Don't BE Suprised & KNOW Jihad's True Face

Arun Shourie writes how India's officials & ministers not only knew about India's SPECIFIC security holes BUT WENT ABOUT REGULARLY LECTURING ON THOSE ISSUES. For example:

By now it was time for Shivraj Patil to address yet another meeting of the DGs and IGs of Police. Thus on November 22, 2008, that is literally on the eve of the attacks in Mumbai, he told the police chiefs, "To control terrorism in the hinterland, we have to see that infiltration of terrorists from other countries does not take place through the sea routes and through the borders between India and friendly countries.The coastlines also have to be guarded through Navy, Coast Guard and coastal police. The states' special branches and the CID should identify the persons forming part of the sleeper cells and lodging in cities and towns and studying in educational institutions and working in industries and professions..."

And four days later, the terrorists, using the exact same sea route, do the exact same thing that these worthies have been warning others about. Are they consultants to Government or ones running the government? Is their job to issue warnings to others or to see that the warnings are acted upon? Warning given, the job is done. But that is the fate of warnings in this system. After all, that very sea route was used to smuggle explosives for the blasts across Bombay in 1993. Were those blasts not warning enough?

Seven years later —in 2000 — the warning and lesson were made explicit yet again. Four task forces were set up in the wake of the Kargil war. The one on border management warned, "The long coastline with its inadequate policing makes it easy to land arms and explosives at isolated spots on the coast." It recalled that this is exactly how explosives were smuggled into Maharashtra in 1993. "The situation, if anything, has worsened over the years with the activities of the ISI becoming more widespread along the coast particularly by extension into the coast of Kerala... Such coastal areas must be particularly kept under surveillance."

Shourie also shares HOW JIHAD IS PAKISTAN GOVT'S WRITTEN OFFICIAL POLICY:

Where do you think, and by whom do you think are the teachers instructed to ensure that students from class 1 onwards "recognise the importance of jihad"; to ensure that they "must be aware of the blessings of jihad"; to ensure that they "create yearning for jihad in his heart"; to ensure that they develop "love and aspiration for jihad, tabligh, shahadat, sacrifice, ghazi, shaheed"? Where do you think, and by whom are teachers instructed to ensure that students from kindergarten onwards learn to "make speeches on jihad and shahadat", and are "judged on their spirit while making speeches on jihad"? Do you think these are instructions issued by the Islamic fundamentalists to maulvis in madrasas? They are instructions given by the government of Pakistan through official circulars to principals and teachers in government schools of Pakistan.

You didn't know that? Exactly. That is a large part of the problem. You will find reams of these and other facts in the 2002 report edited by Pakistani academics, A.H. Nayyar and Ahmed Salim, and published by the Sustainable Development Institute, Islamabad, 'The Subtle Subversion: The state of curricula and textbooks in Pakistan, Urdu, English, Social Studies and Civics'. Get on to the Internet, download and read the report fromwww.sdpi.org. Here is a part of the problem that you can solve by yourself. 

Further he says:

But for any of this to happen, the society has to be clear in its mind. This is, it has for 20 years been, war. It can be won only by overwhelming the adversary — not by running after the terrorist, as K.P.S. Gill says, but by out-running him, indeed by over-running him. Not an eye for an eye. For an eye, both eyes. Not a tooth for a tooth. For a tooth, the whole jaw. Human rights? Yes, we will respect the human rights of the terrorists and their sponsors and their local supporters to the extent that they respect the human rights of our people. 

THE NY TIMES TALKS ON SIMILAR LINES:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01kristol.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Consider first an op-ed article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times by Martha Nussbaum, a well-known professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago. The article was headlined "Terrorism in India has many faces." But one face that Nussbaum fails to mention specifically is that of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Islamic terror group originating in Pakistan that seems to have been centrally involved in the attack on Mumbai.

This is because Nussbaum's main concern is not explaining or curbing Islamic terror. Rather, she writes that "if, as now seems likely, last week's terrible events in Mumbai were the work of Islamic terrorists, that's more bad news for India's minority Muslim population." She deplores past acts of Hindu terror against India's Muslims. She worries about Muslim youths being rounded up on suspicion of terrorism with little or no evidence. And she notes that this is "an analogue to the current ugly phenomenon of racial profiling in the United States."

