Context, context.
Mao said Chinese should thank Japanese invasion because it woke up the
Chinese people, so we became united, instead of the dysfunctional groups we
had after the 1911 revolution.
This is more akin to someone say: I should thank XX for humiliating me while
I younger, it became the driving force behind my struggle for success.
You wouldn't believe he's really thanking the other person, would you?
To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Date: January 16, 2012
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the
English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC
on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia
Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in
the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of
Repre... 阅读全帖
As the Chinese watched your most recent diplomacy in Asia, is it fair
for
them to have looked at the flurry of diplomatic activity -- political,
military, economic -- and concluded, as many Chinese scholars have, that
the
United States is building a containment policy against China?
No, that would not be accurate and I've specifically rejected that
formulation.
I think what would be fair to conclude is that, as I said we would do,
the
United States has pivoted to focus on the fastest-growing reg... 阅读全帖
Chinese economic reform and development: achievements, emerging challenges
and unfinished tasks
Jane Golley and Ligang Song
The economic transformation that has taken place in China since the late
1970s is now regarded as one of the most significant social changes in human
history. Within just three decades, China has succeeded in transforming
itself from a centrally-planned closed economy into one of the world’s most
dynamic and globally-integrated market economies. The dynamics unleashed by
De... 阅读全帖
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/david-barboza-answe
October 29, 2012, 3:52 pm1 Comment
David Barboza Answers Reader Questions on Reporting in China
By DAVID BARBOZA
The Times’s Shanghai bureau chief, David Barboza, reported last week that
close relatives of Wen Jiabao, the prime minister of China, hold billions of
dollars in hidden riches. Here are his answers to questions from readers
prompted by the article.
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Eve of Disaster
Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.
BY CHARLES EMMERSON
The leading power of the age is in relative decline, beset by political
crisis at home and by steadily eroding economic prowess. Rising powers are
jostling for position in the four corners of the world, some seeking a new
place for themselves within the current global order, others questioning its
very legitimacy. Democracy and despotism are locked in uneasy competition.
A world econom... 阅读全帖
another link here:
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Jimmy Carter Says NSA Surveillance Has Killed Democracy; Didn’t Notice
Other Suspects Holding Bloody Axes (Updated)
by Kris E. Benson
JIMMEHJimmy Carter, your Wonkette’s favorite elder statesman, caused a bit
of a kerfuffle with statements made at a closed-door event in Atlanta for an
Atlantic Bridge meeting:
”Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie”, s... 阅读全帖
Germany blasts Britain
See the link below:
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Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ's secret cable trawl
Minister questions legality of mass tapping of calls and internet and
demands to know extent to which Germans were targeted
Cameron and Merkel
David Cameron and Angela Merkel. The German government's letter is the first
major challenge to the UK over its data-trawling opera... 阅读全帖
link below: http://wonkette.com/523123/jimmy-carter-says-nsa-surveillance-h
Jimmy Carter Says NSA Surveillance Has Killed Democracy; Didn’t Notice
Other Suspects Holding Bloody Axes (Updated)
by Kris E. Benson
JIMMEHJimmy Carter, your Wonkette’s favorite elder statesman, caused a bit
of a kerfuffle with statements made at a closed-door event in Atlanta for an
Atlantic Bridge meeting:
”Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie”, sagte Carter am
Dienstag bei einer Veranstaltung der “Atl... 阅读全帖
1. George Zimmerman Jury 'Made The Right Decision' (link 1)
2. Former President Jimmy Carter announced support for NSA whistleblower
Edward
Snowden this week, saying that his uncovering of the agency’s massive
surveillance programs had proven “beneficial” …
“America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,”
Carter said, according to a translation by Inquisitr.
(link 2)
Link 1 below:
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1. George Zimmerman Jury 'Made The Right Decision' (link 1)
2. Former President Jimmy Carter announced support for NSA whistleblower
Edward
Snowden this week, saying that his uncovering of the agency’s massive
surveillance programs had proven “beneficial” …
“America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,”
Carter said, according to a translation by Inquisitr.
