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Last week we heard the first bit of a rumor that Apple was going to buy Outbound Systems, makers of the Outbound Laptop, a small, light Mac-compatible portable. At the time it seemed to be a reasonable move, but a NewsBytes article on America Online said that both Apple and Outbound denied any deals. Waiting a week proved to be vital for the story though, as Apple and Outbound recently announced that Apple will buy the technology used in the Outbound portable. The deal works two ways. Apple buys the technology from Outbound and doesn't sue Outbound for intellectual property infringement (how pleasant of Apple Legal). In return, Outbound gets money, the right to sell its laptop, and licenses the technology back from Apple. It's a strange world out there in Lawyerland.
Everyone who heard about the deal felt that it was a move by Apple to replace the heavy Mac Portable without having to spend more on research and development. The next Apple portable is probably a year or two off, now, since there is less reason for Apple to push it out quickly. The deal gives Outbound more credibility, but the Outbound laptop may still need to have a multi-colored Apple logo on it to sell well. Outbound doesn't have the market penetration (gads, now I'm talking like an MBA) and dealer network that Apple has.
Perhaps the most interesting possibility that could come out of this deal is that Outbound would be allowed to license the Apple ROMs. If so, the Outbound laptop would be the first Mac-compatible machine and might lead the way to other, carefully-chosen licensees. Allowing Outbound to use the ROMs would make the laptop more attractive, because you wouldn't have to cannibalize the ROM chips from an SE or Plus. My only concern with the Outbound is that its IsoPoint controller is not as easy to use as the well-designed trackball in Apple's Portable.
The Outbound laptop will be better than ever in August, when Outbound Systems will release an upgrade to the operating system, an external floppy drive for $349, an external SCSI adapter that connects to SCSI devices and can even treat the laptop's hard disk and RAM disk as a SCSI storage device for another Mac.
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One last thing I promise. I also just thought of another point I wanted to make as well. I hope this doesn't count as using up all my posts for the day but its just that the intellectual dam has broken for me and I am now being flooded with questions.
How do we reconcile AGW with Christian theology when there appears to be a significant representation of anti-Christian philosophy in the movement, i.e. Al Gore and his Gaia theory? Isn't this the obvious fulfillment of the scripture that says they worshipped the creation rather than the Creator? How can we trust him and his new age and anti-Christian supporters and where do we draw the line between truth and deception? Isn't there some truth to Cameron's skepticism about this all being a political ploy to gain control of the world's systems? And wouldn't that be consistent with the anti-christ's agenda? Don't we have to wary of that in our rush to get on the AGW bandwagon? I think that is why we need to decouple our AGW beliefs from the religious fervor it is often accompanied with and look at this rationally and with reason.
Thanks to those that have indulged me in this.
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A couple of more points I meant to add.
When the children of Israel were trapped in the wliderness against the Red Sea pursued by Pharoah's army, many of them naturally were afraid, but some said that God didn't bring them out of Egypt just to let them die in the desert. Is it misplaced that God has some similar future for the earth and the first world that we just don't see yet? What is a reasonable application of faith in this scenario?
Also, I am curious if anyone has considered how all these AGW predictions may factor into Biblical prophecy. Is this all part of some endtimes scenario or perhaps judgement on the mighty and proud nations? Has anyone ever heard of written anything on this? I would be interested to read it if so.
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Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 5:39:41 AM
Subject: [asa] Theology of AGW WAS The Climate Science Isn't Settled
Thanks for your comments. I feel this exchange is now very productive. I think most of us agree now that openness and honesty is a better approach than automatically reacting by trying to sweep challenges to the science under the rug.
Between your and Randy's posts below I am able to seriously consider for the first time, a legitimate interpretation of the proposed AGW legislation. As Cameron has pointed out, there is a lot of political baggage intertwined with this and I have not been very trusting of it.
But assuming that both of you are right and this becomes the obvious moral course of action, let me ask the following question. What are we to make of the theological implications of AGW?
I think a good part of the resistance to AGW as a concept is rooted in the proud American Christian tradition of Dominionism and "subduing the earth". Isn't that what we have done? Looking back, was that wrong? Should we have left all that coal in the ground? That coal saved the lives of many a generation I think it is fair to say.
Further, what do we make of God's plan for the earth in light of this? Are all the catastrophic doomsday predictions of mass starvation and civil unrest and violence consistent with an all powerful loving God? What are we to make of Jesus' words where He says he feeds the birds and that He will feed us? Is Lindzen's faith that something else may work out besides the worst case scenario misplaced? Haven't we survived these Malthusian predictions before? I recently saw a similar doozy from Jimmy Carter that now makes him look really stupid. Isn't there a tad of sensationalistic overreaction in all this? How do we assess what is really prudent and what is just eco-guilt?
I'm still seeking.
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Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 11:00:50 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] The Climate Science Isn't Settled
Hi all,
A few quick comments on the most recent climate change threads. As most of you know from my earlier postings, I generally take the AGW position and believe that the basic, fundamental science of AGW is sound. I have always acknowledged that when you get into the details of specific predictions and/or outcomes, there's greater uncertainty, and that I don't have the technical knowledge myself to get into the nuts and bolts of all of the different data sets and models - I prefer to let others such as Randy or Rich chime in on the specifics.
I've been following the CRU email controversy with great interest. From my perspective, I concur with Randy's earlier sentiments. Many of the emails seem to demonstrate a lack of professionalism which I find disturbing, and I believe a full investigation is needed (both of the hackers and of the scientists) but I think the whole story needs to come out before we jump to any hasty conclusions. I still see the basic scientific concepts of AGW as solid however, and I don't see that the emails change this, unless I somehow missed one that said that CO2 isn't really a greenhouse gas and weren't not really emitting a whole lot of it.
I wanted to respond more specifically to one comment John made below:
" Wouldn't Lindzen and others say that in the absence of certain evidence that we not jump to conclusions? Isn't that valid when we are talking about a very large scale impact on standards of living around the world?
If the recourse was something simple like just buckling up your seat belt I think we would all be on board, but when the consequences are so drastic, isn't it reasonable to make sure we are more certain with the science?"