So jihadists kill innocents in Mumbai — and Nussbaum ends up decrying racial profiling here. Is it just that liberal academics are required to include some alleged ugly American phenomenon in everything they write?

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But if terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India (and the United States), governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. This can happen if those nations' citizens decide they don't want their own country to be dishonored by allegiances with terror groups.Otherwise, other nations may have to act.

Right To Information Hero

Shailesh Gandhi ran his plastic manufacturing company successfully for 23 years, and then sold it off to spend rest of his life in "giving back to society".

He seems to have found his 'calling' in championing the cause of Right to Information Act in India. He has been hounding the government by filing more than 800 RTI applications and creating awareness about the power of RTI as an empowering tool in the hands of an individual citizen.

Some of his thoughts:

The United Nations' Human Rights 1948 Declaration was a landmark because it mentioned freedom of expression in the same breath as right to information; one cannot properly function without the other for when you don't know the real facts then how can you express freely?

...

When the individual is empowered, he can shake things up, because he doesn't need to compromise his stand just to let his views be heard, which would happen if he were to go through an organization. Every citizen wants to challenge the government, but it is too time and energy-consuming to do so. The RTI makes things simpler.

The government has responded by appointing him as the Central Information Commissioner. He has the accepted the challenge with a caveat:

My philosophy and ideals will not undergo any change. Infact , if the system try to co-opt me, I may call it quits as I am only responsible to the people of this country.

However, his commitment level is very high - he has set a target of disposing 350 -400 appeals every month from the current average of 15-200 appeals per month.

Currently, the number of appeals at State Information Commission are over 16,000, and the appeals at CIC are over 8,000.

This IIT Alumnus will take only a token of Rupees 1 as he "has earned enough to lead a simple life.''

You may download a "RTI Primer for Beginners" here.

The RTI Application format is here.

Now, how many RTI applications will you file?

Nepal asked to free 3000 children

Nepal: UN official calls for release of children in Maoist cantonments:

Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, has asked Nepal’s authorities and the country’s Maoist forces to "immediately free nearly 3,000 children who have still not been formally released from the Maoist cantonments".

Are you listening, Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prime Minister)?

Pushpa means flower! Drop your adopted name of Prachanda, which translates as 'The Fierce One'.

Free the children...

Dreaming of Enlightened Governance!

ENTER, THE ENLIGHTENED NETA: Sunanda Mehta writes about R.V. Krishnan, who researched on “possible solutions” on how the country needs to be “set on the right track” and compiled them into a book - ‘Manifesto in Search of a Party’.

First, he waited "naively" for two years - "hoping something would happen of his book, someone would sit up and decide to do something about the solutions he had proposed for the country."

When nothing happened- he called 15 of his friends (on September 7, 2007) and had a "heated discussion" on the idea of a political party.

Thus, the Professionals Party of India was born in Pune. Their vision:

"Improve the Quality of Life of every Indian"

Last fortnight, PPI got an official acknowledgement from the Election Commission of India for its registration it as a political party.

Their Social Manifesto says:

Clean up and beautify the environment.Improve living conditions. Create a social environment where people live a happy, prosperous and peaceful life. Strife of any type shall become insignificant. Indians will be proud to be INDIAN.

How do they plan to win elections?

Their proposition:

India has an electorate of 671 million. A little over half of them voted in the last general elections. India is believed to have a “middle class” of about 250 million. But the percentage of those who actually vote or are able to vote, is abysmal. Roughly half of India was born after 1983.
...
You will find that if professional Indians stood and got elected to the Indian Parliament, they will bring new, enlightened governance to quickly improve our quality of life and win back our rightful place in the 21st century world, and the middle class has the requisite numbers to make this happen.
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And even if that percentage of the middle class votes which is the national average, PPI can win elections.

Ready to vote?

Creative Capitalism to target the poorest!

Bill Gates is evangelizing Creative Capitalism: "an attempt to stretch the reach of market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off. "

He reminds us that while "Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people, ......it has left out billions more..................One billion people live on less than a dollar a day. They don't have enough nutritious food, clean water or electricity. The amazing innovations that have made many lives so much better — like vaccines and microchips — have largely passed them by. "

He asserts "it is mainly corporations that have the skills to make technological innovations work for the poor" and thus we should find new ways to bring far more people into the capitalist system.

