l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 1 不要只盯住draconian，关键是说的是federal funding。
cut off federal funding 100%，算不算draconian？
cut off federal funding 20%，算不算draconian？
这种如果不全部切断或砍掉大部分联邦资助，庇护城市是不会低头的。
不会采取极端严厉措施，这是泄漏底线哪。庇护城市吃定心丸了。 |
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发帖数: 19743 | 2 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
aaaty (阿fan提) 于 (Thu May 20 20:24:47 2010, 美东) 提到:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/qotd-but-were-just-
“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company
, one carrier was the future.”
试翻译为中文：
如果我们不作为，未来将是非常严酷的。未来，将仅仅是一个人（Jobs)，一个公司(
Apple），一个运营商(AT&T）。
– Google Vice-President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explains why the
company made Android.
简单地说，Google做搜索是为了全世界更好的组织信息。Google撤出中国是为中国人争
取民主。Google做Android是为了把大家从苹果那... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22064 | 3 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-chinese-crack-up-1425659
The Coming Chinese Crackup
By
David Shambaugh
March 6, 2015 11:26 a.m. ET
The endgame of communist rule in China has begun, and Xi Jinping's ruthless
measures are only bringing the country closer to a breaking point
Chinese President Xi Jinping, front center, and other Chinese leaders attend
the opening meeting on Thursday of the third session of the National People
's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo: Xinh... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 Food Stamps for Weed? Yep, It's Happening in Colorado
by John Hayward 25 Feb 2014
This should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention to the growth
of Food Stamp Nation. According to National Review, EBT cards have been
used in Colorado to pull quite a bit of taxpayer cash at stores that sell
marijuana:
At least 64 times, public-assistance benefits were accessed at
businesses selling marijuana. A total of $5,475 in public benefits was
withdrawn at ATMs in establishments that sell ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 5 您有点拿根鸡毛当令箭了:
1. 你这些引用的来源？是否是左逼媒体，时髦话是Fake News?
2. he won't make any "Draconian moves"
这你都不理解？就是他按照现行法律和总统川普的EO做即可。
另外"Draconian moves"翻译成严厉行动是极不妥当的
regarding |
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l*****a
发帖数: 38403 | 6 Assyrian laws / Code of the Assura (c. 1075 BC)
Babylonian laws (see Code of Hammurabi)
Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1790 BC)
Code of the Nesilim (c. 1650-1500 BC)
Code of Urukagina (2,380-2,360 BC)
Code of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur (ca. 2050 BC)
Codex of Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (ca. 1870 BC).[1].
Cuneiform law (2,350-1,400 BC)
The Gentoo Code
Gortyn code (5th century BC)
The Draconian constitution (7th Century BC)
Hebraic law / Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (see Mosaic Law) (later see
Halakha) (13th Century B... 阅读全帖 |
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x******g
发帖数: 33885 | 7 老外总结中国的三十年的成绩比中国人写得还好！
Classified By: Ambassador Clark T. Randt. Reasons 1.4 (b/d)
¶1. (C) January 1, 2009, marked the 30th Anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the
People’s Republic of China. This anniversary followed the PRC commemoration
of roughly 30 years of China’s “reform and opening” policy under Deng
Xiaoping, which led to China’s staggering economic growth.
¶2. (C) Thirty years ago, China was just emerging from the nightmare o... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: smokinggun (硝烟), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国统计局编造通货膨胀数据
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jun 18 00:12:26 2011, 美东)
Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food an... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****g
发帖数: 441 | 9 美国联邦政府要求YOUTUBE删除批评美国的视频数量是
中国要求删除的7倍，呵呵。
Feds Order You Tube To Remove Video For Containing “Government Criticism”
US Authorities Hit Google With 70% Rise In Takedown Orders
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in
the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to
remove information, including videos containing “government criticism,”
increasing by 70 per cent.