I think there are two problems with this approach. The first problem is that the "wait until the science is more certain" idea doesn't work for climate change. By the time the science is "more certain" (and how "certain" is "certain enough" for that matter?), the damage is already done. As Randy already noted, there is a time delay between the effect and the cause (analogous in some sense to the fact that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer right away - damage that is caused in the lung today may not actually generate cancerous cells until 15 years from now). Greenhouse gas build-up in the atmosphere even at present-day concentrations has locked us into climate impacts that will last for decades if not centuries. If we wait another 10, 20, or 30 years before we decide to act, we will have loaded the atmosphere with that much more greenhouse gases the impacts of which will be even more severe and long-lasting. To use John's analogy, it's like telling
society to buckle their seatbelts after the accident has already occurred.
The second problem I see with John's statement is that there is an underlying assumption that the societal changes needed to combat climate change will necessarily bring great hardship and a significant reduction in our standard of living. I don't see that this assumption is justified. I will grant that to certain sectors of the population (i.e. those involved in coal mining or oil production), hardships would be quite likely. But other sectors would almost certainly benefit (i.e. renewable energy, energy efficiency), while some might remain neutral (i.e. health care). The question then becomes, from an overall society point of view, what is the best course of action? From my perspective, the same strategies needed to reduce greenhouse gases often overlap with other beneficial policies, such as reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reducing waste/improving efficiency, reducing air/water/soil pollution, eating healthier (less meat, more locally
grown/sustainable crops), reducing traffic congestion/increasing exercise (more bicyclists, pedestrians), etc. Although the cultural transition to such habits and means of production may be difficult in the short-term, I have a hard time seeing how such policies (whether advocated on behalf of climate change or on their own) would be negative for us in the long-term. In fact, they may even be beneficial for our quality of life in the long-term. In many ways, I see the challenge of climate change as akin to that of traveling to the Moon. It required a huge upfront expense and commitment of resources, but where would we be today without having gone to the Moon, and all of the technologies that came about in part because of space travel? Would anyone now suggest that we not have gone to the Moon because of the cost to society? Taking the leadership in climate change forces us to at the forefront of a whole host of other society issues and their attending
technologies - if we do not seize leadership on this, I fear we risk losing our competitiveness globally as others seize this role and reap the benefits of their long-term investments.
A final point to consider is this: when John says "standard of living around the world", to whose standard of living are we really referring to? Our own? Those of all wealthy, 1st world countries? But what about the standard of living of all those other people around the world - in developing nations, in nations where poverty is widespread? If climate change regulation in our countries reduced our standard of living, but increased their standard of living (though technology transfer, greater availability of resources to them brought about by our conservation, etc), would this be such a bad thing? I don't know about you, but if we lost a few thousand dollars due to societal changes rought by greenhouse gas regulation, but at the same time helped raise the standard of living for those currently in poverty in Africa, I would be all for it.
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--- On Tue, 12/1/09, John Walley <email@example.com> wrote:
> From: John Walley <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [asa] The Climate Science Isn't Settled
> To: "Randy Isaac" <email@example.com>, firstname.lastname@example.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 7:54 PM
> Randy,
> Thanks for this very reasoned response. It makes it easy to
> trust your insight. If all the AGW scientists were as
> gracious as this I dare say we likely wouldn't have the
> controversy we do. I do have one additional question though.
> You say:
> "What I think he fails to deal with adequately is the
> global thermal response to an unprecedented rate of rise of
> both CO2 and methane. He claims that there is insufficient
> evidence to indicate that the result would be catastrophic.
> But has he any data to show it wouldn't be? He seems to
> imply that the thermal response has been very small despite
> a 30% rise in CO2 and that this indicates the earth isn't
> that sensitive. But a hundred years or two aren't very long
> for a large thermal mass to respond. It seems to me to be
> more wishful thinking that somehow clouds will materialize
> to save our planet. How I hope he's right. But I wish he had
> some good data to support it rather than just doubting the
> data that indicate there's a problem brewing."
> I agree we would all like to see more to data to help us
> settle the question of whether the result of increased
> CO2 would be catastrophic or not. But in the absence of
> this data, are we certain that the results WOULD be
> catastrophic? Do we have any more convincing evidence to
> support this opposite conclusion or is it just an
> extrapolation?
> Wouldn't Lindzen and others say that in the absence of
> certain evidence that we not jump to conclusions? Isn't that
> valid when we are talking about a very large scale impact on
> standards of living around the world?
> If the recourse was something simple like just buckling
> up your seat belt I think we would all be on board, but when
> the consequences are so drastic, isn't it reasonable to make
> sure we are more certain with the science?
> Thanks
> John
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Randy Isaac <email@example.com>
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 10:23:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [asa] The Climate Science Isn't Settled
> This article came out the night before I was debating a
> friend of mine on global warming as guest lecturers in a
> classroom last week. He surprised me with it since I had
> missed it. Lindzen is a well known figure in this debate. He
> has a reasoned tone, at least in this piece, and raises
> specific points that can be discussed. I think that is very
> helpful and healthy for the debate. Here are some initial
> reactions I would have to this article:
> "It is generally accepted that a doubling of CO2 will only
> produce a change of about two degrees Fahrenheit if all else
> is held constant." I don't have the citation handy right now
> but I think the value I've seen in the literature is running
> closer to 3 degrees Centigrade. That's a big difference. I
> wonder where he gets that.
> He's right, I think, about the uncertainty of water vapor
> and clouds. In general, we know more about potential
> positive feedback than negative feedbacks. How we hope the
> negative feedbacks will be stronger than we think.
> Unfortunately, his uncertainty argument can go both ways.
> The situation may be more dire or less severe.
> "Some have suggested CO2—but the amount needed was
> thousands of times greater than present levels and
> incompatible with geological evidence." I don't understand
> what he is saying. Measured values, if I understood it
> correctly, for global temperatures 12C higher than today
> were correlated with CO2 levels of about 1000ppm, not a
> thousand times higher than today. Perhaps he's saying the
> models would require more CO2 to explain the temperature? If
> so, then perhaps the models are underestimating the effect
> of CO2.
> " The notion that complex climate "catastrophes" are simply
> a matter of the response of a single number, GATA, to a
> single forcing, CO2 (or solar forcing for that matter),
> represents a gigantic step backward in the science of
> climate." It seems to me that no one is suggesting a
> single number responding to a single forcing. That's a
> significant oversimplification. What I've seen in the
> literature is an analysis of many trends responding to the
> full set of forcings. I don't understand his comment.
