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POPSChina Goes Out With a Bang....... ........ and The Whimper of the Oppressed is Barely Heard........ I wonder, though, if anyone oohing and aahing over the fireworks in Beijing gave thought to the thousands of Chinese peasants who will die because their government took their water away so it could produce the fake beauty of the Olympic compound. Maybe we’ll see that story show up in an NBC news report, do you think? I’m sure the network will get right on that as soon as it gets up off its knees and straightens up its clothing.
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POPSYou remember Al Qaeda, right? The Anchoress, who came to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And she was fresh out of bubblegum. Yeah, that guy! The guy who does more than just talk about freedom and progress. The guy who has brought real hope and change to people all over the world, and yes, here in America. But you don’t want to hear it. It’s the wrong and inconvenient narrative, the embargoed one.
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POPSBeijing Olympics Not So "Dazzling" Last week, Bush met with several Chinese dissidents in Washington, signalling that he would take a hard line on human rights. That sparked a harsh response from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which said that Bush had "rudely interfered in China's internal affairs."
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POPSFalun Gong Targeted Ahead Of Beijing Olympics authorities have instead been using the Olympics as a pretext to escalate persecutions of religious and political dissidents. Chinese authorities fear that Falun Gong, along with Tibetans, Uighurs, and other dissidents, may use the international media presence during the games to draw attention to their causes. "It is now imperative that the international community leverage real pressure and stop these deplorable actions, lest the legacy of the 2008 Olympics be hundreds of Beijing residents languishing in labor camps," Zhang said. The apparent animosity towards Falun Gong on the part of the Beijing Olympics organizer is hardly new. In 2004, the head of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee, Liu Qi, was found liable in a U.S. federal court for his role in the torture of Falun Gong practitioners while he was serving as mayor of Beijing.
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POPSChinese Dissidents Urge Beijing Talks With Dalai Lama China is damaging its own international credibility by prohibiting journalists from entering its Tibetan regions, the dissidents added. Yesterday the official Chinese media alleged that the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, was manipulating the protests in a bid to take the Beijing Olympics “hostage.” The administrative leader of Tibet, Qiangba Puncog, was quoted as saying that China must completely defeat “secessionist forces” to “ensure a successful Olympic Games.”
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POPSYahoo sells dissidents to the chinese governement Videolink: http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2Fvod%2Fdok%2F2008%2F02%2Fdok_20080206.rm Yahoo china surveys internet users and give this information to the chinese police. This information was used to condamn people up to ten years prison. Shame on you, yahoo!
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POPSUS rebukes Yahoo over China case Shi Tao - who was jailed for 10 years - but it has since emerged that other Yahoo employees had a document stating it was to do with the "suspected illegal provision of state secrets". He also questioned how Mr Callahan could not have known of the document referring to "state secrets" - a charge commonly used to prosecute dissidents and pro-democracy activists. Yahoo's Michael Callahan wrote a letter to "beg the forgiveness" of Shi Tao's mother. Shi Tao was jailed for sending on to foreign websites an e-mail from the ruling Communist Party warning journalists not to cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 2004.
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POPSWorld leaders meet at APEC After months of campaigning on domestic issues with the upcoming federal election, the focus is now on Australia's place on the world stage. Prime Minister John Howard believes the involvement of the United States is critical to the stability of the Asia-Pacific region and supports the deployment of Australian troops to Iraq. In contrast Opposition leader Kevin Rudd, while a supporter of the of the US alliance, is at odds with Mr Bush over keeping troops in Iraq. Could this stance be a vote wiinner?
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POPSYahoo in China human rights case Funny how China is still getting help from companies such as Yahoo, even though they know human rights are not measured as we measure them. Must be the money?
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POPSYahoo in China human rights case The men's defence lawyer said Yahoo should have asked the Chinese government why it wanted information about the two men before handing it over. He said Yahoo had failed to live up to its ethical responsibilities. Strict laws exist in China to regulate the internet. Shi Tao was jailed for posting comments critical of government corruption on the web. Yahoo is not the only internet company accused of collaborating with Chinese authorities. Rivals Google freely admit to blocking politically sensitive items on their China website. Whole websites - including media sources - are eliminated from Yahoo and Google in China. De-listed sites are skipped over when the search engine trawls the web for results. The internet firms argue it is better to offer Chinese users some information than none at all.
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POPSYahoo and freedom of speech in China An interesting story, which can lead to unpleasant outcome to Yahoo, and later to companies like Google. Indeed whoever work in China needs to comply with Chinese law, but Yahoo/Google and such are not just regular companies, they all know too much about us, and are successful because we give the information willingly, it gives them also responsibility, morally if not legal. Also "Internet rights" for users should be global.
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