You Tube“In the US,... 阅读全帖 |
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p**********d
发帖数: 7918 | 10 版主發包子慶祝吧。
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/world/asia/chen-guangcheng-bl
April 27, 2012
Blind Activist Escapes House Arrest in China
By ANDREW JACOBS and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights lawyer who has been under
extralegal house arrest in his rural village for the past 19 months, has
escaped from his heavily guarded home and is in hiding in the capital,
rights advocates and Chinese officials said on Friday.
American officials would not confirm reports that Mr. Chen... 阅读全帖 |
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D*V
发帖数: 3096 | 11 Is America Heading Towards a Collapse Worse Than 2008 and Europe?
http://finance.yahoo.com/
According to author and investor Peter Schiff, the U.S. economy is heading
for an economic crash that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park.
Stimulus programs can delay this day of reckoning, but only for so long and
only at the expense of making the eventual meltdown much, much worse.
Schiff, who famously warned investors about the housing and financial crisis
in his 2007 book Crash Proof, says the... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 12 Fergus M Bordewich, Tough Job, Wrong Man; The compromise he supported only
heightened tensions between the states and included a draconian fugitive
slave law. Wall Street JOurnal, May 23, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703421204576331593721912046.html
(book review on Paul Finkelman, Millard Fillmore. Times Books (2011))
Note:
(a) Millard Fillmore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore
(1800-1874; president 1850-1853; vice president 1849-1850)
(b) Whig Party (United S... 阅读全帖 |
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c***r
发帖数: 4631 | 13 Draco Malfoy
Malfoy在法语里面是错误的（mal）信仰（foy）。小说里面相互映衬的写法英语里叫做
Foil，mal－foil也可能是坏的映衬的意思。
Draco可能来自古希腊雅典的第一部宪法的起草者Draco。这个人立的法很严厉，严厉到
奇怪的地步，比如说，偷白菜是死罪。不知道现在还有没有人偷菜……（死罪啊！）
后人把过于严厉的东西称为“Draconian”。
在希腊罗马神话里，Draco是一条巨蛇，被Minerva把Draco扔到北方的天空被冻成扭曲
的僵尸蛇，就成了天龙座。（因此，Minerva定能战胜Draco。） |
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c***r
发帖数: 4631 | 14 Draco Malfoy
Malfoy在法语里面是错误的（mal）信仰（foy）。小说里面相互映衬的写法英语里叫做
Foil，mal－foil也可能是坏的映衬的意思。
Draco可能来自古希腊雅典的第一部宪法的起草者Draco。这个人立的法很严厉，严厉到
奇怪的地步，比如说，偷白菜是死罪。不知道现在还有没有人偷菜……（死罪啊！）
后人把过于严厉的东西称为“Draconian”。
在希腊罗马神话里，Draco是一条巨蛇，被Minerva把Draco扔到北方的天空被冻成扭曲
的僵尸蛇，就成了天龙座。（因此，Minerva定能战胜Draco。） |
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发帖数: 11508 | 15 http://213.251.145.96/cable/2009/01/09BEIJING22.html
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 07 BEIJING 000022
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR THE SECRETARY, DEPUTY SECRETARY, EAP A/S
HILL, S/P, EAP/CM
NSC FOR DWILDER
EO 12958 DECL: 01/05/2034
TAGS PREL, PGOV, ECON, EFIN, MARR, MASS, CH
SUBJECT: LOOKING AT THE NEXT 30 YEARS OF THE U.S.-CHINA
RELATIONSHIP
Classified By: Ambassador Clark T. Randt. Reasons 1.4 (b/d)
¶1. (C) January 1, 2009, marked the 30th Anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic re... 阅读全帖 |
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c****o
发帖数: 2071 | 16 In this world, only Chinese and Islam believe in one eye for one eye. And we
all know what Islam is. Draconian laws put revenge of a crime above all
good human natures, which are extremely inhumane. |
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发帖数: 17544 | 17 WASHINGTON The House harshly scolded President Barack Obama on Friday for
launching U.S. military forces against Libya without congressional approval,
fiercely disputing constitutional powers and flashing bipartisan
frustration over a nearly three-month-old conflict with no end in sight.
