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October 16th, 2006
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Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere
Local Dancers in Poland's Lake District (Mazury) prepare for Sieja (kind of fish) Fish Festival - by Embe, WarsawDaily
Perhaps a Christmas footballing miracle has come early, as Kinuk reports on Poland's victory over the 4th-ranked Portugal last week:
Their victory surprised myself, N and my brother, P, who was texting us furiously throughout the game. If Poland had played like this during the World Cup and for the last few games, supporting them would be a whole different ball game, if you pardon the pun…Portugal had a bad night, but Poland had an exceptional one and they can walk away proud from their achievements.
Not to be outdone by athletes, the Polish judiciary offered up its own legal miracle by beefing up the critical punch of journalists when it comes to overly sensitive, and litigious politicos. Writes Traveling Life:
Poland's top court has taken a step towards defending the freedom of speech, saying that one can only be punished for defaming a state official under a current law if the statements are made while he is performing his function.
And not to violate the “law of threes,” another miracle is noted by Poland - IP law news and Resources - no, it's not that Poles have stopped their incessant complaining, rather:
Arabisc: Unemployment, personal attacks and the birth of a new author
Like many parts of the modern world, unemployment is a plague attacking Arab countries.
Anonymous blogger Alloush writes about a discovery he made while surfing the world wide web.
The Arab blogger found an online forum bringing together unemployed people from across Saudi Arabia - which he is quick to distance himself from!
(ويلكم تو ) بطالة دوت كوم
يبدو أنه سيحرج وزير العمل السعودي ! هذا هو انطباعي الأول لدى عثوري _ بالصدفة المحضة _ على تجمعٍ مشبوه يضم مئات العاطلين عن العمل ! وأذكر عناية السادة القراء بأني قلت بالصدفة , أي أن لاعلاقة لي بهذا التنظيم ولا بحركة إيتا الإنفصالية , ولا حتى بتنظيم القاعدة !!
He announces his precious find to the world as follows:
Away from Saudi Arabia, Mayada Medhat from Egypt has her own axe to grind after getting a barrage of personal insults on her blog. Although she deleted the offensive entry, she writes:
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Sewell, Chile: World Heritage Town
Photo by Mali
Sewell is located at an altitude of over 2,000 metres in the Andes mountains. A copper mining town, this year UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site. La Libélula (ES) explains a little of history, as well as the social scene:
Sewell was established at the beggining of this century in Chile by the Braden Copper Company, and was the home of thousands of miners, workers and functionaries who carried out activities related to commerce, health, education and entertainment. Its unique location in the middle of the mountains gave rise to a city full of staircases and twists which adapted themselves to the unusual topography of the area. The buildings also reflected the social stratifications that existed inside the camp, with houses for the miner families and houses for the office workers and “the American population” where the American and Chilean hierarchy lived.
Mali (ES) has a post about a conversation she has about the Sewell lifestyle with some elderly relatives who used to live there:
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Voices from Zimbabwe
Global Voices has posted a harrowing video documenting the brutal beatings suffered by worker's union demonstrators recently. Read the post and watch the video here.
Debate surrounding a new law, the Domestic Violence Bill, became the context for a much criticized misogynistic outburst in Zimbabwe's parliament last week. Timothy Mubhawu, a controversial Zimbabwe's Member of Parliament, attracted the ire of women worldwide when he, purpoting “to represent God”, expressed his views on the proposed bill,
“I stand here representing God Almighty. Women are not equal to men. It is a dangerous Bill and let it be known in Zimbabwe that the right, privilege and status of men is gone. I stand here alone and say this bill should not be passed in this House. It is a diabolic Bill. Our powers are being usurped in daylight in this House.”
This outburst, wouldn't nearly be as appalling had it been uttered by any other legislator save for Mubhawo. Zimbabwean women were on the streets the day after Mubhawo's infamous statement. Mubhawo is the chief suspect in the brutal assault of Trudy Stevenson, a white female parliamentarian.
Links for Mon, 2006-10
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI puts together some discussions about a recent skin-care adverstisment with the actress' son saying that he wants to marry his mother when he gets old. It results in a debate whether the ad has crossed the line of social standard. Joel also translated a post from Southern Metropolis Weekly.
The opposite end of China puts together some Youtube videos on the recent shooting of Tibetian refugees at the Nepal border by the China PLA.
Diligence China points out that when local software China Star sells at 10RMB while Microsoft Window sells at 500RMB, without piracy, Microsoft won't have a market share like today: Imagine what China’s software industry might look like if piracy hadn’t killed off a viable, home-grown alternative to Microsoft?
In order to prepare for the Olympic, the Beijing city has to double check its English signposts and other instructions. Sohoxiaobao has posted some translation jokes(zh): “folk culture village” is translated into “racist park”; a fired chicken dish is translated into “government abuse chicken”; and the word “dry” in Chinese is often translated into “fxxk”!
Andrew Lih shows the distribution of wikipedia's access in China in a chart form.
Days in Daechuri has the latest update on the anti US military base in Pyongtaek, independent journalists were intimidated by local thugs.
Flying in the face of Guadeloupe's status as a French Overseas Department, Convention pour une Guadeloupe Nouvelle writes (Fr): “A nation must live its past in order to be inspired by it. … We will [therefore] celebrate the birth of the Guadeloupean nation in October. It is indeed during the months of October and November 1801 that for the first time, after the long night of slavery, Guadeloupeans discovered that they are a people and rejected the colonial slave system. The Guadeloupean army seized power on October 21, 1801 and designated … an interim government. We demand that all the heros of the time be treated with pomp and that a national mausoleum be erected.”
Guadeloupe Attitude writes (Fr): “Patrick Verdol, Livio Lison and Bella Mado are the 3 Guadeloupeans chosen by the seven Guadeloupean Rotary Clubs to participate in the 2006 RYLA of District 7030 … Chosen by the clubs and districts for their potential leadership, youth aged 14 to 30, attend all expenses paid seminars, camps or workshops about developing leadership and knowledge.”
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