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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (106025)	5/8/2014 10:42:22 PM
From: GPS Info	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219937

GPS, the Russians are amateurs. At what? Killing people, suppressing ideas of individual rights and/or general dissent? I think they were very “professional” at constructing gulags for dissenters and institutionalizing writers in psychiatric wards, collectivizing farms, starving millions, forcing people in and out of territory for political purposes. If you read books, you may consider this one for a better perspective: amazon.com It's silly to accuse Russia and Putin of fascism if we consider the trends in the "free" world over decades. You constantly make the point of people leaving one country for another. Hawk made very good points about the general drain of people out of Russia. Do you think people are really debating about leaving some idealized homeland/motherland for someplace worse in the west? Are Russians emigrating en masse to China or Egypt or Syria or Afghanistan? Do they want to trade one autocracy for another? With the various police shootings of people and SWAT home invasions of wrong addresses and excess in general, I see a very common mistake by people: they are confused between official government policies and those for individual violations of constitutional rights. I don’t believe there are government policies to invade homes of the wrong people, or shoot campers outside of designated campsites. I could be wrong, so you could educate us. with Homeland Security treating people like herds of compliant sheep, I wonder if you actually know why this was thought necessary. we read little about the USA lecturing and hectoring China about human rights. I’m not sure what you intend by this. Are you saying that China doesn’t have a human rights problem? Should Amnesty International be doing the hectoring? Would that be more effective than the US trying to move the needle? Free speech, despite having specific constitutional protection, is increasingly limited. In your view, how does the “limited” free speech in the US compare to China? I may have time to review this: en.wikipedia.org

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (106025)	5/8/2014 11:07:23 PM
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Haim had previously provided the Holodomor link in February: Message 29406792 There are other videos to continue this one: Uploaded on Feb 14, 2012 Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies present: Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture "The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931-33" by Andrea Graziosi (University of Naples), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 17 November 2009.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (106025)	5/15/2014 7:26:04 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219937

a bit tongue in cheek, but only a bit am reporting pogrom evolving in hanoi even as fascism rearing ugly head in tokyo in the mean time we must occasionally re-visit the thesis that manufacturers massively de-camp china for vietnam and points manila & jakarta, and oh ... yes ... india even as china must assuredly turn down the dial on infrastructure this and export that while taiwan finds new and greener pastures points everywhere except fujian, shanghai and the hinterlands of the still divided one nation all copying li kai shing to de-china the portfolio and ... oh ... there are matters of historic claims this and strategic jugular that i do notice that the main stream media stop short of down-thumbing historical claims in the matters to do w/ east CHINA sea, and issues to do w/ the south CHINA sea, preferring instead to (i) mouth off about administrative control in so far as diaoyu island is concerned and that japan claims the islands are not under dispute, (ii) all the while avoiding the issue of administrative control in cases of the atolls further south and emphasising instead anything to do w/ absolutely nothing except that there are competing claims of disputed territory too funny for words good thing about media spin is that they change nothing in reality over time, as what must inevitably be simply inexorably happen when time is ripe am wondering just how diligently the times, nyt, wsj, etc etc shall be down-thumbing historic claims timesofisrael.com China publishes PM adviser’s hawkish book on Jerusalem The Foreign Ministry of China has published a book about Jerusalem by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy adviser Dore Gold, whose core thesis appears to contradict Beijing’s positions on the Middle East conflict. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! Gold’s “The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City,” first published in 2007, argues that the city needs to remain united under Israeli sovereignty, based on the Jewish people’s historical rights and Israel’s responsibility to safeguard the holy sites in the Old City. China’s official position, by contrast, requires a division of Jerusalem. Last May, President Xi Jinping announced a four-point proposal to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for the creation of a Palestinian state on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital. According to Gold, who earlier this year rejoined the Prime Minister’s Office as a part-time foreign policy adviser, the new-found interest in his book has to do with Beijing’s increased focus on regional policy. “China right now is in a learning phase. They want to understand the Middle East,” Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told The Times of Israel last week in his Jerusalem office. “Therefore, a book that explains an Israeli view — I believe it’s a mainstream view in the state of Israel — on Jerusalem is something of interest to them. Not just purely to learn the facts but to see also the analysis: why does Israel claim that Jerusalem has to remain united under Israeli sovereignty, what’s the underlying logic of that?” President Shimon Peres meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash 90) Gold, who still serves as president of the hawkish Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, said his book — a former New York Times bestseller — explains that Jerusalem was always a Jewish city, and argues that its holy sites would be in danger of destruction if any authority other than Israel were to rule over the Old City. The Chinese people and government have a deep appreciation for the ancient civilization of the Jewish people, as they see themselves as an ancient civilization as well, Gold said. “Their own diplomatic approach to territorial disputes is related to the issue of historical rights. I don’t think Israel is going to get involved in the question of historical rights in the South China Sea or in Tibet or other places. But it is interesting that that is an issue for them and the whole restoration of the Jewish state is based on historical rights,” he said. The cover of Dore Gold’s “The Fight for Jerusalem” in Chinese Gold first connected with the Chinese government in 2012, when his center hosted in Israel a delegation from a think tank affiliated with the Communist Party’s Central Committee. After he delivered a briefing on Jerusalem, they expressed interest in translating his book, which in Chinese is simply called “Jerusalem.” According to Gold, “a few thousand” copies of his book were printed in China, aimed mainly at diplomats and people dealing with policy matters. On the cover of the Chinese edition of “The Fight for Jerusalem,” Gold is described as a “famous Israeli politician.” On the back cover of the book, the translators note that “undoubtedly, in this book the writer expresses his own ideas of history, national feelings and value judgments, some of which we do not agree with. But we tried our best to keep the original text and do not abridge anything in order to maintain the integrity of the book, and also give researchers more Israelis views.”

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (106025)	4/21/2015 10:23:46 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219937

>>Meanwhile, the Flash Crash remains a puzzle to some people.<< They finally busted someone for it! ... Trader Arrested for Manipulation That Contributed to 2010 ‘Flash Crash’ nytimes.com APRIL 21, 2015 Five years ago, the global financial system was rocked by the “flash crash,” 15 minutes of chaos that shook the world’s biggest markets and prompted investors both big and small to question how such a vital part of the economy could be brought to its knees. On Tuesday, prosecutors said that much of the blame for the event could be pinned on a single person: a 36-year-old man who had been boldly manipulating markets from his suburban rowhouse just a few minutes from Heathrow Airport outside London, where he was arrested. Regulators said that their prosecution of the trader, Navinder Singh Sarao, demonstrated their aggressiveness in rooting out market manipulation. But news of the arrest, if anything, has raised anew concerns about how an individual could manage to exert such influence over the world’s financial markets.