Link: http://maps.google.com/

Vietnam

They had forced Google, Facebook and yahoo to give details of users using them and they did it! You can’t expect a company to face government. I don’t have to explain what is going to happen if you do flaw things, it government. Everything related to politics, human rights and much more are censored.

Tunisia

Similar to Vietnam they had strict internet access. Only thing is that they get user information by ip address and not by forcing companies.

Syria

Individual can use internet, but they are watch – be careful! Whatever you do online is watched and one thing against government you will be doomed.

People’s republic of China

Among all countries I feel china as best way to block content which is related to Tibetan independence, Taiwan independence, police brutality, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, pornography, some international news sources and propaganda outlets, certain religious movements, and many blogging websites.

Iran

Similar to above content related to politics and other areas are blocked. Be careful of what you share online – they are out their one word against government..!

Saudi Arabia

It was recorded that they had blocked 400,000 to date but they hadn’t been a record of censorship in politics but are focused on pornography, drug use, gambling, religious conversion of Muslims, and filtering circumvention tools.”

Turkmenistan

Internet is very costly in this country and so most of people couldn’t effort it. You can access internet only through government provided internet points. Every site and mail is monitored in this country.  Most of sites are blocked even websites run by human rights organizations and news agencies are blocked. This means an individual can’t use internet!

Cuba

This is kind of funny only government official are allowed to upload and you can access only through government points.

Burma

Heavy censorship blocks human rights and politics mainly. Only few hand full people are allowed to use internet.

North Korea

They are very strict, all website are run by government itself. Only two sites are domain registered (not run by government) and the other entire site are restricted. Only 4% of population use internet.

Most of them censor mostly politics or human rights. It up to you are wish to decided which is most censored country.

An official at the People’s Hospital in Aba County, confirms that two persons, namely Kalsang and Konchok, are hospitalized on Monday afternoon. However, he refuses to comment on the condition of both. Kalsang is the brother of a priest named Phuntsog, who committed suicide last March for throwing himself on fire on the third anniversary of anti-government riots in the area.

His death sparked protests and the monastery was closed by police. Director of Free Tibet,  Stephanie Brigden, says the latest protest asserts that despair has been growned among the young Tibetans.

It is impossible to confirm what sparks protests. However, it is believed as a response to pressure to monastic community at Kirti monastery and Phuntsog members.

Phone to the monastery is not answered. Meanwhile, government officials and local police say they are unaware of the incident.

A Twitter message, which cannot be immediately verified, says one monk had died. However Xinhua news agency, citing the authority of local officials, says the monks have been saved. The situation in the monastery, as a result of repeated anti-government protests, has deteriorated since the death of Phuntsog, March 16.

Phuntsog is the second monk of the Kirti who deliberately set fire to himself since anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa, in March 2008. It is most bloody riot in Tibet during 20 years.

Xinhua said the monk was aged 16 years old at the time of his death. However, there is report that his actual age is 20 years or 21 years

A month ago, China has jailed three monks aged between 10 and 13 years because they are suspected helping Phuntsog to burn himself to death. That increase criticism from United States and human rights groups of the world. Other monks also committed suicide by self-immolation in the Sichuan Nyitsoin monastery in August. The monk drank gasoline before lighting a fire in his body. Soldiers and police responded with a siege around the monastery.

A spokesman for the International Campaign for Tibet, an organization based in the U.S., Kate Saunders, said the latest protest was an act of desperation fueled by the suffering in the current situation.

Brigden asks the international community to pressure China to accept an invitation to continue negotiation to find a solution to the crisis in Tibet. Many Tibetans in China hate because the increase domination of the majority Han ethnic group in China.

They accuses the government of trying to dilute the dominance of Buddhist culture. China, however, said that the Tibetan standard of living has increased in recent decades. This refers to cost billions of dollars spent on development projects and infrastructure.

The Tibetan government in exile, based in the hill town of Dharamshala, Northern India, say that they are deeply saddened by the events referred to as the desperation of the Tibetans.

It seems Glen Beck and his followers have achieved what they set out to do.  The Czar’s are being investigated.  It is about time!  Never in history has there been Czar’s of this number, in the White House.  As one of the Senator’s said today, the Czar’s are either making decisions for the country that they have no right to be doing, or they are sitting in chair’s and being paid a large amount of money for doing nothing.  It would certainly be advantageous to America if they are in fact doing nothing.  However, consider the country’s deficit and the money it cost to pay the Czars.

None other than President Obama constantly reminds us that he stepped into a Three-trillion dollar deficit; left for him by the former Administration.  Yet he has traveled more and spent more in his first two-hundred days in office, than George did in two years. 

One of his favorite Czars, Valarie Jarrett, who happens to be Michelle’s best friend, went on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, aboard a government plane.  Of course, the President and his family was going there with or without Ms. Jarrett, but the question still remains, who paid for her trip and lodging while she was there?  Hopefully, the next process of elimination will begin with her.

A question arises at this moment…what happened to Hillary Clinton?  As Secretary of State, should she not be the one traveling across the ocean to speak with “His Holiness,” Dalia Lama?  Not so in this case.  Valarie Jarrett left Washington this week to attend a meeting with the Tibetan leader.  She apparently met him at his home to welcome him to the White House in November.  She shared with Lama the news that President Obama commends his aggressiveness in finding ways to Tibetan autonomy.  She also discussed ways America can help him reach his goals.

