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Saturday, May 12, 2012

The tension between China and the Philippines rises on social networks


The social networks are experiencing a surge of Chinese nationalism at the time of tensions between China and the Philippines. Friday, May 12, the anti-Chinese protests organized in the Philippines , one of which was held in Manila specifically mobilizing 300 demonstrators, were the most discussed topic on Sina Weibo, the social networking site's most important countries. For several days, the subject mainlining debates. On his account, a businessman, Yu Jinyong, followed by more than one million users, has created controversy by announcing having dismissed his two Filipina housemaids. "I told them: go home and ask your president you find work " . His text was retweeted more than 46,000 times and attracted over 16,000 comments, some of the criticism for its brutal action.
A MANILA ON MARKET
A Chinese journalist Dragon TV, Shanghai TV, went even further by going there.He was photographed on a rock located in the area controlled by the Philippines but claimed by China , Scarborough (Huangyan in Chinese), waving a Chinese flag. Scarborough is 230 km (140 miles) west of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. Manila believes that these shoals are located within its exclusive maritime zone of 200 miles. For its part, Beijing claims the entire South China Sea. In early April, "Gregorio Del Pilar " , flagship of the Philippine Navy, had intercepted eight Chinese fishing boats anchored in waters near the reef, and was about to apprehend fishermen when two Chinese marine surveillance ships s' were interposed.
TROUBLED WATERS
For a month of non-military vessels of both countries are patrolling near the disputed site and the tone continues to rise , the Chinese press as saying Beijing will go to the showdown arm ed to defend its positions. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has tried to appease the spirits Thursday focusing"diplomatic consultations and negotiations" .In late April, the Philippines requested the support of the United States and the international community for helping to build a "defense that is a minimum credible". The South China Sea is full of fish, and fishermen, especially Vietnamese and Filipino, are regularly arrested by Chinese coast guard while Chinese fishermen face the same fate at the hands of the authorities of Vietnam and the Philippines.

IRANIAN DEATH THREAT BECAUSE OF SATIRE SONG The imam sees no rap


He lives in Germany. But the musicians in this country Shahin Najafi is virtually unknown. His audience was the 31-year-old in Iran and exile among young Persians, but still keep a connection zm Iran. They depend on Najafi songs that deal with the misfeatures in his home, sexual corruption, violence and oppression. The song "We Are Not Men" criticizes the oppression of women. And "Neda" that he dedicated young woman who was killed on the edge of a demonstration against the regime in Iran, and thus a symbol of the "green movement", which was formed in response to her opinion, rigged elections of 2009. Raised in the province of Gilan, studied sociology Najafi, before he celebrated as a musician with provocative lyrics first successes. When the pressure becomes too great to him in Iran, he fled to Germany.Seven years ago he came to Cologne, where there is a large Iranian community - and making his band Tapesh 2012 simply music. In Iran, though his records are prohibited. But because his songs are downloaded from the Internet and sold on the black market, they still find a wide audience. The Islamist regime has been unable to stop this influence, even if it is constantly trying to block critical Web sites and social networks.
Popular in the underground
He is a superstar - but popular in the underground. "He speaks a language understood by the youth," says the filmmaker Iranian-Ali Samadi, who also lives in Cologne. The songs by Shahin Najafi please him well: "Provocative and challenging," he finds it. His latest piece (see text below) has Shahin Najafi, however, now brought death threats. In the song "Imam Naghi" Najafi Shahar calls the Imam of Naghi - one tenth of the twelve imams of the Shiites in Iran believe - and tells him he should not hesitate to do away with the many misfeatures in the country: with oppression and sexual violence , with the trend of cosmetic surgery, or with imported cheap goods from China that are flooding the Iranian market. The song is hefty, but clearly meant satirically. And it has struck a nerve. Shortly after he had published on the Internet, it was several hundred thousand times and clicked on Internet forums and social networks hotly debated. But also angry backlash was not long in coming. On a Web page that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards should be close, even death threats appeared against the musician. The authors relied on the fatwa of a cleric, Ayatollah Ali Safi of the Grand-Golpayagani. The 92-year-old cleric had recently declared in a fatwa, who insult the religion who deserved God's punishment. The opponents of Shahin Najafi now see it as carte blanche to tell the singer to be outlaws. Bluntly, they are calling for his murder, a bounty of $ 100,000 was exposed to it. The musicians take the threats very seriously, a planned European tour, he has canceled. But on the other hand, he seeks also aware of the public to now point out his threat.
Memories of Rushdie
Even if things are different, this case calls but bad memories of the affair alive by the British writer Salman Rushdie, which in 1989 exposed the relations between Iran and the West difficult. At that time the venerable revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder and until his death, the undisputed leader of the "Islamic Republic of Iran," the novel "The Satanic Verses" as an opportunity to impose a death sentence to the authors. Twelve years had to hide from potential captors Salman Rushdie, declared before Iran not to pursue further the verdict, but he is still under police protection.
Shahin Najafi now fears a similar fate. Whilst it is the fatwa of a single priest, who is just one of around 30 grand ayatollahs, do not equate with the attitude of the entire regime. On the contrary, experts suggest the threats against the singer rather than a side effect of a power struggle is raging behind the scenes within the regime. Radical groups might try it, drive the country back into a confrontation with the West after it has just restarted until the nuclear talks. "It would be a huge problem for Iran if the matter would escalate now," says the director Ali Samadi. "He would be held accountable for it." He asked to link the human rights in Iran with the negotiations on its nuclear program.
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Suman 145 UN observers in Syria

The mission of UN supervision in Syria sum and 145 military members, almost half of the 300 authorized by the Security Council today confirmed the official UN spokesman, Martin Nesirky. 145 observers are on the ground and incorporated into the work of the quota, especially conducting patrols to monitor the situation.Those supervisors are added 56 other civilians who support the military in carrying out its task, under General Robert Mood Norwegian. It is expected that the total members of the mission are on Syrian territory in late May, it said on Tuesday the envoy UN special for Syria, Koffi Annan, reporting to the Security Council on the progress of their management. The task of observers tasked with monitoring the six-point plan agreed by Annan with the Syrian government to cease violence in the country and move towards a peaceful settlement. In recent days, several figures and UN bodies have recognized that since the arrival of the Arab country supervisors, hostility levels have decreased, but at the same time there is a apparent increase in terrorist acts. Among these are the attacks with car bombs that occurred yesterday in Damascus with balance of 55 dead and nearly 400 wounded. On the attack, the Security Council issued a statement condemning any terrorist action as "criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their motivations or where, when and by whom it is committed. " General Mood himself came close to one of those attacks last Wednesday, when an explosion occurred at a convoy of observers in the city of Dara, without cause injury to supervisors, although several Syrian bodyguards.