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Just received via text from Zombie:
Riot in civic center still happening. Moved south. I got pepper sprayed. Currently trapped with anarchists...
UPDATE at 8/25/08 6:54:17 pm:
Received at 6:50 pm PST:
Trapped with several hundred rioters ... no way out ... 100s of police have us encircled. Possible arrest looming.
UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:01:15 pm:
A web camera at the Civic Center: Livecam - The Denver Post.
UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:21:33 pm:
The latest from Zombie:
Tried to talk my way through police lines. No dice. Likely will be here all night or be arrested. Healthy except for a little pepper spray in eye.
UPDATE at 8/25/08 7:36:38 pm:
Good news:
I escaped...
Dov "he wants you to buy his book" Bear paraphrased R' Gil Student from Hirhurim as follows:Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole. These refer to communities of location.
Communities of culture: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic
group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today. They may be included as communities of need or identity, such as disabled persons, or frail aged people.
Community organizations: range from informal family or kinship networks, to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.
What does it mean, "the J-Blogosphere is not a community itself?"When Gil said that he didn't think the Jewish blogosphere is a true community the angels cried (Disagree) (I think he's dead right. Lots of different communities may exist within the J-blogopshere, but the J-blogosphere is not a community itself: We don't have common interests, and no one views the blogosphere as a distinct segment of society. We speak of aliya-nics, or skeptics, or TorahTrue-niks, not of "Jewish bloggers")
لا أدري لماذا شدتني هذه العبارة؟؟
هي آخر عبارة أدرجت في الموقع الإلكتروني الذي أطلقه أصدقاء المدون السوري المعتقل كريم عربجي في ذكرى ميلاده داعين زوار الموقع وأصدقاء كريم لزيارة الموقع وتسجيل تضامنهم.
جمع أصدقاء عربجي كلماته ومداخلاته في منتدى أخوية الإلكتروني حيث عمل عربجي كمشرف على المنبر الحر وقاموا بنشرها على الموقع المذكور.
أكثر من عام مضى علا اعتقال كريم عربجي. أمضاها كريم في فرع فلسطين (مخابرات عسكرية) ثم نقل لاحقاً إلى سجن صيدنايا العسكري.
الزيارات ممنوعة قبل صدور الحكم، وكريم قيد المحاكمة، طبعاً فهو مجرم أوهن نفسية الأمة وأضعف الشعور القومي .
آه كم احتقر هذا الشعور.
زوروا الموقع وتضامنوا مع المدون كريم عربجي.
http://www.karimarbaji.com/

*Al-Haq is the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists - Geneva, and is a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), and the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO).

[Landis analysis]
The Following news story by Sam Ghattas (copied below) on the changing ideological and strategic policy of Syria toward Lebanon is spot on.
I add an anecdote that convinced me that Syria's elite has accepted the notion of Lebanese sovereignty and jettisoned the rigid Arabism of their fathers.
A year ago, I spent a classic summer day in the Ghouta - the farming and orchard region extending beyond Damascus. My hosts were the Azme family - one of Syria's Sunni elite. Their forefathers include Yusif al-Azme and Bashir al-Azme. The first led the small Syrian army under King Feisal when it sought in vain to defend Syrian independence from French invaders. He was killed. Bashir al-Azme served as Prime Minister in the early 1960s.
Ambassador Imad Moustapha and his wife Rafif included me in their invitation to while away a Friday in the Ghouta as guests of the Azmes. Around a simple wooden table, spread with home made confections and shaded by a grape arbor, about 12 of us debated the issues of the day.
The issue that predominated was Lebanon-Syria relations. The Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon was only two years in the past and the UN investigation into the Hariri assassination was ongoing. Several of the older generation around the table explained that Lebanon would come back to Syria with its tail between its legs. Lebanon needed Syria and was an indivisible part of it both culturally and economically. The matriarch of the family explained how she and her mother would travel to Lebanon for a meal with friends and relatives every week, how the "families" married back and forth, and how socially the two peoples could not be separated. I short, there was a lot of nostalgia and patriotism.
Imad Moustapha, however, led the counter argument. He kept insisting that national identity is plastic and ever changing. Perhaps in the past, "Lebanese saw themselves as one people with Syrians," he said, but today that reality is no longer. He pointed out that not longer does one segment or sect among Lebanese want anything but independence. He reminded everyone that even Hizbullah had not asked for Syrian troops to remain in Lebanon in 2005. The Shiite organization thanked Syria for its help stabilizing Lebanon during the Civil War even as it waved goodbye to Syrian soldiers. "The old days are over," he kept on insisting, "we must embrace the new reality, which is that Lebanon is a separate and sovereign country. They don't want us."
