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China: Obama, can you?
Obama has been sworn in as the first African American president, with a popular support peaking at its high. His inauguration summoned as many as two million people, and his address occasionally interrupted by thunder-like claps and acclaims. The rhythmic incanting “O-ba-ma!” oftentimes burst out of the packed and vital throng, people singing and dancing to salute to their new leader with tears in eyes. Though it is in the the depth of winter, swirl pool of crisis, the man has been charged with great hope and authority, thought as the first change people need.
This is astonishing to many Chinese.
It is not that the scene is foreign to us. It is all too familiar. Pomp and ceremony is never absent in the country. People can't help but recall the scene that in 1960s millions of intoxicated crowd parading past Tiananmen Square, with Chairman Mao wavering to them on the platform. People yelled in chorus “Long live Chairman Mao!”, bearing tears in eyes, because among many, their biggest dream is but to see in person the greatest leader Mao.
Mao with throng
Obama with crowd
Therefore in China today, when faith to the authoritarian is far less fanatic, many of us are so amazed at Americans, puzzled by their “fanaticism”. It is almost synonymous to personality cult, a tradition largely forgiven, severely criticized, long associated with despotism in China. What happened to the democratic America?
In Tianya, a post with two pages of comments kicks off an interesting discussion of Obama.
yshocker questioned, being confused by the unparalleled heat of America:
我就不明白了，一个总统上任，啥事都没干呢，就搞那么大动静，这是选秀还是干嘛呢，奥巴马说得再好听，那也是嘴皮子功夫了得，到底是怎么样一个人，还是未知呢！
I just don't understand; a new president took the office, having not yet achieved anything, but has already created so profound an impact! Is this just a big show or something else? However sweet his words are, they are just good lip service. What on earth a character is he? It is unknown!
Let-me-say-something (让我也说几句吧), however, proclaims:
看好前景
But AV journalist (AV记者) made laugh of him and those who always expect America as a rescue and an example of China:
奥巴马上台了，有人出自内心的欢呼，有人似乎找到了新的靠山般的欢呼；这种欢呼，每四年都会来一次。但是这么多年来，他们为之欢呼的人物，为他们改变了什么了么？什么都没有！
八滋 pondered on the millions of dollars spent on the ceremony:
我倒是觉得奥巴马这孩子实诚。 上任第一天，就烧了一把大火。 一亿多美元的钱砸下去办派对，该能拉动多少美国人民的内需阿。这真金白银地花出去，可比什么动动嘴皮子的就职演说更能传递信息。[洋人不是常说lip-service is cheap嘛］
建议我国ZF向奥先生学习。多办大办派对呀，音乐会呀。
I suggest our government learning from Mr. Obama. Hold big parties and make concerts.
However, though the image of America, in the 8-year Bush administration, has been very negatively affected by the wars it sowed and its unfavored diplomacy, quite a lot comments on the bulletin board still show faith and hope on the new president regardless of the questions. To be more accurate, it is an assent to the American ideals of democracy and liberty.
The initiator of the thread says:
美国先贤的理想是人类历史迄今为止最为重要、最具历史意义的“思想革命”。
美国建国者的理想之所以可贵，盖因他们宣扬的价值观是符合人性的（没有人喜欢被奴役、被限制自由——贱人除外，呵呵），是要所有人（或套用时髦的“最大多数人”）幸福而非极少数权贵的骄奢淫逸，是对掌权者憎恶至少是不信任因而必须加以限制的，是符合理性人的追求但同时对理性抱有适度怀疑的,，所以，除了宗教的固执和非理性的偏见，全世界的人民都能认同。
These ideals are precious because what they advocate is consistent with humanity (no one wants to be enslaved, or be constrained–except mean people); they are for the happiness of majority rather than for the benefit of a few. They dissent, or at least distrust, the rulers so that restrains have to be imposed; they are in accord with the pursuit of any rational people, but also keeps moderate skepticism of pure rationality. So, unless blinded by bigot and irrationality, the whole world would agree upon the creeds.
accq, in his comment, identifies with Obama's speech, particularly in the part explaining how a country can be powerful:
奥巴马在他的演讲中说，美国的强大不是源于它的坚船利炮，而是源于自由、平等的理念和机会均等的社会体制，这是一切创造力的源泉。可惜很多中国人并没有认识到这一点。
Middle East: Boycott as a Political Weapon
Many people across the Middle East have decided to boycott Israeli and American products in response to the Israeli war on Gaza.