The fundamental question posed is:

How can we most effectively
spread the benefits of capitalism
and the huge improvements in quality of life it can provide
to people who have been left out?

His argument: "....improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today."

His mission:

More than 30 years ago, Paul Allen and I started Microsoft because we wanted to be part of a movement to put a computer on every desk and in every home. Ten years ago, Melinda and I started our foundation because we want to be part of a different movement — this time, to help create a world where no one has to live on a dollar a day or die from a disease we know how to prevent. Creative capitalism can help make it happen. I hope more people will join the cause.

How do Socialists react to this?

Phil Hearse calls it "idle dreams":

But the main drawback in Gates’ proposal is that it is a schema, an idea though up in a Seattle ivory tower, that has precious little purchase on the real world. That’s why it’s so abstract, for example in its insistence that it’s ‘governments’ and ‘non-profits’ that have to solve the main problems of food, water and poverty. But which governments? Using which methods? Financed how? Paying for infrastructural development with which funds?

Bill talks about C.K. Prahalad, who says, in his book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, there are markets all over the world that businesses have missed. A reference is made to one study that found that the poorest two-thirds of the world's population has some $5 trillion in purchasing power.


This is "ammunition" for Phil Hearse:

....the poorest two thirds of humanity wield $5 trillion worth of spending power, so the transnational corporations need to make new markets to exploit/benefit this sector. Well, that’s more than 4.2 billion people. If we do the sums, it’s easy. It’s saying the average annual spend of the poorest two thirds of humanity is $1,190 a year, a pathetic amount that comes to $3.2 a day. Within that there are probably millions who have $10 or $12 a day, many with $4-6 and a billion who have $1 – or less. The target group of ‘creative capitalism’ is never going to be that poorest billion who have virtually nothing at all.

Phil's recommendations?

The billions of the poor and the oppressed need something more practical than creative capitalism to change the structures of their exploitation. Like overthrowing the social relations of capitalist oppression at a local, national and international level.

The debate on Social Freedom goes on.....Which side are you on?

Corruption as a way of life:-(

The famous urban legend: A 'worldwide survey was conducted by the UN'. The only question asked was:

Would you please give your
honest opinion about
solutions to the
food shortage
in the rest of the world?'

The survey was a huge failure,

• In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant,
• In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant,
• In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant,
• In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant,
• In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant,
• In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant,
• And In the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant!!

India demonstrated this legend about an hour back!

Three Members of Parliament (from Bhartiya Janata Party) have alledged that about Rupees 3 crore each (India TV says 27 crores) has been offered to them to abstain from Nuclear Deal Voting!

Inside the Lok Sabha, one hour ago, these MPs, reached the Speaker's Table and deposited the 'advance money' of 3 crores under his table. Then they opened up the bags and one by one started showing 1000 rupee bundles, live on TV! It is claimed that a Television channel has recorded the bribe giving ceremony - the recording was submitted to the speaker on a CD.

This has to be ONE OF A KIND event in the history of the world! Certainly, first time in India's Parliament!

US has a 'fantastic' lobby system - their laws permit paying money to political parties to 'influence' policies. Time to introduce that in India?

Back nuke deal: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Opposition

Back nuke deal: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Opposition - ExpressIndia.Com

Here is some support to Dr. Manmohan Singh from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who feels that the nuclear deal is beneficial to India.

He has appealed to all Indian political parties to display ‘magnanimity’ and support the troubled Indo-US nuclear deal. He says:

At a time when the country is faced with severe energy shortage, the government has negotiated a nuclear deal with the US, which can augment sustainable energy sources.

An interesting combination of Spirituality, Military and Big Bucks!

Nayan Chanda writes:

According to the US-India Business Council, the expansion of India’s civilian nuclear-energy program would generate $150 billion in commercial opportunities for American companies over the next 30 years. As illustrated by Lockheed’s proposal to sell its brand-new F-35 fighter to India’s air force, US defense industries also anticipate selling billions of dollars worth of military hardware to their newest strategic partner in Asia.

Towards a Free Nation

In 1993, Richard O. Hammer asked:

"Imagine you are on a ship and there are no lifeboats. A hole breaks in the hull. Water gushes in. Many people bail. They yell to you, 'bail, bail!' But you can not tell if bailing will save the ship. You look around and see materials which might be made into crude lifeboats. Do you bail, or build?"