(link 2)
Link 1 below:
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我建议各位还是好好看看全文或者完整视频再做评论。
全文在这儿： http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/obama-remarks-trayvon-mar
视频http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBdZWbncXI
这是Obama说的：
"The second thing I want to say is to reiterate what I said on Sunday, which
is there’s going to be a lot of arguments about the legal issues in the
case — I’ll let all the legal analysts and talking heads address those
issues. The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The
prosecution and the defense made their arguments. The juries... 阅读全帖
http://www.zaobao.com.sg/realtime/singapore/story20130823-24453
（联合早报网讯）新加坡外交部今天发表文告，斥责中国《环球时报》对李显龙总理今
年5月在第19届《日本经济新闻》亚洲未来国际大会的谈话，做出了"不准确且误导性"
的报道。
《环球时报》8月21日刊登题为“李显龙：中国或得到钓鱼岛 但会输掉世界地位”的报
道，其中引述香港《大公报》和台湾中央通讯社，指总理认为，中国如何处理领土纷争
议题，将影响各国对中国的看法，中国要透过克制，才能消除他国的疑虑。
文告以严厉的措辞说：“这个报道以耸动的标题，将李总理的谈话完全脱离语境加以处
理，进而严重歪曲和失实报道。”
文告也说：“像这样不专业的报道，既无益于双边关系，也可能伤害两国关系及影响民
间联系。”
新加坡外交部声明
MFA Spokesman's Comments in response to media queries on the Global Times
article “Lee Hsien Loong: China could gain Diaoyu Isla... 阅读全帖
http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.fr/2013/12/are-chinese-cheat
by Andreas Schleicher
Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education
Policy to the OECD's Secretary General
Whenever an American or European wins an Olympic gold medal, we cheer them
as heroes. When a Chinese does, the first reflex seems to be that they must
have been doping; or if that’s taking it too far, that it must have been
the result of inhumane training.
There seem to be parallels to this in educat... 阅读全帖
她是毕业生代表毕业典礼演讲。
By the time she graduated from Wellesley in May 1969, Hillary Rodham was
already such a notable figure that she was featured, along with four other
speakers from four other schools — and excerpts from their commencement
addresses — in the June 20, 1969, issue of LIFE, in an article titled,
simply, “The Class of ’69.”
1969 Student Commencement Speech
by Hillary D. Rodham (now Hillary Rodham Clinton)
May 31, 1969
Wellesley College
I am very glad that Miss Adams made it clear that w... 阅读全帖
【 以下文字转载自 HongKong 讨论区 】
发信人: Davo (Dove), 信区: HongKong
标 题: Re: 英国一智库：白皮书无改对港政策
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jul 20 21:42:15 2014, 美东)
英文版
A new White Paper published by Beijing has provoked strong reactions in Hong
Kong for its perceived shift on the policy of the Special Administrative
Region's autonomy. But it is primarily politics, not the text of the paper
itself, driving the reaction.
Hundreds of lawyers and representatives from the legal sector dress in black
and take part in a silent march from... 阅读全帖
英文版
A new White Paper published by Beijing has provoked strong reactions in Hong
Kong for its perceived shift on the policy of the Special Administrative
Region's autonomy. But it is primarily politics, not the text of the paper
itself, driving the reaction.
Hundreds of lawyers and representatives from the legal sector dress in black
and take part in a silent march from the High Court to the Court of Final
Appeal on 27 June 2014 in Hong Kong. Photo by Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images.
Hundreds of lawyer... 阅读全帖
英文版本拜托你也看看。 http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/15140
White Paper Does Not Mark Major Shift on Hong Kong
Dr Tim Summers
Senior Consulting Fellow, Asia Programme (based in Hong Kong) - See more at: http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/15140#sthash.9YNKrwcR.dpuf
A new White Paper published by Beijing has provoked strong reactions in Hong
Kong for its perceived shift on the policy of the Special Administrative
Region's autonomy. But it is primarily politics, not the text of the paper
i... 阅读全帖
Norg Haven 19catsandcounting • 2 days ago
I have looked into a number of historical texts.
I've also read "Eugenics: A Reassessment", "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and
Class Structure in American Life", "Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in
Modern Populations", "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization
Accelerated Human Evolution", and "The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and
Inequality Worldwide".
Thanks to racial integration, Black America currently resides within a
nation that was princ... 阅读全帖
Ben Shapiro, a noted conservative columnist and author, discussed freedom of
speech Thursday evening in the Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre,
drawing a crowd of approximately 300.
The event — hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom with funding from
Central Student Government — highlighted issues Shapiro described as
attacks on freedom of speech and a free society, such as microaggressions
and the concept of privilege.
The event follows a week in which freedom of speech has been a prominen... 阅读全帖
【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: dalihe102 (dalihe), 信区: USANews
标 题: I will never, ever acknowledge him as a leader in any context of authority
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 9 19:59:08 2016, 美东)
The electoral process where the popular vote has the "loser" actually
outscoring the "winner" is fundamentally antiquated (as are all state
borders). That's not going to change in our lifetime, most likely, so it's
just sour grapes for all of us who attempted to deny him his win. Regardless
America has voted in... 阅读全帖
In Yates Versus Trump, the Constitution Won
20JAN 31, 2017 8:58 AM EST
By
Noah Feldman
The Monday night massacre -- as President Donald Trump’s firing of acting
Attorney General Sally Yates was inevitably called -- lacked the grand
madness of Richard Nixon’s famous firing of special prosecutor Archibald
Cox on Oct. 20, 1973, which prompted the resignations of the attorney
general and the deputy attorney general.