The Angry Arab News Service wrote:
Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also on the list.
Among all the American brands, Starbucks was the main target of the boycotting campaigns. Zeinobia, from Egypt, wrote about this saying:
Starbucks, the famous Starbucks branch was closed in Beirut for a day because of the protests. There are calls and actual respond to it across the Arab world to boycott the American products especially 84268245 those products associated with Israel in a way or another.
She then continued:
Of course the Arabic public is convinced that Starbucks in America gives annual donation to the IDF due to the fact that founder and the owner of Starbucks is a Jew, to be honest this is not enough to draw a conclusion that the chain donates to the IDF but news like that one makes the Arab public thinks twice.
Starbucks-IDF rumors are bit old rumours even before it opens its branches in Egypt ,it was fought in the Arab world.
I remember one day I received any email about the logo of Starbucks and its history , saying that it is the Hebrew Princess that saved the Jews in Babylonian ancient time where in reality it is another whole thing.
The boycotting campaigns were not limited to the Arab world only, and American-Palestinian group blog KABOBfest reported here how people in Malaysia are also participating in the campaigns:
Over 2,000 Muslim-owned restaurants in Malaysia have taken Coca-Cola off the menu in an effort to support global boycotts against Israel. Local organizations are encouraging employees of Coca-Cola, as well as Starbucks and other companies, to quit their jobs.
From Jordan, Khobbeizeh also wrote about boycotting Starbucks:
Howard Schultz is an active Zionist, extremely sectarian for the Israeli army. He is supporting them with hundred of millions yearly from Starbucks' income, and he's one of the major sponsors of their weaponry.
For sure, the Israeli products were boycotted by many people as well, and here is what Body on the Line wrote in her blog:
Farmers say much of their produce is being held in warehouses due to canceled orders, and fear a sharp decrease in fruit exports to countries such as Jordan, Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.
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Ilan Eshel, director of the Organization of Fruit Growers in Israel, said Scandinavian countries have also been canceling orders.
The American blogger, who lives in Palestine, then wrote about how academics in the United Kingdom are reacting to the Israeli attack on Gaza:
British academics have written an open letter, published in the Guardian, calling for boycott, divestment, and sanctions:
“We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war. Israel must accept that its security depends on justice and peaceful coexistence with its neighbors, and not upon the criminal use of force.”
“We believe Israel should immediately and unconditionally end its assault on Gaza, end the occupation of the West Bank, and abandon all claims to possess or control territory beyond its 1967 borders. We call on the British government and the British people to take all feasible steps to oblige Israel to comply with these demands, starting with a programme of boycott, divestment and sanctions.”
In London students also took action in solidarity with Gaza at the prestigious London school of economics:More than 40 students were continuing their sit-in at the London School of Economics today in protest at the conflict in Gaza.
There are also organizations and sites that are dedicated to spreading word about the campaigns like this, this, and this one.
But on the other hand some others, like Crossroads Arabia were not that much into the boycotting:
Saudi Gazette reports that a boycott of American products in support of the people of Gaza is beginning to take hold in Saudi Arabia. As with earlier, similar boycotts, this one is likely to a) assuage Saudi feelings of impotence and b) hurt the Saudi franchisees and their employees, without actually doing much damage to the US economy, contrary to what a professor from King Abdulaziz University states.
It’s clear that the idea of a boycott has strong popular support, though.
Also Jewlicious wrote a post in reply to Khobbeizeh:
Now, I’m no big fan of Starbucks, or of Coffee for that matter, but the notion that Starbucks supports the IDF to the tune of “hundred of millions yearly” is patently ludicrous. Khobbeizeh my friend, your ample Photoshop skills aside, you are an idiot.
The Egyptian Bloggers Bookfair
With more than 15 new titles, Egyptian bloggers take the 2009 Cairo International Book Fair by storm.
