[GreenYouth] Will China Implode?

[Sukla Sen]

The regimes constituting the Warsaw Pact fell one after another, like nine
pins, between 89 and 91.
Despite some rumblings, in Poland in particular, the developments looked too
sudden.
The crumbling of the Soviet Union following a failed coup attempt by a hard
line section of the Communist Party meant to depose Gorbachev stunned the
rest of the world.
That was the culmination.
Unlike in democratic regimes, where dissent is allowed to be expressed, here
things just exploded, apparently out of the blue.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-28/will-china-implode/

Will
China Implode?
by Isabel Hilton
July 28, 2009 | 11:25pm
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Obama and Chinese officials met this week for high-level policy talks, and
avoided exchanges on human rights. But China expert Isabel Hilton says
minority revolts in China recently show it is an empire in crisis.

There is a story that the Chinese government likes to tell: that China is
the world’s oldest continuous, unchanging civilization (the dates vary,
according to the exuberance of the moment, from 2,000 to a mythical 5,000
years). This unique history, the story continues, will determine China’s
future. In this narrative of Chinese exceptionalism, the leadership remains
immune to demands for democracy or any resemblance to other developed
countries. The government hopes that this story will prove persuasive enough
for the Communist Party to keep the Mandate of Heaven and avoid challenges
to its exclusive right to rule for the foreseeable future.


The revolt of the minorities is only a symptom of a wider political malaise.

It’s a curious story for a Communist Party and very different to the earlier
myths of origin. Where once it promoted class struggle and revolution,
today’s party invokes history and tradition in support of its right to rule.
In its latest identification with the imperial orders of the past, the
regime is even restoring Confucianism as the core state narrative.

It’s a long way from the Communist Party’s own origins in the revolt in the
early 20th century against the suffocating orthodoxies of Confucianism,
blamed by the modernizers of the day for China’s slide into stagnation. As
recently as the 1970s, Confucius was still thought sufficiently poisonous as
an inheritance to merit a virulent campaign of criticism, along with such
imported bad hats as the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, the late
Ludwig Van Beethoven and the children’s book Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
They made an odd quartet, but no odder than the current spectacle of a
Communist Party that extols the virtues of Mencius and claims to be building
a “harmonious” society.

Remarkably, despite its obvious flaws, this narrative appeals to those
Western commentators who believe that China’s rise is, in the Marxist
phrase, a historical inevitability, and who accept Beijing’s latest version
of history at face value.

Take this recent example, from the British author Martin Jacques’ book When
China Rules the World:

“China has existed roughly within its present borders for 2,000 years and
only over the last century has it come to regard itself as a nation state.”

China does not, in fact, officially define itself as a nation state but as a
multiethnic state in which all nationalities theoretically enjoy equal
status. A more accurate description would be that it is a recently expanded
land-based empire struggling to justify itself. Far from living within the
same borders for 2,000 years, China today occupies a land area roughly twice
the size of Ming Dynasty China, its expansion driven by the Manchu conquest
in the 18th century. It has an aggressive policy of colonization,
exploitation of natural resources, and assimilation. Like all such empires
before it, it suffers from the strains of keeping the lid on those it has
colonized, who do not identify with an imperial project from which they
derive little benefit.

When China Rules the World was published some 10 months after last year’s
uprising in Tibet and six weeks before this year’s riots in Xinjiang. By the
time it had been on the bookshelves eight weeks, the Chinese government had
been obliged to put nearly half of its territory (including Xinjiang and the
Tibetan Autonomous Region) under tight paramilitary control.

The People’s Armed Police, the shock troops of Beijing’s attempt to impose
civil order (officially described as “harmony”) are pursuing familiar
tactics in Xinjiang: mass arrests within a troublesome demographic—ethnic
minority males—undisclosed places and conditions of detention; trials that
meet no standards of justice and long prison sentences, often preceded by
rough treatment.