In fact, Ambassador Moustapha kept insisting on this point and drawing out the debate at such length that Rafif, his charming wife, had to take him by the hand and gently remind him of other worthy topics of conversation for fear that he would bore his hosts!
Conclusion: What this story told me is that in Syria's halls of regime power Lebanese sovereignty was a hot issue. Ambassador Moustapha was belaboring his point because he was rehearsing debates and arguments that were preoccupying Syria's leadership. many of Syria's policy makers were arguing that Damascus had to find a new and different modus vivendi with Beirut that accommodates the Lebanese desire for autonomy and independence.
The notion that Syria has one choice — to accept Lebanese sovereignty — prevails today. This does not mean that Syria does not insist on security requirements from Lebanon. It does. Syria belives Lebanon lies within its sphere of influence. This is quite different from insisting that the two are one country or even one people. Most countries adopt a "sphere-of-influence" argument about their neighbors. The US did not accept Cuba hosting Soviet bases, for example.
[News Summary]
Syria shift on Lebanon suggests hard-liner softens
By SAM F. GHATTAS – AP
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Syria's diplomatic recognition of Lebanon marks a symbolic turning point in the two neighbors' often turbulent history, and may have bigger significance for the Middle East and the chances of an overall peace deal with Israel.
By doing something Damascus has resisted for decades, Syrian President Bashar Assad is seen as being ready to make concessions and boost stability in the region, provided he remains a force in Lebanese politics.
At the same time, Syria and Israel are in indirect peace negotiations — another apparent sign that Syria is rethinking its approach to the big Middle East issues.
Lebanese have lived for much of the past 30 years under Syrian military and political domination. Just three years ago, the country was in turmoil over the assassination of a prominent former prime minister and the suspicion Syria was behind it. So Lebanese tend to be skeptical about the motivations behind Assad's newfound willingness to exchange ambassadors and demarcate the ill-defined border between the two countries.
But Edmond Saab, executive editor of An-Nahar, a leading daily which is seen as anti-Syrian, reads a positive message in Assad's move — "that he desires peace and that Syria is a factor of stability and not a threat … It is a country that knows what it wants and goes for it."
What Syria wanted was assurance that it will still have influence in Lebanon through its allies and that its back will remain relatively secure — the Lebanon border is only a 20-minute drive from Damascus.
It got all that with the creation last month of a new government in Beirut that gives Syrian-and Iranian-backed Hezbollah significant power. The new president, Michel Suleiman, is also considered relatively friendly to Syria, having been army chief for 10 years when Damascus controlled Lebanon.
Once those changes were in place, Damascus was open to a historic turnaround.
Ever since Lebanon was created by the region's French rulers in 1920, Syria had refused to acknowledge its sovereignty, leaving the Lebanese with a permanent feeling of living on borrowed time. Now Syria has agreed to recognize that sovereignty…..
Biden in 2007 interview: I am a Zionist
Barack Obama's new running mate praises Israel In 2007 interview with 'Shalom TV'
Yitzhak Benhorin, 08.23.08, 18:15 / Israel News
WASHINGTON – Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," Senator Joe Biden also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.
– Senator Joe Biden, who was chosen by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be his running mate in the upcoming US elections, has previously declared himself to be a Zionist. Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," he also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.
During the interview conducted by the Jewish 'Shalom TV' Biden said, "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist." He also revealed that his son is married to a Jewish woman, of the Berger family from Delaware, and that he had participated in a Passover Seder at their house. He added that "probably my most poignant Seder memory is not with the Bergers, but what happened right after I came back from meeting Golda Meir (in 1973). I had predicted that something was going on in Egypt. And I remember people talking about what it meant to them if Israel were actually defeated."
Biden presented himself as a friend to Israel, which he referred to as the US' greatest Middle East ally.
"Imagine our circumstance in the world were there no Israel. How many battleships would there be? How many troops would be stationed?" he asked.
He also called comments about Israel's connection to the war in Iraq "insulting", explaining that "if tomorrow, peace broke out between Israelis and Palestinians, does anybody think there wouldn't be a full-blown war in Iraq?"