Mohamed Hamdy wrote:
كتب المدونين فى المعرض لا تعد ولا تحصى .. المدون المصرى محمد التهامى يصدر له رواية هيروبولس وكتاب “إشتغل وإنت فى البيت” بالإضافة لإعادة بيع مجموعته القصصيه السابقة بنى أدم مع وقف التنفيذ. ساديزم هو عنوان المجموعة القصصية التى يصدرها المدون محمد الغزالى. وتصدر فى معرض الكتاب ثلاثة كتب اخرى يصدرها مدون أخر هو حسام مصطفى ابراهيم حيث يصدر له كتب “لولا وجود الحب” و “من غلبى” و “يوميات مدرس فى الأرياف”
فنان … كاتب .. شاعر.. والأروع : مدون بالتأكيد نتحدث عن الفنان خالد الصاوى والذى يصدر له ديوان أجراس والنص المسرحى اللعب فى الدماغ ويوميات خلود. للكاتبة والناقدة والصحفية والمدوّنة هويدا صالح صاحبة مدوّنة عشق البنات تصدر لها رواية عشق البنات خلال معرض الكتاب الحالى
أما عن ظاهره اشتراك اكثر من مدون فى إخراج كتاب واحد فهى تجربه جديده .. بدأتها بدرية طه وبسمه عبد الباسط من خلال كتاب “البنات عاوزه ايه” , ثم تبعهم محمد كمال حسن ومصطفى الحسينى بكتاب “قهوة المصريين” المدونة سحر غريب سيدصدر لها كتاب “حماتى ملاك” ويصدر لمحمد فتحى مجموعة مقالات فى كتاب بعنوان “مصر من البلكونه”
والسؤال هو : هل نشهد ظاهرة تحول التدوين من ظاهره الكترونية الى ظاهره مقروؤة ؟ وما هى الحدود الحقيقية لهؤلاء الجالسين خلف الشاشات المضيئة يكتبون؟
Countless blogger books are to be seen on the racks; Mohamed El Tohamy has two new books - “Hierapolis” and “Work from Home” - in addition to a reprint of his first novel, “A Human Being on Hold.” “Sadism” is a new novel by blogger Mohamed Al Ghazaly. Hossam Mostafa Ibrahim has three new books: “But for Love“, “Out of Helplessness,” and “The Daily Diaries of a Teacher in the Countryside.” Khaled El Sawy, an actor, a writer, a poet, and a blogger, published his poetry titled “Bells,” a play named “Mind Games,” and a novel called “Kholoud's Diaries.” Writer, journalist, and critic Howaida Saleh published a book named after her blog: “Girls Infatuation.”
There is also a new phenomenon worth mentioning and that is when two bloggers co-author a book. Badria Taha and Basma Abdel Baset started it with their book “What do Girls Want?” followed by Mohamed Kamal Hassan and Mostafa Al Husseiny with their book: “Egyptian's Cafe.” Sahar Ghareeb is expecting her book “My Mother-in-law is an Angel” and Mohamed Fathi is expecting a collection of essays in a book titled “Egypt seen from the Balcony.” Facebook swarmed with invitations to groups and events promoting the books and the book fair.
My question is: Are we witnessing a historical moment that is turning blogging from the screen to print? What are the borderlines of those authors behind the screen?
Blogger Ahmed Al Sabbagh created a Facebook group and a variety of events for bloggers who are interested in group visits to the fair, rather than going on their own. The group has almost 2,000 members and the days for the chosen visits are aligned with weekends.
ويضم حالياً أكثر من ألف وسبعمائة عضو وأقترح عمل أربع زيارات جماعية فى الأيام الأتيه
January 23
January 24
January 30
January 31
In addition to the books mentioned in Mohamed Hamdy's notes, Ahmed Al Sabbagh found more bloggers' books:
Al Sabbagh wrote here about Hesham Abbeya's book: “M Case” and here about Nancy Habib's book: “I love the Cinema.”
Philippines: The root cause of the flooding
The series of floods that hit many parts of the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region have been dubbed as the first great natural calamity of the new year. While floods are a common occurrence in this tropical parts of the world, the present floodings were said to be the worst in recent memory.