However, lawmakers stopped short of a more draconian resolution to order an
outright end to U.S. involvement in Libya. They rejected that measure, 265-
148, with anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich of Ohio winning... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 18 Williams points out that one of Greenspan's manipulations of the CPI
involved the consideration that when steak got too expensive, the consumer
would substitute hamburger for the steak. So, Greenspan argued, the
inflation measure should reflect the costs of buying hamburger, not steak.
NEWS ANALYSIS
What's America's real inflation rate?
If rate is so low, how come food and energy cost so much?
Posted: March 19, 2008
9:44 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WND
Why is it that the federal go... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 19 Kotkin的文章一向比较有深度，没什么nonsense，比很多NYT和WP的columnists有内容
多了。
The Crisis of the "Gentry Presidency"
By Joel Kotkin September 15 2011
Appearing in:
Politico
The Obama administration’s belated attempt to address the looming
employment crisis — after three years focused largely on reviving Wall
Street, redoing health care and creating a “green” economy — reflects not
only ineptitude but a deeper crisis of what is best understood as the “
gentry presidency.”
Unlike previous Democratic presidents, includi... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 20 流传很久的是， 米犹有建立world government的计划， 毁灭单个的国家政府， 而把
全世界置于米犹的控制之下。
这和正在发生的事情非常相似。
GEORGE SOROS AND THE ROTHSCHILD CONNECTION
Who was George Soros?
[H: Better yet: Who IS this man? Meet one of the most prominent of the
players in your downfall. He very much ‘was’ but he also IS and did, in
fact wreck the economy of Southeast Asia in very short order. He is a top
player in such as Bilderbergers and all the other controlling groups while
doing nothing “illegal”. But then no one can do anything illegal i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8463 | 21 Is America Heading Towards a Collapse Worse Than 2008 and Europe?
http://finance.yahoo.com/
According to author and investor Peter Schiff, the U.S. economy is heading
for an economic crash that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park.
Stimulus programs can delay this day of reckoning, but only for so long and
only at the expense of making the eventual meltdown much, much worse.
Schiff, who famously warned investors about the housing and financial crisis
in his 2007 book Crash Proof, says the... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****r
发帖数: 11545 | 22 一些有趣的评论。
rajel (chandhigarh)
16 mins ago THE FACT is india and china are two civilisational nations and
have had friendly relations for thousands of years . entire south east asia
was ruled by indian kings and chinese were welcome to settle and make their
life. it is known a sindo chinese influence area. . india had more regio
cultural influence than china . recently chinese who out number indians have
brought their culture to paly a significant role. most journalists who are
in the pay of west ... 阅读全帖 |
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R****a
发帖数: 6858 | 23 美国对外政策：战略收缩
来源: ognc 于 2013-02-18 07:58:39[档案] [博客] [旧帖] [转至博客] [给我悄悄
话] 本文已被阅读：198次
字体：调大/调小/重置 | 加入书签| 打印| 所有跟帖 | 加跟贴| 查看当前最热讨论主题
机器翻译的，凑合着看。原文在后。
一个不活跃的外交政策的情况
由Barry R.波森一月/二月2013，外交
尽管经历了十年的昂贵和优柔寡断的战争和不断增加的财政压力，美国政策制定者对美
国大战略之间的长期的共识仍然保持完整。作为总统竞选的共和党人和民主党人明确表
示，可以说外交政策的边缘，但他们同意这个：，美国要称霸世界的军事，经济，政治
，自冷战的最后一年，一个自由主义的霸权战略。这个国家，他们认为，需要保持其在
全球力量平衡的巨大领先地位，巩固其经济优势，扩大市场的民主社会，并保持其影响
力的国际机构，它帮助创造。
为此，美国政府已扩大其庞大的冷战时代的网络安全的承诺和军事基地。它加强了现有
的联盟，北约新成员加入，加强与日本的安全协议。在波斯湾，它试图用一个全副武装
的空气，海洋保护油流，和地面部队，这一目标消耗至少百... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****c
发帖数: 20445 | 24 Chen Guangcheng And NYU: Did University Ask Chinese Legal Activist To Leave?