It is doubtful, though, whether these measures will be any more effective
than they have been in the past. Beijing’s diagnosis of the sickness in its
body politic is as flawed as its treatment: If repression fails, apply more
repression, a policy res

[GreenYouth] Re: [FEC] Re: The Ad by IT Mission

[Anivar Aravind]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Anivar Aravind 
Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FEC] Re: The Ad by IT Mission
To: fourth-estate-criti...@googlegroups.com


Dear PSR,

I clearly said my point is not on individual, It the method of
drafting qualifications for the post to filter out applications.  The
line by line analysis is posted earlier  and also on blog
http://replyspot.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html

Anyway through your forwards you are contradicting your stand. earlier
you said their is no such person. Now you are mentioning about alleged
person in CUSAT. I never named anyone. If you feel the qualifications
representing someone , i feel  you agreed with my point. There is a
room for believing it is drafted for one person in mind .


GNU/Linux is spreading in india Mainly after  1998 . But users become
aware about the freedoms & Free Software movement by  2000-2001
onwards

In this context 2nd point is rubbish if you are looking at people from
India.  If you are looking at average age of Indian Free Software
Contributors , it is below 30 - Age limits of the qualification
clearly filter  them . Academic Qualification of most of them varying
between B.Tech/ MS/PhD Registration . So requirement for  PHD filter
rest  of them too .


I challenge you to name at least 3 people from India with all the
qualifications listed in advertisement+ 10 year involvement with FOSS
. Also it is worth to note that in advt 10 year involvement with FOSS
is not mandatory for Professor ( technically people can argue that In
UGC , there is no position called Professor) .  It is only mandatory
for other people.

Since the centre is using public money , and plans to work with Free
Software Communities in the state & Abroad , it is a matter of concern
for us.  And I believe it need to be closely watched and examined.

And about Akshaya Director post, ജനകീയാസൂത്രണമൊക്കെ ക്വാളിഫിക്കേഷനായി
വരുന്നതു ഇതാദ്യമായി കാണുകയാണ് .


Anivar Aravind

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM, PSRajasekharan wrote:
> See this mail too which further clarifies this issue.
>
>
> PSRajasekharan
>
>
> Joseph Thomas
>  to dakf
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> show details 10:06 AM (1 hour ago)
>
>
> Reply
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>        Follow up message
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>
>
>
> Qualification ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നതു് -
>
> Eminent Scholar holding PhD degree in Computer Science/Engineering/
> Technology
>
> Experience :
>
> 10 years in Teaching/Industry/Research  out of which 3 years must be
> at the level of professor in any university or an equivalent senior
> executive level in corporate sector, with specific involvement in FOSS
> sector.
>
> Prescribing PhD as minimum qualification gives an edge to those from
> Teaching as a general practice, Engineers seldom go for PhD, except in
> case of those in Teaching.
>
> But for that no special treatment can be attributed to Academicians.
>
> Experience  sought is either Teaching or Industry or Research.
>
> Even the special experience level prescribed is Professor or
> equivalent senior executive level in  corporate sector.
>
> In any case, it is not tailored to the alleged person of CUSAT who was
> identified with our National Conference on Free Software.
>
> He is neither PhD nor professor.
>
> This sort of propaganda is coming out of malicious intentions.
> Target seems to be IT Mission, IT Secretary and CM
>
>
> On Aug 1, 8:46 pm, Anivar Aravind  wrote:
>> 2009/8/1 P S Rajasekharan 
>>
>> > I dont know why, but Anivar is raising a non issue. It will be a good
>> > practice if we avoid using public forums like this for false propaganda
>> > based on pseudo-facts. See the forward.
>>
>>  Another Response from same mailing list
>> My point is not focused on individual Anyway . My Point is about the method
>> of drafting of Qualifications for this post, which will not help the purpose
>> of a center in the name of Free And Open source  Software
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: P T Ashraf 
>> Date: 2009/8/1
>> Subject: [fsug-tvm] Re: Fwd: ITMission advt: വലതു കൈയില്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു
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>> കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിരലുള്ള ആളുകള്‍ മാത്രം അപേക്ഷിക്കുകI
>> To: ilug-...@googlegroups.com
>>
>> I know
>> He is my teacher
>> Why u comment like this
>> If he selected for the post,he is very able man opensource.
>> If such vecancy there ,he is suitable person.
>> Nobody in Kerala has knowledge in open source like him
>>
>> 2009/8/1 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS 
>>
>> > @Sebin
>> > Thanks I was just starting about it as a blog.
>> > @Anil
>> > Then why is the need of this propaganda?
>>
>> > 2009/8/1 Anilkumar KV 
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>> >> ഇതൊരു കള്ളപ്രചരണമാണു്.
>>
>> >> "കണ്ണൂര്‍ യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റിയില്‍ അധ്യാപകനായിരുന്ന, 3 വര്‍ഷത്തിനു മുന്‍പ്
>> കുസാറ്റില്‍ പ്രൊഫസര്‍ റാങ്കോടെ പാര്‍ട്ടി സ്വാധീനത്തില്‍ തിരിച്ചെത്തിയ ഒരു
>> കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍ സയന്‍സ് പ്രൊഫസറായ കുസാറ്റില്‍ നടന്ന ഫ്രീ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍
>> കോണ്‍ഫറന്‍സിന്റെ നടത്തിപ്പുകാരിലൊരാളായിരുന്ന ഇദ്ദേഹത്തെ പരിചയമുണ്ടോ ?"
>>
>> >> ഇങ്ങനെയൊരു വ്യക്തിയില്ല.
>>
>> >> - അനില്‍
>>
>> --
>> "The resources of the world are for us all to share