In the Philippines, media reports have cited weeks of heavy rain brought by a cold front as the immediate cause of the massive flooding and landslides. Some Filipino bloggers have started asking more questions. What was the root cause of the flooding? What is really happening? Here are some efforts of Filipino bloggers to make sense of the disaster:
Ed Montalvan of The Mindanao Current gives a historical perspective on the flooding:
I cannot tell you about how it was before I was born but in 1955 there was a big flood… At that time my father used to tell us that every 25 years the river swells but the one before that was in 1941 and he said that was only a 14 year gap. He didn’t like that because he thought it was dangerous.
Then in the 60s (maybe that was 1965 or 1966 because I left Cagayan de Oro after that) the river swelled again but it was only up to the edge of Burgos. The street was never covered by water at the place where we lived…
As my father told us, this used to happen every 25 years and at that time there were no logging operations and the forest cover was thick. If this happens at shorter intervals then it means this world of ours is getting to be in a very bad shape.
The prevalence of religious narratives to account for the floods caught the attention of Kevin Paquet of pinoyteens.net.
BenCyrus G. Ellorin, an environmentalist and community worker based in Cagayan de Oro, blames logging for the flooding:
There were small efforts to reforest our watershed. Our group started a small indigenous forest species (dipterocarp) reforestation project in the Dansolihon, Bayanga areas, in the Monigue Creek, but when external funds went dry, it wasn’t anymore replicated. Many other small initiatives were done, but none big and sustainable enough was pursued. These big and sustainable project, naturally should have been done by the government, both the local and national government. But instead, our officials looked the other way, enjoyed the bright city lights and ignored the elephant in our backyard so to speak. Then came January 3, 2009…
The cause of the disaster that visited us is not a result of short-term causes but a result of 20 – 30 years of abuse and neglect to our forest ecosystem, the watershed of Cagayan de Oro. It was a result of unabated legal and illegal logging and mindless land use conversion.
Coffee Writings comments on the news of the banning of mining in one of the affected cities:
What happened last week has never happened in the city for decades. A historian said that the last big flood in the city happened during the 1960’s, but the recent one is probably way bigger. I think this is caused by mining, quarrying and an almost depleted forest.
Mayor Constantino Jaraula suspended all quarrying and mining operations, an act which should have been done years ago. Different sectors have been calling for it to stop for a long time. But as we all know, government needs to be poked in the head in order for it to act. Farmers have to hunger strike and walk the miles and miles in order to be heard. In this case, mother nature has to have landslide and floods in order for her to be heard.
The Green Theory adds:
What is sad is that the people who are affected are ordinary people who can barely keep up with day to day living. The high officials who issued permits to logging companies and the owners of these logging companies are in the comfort of their homes this weekend or having golf at an exclusive club while the people in the villages are starving.
The flash floods in Cagayan de Oro tells us forcefully that we cannot have a flash flood free country if we continue on denuding our forests. It may be very hard to tell this to those people who are benefiting financially by the denuding of our forests.
Gracey points at climate change as the cause of the floodings:
As the weather patterns change abruptly, temperatures are increasing and sea levels are rising. this causes low lying islands to suffer from frequent floods. The only thing we can do now is to try and reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible.
Caustic Thoughts see the floods as the price of development:
Of course, the old ones still believe in conspiracy theories and they suspect that the powers that be have been affixing their signatures in invisible ink on logging clearances. The younger theorists though tend to believe more in the effects of global warming. The Cagayan de Oro flood may very well have been our first taste of the nastiness of this new-fangled environmental mess…
The sad fact is, whether global warming really causes floods or not, these floods are likely related to the price of what industrialists call development, the kind that they enjoy. The ones whose homes were underwater for a day or disappeared with the water forever probably can’t appreciate anything.
Living Life Simply adds:
Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J., D.D. has called on the Catholic community to show their faith by extending a helping hand to the victims of massive flooding and stressed the need to go back to the root cause of the flooding. He cited flash mining that have silted the river of Iponan and also the logging upstream not only in the interior of Cagayan de Oro but also in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur areas have led to the environmental disaster.
Disasters are in the waiting.