Regarding the terror attacks in Israel, Biden said the Sept. 11 attacks made American parents feel what Israeli parents have been feeling. "The difference between now and before 9/11," he said, "is that many Americans can taste what it must feel like for every Israeli mother and father when they send their kid out to school with their lunch to put them on a bus, on a bicycle or to walk; and they pray to God that cell phone doesn't ring." ….
Dangerous talks with Syria
Aug. 24, 2008
By UZI DAYAN and JONATHAN SPYER , THE JERUSALEM POST
The current indirect talks between Israel and Syria are highly unlikely to result in a peace agreement. The talks, far from playing any positive role for Israel, are mistaken both in terms of our values and in terms of our practical interest. They are being conducted by an irresponsible government with no public mandate, and are already causing real harm. We should be working to isolate the Syrian regime, not rehabilitating it.
From the point of view of values, the government’s approach is fundamentally mistaken. The Golan Heights were taken in a just war in 1967, a war which was provoked by an extremist and reckless Ba’athist regime in Damascus. Our presence is both legal and essential. The Golan Heights must be retained under Israeli sovereignty. …..
Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan, a former head of the National Security Council, is a Likud Knesset candidate. Jonathan Spyer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.
POMED includes the following notices in its Weekly News Wire: http://pomed.org/blog/
Diplomacy between Lebanon and Syria? Violence continued in Lebanon last week after a two-day visit between Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad. With regard to a renewed diplomatic effort, some questioned whether Syria willrecognize Lebanon's independence and sovereignty, pointing to its promise to officially exchange ambassadors and to investigate the disappearances of hundreds of Lebanese who went missing during Lebanon's civil war, while others look to Syria's refusal to demarcate the border at Shebaa Farms. Also last week, Hizbullah and representatives of Lebanese Salafist groups signed an agreement to ease sectarian divisions. Meanwhile, some connected the recent violence with Lebanon's weak state and a population that has turned to religion because the state cannot provide for their basic needs.
Terrorism: Take a look at a new publication from the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine entitled "The Terrorism Index." The Index surveys foriegn policy experts for their broad assessment of U.S. efforts in the War on Terror. More than 100 experts give their insight into U.S. policy toward Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, and the survey's results are also compared with policy statements from the 2008 Presidential candidates.
From his > writings
Template for peace is inclusion (Many thanks to Enlightened for bringing this to our attention)
Paul Keating - Former Australian Prime Minister
August 25, 2008, smh.com.au
We are living through one of those rare yet transforming events in history, a shift in the power in the world from West to East. For 500 years Europe dominated the world; now for all its wealth and population it is drifting into relative decline.
Will our understanding of this transformation, and our acceptance of its equity for the greater reaches of mankind, lead us to a position of general preparedness of its inevitability, or will we cavil at it in much the same way as Europe resisted the rise of Bismarck's creation at the end of the 19th century?
We can see, with this the 29th Olympiad, the questioning of China and the resentment at its pretensions about being one of us. Even becoming one of us!
The Western liberal press featured, generally in critical terms, the world-long torch relay, juxtaposing all that it represents and is good about it with what it sees as China's democratic defects, viewing it almost exclusively through the prism of Tibet.
Saying, almost, that the aspirations of this massive nation, a quarter of humanity, a legatee of a century of misery, dragging itself from poverty, is somehow of questionable legitimacy, because its Government's attitude to political freedoms and in specific instances, human rights, are not up to scratch. Ignoring the massive leaps in progress, of income growth, of shelter, of the alleviation of poverty, of dwindling infant mortality, of education, of, by any measure, the much better life now being experienced by the great majority of Chinese.
The Western critic feeling the epicentre of the world changing but not at all liking it, seeks to put down these vast societies on the basis that their political and value systems don't match up to theirs.
Henry Kissinger made the point recently when he said, "We cannot do in China in the 21st century what others thought to do in the 19th - prescribe their institutions for them and seek to organise Asia."
And he went on to pose the question: do we split the world into a union of democracies and non-democracies, or must there be another approach key to regional and historic circumstance?
There is a view that should China become a democracy, a real one, many tensions in the global system would go; that democracies find peace with other democracies; that the former political-military state first turns itself into a trading state and as wealth and opportunity rise so, too, do democratic values.
But what we must remember is that even if all the states of the world became democratic, the structure of the international system would remain anarchic.