He goes on:

There have been several attempts to start small, libertarian countries. All have failed. A book, How to Start your own Country, by Erwin S. Strauss, tells about these attempts. It seems to me that none of these attempts had a significant chance. Not enough groundwork had been done before the flags were hoisted. The approach of the Free Nation Foundation differs. It proposes, for the time, to do nothing but groundwork. It would not suggest trying to obtain real estate till the force of a nation — people, assets, treaties — were in place. This is a "Front Door" approach. We would seek what we want openly, through negotiations in good faith, from a position of practical and financial strength.

For seven years Mr. Hammer worked full time to manage and lead Free Nation Foundation (FNF). It failed to sustain itself financially and Mr. Hammer withdrew "from full-time work in FNF to seek more remunerative work".

A daugther organization, The Libertarian Nation Foundation, was formed in 2001, which aims to:

To advance the day when coercive institutions of government can be replaced by voluntary institutions of civil mutual consent, by developing clear and believable descriptions of those voluntary institutions, and by building a community of people who share confidence in these descriptions.

An index of links to a large number of online articles is here (for example, Spontaneous Order). At the top, this page quotes:

The market in the broadest sense of the term is the process that encompasses all voluntary and spontaneous actions of men. It is the realm of human initiative and freedom and the soil upon which all human achievements thrive.
~Ludwig von Mises

A Free Nation, anyone?

Are You Living in a Free Country?

How much free are we in this world? Human Beings are supposed to be the "most intelligent" and the "strongest/most constructive species" on this planet, yet we are out to rip each other apart! Seeing the current state-of-affairs, Human Beings seem to be the "most stupid" and the "most destructive species" on this planet.

Since 1978, Freedom House has published 'Freedom in the World' (Freedom in the World, 2007 — Infoplease.com), an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties around the world. The 600-page survey is considered a definitive report on freedom around the globe. The 2006 ratings reflect global events from Dec. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2006. According to the survey:

• 90 countries are free - their 3.0 billion inhabitants (47% of the world's population) enjoy a broad range of rights.
• 58 countries with 1.1 billion people (30%) are considered partly free. Political rights and civil liberties are more limited in these countries, in which corruption, dominant ruling parties, or, in some cases, ethnic or religious strife is often the norm.
• 45 countries are not free. The 2.4 billion inhabitants (23%) of these countries, nearly one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties.
• The list features only independent countries. A separate list of territories indicates that four territories received the lowest possible : Chechnya (Russia), Kashmir (Pakistan Occupied), Tibet (China), and Western Sahara (Morocco); of those, Chechnya and Tibet also received the lowest possible civil liberties ratings."

So, there we are! Obviously, the listings can be "hotly" debated. But, whatever the errors in this report, it does give an indication of "HOW MUCH FREEDOM EXISTS IN THIS WORLD"! The task(s) for a "free world order" is "cut-out".

Now, WHAT is your plan?

The Economic Freedom Index of your Country

How much economic freedom exists in your country?

You can find it out at The Economic Freedom of the World Project which is devoted to "promoting economic freedom around the world". The network has member institutes in over 70 nations.

They define Economic Freedom as:

Individuals have economic freedom when property they acquire without the use of force, fraud, or theft is protected from physical invasions by others and they are free to use, exchange, or give their property as long as their actions do not violate the identical rights of others. An index of economic freedom should measure the extent to which rightly acquired property is protected and individuals are engaged in voluntary transactions.

James Gwartney and Robert Lawson et al.
Economic Freedom of the World: 1996 Annual Report

Their annual Economic Freedom of the World Report uses 42 distinct pieces of data to measure economic freedom in 141 nations. As per their latest report, the TOP rankings are:

1. Hong Kong (8.9/10)
2. Singapore (8.8)
3. New Zealand (8.5)
4. Switzerland (8.3)
5. United States, United Kingdom, Canada (8.1)

More at TOP: Estonia (8.0), Australia (7.9), and Ireland (7.9).

The rankings and scores of other large economies are:

• Germany, 18 (7.6)
• Japan, 22 (7.5)
• Mexico, 44 (7.1)
• France, 52 (7.0)
• Italy, 52 (7.0)
• India, 69 (6.6)
• China, 86 (6.3)
• Brazil, 101 (6.0)
• Russia, 112 (5.8)

At the bottom, we have Zimbabwe, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo with the lowest economic freedom ratings of the 141 countries measured.