[GreenYouth] Nepal Updates: August 1 2009

[Sukla Sen]

http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/712-three-parties-form-6-member-political-mechanism-.html
Top three form 6-member taskforce for political mechanism
Saturday, 01 August 2009 10:57

Top leaders of Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and UCPN (Maoist) have agreed to
constitute a taskforce to finalise formation of political mechanism. The
taskforce includes two persons from each party.

The discussion among NC president Girija Prasd Koirala, UML chairman Jhala
Nath Khanal and Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held Saturday morning at
Koirala's residence in Maharajgunj agreed to the taskforce.

UML has named its vice chairman Ashok Rai and secretary Bishnu Poudel as
representatives to the taskforce while other parties are yet to send their
names, NC parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Poudel told reporters after
the meeting. The parties hope to give final shape to the taskforce by
evening.

The taskforce will workout on structure, working models and responsibilities
of the high-level political mechanism within a few days. Once the taskforce
submits its recommendation report, formation of political mechanism would
start. The leaders have agreed that the mechanism would be led by NC
president Koirala.

On Friday, the NC and UML top guns had principally agreed to include smaller
parties as well in the political mechanism.

Dahal is learnt to have insisted that the political mechanism should be for
determining the future of PLA combatants and writing the constitution.
Khanal told reporters that the mechanism would have primacy mandate on
facilitating the army integration and accelerating the constitution writing
process.*nepalnews.com*
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[GreenYouth] Re: ITMissi on advt: വലതു കൈയില് ‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു കൈ യില്‍ ആറു വിരലുള് ള ആളുകള്‍ മാത്രം അപേക്ഷിക്കുക

[Anivar Aravind]

2009/8/1 Anivar Aravind 

> അറ്റാച്ചു ചെയ്ത പരസ്യം  നോക്കൂ
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> അശ്വമേധം കളിക്കാനുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണോന്നു സംശയം.

I blogged about it at http://replyspot.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html

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[GreenYouth] Fwd: [fsug-tvm] Fwd: ITMission advt: വലതു കൈയില്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു കൈയില്‍ ആറു വ ിരലുള്ള ആളുകള്‍ മ ാത്രം അപേക്ഷിക്ക ുക

[jinesh kj]

-- Forwarded message --
From: jinesh kj 
Date: 2009/8/1
Subject: Re: [fsug-tvm] Fwd: ITMission advt: വലതു കൈയില്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു
കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിരലുള്ള ആളുകള്‍ മാത്രം അപേക്ഷിക്കുക
To: ilug-...@googlegroups.com