The greatest challenge we face, whether for managing incidents or easing the new economic tectonic plates into place, will be to construct a truly representative structure of world governance which reflects global realities, but which is also equitable and fair.
For two Clinton presidential terms and two George Bush terms, the world has been left without such a structure; certainly one able to accommodate Russia and the great states such as China and India.
Instead Clinton and Bush left us with the template of 1947; the template cut by the victorious powers of World War II, the one where Germany and Japan were left on the outside, and still are 60 years later, and in which China and India are tolerated and palely humoured.
Sixteen critical years have already been lost. And it is not as if we are dealing with a world where things are the same now as they were 16 years ago. The world is dynamic: 16 years ago China was not a world power; today it is. Sixteen years ago, Russia was collapsing; today it is growing and strongly.
We are now sitting through, witnessing, the eclipse of American power. Yet for those 16 critical years, two American presidents did nothing to better shape the institutions of world governance.
And there has been no help from the old powers; Tony Blair's Britain and Jacques Chirac's France. After all, they had box seats to the event, courtesy of being on top in 1947.
But Blair's contribution was not anything new or free-thinking, rather he thought being an American acolyte was all that was required. Chirac was simply incapable of adding any strategic value to the equation.
The fact is we are again heading towards a bipolar world. Not one shaped by a balance of terror like the old one, but certainly not a multipolar one - in fact, one heavily influenced by two countries; the United States and China.
Russia's economy, while growing in strength from the burnt-out wreck it was in 1990, will not be in the league of that of the US or of China.
But Russia will still be wealthy; wealthy enough to continue to field its massive arsenal of nuclear weapons. So whether you attribute to Russia full "pole" status or not, you can certainly attribute to it huge strategic standing.
It is more the pity then, that following that unexpected epiphany in 1989, the Clinton administration rashly decided to ring-fence Russia by inviting the former Warsaw Treaty states of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO.
By doing so, the US failed to learn one of the lessons of history: that the victor should be magnanimous with the vanquished.
At some time the US will be obliged to treat Russia as a great sovereign power replete with a range of national interests of the kind that other major powers possess.
In the meantime, the great risk of this sort of adventurism is that with NATO's border now right up to western Ukraine, the Russians will take the less costly military option of counter-weighing NATO's power by keeping their nuclear arsenal on full operational alert.
This posture automatically carries with it the possibility of a Russian nuclear attack by mistake. The years of Russia's economic poverty, certainly since the collapse of its economy in the first half of the 1990s, has meant the Russians have allowed their surveillance and early warning systems to ossify. To compensate, they are keeping their nuclear arsenal on full operational alert.
This leaves the rest of the world relying more on the generals, the battlefield commanders and intelligence assessors to restrain a nuclear response than it does the Russian President or his Government. This means that while the Cold War is over, the risk of a mistaken pre-emptory response has increased.
Many people will think and some will say that with communications and the globalisation of economic wealth being what it is, an outbreak of a major conflict seems more and more remote. That global interdependence and the shrinking of the world makes war a decidedly unproductive way of resolving foreign policy differences.
People should be reminded that that was said at the time of the last great intensification of trade between Britain, France and Germany along with the growing US economy before 1914.
The lesson is that when the strategic bits go wrong, the economic bits soon follow. Certainly not the obverse: when the trade goes well, the strategic wrinkles get ironed out.
The structure of the international system is anarchic. Was anarchic; remains anarchic. This condition cannot be remedied but structures to mitigate its most violent manifestations can be put into place.
Against this backdrop remains the open question about "the West" and its fibre. The question that was resoundingly answered by that generation who suffered the Depression and the Second World War and who delivered us into a new era of peace and prosperity.
Is our culture a culture made compliant by too much coming too easily; producing a state of intellectual and spiritual lassitude which can only be shaken by the gravest threats, be they economic, environmental or indeed, strategic?
As that pendulum swings from West to East, are the motivations for the West's former primacy swinging with it? Has the bounty of science and industrialisation with its cornucopia of production and wealth encouraged us too far away from simpler requirements and concern for the needs of all?
As societies, have we taken our eye off public affairs for way too long?
Can we, all of us, assimilate, adjust ourselves to a constancy of peace and prosperity without lessening our regard for those enlivening impulses of truth and goodness.
A new international order based on truth and justice founded in the recognition of the rights of each of us to live out our lives in peace and harmony, can, I believe, provide the only plausible long-term template.