> What I think he fails to deal with adequately is the global
> thermal response to an unprecedented rate of rise of both
> CO2 and methane. He claims that there is insufficient
> evidence to indicate that the result would be catastrophic.
> But has he any data to show it wouldn't be? He seems to
> imply that the thermal response has been very small despite
> a 30% rise in CO2 and that this indicates the earth isn't
> that sensitive. But a hundred years or two aren't very long
> for a large thermal mass to respond. It seems to me to be
> more wishful thinking that somehow clouds will materialize
> to save our planet. How I hope he's right. But I wish he had
> some good data to support it rather than just doubting the
> data that indicate there's a problem brewing.
> Randy
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Walley" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:35 AM
> To: "AmericanScientificAffiliation" <email@example.com>
> Subject: [asa] The Climate Science Isn't Settled
> >
> >
> > This is from a well known skeptic who appears to be
> qualified in the field. He seems to be saying that the
> additional CO2 is not established as proving temp
> increases.
> >
> > "Even a doubling of CO2 would only upset the original
> balance between incoming and outgoing radiation by about 2%.
> This is essentially what is called "climate forcing."
> >
> > I am curious if there is any technical response to his
> arguments from any of the AGW proponents on the list.
> Besides the fact that he is in the pocket of the coal
> companies.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
> > The Climate Science Isn't Settled
> > Confident predictions of catastrophe are unwarranted.
> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574567423917025400.html
> > By RICHARD S. LINDZEN
> > Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of
> global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the
> globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always
> changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and
> occasionally—such as for the last dozen years or so—it
> does little that can be discerned.
> >
> > Claims that climate change is accelerating are
> bizarre. There is general support for the assertion that
> GATA has increased about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the
> middle of the 19th century. The quality of the data is poor,
> though, and because the changes are small, it is easy to
> nudge such data a few tenths of a degree in any direction.
> Several of the emails from the University of East Anglia's
> Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have caused such a public
> ruckus dealt with how to do this so as to maximize apparent
> changes.
> >
> > The general support for warming is based not so much
> on the quality of the data, but rather on the fact that
> there was a little ice age from about the 15th to the 19th
> century. Thus it is not surprising that temperatures should
> increase as we emerged from this episode. At the same time
> that we were emerging from the little ice age, the
> industrial era began, and this was accompanied by increasing
> emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane and
> nitrous oxide. CO2 is the most prominent of these, and it is
> again generally accepted that it has increased by about
> 30%.
> >
> > The defining characteristic of a greenhouse gas is
> that it is relatively transparent to visible light from the
> sun but can absorb portions of thermal radiation. In
> general, the earth balances the incoming solar radiation by
> emitting thermal radiation, and the presence of greenhouse
> substances inhibits cooling by thermal radiation and leads
> to some warming.
> >
> > That said, the main greenhouse substances in the
> earth's atmosphere are water vapor and high clouds. Let's
> refer to these as major greenhouse substances to distinguish
> them from the anthropogenic minor substances. Even a
> doubling of CO2 would only upset the original balance
> between incoming and outgoing radiation by about 2%. This is
> essentially what is called "climate forcing."
> >
> > There is general agreement on the above findings. At
> this point there is no basis for alarm regardless of whether
> any relation between the observed warming and the observed
> increase in minor greenhouse gases can be established.
> Nevertheless, the most publicized claims of the U.N.'s
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deal
> exactly with whether any relation can be discerned. The
> failure of the attempts to link the two over the past 20
> years bespeaks the weakness of any case for concern.
> >
> > The IPCC's Scientific Assessments generally consist of
> about 1,000 pages of text. The Summary for Policymakers is
> 20 pages. It is, of course, impossible to accurately
> summarize the 1,000-page assessment in just 20 pages; at the
> very least, nuances and caveats have to be omitted. However,
> it has been my experience that even the summary is hardly
> ever looked at. Rather, the whole report tends to be
> characterized by a single iconic claim.
> >
> > The main statement publicized after the last IPCC
> Scientific Assessment two years ago was that it was likely
> that most of the warming since 1957 (a point of anomalous
> cold) was due to man. This claim was based on the weak
> argument that the current models used by the IPCC couldn't
> reproduce the warming from about 1978 to 1998 without some
> forcing, and that the only forcing that they could think of
> was man. Even this argument assumes that these models
> adequately deal with natural internal variability—that is,
> such naturally occurring cycles as El Nino, the Pacific
> Decadal Oscillation, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation,
> etc.
> >
> > Yet articles from major modeling centers acknowledged
> that the failure of these models to anticipate the absence
> of warming for the past dozen years was due to the failure
> of these models to account for this natural internal
> variability. Thus even the basis for the weak IPCC argument
> for anthropogenic climate change was shown to be false.
> >
> > Of course, none of the articles stressed this. Rather
> they emphasized that according to models modified to account
> for the natural internal variability, warming would
> resume—in 2009, 2013 and 2030, respectively.
> >
> > But even if the IPCC's iconic statement were correct,
> it still would not be cause for alarm. After all we are
> still talking about tenths of a degree for over 75% of the
> climate forcing associated with a doubling of CO2. The
> potential (and only the potential) for alarm enters with the
> issue of climate sensitivity—which refers to the change
> that a doubling of CO2 will produce in GATA. It is generally
> accepted that a doubling of CO2 will only produce a change
> of about two degrees Fahrenheit if all else is held
> constant. This is unlikely to be much to worry about.
> >
> > Yet current climate models predict much higher
> sensitivities. They do so because in these models, the main
> greenhouse substances (water vapor and clouds) act to
> amplify anything that CO2 does. This is referred to as
> positive feedback. But as the IPCC notes, clouds continue to
> be a source of major uncertainty in current models. Since
> clouds and water vapor are intimately related, the IPCC
> claim that they are more confident about water vapor is
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> > There is some evidence of a positive feedback effect
> for water vapor in cloud-free regions, but a major part of
> any water-vapor feedback would have to acknowledge that
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> that a doubling of CO2 would produce), and yet the evidence
> is that the oceans were unfrozen at the time, and that
> temperatures might not have been very different from
> today's. Carl Sagan in the 1970s referred to this as the
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> resolve the paradox with greenhouse gases. Some have
> suggested CO2—but the amount needed was thousands of times
> greater than present levels and incompatible with geological
> evidence. Methane also proved unlikely. It turns out that
> increased thin cirrus cloud coverage in the tropics readily
> resolves the paradox—but only if the clouds constitute a
> negative feedback. In present terms this means that they
> would diminish rather than enhance the impact of CO2.