Trump’s peremptory dismissal of Yates for refusing to enforce his executive
order on... 阅读全帖
很多被其它动物吃掉了
Mystery meat: scientists are investigating the roadkill we never get to see
Thank goodness for scavenger animals.
That flattened raccoon or broken reptile might just be something to drive
past for motorists, but for scavenging animals, it’s breakfast. A new study
published today in the Journal of Urban Ecology is the first to look at the
role of these scavengers in performing roadkill removal—and its results
call into question whether we’re even counting roadkill right.
In the study, ... 阅读全帖
JEFFREY D. SACHS
NEW YORK
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED 21 HOURS AGO
UPDATED DECEMBER 12, 2018
Jeffrey D. Sachs is an American economist and the director of Columbia
University’s Center for Sustainable Development.
If, as Mark Twain reputedly said, history often rhymes, our era increasingly
recalls the period preceding 1914. And as with Europe’s great powers back
then, the United States, led by an administration intent on asserting
America’s dominance over China, is pushing the wor... 阅读全帖
The War on Huawei http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-war-on-huawei-meng-wanzhou-arrest-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2018-12
Dec 11, 2018 JEFFREY D. SACHS
The Trump administration's conflict with China has little to do with US
external imbalances, closed Chinese markets, or even China’s alleged theft
of intellectual property. It has everything to do with containing China by
limiting its access to foreign markets, advanced technologies, global
banking services, and perhaps even US universitie... 阅读全帖
当时情况很复杂。黑犹太人率先挑衅，呛声高中白学生，和印第安人。高中生们回应。
印第安老头又跑过来瞎掺合。最后乱套了。
当事白人学生叫Nick sandman，只是站着啥都没做。结果成了众矢之的。
Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video Between Native American Man and
Catholic Students
A fuller and more complicated picture emerged on Sunday of the videotaped
encounter between a Native American man and a throng of high school boys
wearing “Make America Great Again” gear outside the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington.
Interviews and additional video footage suggest that an explosive
convergence of ra... 阅读全帖
Matt Gaetz apologizes and deletes tweet but insists he wasn’t threatening
Michael Cohen
LIVE
Watch live coverage and analysis as Michael Cohen testifies on Capitol Hill
President Trump's former lawyer is expected to offer insight into President
Trump as a person and businessman when he publicly testifies Feb. 27. (The
Washington Post)
By Meagan Flynn and
Rachael Bade February 27 at 8:44 AM
Hours after sending an incendiary tweet accusing Michael Cohen of infidelity
, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) apo... 阅读全帖
FORMATIVE DISTORTION:
" DOES GOD REALLY HATE THE GAYS ?"
Written by Christopher Donaldson
*****************
Who decides what’s right or wrong?
We all know the Bible appraises self-worth according to strict sets of
laws and hierarchies: Go to Hell if you covet the neighbor’s house, kill
the neighbor, or take off with the neighbor’s wife.
It runs moral meanings smooth over broken fine lines that fall
somewhere between fact and fiction and good and evil. God still hates figs
and shrimp... 阅读全帖
Judge Throws Out Binational Couple's Lawsuit Challenging DOMA
By Andrew Harmon
IMMIGRATION GENERIC X390 (FAIR USE) | ADVOCATE.COM
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a married binational gay
couple in California who were denied a marriage-based green card by
immigration officials.
Handi Lui, a citizen of Indonesia who in 2009 married his American spouse,
Michael Ernest Roberts, in Massachusetts, sued the government after U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency... 阅读全帖
Germany blasts Britain
See the link below:
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Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ's secret cable trawl
Minister questions legality of mass tapping of calls and internet and
demands to know extent to which Germans were targeted
Cameron and Merkel
David Cameron and Angela Merkel. The German government's letter is the first
major challenge to the UK over its data-trawling opera... 阅读全帖
民主党全国委员会前主席Howard Dean说，最高法院大法官提名人Sotomayor的种族评
论被脱离上下文的批评，但同时说自己并不知道那段评论的上下文,太搞笑了. http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48937
Howard Dean Says Sotomayor's Race Comment Taken Out of Context--Then Admits
He Doesn't Know the Context
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean
told CNSNews.com yesterday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's
comment that "a wise Latina woman with the