2009/8/1 Anivar Aravind 

> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Anivar Aravind 
> Date: 2009/8/1
> Subject: ITMission advt: വലതു കൈയില്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിരലുള്ള
> ആളുകള്‍ മാത്രം അപേക്ഷിക്കുക
> To: fourth-estate-criti...@googlegroups.com
>
>
> അറ്റാച്ചു ചെയ്ത പരസ്യം  നോക്കൂ
>
> അശ്വമേധം കളിക്കാനുള്ള ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണോന്നു സംശയം.
>
> പരസ്യം  കണ്ടാലേ ആളെപ്പറയാം  :-)
>
>  Qualifications need for ICFOSS director post
>
> 1. PHD in Computer science/engineering/technology  (പി എച്ച് ഡി
> ടെക്നോളജിയില്‍ തന്നെ വേണം. മറ്റു ഫ്രീ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ കക്ഷികളെല്ലാം  ഔട്ട്
> )
>
For a centre which is intending more R&D in social and economic scenario
with use of technology, i think someone with base in tech and may be a
masters/PhD in ICTs for rural development(which default includes a good load
of managerial lessons) will serve better.

>
> 2. 10 year experience in teaching / industry/ research (ടീച്ചിങ്ങു
> തന്നെയെന്നേ , ബാക്കിയൊക്കെ വെറുതെ ) out of which 3 year in the level of
> professor in any university (കണ്ടില്ലേ പോക്ക്  ) or equivalent senior
> executive in corporate sector, with specific involvement in FOSS Sector
> (ഇതെന്താ യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി പ്രൊഫസര്‍ക്ക് തുല്യമായ കോര്‍പ്പറേറ്റ് സീനിയര്‍
> എക്സിക്യുട്ടീവ് .. ഓ ഒരു രസത്തിനു കിടക്കട്ടേന്ന് )
>
You should note, it should be a Professor or senior company
executive(s.c.e).


>
> 3. First hand experience in handling , promoting & training graduates in
> Open source Operating systems  & a variety of application software (ടീച്ചറു
> തന്നെഡേയ് .. അതും ഓപ്പറേറ്റിങ്ങ് സിസ്റ്റം ഉപയോഗിക്കല്‍ തൊട്ടു
> പഠിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കണം . ഇനി പിഎച്ച്ഡി ഉള്ള കോര്‍പ്പറേറ്റ്
> പുല്ലന്‍മാരുണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ അവര്‍ക്കു വേണ്ട അപ്പ്ലിക്കേഷനുകളേ പഠിപ്പിച്ചു കാണൂ.
> അല്ലേലും സീനിയര്‍ എക്സിക്യുട്ടീവുമാര്‍ക്ക് പിള്ളേരെ പഠിപ്പിക്കലാണോ പണി )
>

Any prof/s.c.e will have first hand experience in handling FOSS operating
systems and variety of application software.

But in case of training graduates, i don't know in the whole world how many
people at this level train students first hand on OS and application
software.
About senior company executive, he might promote, but will not teach
graduates under him first hand :).

>
> 4. AGE  : 35 -50 as of 1-12-2009
>
> ഇതാണിവിടുത്തെ  പ്രധാന തമാശ
>
> 5. The Director
>
>
> GNU/Linux is spreading in india Mainly after  1998 . But users become aware
> about the freedoms & Free Software movement by  2000-2001  onwards
>
> In this context 2nd point is rubbish if you are looking at people from
> India.  If you are looking at average age of Indian Free Software
> Contributors , it is below 30 - Age limits clearly filter  them . Academic
> Qualification of most of them varying between B.Tech/ MS/PhD Registration .
> So requirement of PHD filter  all of them .
>
> ഇനി അടുത്ത തമാശ
>
> Other Detail section says :  Director will be in charge of identifying,
> dissemenating , promoting and updating information on open source operating
> systems and software for managaing associated human resources
> --
>
> Do we need a centre for this ?
>