The old order of victorious powers, of a compromised United Nations, a moribund G8 with major powers hanging on to weapons of mass destruction, is a remnant of the violent 20th century. It cannot provide the basis for an equitable and effective system of world governance.
Just as world community concern has been ahead of the political system on issues such as global warming so, too, world community concern needs to galvanise international action to find a new template for a lasting peace, one embracing all the major powers and regions.
The philosopher Immanuel Kant said some day there will be a universal peace; the only question, he said, is will this come about by human insight or by catastrophe, leaving no other outcome possible.
Humankind demands that that proposition be settled in the former and not the latter.
Paul Keating was prime minister from 1991 to 1996. This is an edited extract of a speech delivered to the Melbourne Writers' Festival on Saturday.

رمضان كريم و اسعار كريمة
و بما ان رمضان قد إقترب و بدأ العد التنازلي , افلحت و إلت لإنزل على السوق اتبضع بعض الحجيات , مع انه نحن منشتري و قت الحاجة و بس يعني ما منخزن لأنه رمضان جاي
ف مشان تعرفو شعوري و شعور المواطن الإردني , هي نبذه عن اسعار السوق اليوم , اسعار سوق السكر في وسط البلد , يعني مو السيفوي ولا غيرو
البندوة : 25 قرش الكيلو و في البكسة (الشرحة ,السحارة) بدينار و ربع
الخيار : 45 قرش
البصل: 45 قرش
الليمون: 1.60دينار
الكوسا: 80 قرش
البطاطا : 45 قرش
البرغل : 1.4 دينار
العدس : 2.4 دينار نعم نعم العدس تبع المجدرة و الشوربة
الفاصوليا الحب: 1.80 دينار
التفاح : 75 قرش
العنب : 1.5 دينار
الدراق : دينار
التين : بدينار الشرحة ما تقارب 1.5 كيلو
إجاص : 1.5 دينار
شمام ( أئون) : 25 قرش الكيلو
الدجاج مسلخ عمان (طازج) 2.80 دينار
دجاج مجمد : 2.25 دينار و 2.5 قريبا
لحم عجل مستورد : 6.00 إلى 6.50 دينار
لحم خاروف مستورد : 5.75 إلى 6.50دينار
لحم بلدي : 8.5 إلى 9.5 دينار
اللبنة : 2.80 الكيلو
علما انه هذه اسعار تشجيعية , يعني الأسعار اعلاه هي الحد الأدنى … من هون ليوم السبت الله و اعلم شو بصير ,
العالم ما بتعرف تشتري ولا بعمرها بتفهم تشتري , و الكسبان الأول و الأخير هو التاجر و انتو يا مستهلكين يلا اركضو و اشترو بسرعة بسرعة كل ما تسمع انه يمكن في غلاء للأسعار روحو اشترو اد ما فيكم …
اااااااااااااااااااخ بس , بتمنى انه العالم بس اتنظم حالها شوية صغيره و تثق ببعضها , لك يوم واحد يا جماعة بس يوم واحد ما حدى يشتري شي تاني خاصة الخضرا و الفواكه و تاني يوم ببوس ايدكم انو تشترو و السعر يلي بدكم ياه….
رغم السيطرة الغربية على التقنية الحديثة واستلامها زمام الأمور والتقدم في هذا المجال ، إلا أن العقول العربية مازالت تقدم ما لديها وتحاول الكثير من أجل إعادة الإبداع إلى منبعه ويؤرته .
رغم فرص الإبداع الضعيفة في العالم العربي ، ورغم عدم توفر بيئة خصبة للإبداع والانتاج التقني المساير للتطور ، لكن الآمال والعزائم قوية والرغبة في وصول القمة شعور ينتاب الجميع ، على الأقل من يحمل هذا الهم وهم كثر بإذن الله .
سوف نستعرض في مجموعة من المقالات بعض نماذج الإبداع العربي التقني سواء في مجال الانترنت ، البرامج ، المواقع أو الأعمال التقنية الحديثة .
الفكرة المبدعة :
سوف نتحدث في هذه المقالة عن مشروع أثبت نجاحه كفكرة جديدة وتخص مجالا مهما وهو مجال المدونات .
الموقع هو موقع (دوّن) www.dwwen.com
كما يقول الموقع عن نفسه أنه ليس خدمة استضافة مدونات جديدة . وإنما هو ملتقى للمدونين العرب.