Seems Hillary has been dismissed from her duties and replaced with a Czar.  How degrading that must be.

Alton Gunn made a statement during Obama’s campaign.  He said, “there are two people Obama will not say no to:  Valerie Jarrett and Michelle.”

Ms. Jarrett and the Obama’s go way back.  She was on the University Hospital board where Michelle was accused of, “Patient dumping of the poor.”  She is also responsible for Agency officials posting any interactions with lobbyists concerning competitive funding concerning the Olympics, forgetting she lobbied to get the Olympics back in Chicago.

The NY Times interviewed Ms. Jarrett as the “behind-the-scenes player,” in the Obama White House.  Dispatching her to visit the most holy of the Tibetan does not merit the “behind-the-scenes” analogy.

Times also said that the President is a whiner, has a hot temper, that he is lazy and stubborn and summits to strong women.  If this is in fact a true statement, who is running the White House?  Is it someone behind the scenes?  Is this the Shadow Government that has been assembled without being vetted?

When Ms. Jarrett worked for Mayor Richard Daley in Chicago, she quickly climbed the ladder of success.  From Chief of Staff to Chairwoman of Chicago Transit System.  She left Chicago government and took a job with Habitat Company.  She was before becoming the White House Senior Adviser (Czar), Habitats Chief Executive Officer/President.  She mismanaged some of the rental properties, namely, PARC Plaza.  The Boston Globe reported the roofs were missing on some buildings, rats ran the halls, sewer waste came up through the kitchen sink drain and out of a 100 percent score, the complex received 11 percent.  The Federal government in 2006 eventually seized the complex.

Ms. Jarrett, while CEO at Habitat donated at two separate times, checks exceeding four-thousand dollars to the Obama campaign.  An amount that well exceeds the $2300 limit for individual donations.

The Boston Globe,after describing the living conditions at PARC Plaza (Remember Tony Rezko?), the building was going to be demolished.  That my friend is my concern for America.  Is our country going to be demolished because our President is lazy, whiny, and takes strong women to heart?  Again, who is running our country?

Polygamy is defined as taking more than one partner or spouse in marriage. It is derived from specialized studies in Anthropology and other Social Sciences.

History

Polygamy has been around for centuries in many countries around the globe. This practice is quite common in the Middle East, China, Mongolia, the Canadian Arctic, North and South Africa, and the Caribbean. It is usually practiced by “highly patriarchal societies”.

Are you familiar with the term “Polyandry”?

This is the term for women that are married to one or more spouse at the same time. Typically, Polyandry was practiced in parts of China and Tibetans in Nepal. Frequently, brothers would share the same woman sexually and were given equal access to her at all times. The woman would choose this type of arrangement to keep the money and the land all within the family.

Polyandry is most typical in populations with limited amounts of resources.

A perfect example of this would be Africa. Typically woman will take on one or more partners or husbands so that her children will have more resources for survival. In contrast, with Polygamy, the man could impregnate more than one of his wives at the same time and have limited resources to promote the survival of the many children.

Controversy

Tibetans that try to sustain this way of life find it quite difficult. Anthropologists that have studied these groups have found that the Polyandrists themselves believe it more beneficial to the child to have more than one father. They believe that having more than one father opens the doors to more opportunity and different social statures.

“Over time, Tibetan polyandry has been outlawed, so it is difficult to measure the incidence of polyandry in what may have been the world’s most “polyandrous” society.”

Continued in Animals are from Mars, Insects are from Venus Part 2

In some parts of the world, some cultural groups don’t do the same as we do. Instead they have a unique way of greeting one another. Let’s find out how they greet each other.

The Tibetan Traditional Greeting

In Tibet, it is a courtesy that when Tibetan people meeting and greeting you, they will put their hands palm to palm near the chest and stretch out their tongue to show their respect. In return, you may put your hands near the chest and say “Tashidele” or good luck.

The Maori Traditional Greeting

Hongi

In New Zealand, hongi is the Maori form of welcome greeting expressed by the rubbing or touching of noses, something akin to the Western custom of kissing someone by way of greeting. The literal meaning of “hongi” is the “sharing of breath.”

The Nepalese and Hindu Traditional Greeting

Namaste

In Nepal and in India, namaste is the popular greeting performed by pressing the hands together and holding them near the heart. The whole act communicates to the world “You and I are one. I salute and worship the God within you.”

The Eskimo Traditional Greeting

Kunik

In Alaska, Siberia and others, kunik is the traditional Eskimo greeting based on a traditional Inuit greeting. It is a form of expressing affection, usually between family members and loved ones, that involves pressing the nose and upper lip against the skin (commonly the cheeks or forehead) and breathing in, causing the loved one’s skin or hair to be suctioned against the nose and upper lip.

The Mende Traditional Greeting

In Sierra Leone, the Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups along with the Temne. The Mende traditional greeting is done by rubbing other’s chin.

The Japanese Traditional Greeting

Bowing

And in Japan, bowing is probably the feature of Japanese etiquette that is best-known all over the world. Bowing is considered extremely important in Japan. Basic bows are performed with the back straight and the hands at the sides (boys and men) or clasped in the lap (girls and women), and with the eyes down. Generally, the longer and deeper the bow, the stronger the emotion and the respect expressed.

If you have an idea or knowledge about other unique or traditional greetings please feel free to share it with us. Thank you.

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