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For those interested here is the breakdown of country origin of my last 7,750 visitors from the past four days.

	Num	Perc.	Country Name
us	4526	58.42%	United States
uk	558	7.20%	United Kingdom
ca	436	5.63%	Canada
cz	275	3.55%	Czech Republic
in	161	2.08%	India
mx	137	1.77%	Mexico
au	117	1.51%	Australia
ve	94	1.21%	Venezuela
de	79	1.02%	Germany
ae	75	0.97%	United Arab Emirates
sa	66	0.85%	Saudi Arabia
es	61	0.79%	Spain
fr	58	0.75%	France
se	53	0.68%	Sweden
pr	50	0.65%	Puerto Rico
nz	45	0.58%	New Zealand
it	41	0.53%	Italy
-	39	0.50%	Unknown	-
be	39	0.50%	Belgium
ro	35	0.45%	Romania
my	34	0.44%	Malaysia
za	32	0.41%	South Africa
sk	30	0.39%	Slovakia
pt	30	0.39%	Portugal
nl	30	0.39%	Netherlands
ar	26	0.34%	Argentina
ir	25	0.32%	Iran, Islamic Republic Of
ph	25	0.32%	Philippines
ie	23	0.30%	Ireland
sv	23	0.30%	El Salvador
pl	22	0.28%	Poland
il	21	0.27%	Israel
mu	20	0.26%	Mauritius
eg	19	0.25%	Egypt
tr	19	0.25%	Turkey
sg	19	0.25%	Singapore
co	19	0.25%	Colombia
fi	18	0.23%	Finland
lb	17	0.22%	Lebanon
no	17	0.22%	Norway
ch	16	0.21%	Switzerland
th	15	0.19%	Thailand
gr	15	0.19%	Greece
kw	15	0.19%	Kuwait
id	14	0.18%	Indonesia
ru	12	0.15%	Russian Federation
dk	12	0.15%	Denmark
gt	12	0.15%	Guatemala
jp	11	0.14%	Japan
at	10	0.13%	Austria
hn	10	0.13%	Honduras
ec	9	0.12%	Ecuador
ma	9	0.12%	Morocco
cr	9	0.12%	Costa Rica
do	9	0.12%	Dominican Republic
lk	8	0.10%	Sri Lanka
om	8	0.10%	Oman
bo	7	0.09%	Bolivia
ua	7	0.09%	Ukraine
jo	7	0.09%	Jordan
pe	7	0.09%	Peru
hr	6	0.08%	Croatia
dz	6	0.08%	Algeria
tw	5	0.06%	Taiwan
qa	5	0.06%	Qatar
cl	5	0.06%	Chile
is	4	0.05%	Iceland
lv	4	0.05%	Latvia
lu	4	0.05%	Luxembourg
hu	4	0.05%	Hungary
bd	4	0.05%	Bangladesh
pk	3	0.04%	Pakistan
kr	3	0.04%	Korea, Republic Of
cs	3	0.04%	Serbia And Montenegro
pa	3	0.04%	Panama
sd	3	0.04%	Sudan
bm	3	0.04%	Bermuda
ye	3	0.04%	Yemen
hk	3	0.04%	Hong Kong
mt	2	0.03%	Malta
tt	2	0.03%	Trinidad And Tobago
vn	2	0.03%	Viet Nam
py	2	0.03%	Paraguay
mz	2	0.03%	Mozambique
ee	2	0.03%	Estonia
gu	2	0.03%	Guam
fo	2	0.03%	Faroe Islands
sy	2	0.03%	Syrian Arab Republic
ht	2	0.03%	Haiti
mm	2	0.03%	Myanmar
lt	2	0.03%	Lithuania
ng	1	0.01%	Nigeria
zw	1	0.01%	Zimbabwe
ke	1	0.01%	Kenya
tn	1	0.01%	Tunisia
ly	1	0.01%	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
az	1	0.01%	Azerbaijan
mv	1	0.01%	Maldives
iq	1	0.01%	Iraq
bz	1	0.01%	Belize
bg	1	0.01%	Bulgaria
mk	1	0.01%	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
vg	1	0.01%	Virgin Islands, British
ni	1	0.01%	Nicaragua
br	1	0.01%	Brazil
sr	1	0.01%	Suriname
bh	1	0.01%	Bahrain
cy	1	0.01%	Cyprus

My Previous Posts on China

Although China summarily banned entire sets of bloggers using the same hosting server, I am honored to have been banned after only a handful of articles critical of the Chinese, here are a few:

China Fights Aids

Amazingly China knows they have exactly 46,702 women sex workers in Yunnan and Sichuan. In addition, I am surprised that the Chinese cannot take on a project like this without help from the British. They are sitting on an ocean of trade dollars. I guess if the West is stupid enough to hand out the money there will always be those eager to receive donations.

What you get when you type "Huge Pussy" in Chinese Google

CNET News.com discovered "Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

In addition, CNET News.com has found that contrary to Google co-founder Sergey Brin's promise to inform users when their search results are censored, the company frequently filters out sites without revealing it."

List of Chinese Nobel Prize Laureates

With over a billion people, native Chinese do not win Scientific Nobel Prizes for the same reasons that Arabs living under Islam do not win Scientific Nobel Prizes.

Other bloggers:

Of course, American Internet companies help the Chinese authories by turning in bloggers who are critical of the government: [the Internationale: learning to be different] Citizen Journalism in China

Yahoo is turning in bloggers to Chinese authority. Chinese authority does not allow freedom of speech. Yahoo apparently is sandwiched in between staying in business in China and pleasing the authority.

Anonymous bloggers who criticize the government and express pro-democracy views are being arrested, charged with "inciting subversion," convicted (sometimes based on evidence provided by Yahoo), and handed prison sentences of up to ten years.

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For more of my articles like this see Meta, -Buttons, China

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