Posted: 06/13/2013 12:52 pm EDT | Updated: 06/13/2013 12:52 pm EDT
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FOLLOW: Chen Guangcheg, Chen Guangcheg Fordham, Chen Guangcheg New York
University, Chen Guangcheg Nyu, World News
A bombshell report in the New York Post on Thursday alleged that New York
University has booted a prominent Chinese legal activist so the school can
do business with the Chinese.
The report, quoting ano... 阅读全帖 |
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t***h
发帖数: 5601 | 25 12.43pm ET
Final question from Glenn Greenwald:
Anything else you'd like to add?
Answer:
Thanks to everyone for their support, and remember that just because you
are not the target of a surveillance program does not make it okay. The US
Person / foreigner distinction is not a reasonable substitute for
individualized suspicion, and is only applied to improve support for the
program. This is the precise reason that NSA provides Congress with a
special immunity to its surveillance.
12.41pm ET
Q... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****u
发帖数: 17243 | 26 BEIJING, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two
women kidnapped by a gang for sale and arrested 301 suspects, state media s
aid on Saturday, in one of the biggest busts of its kind in years.
Police simultaneously swooped on locations in 11 provinces recently after a
six-month investigation, China Central Television and state news agency Xinh
ua said, quoting the Ministry of Public Security.
An exact date of when the children were rescued and the arrests made was not
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发帖数: 19544 | 27 15 hours later, talks deliver ultimatum and more Greek resistance
If your head is spinning, either because you’ve just woken up to find the
talks are still going, or because you have been up all night following the
talks, here is an excellent rundown of where we are at.
Ian Traynor and Jennifer Rankin write:
A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on
Sunday at a summit of eurozone leaders in Brussels where the German
chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French pre... 阅读全帖 |
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l***y
发帖数: 1166 | 28 由麦可·莎朗(Michael E. Salla)博士所著作的“研究外星物种的动机与行动:和人类
互动较受关注的几大种族的分类研究”
本书前文摘要：“目前与地球人类互动的种族数目庞大，1998年的采访，Clifford
Stone，一位美国服役长达22年的陆军退伍中士参与了秘密进行的摧毁的外星船与外星
生物体(EBE’s)搜捕行动，泄漏了美国军队其实已经认识总数高达57种的外星人种；从
这些外星人群种中，有一个与人类互动较其他种族活跃的外星人种，可称为对人类演进
最关注与较具主导权的一个种族。这份报导形容主要外星人种通常是指文献中对于人类
主宰与进化的过程有显著策略性影响的那个种族，而且对于全球系统问题带来一定程度
的冲击。报导中将这些外星人种以他们所属的一或两种分组为根据进行分类。
外星種族表
第一组的外星人种与“影子政府(shadow government)”合作，以负责外星事务为主，
有达成共识并进行过多项项案件；这些外星人种与影子政府和美国有着大规模又环环相
扣的共同利益连结，联想到军工业外星联合营的存在。
另外也有第二组是在外星人种与“影子政府/国家安全局”秘密达成共识之外的脉... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16479 | 29 送大学课程进牢房
States are finally backing away from the draconian sentencing policies that
swept the country at the end of the last century, driving up prison costs
and sending too many people to jail for too long, often for nonviolent
offenses. Many are now trying to turn around the prison juggernaut by
steering drug addicts into treatment instead of jail and retooling parole
systems that once sent people back to prison for technical violations.
