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The price of Chinese corruption: what is the next in China's politics, finance, society, stability, and international relations?

Asia Globalization Forum

Has China's ongoing reform altered the nation's political-economic landscape as far as government corruption is concerned? What is the next if this corruption goes deeper?

True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a
Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%.

The answer is: TRUE

http://freeculture.org/manifesto/

The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down, closed, proprietary structure. Through the democratizing power of digital technology and the Internet, we can place the tools of creation and distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the hands of the common person — and with a truly active, connected, informed citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the earth.

Thursday 18 October marked the release of version
7.10 of the hugely popular Ubuntu computer operating system code
named Gutsy Gibbon. Ubuntu is a 100% free drop in replacement for MS
Windows with advanced features that you wont find in any product from
Microsoft. Download the live CD iso to boot and try Ubuntu before you decide to install.

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is appalled by Friday's announcement that the federal government will force all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia to provide 'filtered' Internet connections upon request.

The Australian Democrats have condemned reported new moves by the Howard Government to sell uranium to India in what appears to be a dangerous break from existing policy.

“Anyone who thinks the nuclear industry is not going to be dramatically expanded under another term of the Howard Government is delusional”, Australian Democrats Leader, Senator Lyn Allison said today.

Greens candidate for Mackellar is donating solar panels to his former school, Pittwater High School and challenges other candidates to match him.

Pittwater High School (PHS) is undertaking a project to become a solar power station, a first in Australia. PHS has been joined in this genuinely exciting and practical project by the Northern Beaches Greens and their candidate for Mackellar, Craige McWhirter, who has been the first to come forward with a donation of three solar panels for the project.

The whole saga only developed las week, on Wednesday and Thursday, after they actually threatened "to go" blogger Peter Brent, from http://www.mumble.com.au , and Charles Richardson (from Crikey) who had both been quite effective and meticulous in their critical dissecting of The Australian's analysis and opinion pieces, especially regarding The Australian's interpretation of polling data. Next, the Blog Wars between the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the Oz Blogosphere escalated to unseen polemical heights.

Human Rights Commissions

Government of Australia

Government of Queensland

Government of New South Wales

Crime Commissions

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

The cyclic sense of time in accord with natural and humanrhythms and the absence of the idea ofprogress and of any vision of civilizationsare, of course, related phenomena; they are further correlated with the nature of primitive as opposed to civilized technology. When we examine archaic civilizations (Egypt, Babylonia, Greece,China, Rome) or contemporary commercial-industrial civilizations, we find that the life pace set by the demands of the market, the civil authority or the machine increasingly displace human and natural rhythms.