Download the complete report with data tables here.

Let us Liberate China!

While we scratch our head on resolving the Tibet-China conflict, Pallavi Aiyar analyzes how China's main constituency is "domestic public" and not the international community. Worse, the majority of Chinese have "little awareness that there is a Tibet problem at all". She says (Sri Lanka Breaking News-Daily Mirror Online):

In school, Chinese youngsters are taught how the region has only benefited from Communist rule. The feudal theocracy of the Dalai Lama was replaced by the enlightened policies of the People’s Republic, they are told, with the result that Tibet has enjoyed rising living standards and economic development.

Thus while Chinese leaders have repeatedly, in recent weeks, stated that they are open to talks with the Dalai Lama, they reiterate the caveat that he must give up his demand for independence. The Dalai Lama in turn has repeatedly insisted that he has no such claim. The Chinese respond by pointing to the riots in Lhasa and hence the Dalai’s ‘obvious insincerity.’

And so on it goes, in circles.

Even were the government persuaded to attempt a compromise with the exiled leader, its room for manoeuvre is slim given the way the public views the situation. Any change in Beijing’s position, including talks with the Dalai Lama, would appear as bowing to foreign pressure and failing to respond firmly to violence.... ..... given the Chinese reaction there is little cause to believe any fundamental shift in Tibet’s situation will be precipitated.

So, if the Chinese citizens are in 'DARK', then let us 'ENLIGHTEN' them.

The "Darkness" has been dented: the same report says:

Given this background, the TV footage and photographs of rampaging monks in Lhasa and elsewhere attacking Han civilians and security forces have bewildered many Chinese.

The "Sleep" has been disturbed, and after the initial shock, let us see if Chinese can FREE themselves of their prejudices.

More than Tibetans, it is the Chinese who NEED FREEDOM. Tibetans have nothing to lose. They lost their country half a century ago, but they have WON the world.

Free World Order

Robin D.G. Kelley wrote, "Malcolm X has been called many things:

Pan-Africanist, father of Black Power, religious fanatic, closet conservative, incipient socialist, and a menace to society. The meaning of his public life — his politics and ideology — is contested in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is challenged. Malcolm has become a sort of tabula rasa, or blank slate, on which people of different positions can write their own interpretations of his politics and legacy. Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can both declare Malcolm X their hero."

He is supposed to have declared, "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

So, should we fight for freedom?

Or, can we effortlessly move towards a Free World Order?

Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure, says:

Old minds think:
If it didn't work last year, let's do MORE of it this year.

New minds think:
If it didn't work last year, let's do something ELSE this year.

Old minds think:
How do we stop these bad things from happening?

New minds think:
How do we make things the way we want them to be?

The Free World Order , talks about BUILDING FREEDOM and challenges us to THINK AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Probably, FREEDOM is simply about continually GROWING beyond our known (and hidden) constraints!

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

So, what are your NEW THOUGHTS on Free World Order?

The Golden Dream

According to the Book of Later Han history, in the year 64 AD, Emperor Ming was said to have dreamed one night of a golden person standing 20 metres tall and with a radiating white aureola flying from the West.

The next day one of his ministers explained to him that he had probably dreamed of the Buddha from India. The emperor then sent a delegation of 18 headed by to seek out Buddhism.

They returned, in 68 AD, with two Indian monks, on the back of a white horse, with the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters.

While these monks started translating the sutras, the emperor ordered the construction of China's First Buddhist temple - The White Horse Temple, about seven miles away from the city of Louyang, Henan Province.

Earlier, in 2005, the governments of India and China had declared their intention to jointly construct an Indian-style Buddhist temple on the western side of the historic White Horse Temple, in Luoyang. Work on that temple will complete by June 2008, said Ambassador Nirupama Rao. It would be styled as Sanchi with a Buddha statue modelled after Sarnath.

A few months back, the Chinese government had invited India to build The First Hindu temple in China. The invitation was extended to the Swaminarayan Trust that runs the Akshardham temples in Noida and in Gandhinagar, to build a similar temple.

