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发帖数: 22064 | 1 http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140401/c01military/
Leader of China Aims at Military With Graft Case
By JONATHAN ANSFIELD April 01, 2014安思乔
2014年04月01日
Prosecutors accused a former senior military official on Monday of a litany
of crimes, including bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power, presenting a
first glimpse of what could be the biggest corruption scandal to ever engulf
the Chinese armed forces.
周一，中国检方指控一名前军队高官犯有包括受贿、挪用公款、滥用职权在内的一连串
罪行，首次向人们揭开了这桩严重程度可能是中国军队有史以来最大的腐败丑闻。
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发帖数: 61690 | 2 President Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha did some shopping on Small
Business Saturday, picking up 17 books at the Politics and Prose bookstore
in Washington, D.C.
Full list of books Obama purchased:
"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande
"Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" (Junie B. Jones Series #1) by
Barbara Park
"Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business" (Junie B. Jones Series #2) by
Barbara Park
"A Barnyard Collection: Click, Clack, Moo and More" ... 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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发帖数: 3226 | 4 http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/china%E2%80%99s-new-silk-roa
China’s response to the so-called US pivot to Asia is to expand influence
in Asia. Known as the “One Belt, One Road,” the modern-day Silk Road
network “will not only enhance ‘five connections’ – trade,
infrastructure, investment, capital and people – it will create a community
with ‘shared interests, destiny and responsibilities,’” explains
Shuaihua Wallace Cheng, managing director of ICTSD China and a Yale World
Fellow. China hopes... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 5 Chronic injustice has turned the American dream into a nightmare.
At every step along the way, whether it’s encounters with the police,
dealings with prosecutors, hearings in court before judges and juries, or
jail terms in one of the nation’s many prisons, the system is riddled with
corruption, abuse and an appalling disregard for the rights of the citizenry. |
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发帖数: 2555 | 6 That led authorities to stake out the couple’s home in Redlands. When the
SUV rolled by, and then sped away, police gave chase until the SUV stopped
on San Bernardino Avenue, a few miles from the massacre. Police said the
suspects fired 76 rifle rounds; police fired 380. The SUV, so riddled with
bullets that it looked like it had been hit with a bomb, was due back at the
rental agency that day, police said. |
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发帖数: 6723 | 7 http://cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20160629/solving-a-mistery-inside-a-cookie/dual/
Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie
By JENNIFER 8. LEEJune 29, 2016
美食JENNIFER 8. LEE 2016年6月29日
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Some 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year, almost all in the United
States. But the crisp cookies wrapped around enigmatic sayings have spread
around the world. They are served in Chinese restaurants in Britain, Mexico,
Italy, France and elsewhere. In India, they ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 370 | 8 Rank Name %
1. Smith 1.006
2. Johnson 0.810
3. Williams 0.699
4. Jones 0.621
5. Brown 0.621
6. Davis 0.480
7. Miller 0.424
8. Wilson 0.339
9. Moore 0.312
10. Taylor 0.311
11. Anderson 0.311
12. Thomas 0.311
13. Jackson 0.310
14. White 0.279
15. Harris 0.275
16. Martin 0.273
17. Thompson 0.269
18. Garcia 0.254
19. Martinez 0.234
20. Robinson 0.233
21. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 9 The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
https://mises.org/blog/great-thanksgiving-hoax
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not
bountiful, nor were the colonists hard-working or tenacious. 1621 was a
famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.
In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William
Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they
refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 198 | 10 我老去年在第一节国际三维城市(vertical city)会议上的一张slide
Jing Jin Ji (京津冀）Riddle
* Jing, 京, means Beijing, or a metropolitan city (traditional)
* Jin, 津, means Tianjin, or a ferry crossing
* Ji, 冀, means Hebei province, or hope
* Jing
* Jin
* Ji
* A metropolitan city has to drop its “ng” part to find hope
*“ng”, NG, no good, urban problems
* How to urbanize a country and avoid urban problems?
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发帖数: 794 | 11 HNA's NYC Nonprofit Owner Told by State to Register as Charity
New York State’s top cop is joining an effort to solve a riddle -- who
or what controls HNA Group Co., the Chinese conglomerate that’s been
collecting stakes in banks, hotels and is poised to buy Anthony Scaramucci’
s hedge fund firm.
Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, sent a letter Thursday
asking for more information about a charity that owns part of HNA. This
week, the conglomerate disclosed that Manhattan-based Hai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10426 | 12 彭博社：HNA's NYC Charity Owner Told by A.G. to Register With State。
New York State’s top cop is joining an effort to solve a riddle -- who or
what controls HNA Group Co., the Chinese conglomerate that’s been
collecting stakes in banks, hotels and is poised to buy Anthony Scaramucci’
s hedge fund firm.
Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, sent a letter Thursday
asking for more information about a charity that owns part of HNA. This week
, the conglomerate disclosed that Manhattan-based ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3249 | 13 北美病夫的迅速南非化，警察的日益不作为不招惹是非，使得内战必然处于持续状态。
居民持枪自发参战，更是美华的必然。CNN 发起的新一轮辱华，已经target 美华的持
枪权利。
按照南非的数据，北美病夫每年由居民自费打枪维持治安，将在10年达到每年击毙10万
，在枪林弹雨中，在经常交火的地区上班将成为常态。
Dozens of protesters hit the streets for a fifth consecutive day to call for
justice in the wake of the shooting of Stephon Clark.
Interested in Sacramento Police Shooting?
Add Sacramento Police Shooting as an interest to stay up to date on the
latest Sacramento Police Shooting news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
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发帖数: 33885 | 15 现在俄亥俄州的大豆农民已经开始抱怨狼脯的贸易战了。
他们其中一个说：给你们打个谜语：我跟一个亿万富翁睡觉，他说他爱我。我期待着他
的爱但第二天被他抛弃，并想用钱来堵住我的嘴巴。
我是谁啊？我不是一个模特或妓女，我是美国农民！
Let me tell you a riddle.
“I slept with a billionaire because he said he loved me. I expected to make
love, but in the morning I realized I was getting screwed. When I went to
tell the world, I was offered cash to keep my mouth shut.”
Who am I? No, I’m not a model or someone named Stormy. I’m the American
farmer.
形势不好啊。狼脯赶到俄亥俄州去助选。共和党的候选人只有44%的支持。而民主党的
对手有43%。
另外独立选民有11%的选票。
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发帖数: 1 | 16 Is China Waiting Us Out?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-china-waiting-us-out/
While the U.S. bombs, Xi Jinping is building—one power play at a time.
By MICHAEL HORTON • October 22, 2018
Michael Hogue
The one constant in recent U.S. foreign policy—regardless of which party
occupies the White House or controls Congress—is that it prioritizes
military intervention, both covert and overt, to advance its interests
overseas. While President Barack Obama vowed to move the U... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 632 | 17 McKinley Conway, 1920-2011:
Last Flight Home in a Landmark Life
ONLINE INSIDER
McKinley Conway
by JACK LYNE
T
his Mac Conway fellow, you might be wondering, now just who was he again?
Yeah, he's the guy who started Site Selection 'n all, but did he ever do
anything else? I'm kinda in a hurry here, pal. So just tell me who this dude
was like.
Oh, hell, Mac Conway wasn't like anybody. He never followed anyone's
footsteps; he couldn't really. He was too restless a spirit, too hell-bent
on slashing ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 18 South Africans can empathize with Californians enduring power outages
instituted by bankrupt utility PG&E Corp. to prevent strong winds from
knocking down electrical lines and igniting fires.
Africa’s most industrialized nation has been contending with electricity
shortages since late 2005, as a result of state-owned utility Eskom Holdings
SOC Ltd.’s failure to invest in additional generation capacity.
Almost the entire population of 58.8 million has been affected by
intermittent rolling blackou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1709 | 19 What people are saying:
Let us look for a moment as to what ‘people are saying’.
(If you want to end up deeply into conspiracies, I would suggest you go to
subReddits /r/Coronavirus and /r/China_Flu )
What ‘people are saying’ runs the gamut from messages received in
meditation, prayer, even channeling, and this information is being put out
there as valid for everyone else in the face of no definitive information
you can hang your hat on.
Every talking head on youtube has suddenly turned into an ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 20 Gays Predisposed to Playing "Super Uncle"?
By Julie Bolcer
A new study by Canadian researchers adds weight to the theory that the
evolutionary role of gay men may be to serve as “super uncles” who help
close family members survive.