الفكرة عبارة عن قراءة (جلب) لآخر المواضيع من المدونات المشتركة ثم القيام بأرشفتها على حسب كلمات مفتاحية (الكلمات الأساسية التي تعبر عن محتوى الموضوع) .
وفي الصفحة الرئيسية للموقع ستظهر مواضيع مميزة تقوم إدارة دوّن باختيارها. كذلك ستكون هناك قائمة بآخر المواضيع المضافة.
هنالك أيضا عملية البحث اعتمادا على الكلمات المفتاحية ، وهذه العملية تسهل الوصول للمعلومات بشكل أسرع .
تتم الأرشفة بطريقتين: الأولى حسب كلمات مفتاحية للمدونة. والثانية حسب كلمات مفتاحية خاصة بكل موضوع .
خصائص ومواصفات الموقع :
كما ذكرنا أن فكرة الموقع هو ملتقى وتجميع للمدونات العربية وإظهار جديد مواضيعها بطريقة محددة ومعينة في العرض .
يمكن التصويت على الموضوع في حالة كونه مميزا ، ولذلك تظهر هناك صفحات أفضل المواضيع في آخر 24 ساعة ، وأفضل المواضيع في الشهر ، وأفضل المواضيع في السنة .
كما يمكن عرض جميع المواضيع الخاصة بمدونة محددة .
يستطيع القراء ترشيح المواضيع بناء على التصويت لكل موضوع ، وبالتالي يظهر الموضوع في مقدمة أفضل المواضيع .
خاصية الأرشفة للمواضيع حسب الكلمات الافتتاحية وحسب التاريخ والشهر .
طريقة عمل دوّن
يذكر الموقع في صفحة (حول الموقع) أنه تتم إضافة المدونات الجديدة وتعطى كل مدونة مجموعة كلمات مفتاحية تعبر عن هذه المدونة.
هذه الكلمات المفتاحية يجب ان تكون معبرة عن توجه المدونة العام. و بعد أن يقوم الموقع بإضافة مدونة جديدة يبدأ الموقع بقراءة مواضيع المدونة أولا بأول ، ويتم تحديد كلمات مفتاحية لكل موضوع في المدونة ثم تتم إضافة الموضوع إلى الأرشيف .
جميع المواضيع المؤرشفة يمكن البحث عنها من خلال الكلمات المفتاحية. كما يمكن الربط بين عدة مواضيع من خلال الكلمات المفتاحية .
إضافات أخرى :
هناك أيضا مقابلات يجريها الموقع مع مدونين لهم شهرة او انتشار ، ويعرف بهم وبنشاط مدوناتهم ، وتكون هذه اللقاءات أو الحوارات فرصة لنشر المعرفة وأفكار النجاح .
هناك أيضا قسم لعرض صور دون ، وهو عملية عرض لصور انتقائية من المدونات المشاركة في دون .
يحتوي الموقع على أكثر من 600 مدونة وأكثر من 2500 مدونة بانتظار التفعيل ، كما يضم الموقع أكثر من 72 ألف موضوع ، وهو في ازدياد مستمر .
فكرة الموقع رائعة ، وفيها تركيز لعملية البحث وقراءة جديد المدونات العربية في مكان واحد ، ولكن من وجهة نظري أن الموقع بحاجة إلى تطوير أكثر في التصميم وطرح أفكار جديدة تخص عالم المدونات والمدونين لجذب أكبر عدد ممكن منهم ، وأيضا تحويل الموقع إلى بيئة متكاملة لثقافة التدوين وجديدها .
فريق دون :
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كما أن هناك أعضاء آخرين في الفريق وهم : حسام حبنكه ، فيصل الدجاني ، يوسف منصور ، الأستاذ غسان النوباني ، رامز فريج ، إبراهيم ياقتي .
شباب استطاعوا أن يثبتوا أن العقول العربية قادرة على العطاء والعمل ، ومازال لديهم الكثير من الأفكار .
ومضة لتصحيح المسار :
موقع دون من الأفكار الجميلة التي أثرت المحتوى العربي على الإنترنت ونشرت ثقافة التدوين لدى الكثيرين ، لكن مازال أمامنا الكثير من الخطوات حتى نصل إلى أهدافنا الكبرى ..