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> > There are quite a few papers in the literature that
> also point to the absence of positive feedbacks. The implied
> low sensitivity is entirely compatible with the small
> warming that has been observed. So how do models with high
> sensitivity manage to simulate the currently small response
> to a forcing that is almost as large as a doubling of CO2?
> Jeff Kiehl notes in a 2007 article from the National Center
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> breakage of eggs would be to outlaw leaving boxes on the
> floor. The chief difference is that in the case of
> atmospheric CO2 and climate catastrophe, the chain of
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U.S.-style liberal arts colleges plant foothold in China
It was a risky business venture. In 2005, Chen Wei Ming – a Harvard-educated Chinese businessman – bought a cash-strapped technical college in Pudong, Shanghai's financial district.
Chen, who went to the United States in the early '80s to attend the Phillips Exeter Academy and then returned to China after he completed his graduate education, had a vision for the future of Chinese universities. He recognized that burgeoning cities such as Shanghai couldn't sustain workers who'd gone to school on the "assembly line."
Chen envisioned a college where Chinese students could challenge their professors, think critically and pursue multiple, creative interests. So Xing Wei College was born. Classes at the private three-year liberal arts college are taught entirely in English by American professors to a student body that totals just 25.
That number is minuscule in a country that graduated more than 6 million college students last year. But the idea of a well-rounded university experience is becoming increasingly popular in China. Xing Wei is just one of many examples of efforts to expose students to a Western-style liberal arts education. Among others:
– United International College, China's first independent liberal arts college, opened in 2005 in Zhuhai.
– A New York University portal campus is set to open this fall in Shanghai, where at least half the inaugural class will be Chinese students and the rest will be international.
– Fudan University in Shanghai, one of the country's most selective, was the first to incorporate general education requirements into its curriculum, more than 10 years ago. The university requires students to take courses outside their majors every year of their undergraduate careers.
"We want our students to have more varied views on society," said Xiong Qing-nian, the director of the Research Institute for Higher Education at Fudan. "That is why Fudan wants to focus on the liberal arts."
Chen's plans for Xing Wei are more radical than simply offering students a taste of the liberal arts, however. He's done away with the dreaded gaokao – China's all-important entrance exam, which determines where students will go to college and what they'll study – as a requirement for admittance. And Xing Wei students aren't required to choose a major.
"We have the opportunity to not just copy what liberal arts education is in the States, but to see how we can do it differently, do it better, to better prepare the students," Chen said.
The success of Chen's college is by no means certain. For one thing, Fudan's Xiong said that while there was much excitement for NYU Shanghai, he'd never heard of Xing Wei, even though both colleges are in the same city. And since Xing Wei doesn't require the gaokao exam, the government can't accredit it as a four-year institution.
"In order for the government to grant us accreditation they will have to reform the current education system guidelines and college entrance requirements," Chen said.
Xing Wei also will have difficulty finding mass appeal in China's credential-driven, traditional society, said Yong Zhao, who's the associate dean for global and online education at the University of Oregon.
Still, there are at least some students who are passionate about the idea of trying something new.
Despite opposition from his parents, Wang Bing was one of three students from Hefei University of Technology who were chosen to spend two years at Xing Wei before transferring back to their university.
"We have a freedom here to learn new things. In a traditional Chinese college, teachers do not give you that freedom," said Wang, who's called "Rick" by his peers and professors at school. "I came here because there was a new life waiting for me."
What spurred China's interest in the liberal arts?
One main driver has been China's emergence in the world economy, said Lauren Zletz, who conducted her Harvard undergraduate thesis research at Fudan four years ago. Historically, education in China was conducted as a way of maintaining order, Zletz said.
"People majored in very, very specific things, because it's a lot easier to allocate people to specific roles in a state-planned economy," Zletz said. "This influenced education toward a more technical training ground."
As China competes globally and moves toward a more knowledge-based economy, innovators realize that the education system must change as well.
"You can't just memorize information to be successful in a global economy," Zletz said. "You need to be evaluative, creative, a problem solver."
Fudan University's Xiong said there was certainly a "mismatch" between secondary and higher education. From a young age, Chinese students are divided into tracks, and they usually follow those tracks into college rather than learning a variety of subjects.
"At the university, we want students to learn widely," Xiong said, in comparison with secondary school. "So maybe liberal arts in college can remedy some of the issues of high school education."
For Liu Meiyue, a Fudan graduate student who's studying to become a teacher, college offered a place where she finally could pursue her own interests.
"In high school we were just machines expected to accept knowledge and get high scores. We have no time to think about ourselves," Liu said. "Now I have a lot of time to read my favorite books, to make friends, to do the things I want to do."
Though universities offer a welcome change from high school education, China may not be ready to fully embrace the concept of liberal arts education, especially at a school as experimental as Xing Wei.
A private institution, it has high tuition and much less prestige than public Chinese universities, which are government funded. Xing Wei tuition, room and board total about $40,000 per year, in comparison with the average tuition of a Chinese university, which can run from about $2,000 to $4,000 per year. Chen said many Xing Wei students received financial aid from donors.
If the hefty price doesn't steer students away, there's also the reality that China is producing more college graduates than its economy can absorb. While many reformers agree that China could use more innovative, critical thinkers, it would be difficult for a graduate from a non-accredited liberal arts institution to find a job easily, Zletz said.
Xiong of Fudan similarly doubts the viability of Xing Wei.
"From our experience, especially during the initial years when we promoted liberal arts education at Fudan, we met a lot of opposition from parents," Xiong said. "They don't think their children can get a job in the labor market if we focus too much on the liberal arts."
On the other hand, Xiong said, China has more than a billion people, some of whom may be willing to take a big risk. And that's exactly what Chen is banking on.
