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Old 12-02-2006, 09:13 PM posted to rec.gardens
Doug Kanter
 
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"James" wrote in message
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China can take care of their own social structure without any help but the
west still pushes for better human rights as they should.


Here's another example of China taking care of its own social structu

An article we can read here, about our political system. You could google
for it, or go directly to the web site.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/po...gewanted=print

Small chunk of article - get all the way past it:
Photograph Shows Lobbyist at Bush Meeting With Legislators
By PHILIP SHENON and LOWELL BERGMAN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - After weeks in which the White House has declined to
release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced
lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two men shows a small,
partly obscured image of Mr. Abramoff looking on from the background as Mr.
Bush greets a Texas Indian chief in May 2001.

By itself, the picture hardly seems worthy of the White House's efforts to
keep it out of the public eye. Mr. Abramoff, a leading Republican
fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to corrupt public
officials, is little more than a blurry, bearded figure in the background at
a gathering of about two dozen people.

But it provides a window, albeit an opaque one, into Mr. Abramoff's efforts
to sell himself to Indian tribes as a man of influence who could open the
most secure doors in Washington to them. And it leaves unanswered questions
about how Mr. Abramoff and the tribal leader, whom he was trying to sign as
a client, gained access to a meeting with the president on the White House
grounds that was ostensibly for a group of state legislators who were
supporting Mr. Bush's 2001 tax cut plan.

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And, here's how China "manages" its social structure - by censorship:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/we...gewanted=print



So Long, Dalai Lama: Google Adapts to China
By JOSEPH KAHN
BEIJING

SO what does the Dalai Lama look like, anyway?

Chinese Tibetans or other Buddhists who might be curious could try finding
images of the spiritual leader on Google.cn, a new search engine that Google
tailored for China and is now, two weeks after its unveiling, on full
display to local Web users.

Is he that guy with puffy cheeks wearing a Western suit? No, that's Liu
Jianchao, China's foreign ministry spokesman, demanding that the Dalai Lama
stop trying to split the motherland. What about that balding man leading a
big delegation? No, that's Chen Yi, a late Chinese vice prime minister,
offering grain to the Tibetan people.

Only one of the 161 images produced by searching in Chinese for the Dalai
Lama on Google.cn shows the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet
since 1940. He is pictured as a young man meeting senior Chinese officials.
That was before 1959, when China's People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet
and the Dalai Lama fled into exile.

For people outside China, or Chinese who can circumvent the Internet
firewall, the 2,030 images on unfiltered Google.com favor the Dalai Lama of
today. He is the genial-looking guy in the burgundy and saffron robe, here
meeting President Bush, there speaking to 40,000 people in New Jersey.

Several of the biggest media and technology companies have come under attack
for helping the Chinese government police the Web. Yahoo provided
information about its users' e-mail accounts that helped the authorities
convict dissidents in 2003 and 2005, Chinese lawyers say. Microsoft closed a
popular blog it hosted that offended Chinese censors. Cisco has sold
equipment that helps Beijing restrict access to Web sites it considers
subversive.