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A few days after the New York Times’ (embarrassingly belated and deeply flawed) article on Apple’s Chinese production facilities reignited a national discussion about offshore outsourcing, President Obama was confronted during a Google+ “hang out” about why during a brutal unemployment crisis his administration continues to support expanding the H-1B visa program that allows tech companies to annually import thousands of low-wage engineers from abroad. In his stunning answer, the president first expresses bewilderment that any American high-tech engineer could be out of work, because he says that “what industry tells me is that they don’t have enough (domestic) highly skilled engineers” and that “the word that we’re getting is that somebody (a domestic engineer) in a high-tech field should be able to find something right away.” He then goes on to insist that the H-1B program is “reserved only for those companies who say they cannot find somebody in (a) particular field” and that it shouldn’t apply to industries where “there are a lot of highly skilled American workers” looking for a job because he says his administration is focused on “encourag(ing) more American engineers to be placed” in open positions.

RT @privacyint: Why did the @IntlCrimCourt send a delegation to a surveillance trade show? https://t.co/Q7JtvJQl

RT @privacyint: Did @UNDP buy anything at the 'wiretappers ball'? https://t.co/CmohEVvk

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RT @mark_lynas: Desperate news from the Maldives - President resigns as police mount coup on behalf of former dictator. http://t.co/hav9VR7S

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American’s largest retailer replaces its China head as it seeks to regain ground in the world’s most important growth market. Deborah Kan speaks to WSJ China News Editor Carlos Tejada about the hiring of Greg Foran, an executive with no previous China experience, and what might have precipitated the change.

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Una empresa china pleitea con Apple y le pide 38 M$ por el nombre iPad http://t.co/Iq3hzN4q

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The idea that Chinese capitalism, which is evolving and transitional, provides a blueprint for the rest of the world, is an absurd exaggeration. Creating impressive infrastructure eventually runs into diminishing returns, as evidenced by the history of Japan and the Soviet Union.
As Martin Wolf points out, contemporary capitalism, which does such an extraordinary job of generating a cornucopia of private goods, is far less effective at generating public goods, whether it be education, infrastructure, environment or financial stability. Improving political markets – and as a corollary, regulation – is a central challenge facing all countries in the world, not just those in the west.
Europe, along with countries such as Canada, has arguably done a better job balancing public and private goods than either the US or China.

Brendon doesn’t notice at first. It’s not as if people wandering around in just their boxers on the bus are an oddity, not anymore

Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI’s young and popular presidential candidate, leads his closest rival by almost 20 percentage points with 41 per cent of the vote

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Litmus released its own study

Still, even with Vazquez Mota, many Mexicans see the July 1 election as a race among flawed choices

A nice rant about what's a "programmer".

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Josefina Vázquez Mota has a fighting chance to win the Mexican presidential election not in spite of her gender, but because of it