Chen said he knew his college wasn't for everyone, and that's the way he wants it. Ideally he'd like to enroll 1,000 of the "right kinds of students" who want to "follow their own judgment."
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HRUMACHIS wrote:Angel of Death wrote:Is that magic eight ball on your desk??? What is this supposed to be a picture of/for?
Did you even bother to do the Qabalah of the Atu presented? Or do all yourThelemic answers come from magic 8 balls?
Hey no need to get nasty.
I was genuiney curious why you posted this picture, nothing in the thread seemed to point to what the purpose of sharing your desk lamp, et al is about. And it does look like a magic eight ball on the blue cloth.
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Journalsong makes you fall in love with its author, Steve Gevurtz. It also makes you romanticize Portland while trying to deal with the bad things and appreciate the good things in your own life. #6 is a meditation on the nature of zinewriting. Oh yeah, it's also about wishing you could believe in jesus, conversing with a glass of whiskey, beating up your friend's stupid boyfriend, contextualizing instant rice and beans, burning down Williamsburg, overtipping tiny bartenders, deciding to fall in love with someone right when they decide to fall out of love with you, and hanging out with Warren G. Accompanied by beautiful and cute drawings by Nicole Georges. We've respected Steve's writing, aesthetics, and ethics for quite some time and are proud to publish this issue.
- Molly 10/24/2006
journal song makes me feel sad that i live in australia but atleast i got to find a copy at sticky, take it home with me and imagine buying goya rice and cooking it up, having someone to enjoy it with. i read it to all my friends and now i am writing a review on it for a literature project.
The drawings were real nice but the whole package was this secret description of places i know nothing about, it was like a lil portal into some place else. some place that isn't melbourne.
yeah, i guess the journally zine is done and done again but i just like the idea of having some junkyard piano teaching neighbours and imagining all that stuff happened and while that stuff was happening, i was doing something else.
dontchya think thats neat?
- Josiah Avery 10/6/2005
If you are capable of removing what prejudices you have about the format Steve has chosen ie. the "SO over done personal zine", [and I would contend that the SO cynical critic format is a bit tired.] you'd probably find a good writer being as honest as he's able. Steve, your zine is good. Please resist the temptation of becoming too cool to feel.
- Heze Douglas, Broken Pencil
I found some of the observations to be finely written, and enjoyed them the way I would enjoy a character's quirks in an excellent novel. Generally, [Steve] is pretty hard on himself in the entries, so it's not a particularly uplifting read, but the dark days he describes are ones we've all experienced. These entries are short discussions about aspects of his life, such as the letter his ex-girlfriend sent him 10 years ago and how he keeps it to remind himself that he can be a jerk.
- Randie Farmelant, Altar Magazine
I've been hearing about the fabled Journalsong zine for years, so I couldn't wait to finally pick up an issue. Journalsong is a personal zine written by Steve of Portland, OR, and contains all the elements of such—accounts from Steve's life, his thoughts and ramblings—but not too much more. In this issue, Steve treats the reader to a 10-year-old letter from an ex-girlfriend, an account of his first zine and why he still creates them, a description of his neighborhood, the story of a band tour he went on, an explanation of how he lives without an address to call his own, an ode to whiskey, and the tale of a failed dalliance with a girl. In my opinion, the most interesting thing included in this zine was a tidbit about the history of Goya products and how the brand can't be found on the West Coast. This would have been quite helpful to know prior to last summer when I visited my friend in Oakland, CA, and made him take me to three different supermarkets trying to find Goya rice. I'll give you that the writing's good. I like Steve's style of just jumping into stories in which there are no great revelations to be found. Oooh! I almost forgot to add that there are great drawing found throughout the zine by Nicole Georges of Invincible Summer fame.
- Punk Planet #69
When every moment has meaning, every line is poignant with gravitas, and every second is more important than the last five, I wonder about these people. They find inner conflict in the most trivial of topics, leading to self-indulgent ranting about everything and nothing. Great for a tediously boring read.
- Rocktober
This is the most journal zine looking journal zine you'll ever experience. And the writer, Steve, is aware that he is a zine vet who has moved forward, yet lost the energy from his zine youth. This looks great, with all typewritten text, expert xerography that makes everything look raw and DIY, yet is extremely clear and easy to read. My favorite part is the brief history of the Goya bean and rice company.
- Proper Gander
The text was done on a shaky old typewriter and cut and pasted on each page. The whole package throughout is hand done and put together with care and thoughts and is a little more personal.
- Wonkavision #29
This completely typewritten zine with fancy acetate cover is about nothing and everything. First of all, props must be given to anyone who is willing to spell out their weaknesses (from the viewpoint of an ex, no less) within the first few pages. There's a bit about trying to remain sober, but Steve wraps up with an ode to whiskey (nobody said it was easy). A fast, painless, inspiring read.
- Maximum Rock and Roll #268
A tried and true personal zine from the Microcosm zine empire [sic?] in Portland, Oregon. Definite Burn Collector parallels, so if Al Burian style travel writings and life musings appeal to you I would advise getting in on this. I found this really hard to write about because while I don't dislike this per se, and the writer seems like a really cool kid and it's not "bad", it just didn't didn't seduce. From Goya instant rice to uncomfortable break ups, the random and the painful and so on.
- HeartattaCk #47
A personal zine done by a man named Steve from Portland with short stories on various topics, from tour stories to relationships, to drinking at the bar. He even has a poem about Whiskey.
- Hanging Like A Hex
The ever-popular personal zine is a steaming pile comparable to Mt. Everest in that everyone has done one at some time and has contributed nothing to originality because it's the same old musings over failed relationships and blaming everyone except yourself. Well, for starters, leave the house once in awhile, stop wearing scarves in the summertime and get over yourself. Thankfully, a few take on the same old issues but write them in a way that invokes a little more thought than usual, and prose that is a bit more interesting to read and contextualize. The author has a lot of the same old hang-up's of lost love and a pretty heavy drinking problem, which in part, I can grasp. But on the other hand, I also don't necessarily care. It's the little things- the attachments he makes to other concepts through misery, neighbors, postcards, moving, playing music, and making zines… not to mention a fascination with Goya food products- that make this an entertaining read.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has once again denied that he was recorded smoking crack. This time, speaking on his weekly, two-hour (!) talk radio show, Ford said flat-out that the video in question doesn't exist at all, adding that the media as a whole are "a bunch of maggots" — then adding, "Sorry, maybe I shouldn't have said that."