A Buddhist Greek & Tibetans in Greece

E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum: Tibetans in GreeceImage Source: AFP

A Buddhist Greek blogger has posted about Tibetans expressing themselves in Greece:

"Can I just mention how bizarre it was for me as a Greek person to see Greek police wrestling with Tibetans?"

The original report by AFP is here.

When will Tibet be free of this conflict?

Moving from Mistakes to Making Millions by Publishing Ebooks

Aurelius Tjin, founder and owner of http://www.InstantIncomeStreams.com, shares the The Biggest Mistake My Friend Made When Publishing His Ebook And How You Can Learn From It: "Not doing market research".

What could be some other mistakes?

Judy Cullins invites us "to double and triple your present book income" by correcting following mistakes:

1. You don't write a short eBook first to test the waters.
2. You don't check in with a professional editor or book coach before you sell your eBook.
3. You don't know your audience before you write your eBook.
4. You don't automate your business
5. You don't have a title that sells well.
6. You don't leverage your eBook for higher price sales.
7. You don't add bonus value to your eBook.
8. You put too many topics in your book.
9. You don't market while you write.
10. You don't brand yourself, your business, and your book

Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel, co-authors of "eBook Secrets Exposed: How to Make Massive Amounts of Money in Record Time With Your Own eBook (whether you wrote it or not!)", have a shorter list. They share seven key mistakes (some common to above) that most ebook authors make and in doing so, "hold themselves back from major success":

1. They don't write to a specific, target audience.
2. They don't automate as many of their business activities as possible.
3. They don't have a compelling title for their ebook.
4. They try to cover too much ground.
5. They are not proactive in their marketing.
6. They don't differentiate their ebook from its competitors.
7. They write ebooks that nobody will pay for.

You may also want to download and read "The 14 biggest e-book design mistakes" by Roger C. Parker.

Aurelius Tjin shares a few tools to research hot markets:

- Keyword suggestion tools – Such as Overture’s keyword suggestion tool.

- Hidden tools that not many people make use of – If you want to find very niche markets try looking at Ebay’s categories such as Books & Comics > Business > Ebooks. One other “hidden” tool that not many people us is eBay’s “Pulse”. This tool will show you the top 10 keywords searched on ebay. You will find this tool on the homepage, called “eBay Pulse”.

- Forums – Take a look at the forum that relates to your topic. If your subject has something to do with weight loss then search “weight loss forums” in your search engine. You’ll find a lot of people posting their questions and problems.

Surveys & Questionaires - If you have an opt-in list why don’t you survey your list about the topic? Ask them what is the biggest problem in ______.


Brian Clark, in How to Create Ebooks That Sell, offers a free 22-page report that "examines the viability of paid content compared to free business models, and it also explores how to make better use of the interactive nature of the Internet in ways the PDF ebook simply can’t". Download it here for free.

Space Of Reality: Where Opinions Count

Space Of Reality: Where Opinions Count:

A twenty-something blogger named Hye, from Philippines, was recently awarded as the Top 1 Hottest Blog of the month by Bluedreamer.

She had earlier posted Five Inspirational Quotes To Ponder:

1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
2. What other people think of you is none of your business.
3. Time heals almost everything in time.
4. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
5. Don't compare your life to others, you have no idea what their journey is all about.

Read it all.

TOP FIVE

TOP FIVE:

100% music lover of all kind of generations from 50's up to the present!

100% blog addict.

100% active commentator.

Tibet Online

Tibet Online:

Tibet Online is operated by the international Tibet Support Group community, providing information on the plight of Tibet and serving as a virtual community space for the movement.

This movement is dedicated to ending the suffering of the Tibetan people by returning the right of self-determination to the Tibetan people.

Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site

Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site: This site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London.

HOW YOU CAN HELP TIBET

THE OFFICE OF TIBET or Find the Nearest Office of Tibet
Tibet House, 1 Culworth Street
London NW8 7AF
Tel: 0044-20-7722 5378
Fax: 0044-20-7722 0362

TIBETBLOGS.COM - Feeds

TIBETBLOGS.COM - Feeds:

Tibet Blogs displays blog updates from Tibetan bloggers and serves as an online directory for Tibet related weblogs.

If you run a blog site, feel free to ADD YOUR BLOG to this directory.

Alister Cameron - Blogologist

Alister Cameron // Blogologist // Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.