China moves to calm unrest over property seizures – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in January 29th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Booms, Chinese Government, Decade, Driven, Evictions, Hundreds Of Thousands, People, Property Seizures, Proportion, Public Anger, Public Protests, Rage, seizure, Telegraph, Time China, Unrest

The Chinese government has moved to calm huge public anger over the widespread seizure of property, an issue that has driven three people to set themselves on fire in as many months.
A large proportion of China’s estimated 100,000 or so public protests each year are driven by rage over compulsory evictions. Over the past decade, [...]

Strike on Iran Is Israel ’s Only Option

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Ambassador To The United Nations, Blogged, Control, Flock Browser, Iran Nuclear, Israel, John Bolton, Logic, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Weapon, Post Strike, Presidential Election, Regime Change, United Nations, Unrest, Washington Post

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton asserts that with Iran ’s hard-line regime still in control, Israel ’s decision on whether to attack Iran ’s nuclear facilities is “more urgent than ever.” . The unrest that followed Iran ’s disputed presidential election suggested that regime change could possibly be in the offing. [...]

Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots – Yahoo! News

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Blogged, China News, China Yahoo, Corruption, Ethnic Violence, Flock Browser, Income Gaps, Local Administrations, Muslim, Riots, Uighur, Unrest, Western China, Yahoo, Yahoo Local, Yahoo News

Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China.
In the most recent case, more than 180 people died in ethnic violence that convulsed a Muslim area of western China last week. The spark [...]

Site News as of 7-13-2009

Posted by Matt in July 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, 1913intel, China, Chinese Citizens, Control, Driven Model, Economic Plight, Economic Trouble, Excuse, Hell, India, Interest Level, Middle East, Redirect, Response Rate, Russia, Site News, Subscribers, Subscriptions, Tibet, Unrest, Xinjiang Province

One month ago I changed this website to a membership site. More correctly I divided up the content into regular and premium content. In order to get access to the premium content one must subscribe. I set the monthly price of a subscription to $12/month.
Well, the interest level for paying $12/month was very low. There [...]