Ford, who, sure, could be telling the truth, could have been encouraged to go all-in on denial by some speed bumps in Gawker's attempt to buy the video in question. Essentially, Gawker's editor John Cook took over the story last week by announcing that he's seen a video of Toronto mayor smoking crack within the past six months. But, he said, the video's owners won't give out the goods for free, so the site is trying to raise $200,000 by tomorrow to buy it from them. Right now, they're at $179,593. But on Friday, the same day Ford non-deny-denied this whole crack thing, Cook updated donors that hasn't been able to get in touch with the sellers for about a week: "Our confidence that we can consummate this transaction has diminished." The Toronto Star has also seen the video. They note that the sellers are a "group of Somali men involved in the drug trade."
In any case, Ford started to address the (alleged) video at the top of his show, but the conversation quickly devolved into Ford and his brother, city councillor Doug Ford, griping about the media, other city councillors, and pretty much anyone who's picked up on the allegations against either of them. Doug, earlier this week, was himself the subject of a Globe and Mail story alleging that he is a former hashish dealer:
"Do you know something, Rob? I'll tell you right now, the vast majority couldn't get a job," Doug said of his fellow councillors, "I'll tell you that right now and that's fact. "I wish the media looked into some of their backgrounds, where they came from."
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Sometimes, winning really is the best revenge. Just ask Anna Gunn.
The actress, who stars as Skyler White in "Breaking Bad," took home her first Emmy on Sunday night — for supporting actress in a drama series — a fitting rebuke to the small but vocal minority of fans with an irrational dislike for her long-suffering character.
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The acclaimed AMC series, which will have its much-anticipated series finale Sunday, was also named outstanding drama for the first time, following three previous nominations.
In her acceptance speech, Gunn thanked series creator Vince Gilligan, calling him a "mad genius." What she could have said, but didn't: "Take that, haters."
Skyler's repeated efforts to stand up to her husband, a bland high school chemistry teacher who transforms himself into a ruthless drug lord (played by three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston), has made her the target of vitriol in Internet comment threads and on profane Facebook pages.
The enmity became so intense that last month, Gunn published an op-ed in the New York Times addressing the issue. Her character, she wrote, "has become a flash point for many people's feelings about strong, nonsubmissive, ill-treated women."
Backstage at the Emmys, Gunn stopped short of characterizing her win as a vindication for Skyler, but saw it as an encouraging sign.
"I'm glad there's people back there who enjoy Skyler," she said.
Gunn was the only performer from the show's ensemble to emerge victorious from the Nokia Theatre on Sunday night. Costars Aaron Paul, Jonathan Banks and Cranston were nominated but did not win.
Gunn was just one of many first-time winners at this year's Emmys, an awards show that is often criticized for being predictable and repetitive. This time around, however, the telecast was full of so many surprise outcomes it spawned a hashtag, #weirdemmys.
First-time winners in addition to Gunn included Michael Douglas of "Behind the Candelabra," Bobby Cannavale of "Boardwalk Empire," Tony Hale of "Veep," Jeff Daniels of "The Newsroom" and Merritt Wever of "Nurse Jackie," who, clearly caught off guard, gave one of the more memorable acceptance speeches in recent memory.
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Five quick points about Georgia
The second one: Russia is determined to show how powerful it is again in a way that other countries will recognise. It would be good to find ways to let this expression be made that do not involve endangering or killing people.
The third one: The choice of means offers a pretty good sign of who is in power in Russia. This will not make anything easier, and a strategy of confrontation will only confirm their power.
The fourth one: The Georgian government calculated badly in tying its foreign policy position to the United States. As convenient as the US may have found it to have a client in the region, it is not going to challenge a regional hegemon or take any other risks for its client's sake.
The fifth one: A lot of people in the US and Europe will find it hard to resist the tasty new Cold War bait that is being offered. This would make a few arms manufacturers happier and wealthier but would not help anyone else. If nothing else has become clear over the past seven years, it is that a failure of diplomacy cannot be covered over by an excess of belligerency.
21 comments:
- Anonymous said...
good points. I think Russia has played well and the Georgian government is on its way out - what jerks!
point #1 is what it's all about.
- 11/8/08 23:32
- ida said...
The Russians have captured American mercenaries, and among the dead they have seen two black soldiers (believed to by U.S. African-Americans).
The Russians believe the same U.S. groups behind Croatia's operation storm was involved here in the blitzkrieg and attempted total takeover by Georgia of South Ossetia.
Georgians killed around 2,000 South Ossetian civilians in less than 2 days. People are still buried under rubble. The people have no water or electricity and Georgian tanks were firing into the homes and throwing grenades into them as well.
The hospitals were completely destroyed in Georgia's initial attack. Obviously Georgia wanted to make South Ossetia completely ethnically cleansed and unlivable for Ossetians - just like the Croatian Army achieved with the Krajina.
Only Russians came in to save the Ossetians (they are delivering humanitarian supplies and shutting down the Georgian war criminals).
Georgia military needs to be neutralized to stop its threat to Russia and potential to cause WWIII.
Additionally the Russian have Reuters photos which show photo-shopping and people acting/posing as dead. The pictures like a lot like the Ron Haviv ones of Bosnia which he staged.
- 12/8/08 01:48
- steve albert said...
Not matter how the Georgian government played this ,Putin is up to no good.
Nobody is really suggesting a strategy of confrontation with Russia. If the Russians only wanted the Georgians out of South Ossetia, they would have accepted the EU cease-fire plan. Both the E.U and the U.S. would have been happy that this confrontation was over.
The Russians didn't even consider the E.U. plan.
Their forces are continuing to advance when they could have won a settlement on the terms of their formal demands.
Putin clearly has wider aims. I don't think his plans bode well for stability in the region or the independence of the countries on Russia's borders.
- 12/8/08 03:09
- ida said...
"If the Russians only wanted the Georgians out of South Ossetia, they would have accepted the EU cease-fire plan."
But the Georgian forces are STILL bombing around the capital in South Ossetia - this reported even by the western press, The Times.