> And Job Description is all about foss community & Foss Promting institution
> linkages
>
> I believe We, FOSS Community in India/ Kerala (which is very plural) does
> not need a Center working as our Umbrella , granted by the state &
> reportable to IT Secy.
>
> Usually FOSS community works in a peer to peer model/ Bottom up model. If
> state decides to create an umbrella for them, which not at all related /
> representation of FOSS Community it will only result in creation of dead
> structures (like we already seen on Janakeeyasuthranam) coming in the banner
> of FOSS user community
>
>
What we should build is something really lacking in state. An institute
which does the R&D in multiple levels for efficient implementation of FOSS
and innovations in technology, management and implementation of systems
w.r.t. the social scenario of our state. Otherwise, the centre will just
become a copy cat of numerous other institutes, groups and individuals
across the state, country and world(which will then just fail in the point
of positioning the centre internationally). There are FOSS research centres
in India,resource centres in India, ICT for Rural development centres in
India, FOSS incubators, but not many players are there in doing the much
harder job of doing the required R&D for using and developing FOSS to socio
economic development of masses(in multiple levels).

For such an institute, we need a director and a team which is capable of
understanding the social conditions. Technical innovations makes only one
part of it and just being a technocrat won't do any good in this case i
believe.

Jinesh K J

IIIT, Hyderabad


>
>
> --
>
> ഇനിയും അശ്വമേധത്തിനുത്തരം കിട്ടിയില്ലേ
>
> എന്നാല്‍ ഒരു ക്ലൂ കൂടി തരാം.  കണ്ണൂര്‍ യൂണിവേഴ്സ

[GreenYouth] when it comes to NRI news...

[ranju radha]

http://static.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/malayalamContentView.do?contentType=EDITORIAL&programId=1074209519&articleType=Malayalam+News&contentId=5788588

see an interesting news item in manoram online... i think manorama has
depended on the press release

-- 
" The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class
using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be
thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing
their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the
former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we
believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional
qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human
beings."

- Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927

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[GreenYouth] Re: [FEC] Re: ITM ission advt: വലതു കൈ യില്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇട തു കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിര ലുള്ള ആളുകള്‍ മാത ്രം അപേക്ഷിക്കുക I I

[Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil]

 ഞാന്‍ മുരളിയുടെ കൂടെ ഇന്നലെ കൊണ്‍ഗ്രെസ്സില്‍ ചേര്‍ന്നു.
2 വര്‍ഷം കഴിയട്ടെ. എന്തേലും തടയതിരിക്കുമോ .  ഇത്തിരി  ഫ്രീ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍
ഒക്കെ എനിക്കും അറിയാം. ബാക്കി  ഒക്കെ ഒപ്പിക്കാം
സുനില്‍


2009/8/1 Kenney Jacob 

> I had written a post about this, but couldnt publish as my VPS is
> down. Look at the last sentence of the ad. Can government agencies do
> something with out proper explanation ?
>
> Kenney
>
> On Aug 1, 12:16 pm, Anivar Aravind  wrote:
> > http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=...
> >
> > ഇതു വേറെ പരസ്യം
> > അക്ഷയ പ്രൊജക്റ്റ് ഡയറക്ടര്‍ പോസ്റ്റ്
> >
> > ചുരുക്കിപ്പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ 45 വയസ്സില്‍ താഴെയുള്ള  ജനകീയാസൂത്രണത്തിലും സാക്ഷരതാ
> > പ്രചരണത്തിലും ഇടപെട്ട മാനേജ്മെന്റില്‍ ബിരുദാനന്തര ബിരുദമുള്ള
> പരിഷത്തുകാര്‍
> > മാത്രം (പഴയ പരിഷത്തുകാരുമാവാം) അപേക്ഷിക്കുക
> >
> > ‌
> >
> > അനിവര്‍
> >
> > --
> > "The resources of the world are for us all to share. Let us affirm our
> faith
> > in that common cause" - Dr. Ilina Sen
> >
> >  Ad-Director-Akshaya-290709.jpg
> > 77KViewDownload
> >
>


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