Devastations triggered by ‘natural' disasters stems from ecologically destructive practices. More often, indications of environmental abuse are overlooked because ‘development' projects appear to be economically viable for the community.
The excessive land use due to economic activities is eroding the natural buffers that protect communities from hazard risk. It also destroys the watershed areas that provide the nature cover to ensure that water flow is not so destructive. These changes often erode people's capacity to recover from disaster.
In the meantime, the Philippine government has ordered an investigation on the cause of the floods. Rescue and relief operations continue. Efforts to help flood victims through blogs and social networking sites are also in progress.
Guyana: Dirty Laundry?
The new President of the United States is the Caribbean's darling, but the President of Guyana is having a tougher time of it. Ridiculed for asking the police to track down the creators of a false Facebook page that bears his name and criticized for his government's poor response to the country's recent floods, the latest controversy to plague him comes in the form of his ex-wife spilling the beans about their stormy personal relationship and Mr. Jagdeo's alleged failure to provide her with a divorce settlement. Bloggers, of course, are all over the story…
Living Guyana was first on the ball, republishing the entire text of Varshnie Singh's press conference statement, the contents of which left him feeling “conflicted”:
The day after the Obama inauguration: on the one hand the world seems on the right path…and what a lovely family, with that adorable Sasha. Then our heart is weighed down by the revelations of domestic abuse by our own President and we feel there is no hope for this country when the person in charge can be allegedly so petty, so vindictive, so cheap and hard hearted to a woman whom he promised to care for through thick and thin.
What hope then for us his subjects whom he does not even know?
The blogger was unimpressed with the official response from the Office of the President, but seemed more concerned about the fallout that he anticipates from the women of Guyana:
The pity is that we can already feel the backlash coming..not from the President whose press release spoke volumes with its silence over the private matters, but rather from women in Guyana who will now rally like a hundred mindless concubines around Jagdeo, while casting this woman as some outsider who came from England and did not ‘know how to look after she man'.
For the most part, bloggers appear to be empathetic towards the former first lady. Living Guyana, for instance, calls the mainstream media's reaction to the story “tame”:
It plays down the substantive issues Varshnie Singh-Jagdeo raised yesterday. It almost completely ignores the progressive marital neglect and domestic abused the woman suffered at the hands of President Bharrat Jagdeo.
Additionally it carries President Jagdeo's response in full. Very, very suspicious and we also notice the deliberate move to exclude this matter from the front page but overplaying the Barack Obama inauguration.
Perhaps some enterprising reporter should investigate why this article almost did not even make it into Kaieteur News as Mr. Harris, the editor-in-chief argued that it was a ‘private matter'. He was forced to include it after there was major uproar in the newsroom last night with reporters forced to issue threats of resignation if the article was not carried.
The blogger then publishes a series of posts ruminating on specific details of Singh's statement, culminating in a post that details the former first lady's twelve demands.
Meanwhile, diaspora blogger Signifying Guyana offers a female perspective:
Why should you care? Because she knows about your greater pain.
Varshnie Singh is a former First Lady who has unquestionably volunteered her services to the sick and infirm in Guyana. She has spent time with them and their families, and she has been a part of their lives. She has to be very knowledgeable about the lives of the disadvantaged and the abused in Guyana.
She has spoken bravely because you can't. She has gotten people to listen because you can't. She can get this message to a larger audience: If the President of Guyana can treat his wife with such private and then public contempt, by not seeing it fit to address her accusations of neglect and abuse in their marriage, then how can he be expected to care about abused women in Guyana?
She has done this because she knows you can't.
Guyana 911, however, tries to look at the situation from the President's point of view:
This is what I have concluded in a few words:
It's unfair of anyone to classify Mr. Jagdeo as a monster based on allegations. Some things can be classified as either true or false rather easily. Other things are allegations and should be treated with an open mind. So what if Jagdeo is accused of being mean and not speaking to her? This could be as true, or inversely, false or an emotional exaggeration. Whichever you prefer.
We are glad she has a big dream to help and such. But she was impractical in her approach to it and Mr. Jagdeo failed to give her the informed memo. Just because she has a dream of doing something good doesn't mean everyone should jump onto her bandwagon to make it possible. We all have dreams.