Plus, Macedonia reports it too. The Georgians have not ceased their attack. Their actions do not match their rhetoric. They are lying.
The Russians too need to neutralize the Georgian forces to prevent such a surprise attack blitzkrieg on civilians.
Here is an article today about reporters witnessing 6 Georgian helicopters still involved.
Georgia helicopters bombed South Ossetia
Gori /11/08/ 17:52
At least six Georgian helicopters on Monday bombed targets near Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
World news agencies reported that the helicopters, which took off Georgia's territory, bombed targets in the separatist region of South Ossetia.
Bombing targets in that region contradicts previous Georgia's announcements it has ceased military actions in this territory.
Georgian foreign ministry, late Sunday, handed the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi a note that its armed forces are ceasing all military actions in South Ossetia.
- 12/8/08 03:17
- Eric Gordy said...
Ida, I'm not buying it. If the Georgians had high-level assistance, they would have had a better strategy.
Steve, yes, I think it is fairly clear that for Russia this is not just about that little province, but also eliminating regional challenges and control of energy supplies.
- 12/8/08 07:56
- Anonymous said...
Putin's allegations of genocide suggest that the strategy is to depict the situation as paralleling the intervention in Kosova and so that the eventual detachment solution can be justified on similar grounds.
The butcher of Chechnya presumably knows what he's talking about.
Georgia is presumably the pillar-box for a warning message to Ukraine and others.
- 12/8/08 10:27
- ida said...
"The butcher of Chechnya presumably knows what he's talking about."
Actually Chechnya has a pro-Russian government and Chechen units are fighting with the Russians.
Further the numbers of Ossetians killed in two is more than in the year of fighting in Kosovo - which was initiated by the KLA.
The KLA was kidnapping Serb civilians and police, planting bombs, throwing grenades in cafes.
The KLA also killed the parents of the adopted daughter of former NBA star Vlade Divac. He adopted the girl in February 1998 before NATO's bombing when the girl was 4 months old.
The Albanians killed her parents when they were on the way to market in late 1998.
As well in Kosovo it was the NATO bombing which started the refugee movement towards Macedonia and Albania. Whereas the Ossetian refugees started fleeing when the Georgians flatted their city - all within 2 day.
The hospitals were destroyed and left non-functioning.
In the Balkans wars the hospitals were still standing and operating throughout the wars.
Additionally, the U.S. has killed far more civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan than were killed in the Chechen war.
Antiwar.com has a count of over 1.2 million Iraqi civilian lives lost since the U.S. decided to attack it.
As well the U.S. bombed Afghans at a wedding a few weeks ago and killed around 47, with 39 of those being women and children.
The mainstream media never makes a big deal out of all the Iraqi and Afghans dying due to U.S. bombing operations.
- 12/8/08 13:10
- ida said...
"He adopted the girl in February 1998"
I meant February 1999 was when he adopted her. Her parents' deaths at the hands of the KLA were just a small fraction of atrocities they were committing against the Serbs.
- 12/8/08 13:12
- Eric Gordy said...
Ida, at least keep your propaganda on the point. We are not talking about KLA or NBA here.
- 12/8/08 13:20
- ida said...
Have you seen the footage of the 1st day of the Georgian attack? It is frightening. EXTREMELY heavy barrages upon and then within the South Ossetian capital started in the middle of the night.
I have a link to the news report which soon after it starts has some of the footage which - and I quote a guy named Kevin from Australia who says: "The Georgians were so confident that they released their own film footage of their rocket attacks against a sleeping civilian population."
It's easy to see how so many civilians died in such an intense attack with heavy weaponry.
Day one of the Georgia-South Ossetia military conflict
- 12/8/08 16:05
- steve albert said...
Eric wrote:
I think it is fairly clear that for Russia this is not just about that little province, but also eliminating regional challenges and control of energy supplies.
It would be interesting to know how Putin defines a regional challenge,or even who he believes has to take Russian interests into account and how.
I am sure that the reactions of Poland, the Ukraine, and the Baltic states to this crisis stem from a belief that Putin's ambitions are not limited to Georgia.
As Anne Applebaum pointed out in a recent article in the Washington Post,Russia isn't an open society, and gauging the ambitions of its rulers is not an easy proposition.
However, this crisis has repercussions on everything from E.U .expansion to the West's relations with Russia and these questions are well worth pondering.
- 12/8/08 16:12
- Eric Gordy said...
In the last day it looks like the presidential candidates of both of the large parties in the US have made statements calling for Georgia to be accepted into NATO. It is hard to see this as anything other than an invitation to confrontation.
I think the Russian government has two main goals: 1) to project its power (there it is certainly succeeding, but at a cost to its reputation), and 2) to maintain control over the flow of oil and gas to the former Soviet states and states west of those (this is for now the factor on which its power depends).
The motivations of the Georgian government are less clear. Surely they did not think they could win against a much larger and better supplied military. It seems that they fell into a trap there. And why set the trap? Hardly anybody cares one way or another about Ossetia, but perhaps Russia found an easy way to spend a couple days making the point to other states that they intend to maintain their dominant position.
I have seen the charges of genocide Russia has made against Georgia. If I were a Russian politician, the last thing I would want would be to open up an exchange of accusations about genocide. My guess is they will hush that business up pretty quickly.
- 12/8/08 16:46
- Anonymous said...
Ida, I haven't seen a figure of 10,000-14,000 dead in South Ossetia in two days suggested.
- 12/8/08 17:24
- Steve Albert said...
" eric gordy said...
In the last day it looks like the presidential candidates of both of the large parties in the US have made statements calling for Georgia to be accepted into NATO. It is hard to see this as anything other than an invitation to confrontation."
It is rare enough that McCain and Obama agree on anything. Maybe they have a point.
I'm not sure that Georgia actually joining N.A.T.O. would be a recipe for confrontation. Russia has never attacked a N.A.TO. nation.
It goes without saying that N.A.T.O membership isn't simply a guarantee of safety ,it requires N.A.TO. nations to adhere to common standards, N.A.TO. should a have a policy that deals with Russian provocation without losing its bearings.
I think that, at the very least, the Ukraine should join N.A..T.O. I'd hope that, after Mladic ends up in the Hague,the Balkan states would join as well.
As for how Russia views all this,let's just say that its behavior over the last week is proof, if proof were needed ,that it should not be able to dictate what organizations its neighbors join.