But the most effective way to keep people out of prison... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 JobHunting 讨论区 】
发信人: yoxiyoxi (骚得寺内), 信区: JobHunting
标 题: Newly leaked EO memo on H1B
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 1 00:43:49 2017, 美东)
Ready to get butt f*ked everyone. If true, the EO is the most draconian in
years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-
circulates-more-draft-immigration-restrictions-focusing-on-protecting-us-
jobs/2017/01/31/38529236-e741-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?postshare=
2611485889175975&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b4742812be0... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1161 | 32 The Atlantic
Every option the United States has for dealing with North Korea is bad. But
accepting it as a nuclear power may be the least bad.
Pyongyang has been constrained by the same logic that has stayed the use of
nuclear arms for some 70 years. Their use would invite swift annihilation.
In the Cold War this brake was called mad (mutual assured destruction). In
this case the brake on North Korea would be simply ad: assured destruction,
since any launch of a nuclear weapon would invite an an... 阅读全帖 |
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s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 33 The Trump administration’s new plan to punish legal immigrants
By Editorial Board
THE TRUMP administration’s crusade against illegal immigration tends to
grab the headlines, but it obscures the equally concerted attack on the
legal variety — including authorized immigrants with valid documents, many
of them with U.S. citizen spouses and children, who lead settled, productive
lives in the United States.
Among the most radical examples of that campaign is a proposal, reported by
The Post, that wou... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 34 Teen who ignited massive fire may have to repay $37 million
HOOD RIVER, Ore. — A teenager who started a huge wildfire in the scenic
Columbia River Gorge in Oregon could owe more in restitution that he will
earn in a lifetime.
Eleven requests for restitution totaling almost $37 million have been
submitted to a court. That covers the costs of firefighting, repair and
restoration to the gorge and damage to homes.
At a hearing Thursday, the lawyer for the 15-year-old defendant urged Hood
River Count... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******2
发帖数: 617 | 35 大意， 痛骂财政部长。
可惜， 骂错人了。
财政部长最后说， 我人格稳定。
WASHINGTON — The trade war between the United States and China showed no
signs of yielding on Thursday, as Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary,
told lawmakers there was no clear path to resolution and Beijing blasted the
administration over its approach.
Mr. Mnuchin, who has tried to avoid calling the trade tensions with China a
“war,” said talks with Beijing had “broken down” and suggested it was
now up to China to come to the table with concessions. Pre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 36 I can think of one Economist whose works fairly accurately predicted the
cyclical, boom/bust nature of de-regulated Capitalism and free markets. He
was pretty accurate in forecasting that the desire to extract ever greater
levels of profit, by driving down wages and demanding ever-increasing levels
of output, would lead to a polarization of socio-economic groups, rising
Nationalism and the use of increasingly draconian measures to keep the
victims of the casino economy in check. Indeed, despite ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 37 Anybody who thought there was EVER going to be a trade deal deserves to get
fleeced. All the mindless Trumptards that BTFD because China is desperate
for a deal. No.
China is not going to submit to Draconian US IP law, which is the lynchpin
of the whole thing, nor should they. They aren't going to reorient their
whole capital structure to please bureaucrats in Washington. It's just not
going to happen. We'll have WW3 before that happens.
China has a lot of problems but this is the one actio... 阅读全帖 |
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p***n
发帖数: 17190 | 38 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/china-sacrifices-a-
province-to-save-the-world-from-coronavirus
Prognosis
China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
Bloomberg News
2020年2月6日 上午12:01 [GMT+8]
Hubei province has seen 97% of all deaths from the virus
Quarantine lockdown delayed key supplies from getting in
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发帖数: 1 | 39 很有意思，WHO 用的是 bold, uncompromising,rigorous 来形容中国的方法， 老美的
文章用的是draconian这词， 老美的脑袋可以说被洗的结结实实。 |
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P****i
发帖数: 12972 | 40 http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/03/12/china-and-south-korea-model
s-seem-like-only-way-to-contain-covid-19/
China And South Korea Models Seem Like Only Way To Contain COVID-19
Kenneth Rapoza
Kenneth RapozaSenior Contributor
Markets
I write about business and investing in emerging markets.
