed was refreshed, and partially obscuring tweets. According to spokesman Sean Garrett, the new update that Twitter has submitted to the Apple store “fixes some bugs, and makes it so the quickbar doesn’t overlay on tweets” — but judging by his tweets and those from CEO Costolo, there’s no sign the company plans to allow users to disable or turn off the feature, something many have been asking for since it was introduced.

Although a number of users have said that they find the whole idea of trending topics irritating and unnecessary, Costolo has made it clear that this is a key part of the service’s functionality, saying “If users didn’t like trends, we wouldn’t have trends.” And while the Twitter CEO didn’t come right out and say so, one of the obvious reasons is that promoted tweets and promoted trends are two of the ways in which the company is trying to generate revenue and profits — and doing this has become even more important now that Twitter is theoretically valued somewhere between $3.7 billion (based on its last round of financing) and $7.7 billion as a result of secondary-market trading.

The Quick Bar fiasco may be a minor event, but it is an indication of a larger problem for Twitter: namely, that it has spent so much of its life being an open communications platform — more like a social-networking utility than a business, with a focus on how it can enable real-time publishing for everyone, including those fighting oppressive governments around the world — that it is jarring for users whenever the company does something cold or calculating like suddenly cutting off Twitter applications (as it did recently with Ubermedia) or implementing features that are clearly designed more to generate revenue than they are to serve the needs of users.

This is a line that Facebook has been trying to walk as well, of course — being a social utility, but also making money from advertising — but it seems to have done a better job of mixing the two so far. As Costolo tries to expand the business to justify those soaring valuations, we are likely to see more clashes with users rather than less.

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