One last thing. If both candidates are talking so much about N.A.T,O.,its because one fifth of a century after the Berlin Wall fell, the E.U. still doesn't have anything like a serious foreign policy posture, Nor, can it independently project military power. It is still dependant on the U.S. and resentful of American power. That in and of itself can lead to Putin overestimating what he can get away with.
- 12/8/08 18:28
- Eric Gordy said...
Steve, I think your analysis is fine as it goes, but the premise is that there always has to be tension between Russia and Europe. That might be true given the developments of the last several years -- an intransigent government in the US and an authoritarian retrenchment in Russia. But it would certainly be helpful to think of alternatives, and of interests that Russia and Europe have in common. In that case Georgia might be the wrong cause celebre.
Another point worth considering: we like to think that Russia presents a big danger now because the high price of oil has made it prosperous and ambitious. But imagine how dangerous it will be when the price of oil crashes and there are no decently functioning channels of negotiation. I would really like to see policy makers in the US and EU capable of doing more than responding in confusion to the next surprise.
- 12/8/08 18:40
- ida said...
"Ida, I haven't seen a figure of 10,000-14,000 dead in South Ossetia in two days suggested."
You got a decimal point wrong. The tally was 1,400 (not 14,000) after the first 36 hours or so.
Now it is up to 2,000, but there are probably many people dead under the rubble - the city was smashed - almost completely destroyed.
The survivors are now talking to western reporters in South Ossetia and they are saying they were hiding in their basements and rubbled houses for days and that they would have died under the rubble if the Russians didn't come.
The Georgians would not quit their attacking of civilians and civilian structure. Even just 2 days ago they were firing into civilian apartments. Just yesterday/last night in western press (and I could post link if you don't believe) it was witnessed by western reporters the attack by 6 Georgian helicopters on South Ossetia. They kept coming back.
But now they are diminishing and the Russian are picking off remnant snipers in the hills. They insist many of these are military because there are blacks among them. (I await photos/video of the claimed captured black mercenary or pictures of the dead for it to be proved to me, however.)
Did you watch that youtube link which shows footage of the initial nightly attack - just watch the first few minutes? The noise and the seemingly hundreds of missles lighting up the sky at once - all of them aimed horizontally (and not for instance up in the sky like anti-aircraft would be doing) meaning they will hit people, homes, buildings.
Eric Gordy,
The genocidal accusations are also coming from the South Ossetians.
If you have 2,000 or greater number of civilians out of a total population of 70,000 killed in 2 days along with complete destruction of civilian infrastructure and dwellings reduced to rubble, half the population fleeing in 3 days, plus survivors being run down by Georgian tanks, then it is an obvious attempt at annihilating the entire population - and that includes women and children.
I had not heard of any Georgian civilians being killed by the South Ossetians in the weeks prior to this attack by Georgia.
There were exchanges of fire on the border where Georgian troops were building up forces, but only a few Georgian soldiers were killed after they had killed either S. Ossetian civilians or forces.
- 12/8/08 20:14
- Eric Gordy said...
This press release is vague:
It announces that Georgia has made a filing against Russia at the ICJ for violation of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), specifying Articles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and Article 22. And it "reserves its right to invoke Article IX of the Genocide Convention." These articles are all general, having to do with jurisdiction, so it does not a give a clue as to the substance of the complaint.
The press release says the text of the complaint "will be available shortly."
- 12/8/08 21:18
- Eric Gordy said...
Update on that last comment -- here is the complaint: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/140/14657.pdf.
The elements of it (dating from 1991): expulsion, prevention of return, discriminatory granting of citizenship, support of separatist movements in the implementation of discriminatory policies.
That's just the first quick read, I haven't had time to do a proper analysis.
- 12/8/08 21:36
- Anonymous said...
Ida, using the suffering of the people of Tshkhinvali is quite a clumsy way of shop-windowing your views on Kosova.
- 13/8/08 08:19
- Steve Albert said...
ErIc wrote:
The premise is that there always has to be tension between Russia and Europe. That might be true given the developments of the last several years -- an intransigent government in the US and an authoritarian retrenchment in Russia. But it would certainly be helpful to think of alternatives, and of interests that Russia and Europe have in common. In that case Georgia might be the wrong cause celebre.
I don't believe that Georgia is a cause celebre. Russia's flattening of Grozny was a sign of the authoritarian direction in which it was going. That didn't make the Chechens saints. Grozny didn't have to be Sarajevo for what the Russians did there to be seen for what it was. Their actions there and in Georgia can be judged on their own merits.
About Russia and Europe, I don't think that the Presidents of Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine flew to the Georgian capital yesterday to speak at a public rally only because of their sympathy for Georgia.
They saw Russia's actions there as threatening to them. I don't think their concerns were out of place. Russia's excellent adventure in Georgia can't be seen in a vacuum. When the internet in Estonia is shut down by Russian cyberwarriors,or when Russia shuts off gas supplies to its neighbors in the dead of winter, there is reason enough for concern.
Poland and the Baltic states are members of the E.U, and N.A.T.O What does this crisis tell us about how safe they would feel if Putin puts pressure on them?
They have the example of Sarajevo, Vukovar,Dubrovnik and Srebrenica to show them that Western Europe does not always take attacks on European civilization seriously.
The E.U. has a border with Russia. Its GDP is far greater than that of the Russia. Yet, if the U.S. did not exist, how able would Europe be to influence Russian behavior and have its concerns taken seriously? Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, the answer to that question is far from clear.
- 13/8/08 13:07
- Anonymous said...
Ida, I'd just like to come back on your comments about Ron Haviv. Can you provide me with an explanation how Haviv managed to stage those imaginative pictures of men with rib-cages like wash-boards in Serb concentration camps? (And before you start talking about TB perhaps you could tell me about the daily menu at Omarska)
When you talk about "staged" photographs of Georgian citizens I presume you're referring to the ones published by Reuters that have been the subject of imaginative discussion at South Ossetian websites.
If you're asking me not to believe the evidence a generally authoritative source is offering me I need some fairly authoritative refutation as well. And I'm not really inclined to accept tangential badmouthing of someone like Ron Haviv without solid evidence from someone that I have equal respect for.
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