Wuhan Works To Contain Spread Of Coronavirus
A cleaner wears a mask as she works at a hospital on March 12, 2020 in Wuhan
. Flights, trains and ... [+] Getty Images
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发帖数: 489 | 41 https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/fidelity-analysts-china-will-bounce-back-
quickest-from-virus-collapse-20200316
Companies in China are best placed to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic
, according to Fidelity International, whose analysts say the country’s
fast and draconian containment measures have set the stage for a
comparatively fast recovery.
这点土共做的比美帝，欧洲强 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 42 This is scary. Even today, our own WaPo continues to try to shift the blame
to the Chinese for our disastrous response by suggesting that the Chinese
were minimizing the issues. The truth is that China locked down 50 million
people when the total caseload in their country stood at 600. Just which
part of that is a minimized response? Having seen SARS first hand in 2003,
they reacted in a manner initially criticized by us as being draconian. We
started the first shelter in place in the Bay Are... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 43 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/07/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-r
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-
gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts
reintroduced the bill on Tuesday, raising concerns among rights activists
who have been fighting the legislation.
Parliamentarian David Bahati first introduced the bill in 2009 but it has
never come before the full legislative body for a vote. Though widely
supported in Uganda, the bill's prog... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 44 Two Men Arrested After Protesting St. Petersburg's Antigay Law
By Neal Broverman
Nikolai Alekseev ARRESTED X390 (SOURCED) | ADVOCATE.COM
Two gay activists stood up against St. Petersburg's draconian new antigay
law and were promptly arrested.
Alexei Kiselyov and Cyril Nepomnyashiy staged individual protests Thursday
in front of the Palace of Youth Creativity. Holding signs saying "Gay —
this is normal," the men voiced anger at the city's new antigay law, which
bans "propaganda of homosexuality t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored
By CHARLES ZANOR
Narcissists, much to the surprise of many experts, are in the process of
becoming an endangered species.
Not that they face imminent extinction — it’s a fate much worse than that.
They will still be around, but they will be ignored.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the
10 personality disorders that are listed in the current e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Published on TheHill.com on January 4, 2011
The pas-de-deux between the Republican House and the Democratic president
and Senate can get old pretty quickly. The Republican House passes repeal of
ObamaCare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The Republican
House passes spending cuts. The Senate ... you get the drift.
The only way to break the deadlock and proceed with the urgent task of
rolling back the Obama agenda is to use three key confrontations: 1. The
debt limit extension 2. Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In a sign of just how deep economic and budget problems
have grown in the nation's largest state, a gleaming new high school built
at a cost of $105 million will sit unused for at least a year because
education officials say they don't have money to operate it.
Newly constructed Hillcrest High School in Riverside, Calif., won't be
easing the crowding at La Sierra High as the new school sits empty for the
coming school year.
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Max Hastings反思英国骚乱：多年的左派教条催生了不讲道德、不学无术、依赖福利、
凶狠野蛮的一代年轻人
Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated,
welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
By Max Hastings
Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011
A few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in
which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black
reporter named Joe Strickland.
He said: ‘Don’t you believe all that stuff people here are giving media
folk about how sorr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 White House opposes GOP-led balanced budget amendment
By Erik Wasson - 11/15/11 03:57 PM ET
The White House on Tuesday announced it opposes a balanced budget amendment
to the Constitution that is coming to a vote in the House later this week.
President Obama does not need to sign a proposed Constitutional amendment,
which is sent directly to the states for ratification if two-thirds of the
House and Senate approve of it. Because of this, the statement of
administration policy does not include a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 50 WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Thousands of college students may soon feel a
financial pinch and another 100,000 may not be able to complete degrees if
Congress pushes ahead with planned changes to federal student loans,
education experts said.
Congress is expected on Friday to pass a budget to fund the federal
government over the next nine months. And the budget makes some big changes
to certain federal student loan programs.
The good news for students is the budget would set maximum level of the
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