Government isn't supposed to jump on board and provide vehicular resources. Government is not required to provide an office in the Office of the President. Government is not supposed to sponsor her charity related over seas trips. Government is not required to provide a location for her fund raiser. There isn't land in the interior waiting for someone with a vision to do something with it. Her being allowed to stay in State House after the separation is at Mr. Jagdeo's discretion.
The debate rages on in the Guyanese blogosphere: private or public matter? A woman scorned or an unfeeling husband? As is the case with the presidency of Barack Obama, only time will answer the lingering questions.
Bolivia: The Situation After the Referendum
The campaign for the Constitutional Referendum has ended across Bolivia and Sunday's vote is eagerly awaited. After months of a tension-filled campaign from both supporters and opponents of the draft Constitution, many are left wondering what will happen after the vote. Some other bloggers reflect on some of the problems that will still remain regardless of the vote's outcome and who is to blame for the country's predicament.
La Cholita of Sembrando Palabras [es] writes about some people's sentiments that it doesn't matter which Constitution governs Bolivia, that is people will find a way to continue its problems. She hopes that little by little the new Constitution will change that and that people will say “The best thing Bolivia has….is its people!”
The choices and actions made by the Bolivians under the Constitution will be what determines the country's fate. However, the country will still be facing real challenges, especially in the economic sector.
Roberto Laserna, a social-sciences professor, writes on his blog about the paradox of President Evo Morales' hold on power [es]. While his popularity is maintaining as proven by his victories in recent referendums and elections, his capacity to govern is diminishing. The gas industry and one of the major revenue sources of the country is at a standstill, and confidence in the country's hydrocarbons industry is at an all-time low.
Evo, más popular pero con menos poder. Esa es la paradoja. Por supuesto, me refiero a poder no en términos de la autoridad que puede ejercer sobre su círculo de amigos o sobre las masas que lo aman, sino al poder de hacer cosas, de transformar la realidad, de cumplir promesas. Ese poder es cada vez menor y, en gran medida, como consecuencia de sus propios actos.
Evo is more popular, but with less power. That is the paradox. Of course, I refer to power, not in terms of authority over his circle of friends of the masses that love him, but to power to do things, to transform reality, to fulfill promises. That power is less and less, and in large part, due to his own actions.
Many opponents of President Morales point to the rhetoric used and criticizes his way of blaming outside parties for the country's problems. Andrés Pucci lists some of the claims over the past three years [es], such as the claim that the U.S. sent terrorists, that the Drug Enforcement Agency was spying, and that there are plans to topple his government.
Pucci also points to the recent inaugural address by President Barack Obama, who directed some words to foreign leaders:
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
and Pucci adds:
Es facil acusar a Estados Unidos para tratar de justificar nuestras incapacidades como sociedad para elegir un buen candidato, esto desde que Bolivia es Bolivia, fácil es culpar a 500 años y a gobernantes pasados de lo que sucede ahora, fácil es guardar resentimiento.
It's easy to accuse the United States in order to try and justify our incapacity as a society to elect a good candidate, which is what has happened since Bolivia became Bolivia, easy to blame 500 years and post governments for what is happening now, easy to hold onto resentment.
Links for Thu, 2009-01
“I admit…it feels very good that George W. Bush is no longer President of the United States of America,” writes The Arabist, from Egypt.
“Check out the first post at Maghreb Politics Review. I’ve added some people as contributors, if you want to be added as an editor or as an admin, let me know,” announces Algerian blogger The Moor Next Door.
Window on Russia writes about a Ryazan Tajik activist's appeal to the Russian media to stop “fanning the flames of ethnic hatred against migrants” and the launch of the Migration-007 magazine, whose goal would be to “'change the stereotypes and myths' that Russians have about migrants and that migrants have about Russians.”
Pictures of an Armenian church under construction and a mosque under re-construction in Moscow's Olimpiysky Sports Arena neighborhood - at Pictures of Moscow.
Saudi blogger Hala, who currently lives in the United States, has posted her thoughts on Obama's inauguration: “For those of us who think it’s possible to see democracy in our part of the world, check the emphasis on holding government officials accountable, can we have such a system in our country?”
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