تم في ال 17-19-تموز 2008 افتتاح أعمال المدينة الصينية الموجودة في المنطقة الحرة -عدرا- دمشق ,
القائم على هذا المشروع هو المستثمرة زهوو دونغ يون (zhu dong yun)
و المشروع برعاية السيد رئيس الوزراء السوري ناجي العطري و قد حضر الإفتتاح بالإنابة عنه الدكتور عامر لطفي و زير الإقتصاد السوري , و حضر رئيس المنطقة الحرة و غيرهم من المسؤولين المعنيين , و طبعا بلإضافة ل السيد لي هواشين السفير الصيني لدى سوريا و مرافقيه من السفارة
The Syrian minister of economy Dr.Lutfi, Chinese ambassador Mr.Li Huaxin ,The investor Madam Zhou Dong
كان الإفتتاح عبارة عن ملتقى (تجاري صناعي )صيني, سوري , عراقي و عربي حضر الملتقى عدد من التجار و الصناعيين من الصين و بعض الدول العربية
استمر الملتقى لمدة 3 ايام , حيث القى وزير الإقتصاد كلمة حول الإستثمار في سوريا , و كانت كلمة السفير الصيني مشجعة جدا , حيث وضح السفير مدة اهتمام الحكومة الصينية بإنجاح هكذا مشروع و خاصة انه حجم العامل بين الصين و سوريا يتجاور 1.3 مليار دولار سنوي , و ايضا تخلل الإفتتاح ندوات و محاضرات اقتصادية و صناعية , لعدد مختلف من المستشارين الإقتصادين , بالإضافة لشرح القوانين و طبيعة الإستثمار في سوريا في مختلف المجالات

Mr.Li Huaxin the Chinese Ambassadore in Syria
كان لقائي مع المستثمرة المدام زهوو و السفير الصيني لي هواشين رائع جدا , علما بإن السفير الصيني يتقن اللغة العربية و كذلك باقي افراد السفارة , تحدثنا و تناقشا في عدة امور , تحدثت مع المدام زهوو في مجال فتح استثمار للمدينة الصينية في الإردن ولكن ضعف الموارد الطبيعية و ارتفاع اأجور العمالة و المعيشة في الإردن و عدم توفر المواد الخام لا يساعد في انشاء استثمارات من هذا النوع ف الصناعة تحتاج لمواد أولية , و لن تكون الجدوى الإقتصادية مجدية في حال استيراد المواد الأولية من الخارج ,

Madam Zhuo Dong ,MQabbani , Mr. Li Huaxin
إلتقيت بعدد من التجار و الصناعين الصيني ممثلين لبعض الشركات و المصانع المتخصصة في مواد البناء و مسلتزمات الديكور , و كانو جدا متفائلين بالعمل فالبلدان العربية بشكل عام و سوريا بشكل خاص .
انشئت علاقات جدية معهم و مازلنا على إتصال , و تتوفر لدي تقريبا كافة قوانين الإستثمار الصناعي و التجاري في سوريا باللغة العربي و الإنجيلزية , و لغات أخرى و شكر ل هيئة الإستثمار السورية على توفيرها
ملاحظة: للمهتمين في الموضوع يمكنكم الإتصال بي لمزيد من المعلومات

China Town 2008 -- Day 2
المزيد عن المشروع :
المدينة الصينية عبارة عن عشرة آلاف مترا مربعا تشمل مختلف أنواع الخدمات التجارية و الصناعية والخدمية المصرفية اوالسياحية. منظمة على شكل معرض , بحيث يكون هناك تمثيل لشركات الصناعية و التجارية , تقوم بعرض خدماتها و منتجاتها و حيث ان المدينة الصينية في المنطقة الحر فذلك يسهل جميع المعاملات التجارية و إمكانية إعادة التصدير
أهداف المدينة الصينية :
انشاء قاعدة الصينية في سوريا و ثم في الشرق الأوسط
فتح مجال الإستثمارات الصناعية الصينية السورية و العربية
تقديم الخدمات التجارية لتجار مباشرة من المنشأ و المصانع دون وسطاء
إعادة تصدير لدول الجوار و توفير الوقت
فتح باب التعرف على الأسواق السورية و العربية المجاورة
تقديم كافة المعلومات اللازمة للإستثمار التجاري و الصناعي في سوريا
جلب استثمارات لإنشاء مصانع صينية في المنطقة الحرة في سوريا