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To: jmhollen who wrote (598482)	8/1/2004 9:40:12 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 769670

Bogus Clinton Book on Sale in China By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press Writer (enlarge photo) Former President Bill Clinton talks to reporters Friday, July 30, 2004, in Little Rock, Ark., before signing copies of his book 'My Life.' Clinton said he thought John Kerry accomplished what he needed to with his speech at the Democratic National Convention Tursday night. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) SHANGHAI, China — The first hint that the Chinese version of Bill Clinton's memoir might not be quite right is that for most of the book, he's not even telling the story. Alfred A. Knopf, publishers of the former president's best-selling "My Life," say they haven't yet sold the Chinese-language rights to China. So China's copyright thieves have struck again, concocting their own versions. One 438-page paperback version called "Wode Shenghuo" ("My Life") sells for 10 yuan ($1.20) at a temple book fair and carries Clinton's photo on the cover, just like the 957-page original. But it's not the same photo. The copyright information incorrectly lists the original publisher as Simon & Schuster. Oops. Simon & Schuster published Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History," not her husband's book. The book lists "Clinton, HR" as the author, and just about all of it is lifted verbatim from the Chinese-language version of her memoir. Piracy of books, movies, music and software is rampant in China, despite vows by Beijing to crack down. International trade groups estimate that theft of copyrights and patents costs Western companies $16 billion a year in sales. "There's sort of a habit developed here that anything ... in the print media, is essentially in the public domain and allowed to be `borrowed,' if you will," said Charles M. Martin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. An explosion in the variety and range of translated books makes it difficult, sometimes, to tell real from fake. Bookstores and kiosks carry numerous versions of many dozens of biographies and memoirs of famous celebrities, from Charlie Chaplin to billionaire Warren Buffett. But in the case of the many versions of "My Life" circulating in China, it's pretty obvious something's amiss. In one, the table of contents is lifted straight from "Living History," with a few omissions. In another, the narrator for most of the book appears to be Hillary Clinton. "My Life" has no table of contents. "That isn't piracy, it's a completely illegal publication!" exclaimed an editor at Yilin Press, which most of the bogus books list as publisher. The state-controlled publisher, based in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, says it complained to the government's copyright bureau, which urged authorities to confiscate the unauthorized versions. Visits to Shanghai's government-run book wholesale market and several big, government-run bookstores turned up no copies of "My Life." But the book is easily found at smaller bookstores. Paul Bogaards, spokesman for Random House, which owns Knopf, said his company would "take all appropriate and necessary steps to combate piracy of the author's work." Shanghai book traders said they expected authorized translations to arrive this month or next. Their expectation was hard to explain, since the rights haven't been sold yet. Yilin apologized last year after Simon & Schuster discovered that its authorized Chinese translation of "Living History" omitted or rewrote politically sensitive sections, such as a reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests. It said it was rushing its own version to stores to compete with counterfeit versions sold by street peddlers. Simon & Schuster withdrew publishing rights anyway. ___ Simon & Schuster: simonsays.com

To: jmhollen who wrote (598482)	8/1/2004 9:51:42 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry if my post offended you Mr jmhollen. I made it to someone who has been whining something about documents about Kerry's silver star. He seems to be under the impression that the neocon's have the right to demand every detail, every scrap of paper which relates to anything Kerry has ever done. He forgets that junior is the most secretive president in the history who has hidden more documents from the public than anyone else. Perhaps you would be so kind as to tell him what you told me about the statute of limitations. Perhaps to be fair we should spend 100 million dollars of the tax payers money investigating every aspect of junior's past like we did With Bill Clinton. If we did junior wouldn't last long. When all the lies fail. When you're left with no excuse. When you're backed into a corner. When there is no other place to turn. Just remember this. You can always blame it all on Bill Clinton and the redneck neocon's will cheer.

To: jmhollen who wrote (598482)	8/1/2004 11:09:29 PM
From: jim-thompson	Respond to of 769670

ron brown was no loss to the tax payers. it is unfortunate that other people had to die since the operatives of the former president decided that he must be killed and to make sure pumped a bullet in his head. ********************************************* Bill Clinton appointed Ron Brown Commerce Secretary, partly as a reward for Ron Brown's success as a campaign fund raiser. From day one, allegations surrounded the exact means and methods by which this success was attained. Investigations into Ron Brown's activities (his son would later plead guilty to money laundering) were nearing the point of indictments, and Ron Brown had publicly stated that he would not go to jail alone, when the airplane carrying Ron Brown and about 30 other people crashed in Bosnia. It is worth noting that Ron Brown was just one of four Clinton campaign fund raisers to die under questionable circumstances. The others were C. Victor Raiser II, Hershel Friday, and Ed Willey, a total of three plane crashes and one "Fosterization". Following Brown's demise, his personal attorney as well as a co-worker at the Department of Commerce, Barbara Wise also died under questionable circumstances. As in the case of yet another "suddenly dead" member of the Clinton administration, Vincent Foster , Ron Brown's office was ransacked for files by Commerce staff immediately after his death. In the wake of Brown's death, even though the investigation into his activities was effectively closed down, allegations continued to surface that Brown had traded seats on trade missions for DNC campaign donations, and had even solicited money from Vietnam! Now infamous security leaks John Huang and Ira Sockowitz were at Ron Brown's Commerce Department at the times they were leaking classified satellite technology to the Chinese. Brown's closest associate, Nolanda Hill, admitted on ABC-TV that Brown was using drugs, and that the White House had ordered Brown to meet with "some damn Chinaman", a reference to John Huang. whatreallyhappened.com