Paul Vasey, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Lethbridge,
sought to address an entrenched scientific riddle: If homosexuality appears
to be inherited, how have gay men, who are less likely to reproduce,
continued to pass on their genes without becoming |
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发帖数: 4174 | 21 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1137
Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in
America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent
decision to leave the senate by lamenting a "dysfunctional" political system
riddled with "brain-dead partisanship." It seems you'd be hard-pressed to
get Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Washington to agree on
anything these days, that if one party publicly stated its intention to add
a "puppie |
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发帖数: 4174 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 LES 讨论区 】
发信人: spinozafun (orange cat), 信区: LES
标 题: 中国茉莉花组织者致全国人民的公开信！转载 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 23 11:54:37 2011, 美东)
发信人: hsh (三胡), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 中国茉莉花组织者致全国人民的公开信！转载 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 22 16:57:49 2011, 美东)
发信人: lakeriddle (riddle), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 中国茉莉花组织者致全国人民的公开信！转载
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 22 16:29:52 2011, 美东)
2月27日第二波召集. 转自博讯网 http://boxun.com/
首先感谢每一位茉莉花集会的参与者，你的出现，已经让专制政府万分紧张，你的出现
，已经让中国政府明白他们的选择无非以下两条路的其中之一：
一。中国政府真心诚意地反腐败，并接受人民的监督。
二。压制民众抗议，然后继续贪... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5274 | 23 you should know the id in my two riddles, at least saw them... |
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发帖数: 8729 | 24 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
lanzhu (小懒猪) 于 (Thu Feb 17 10:40:59 2011, 美东) 提到:
今天元宵节， 群策群力， 你们自己出迷难自己如何？
我先代两位顾问出两题， 都是打 ＭＩＴ ＩＤ 名， 准确有说是ＰＳ版 ＩＤ
马顾问的：
怨东风, 吹伊成今古, 剪不断, 无心还忐忑 (打两字, 提示: ps版ID中文名)
苦心相依无聊赖, 辞别东都独向西(打两字, 提示: ps版ID中文名)
这个是小车顾问出的：
心仪美人围杆子 （打三字，提示：ＩＤ中文名）
四君子来了两， （打两ＩＤ，这个就不提示了）
有山有水，接二连三 迷底： 冰川， 冰川ＭＭ答对
九宫格 迷底：inthebox9， 不言MM 和马顾问答对
刀郎成名曲 迷底：firstsnow 冰川ＭＭ答对
冰川ＭＭ出的题
一旦拥有,天长地久 迷底：everlast, 自爆迷底
不言ＭＭ的题：
心宽体胖吃且睡，不爱劳动不读书, 不会唱歌不跳舞, 睡觉还要打呼噜.
迷底：懒猪 马顾问头一个答... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 25 , and 45% of Brazilians.
Guy Dinmore, Fiat: An industrial relations riddle: how long is a coffee
break? Financial Times, May 5, 2010.
http://guydinmore.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/fiat-how-long-is-a-coffee-break/
My comment: The above is a side bar to the main report by the same
journalist.
Much to play for; Italy; Despite improvements in public finances, concerns
are growing over the risks from troubled fellow eurozone members to a
country already suffering high debt and stagnant growth.
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h*h
发帖数: 27852 | 26 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: hsh (三胡), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 这是利比亚的新的革命？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 21 16:34:32 2011, 美东)
这是利比亚的新的革命？
由Dirk Vandewalle，特向美国有线新闻网
（CNN）的 - 任何持续的反对，在利比亚的开放思想博格尔斯异议，即使是卡扎菲上校
的严密控制的国家最老资格的观察家的想法。
自从他1969年来到了不流血政变，更换了亲西方桑西君主政权，利比亚领导人统治一个
铁腕的手，几乎没有留下任何机会，反对合并。
出乎我们通常所说的，在西方，卡扎菲的方式，能够巩固这一高度集权体制到位不仅依
靠感知纯洁，蛮力 - 虽然这始终是最终决定因素 - 但也另外两个因素。
一个是一个分而治之复杂的系统，平衡的家庭，部落和对对方国家的省份。二是通过伪
装自己在反西方，尤其是反美地幔，至少最初，在灾难性的，其中包括后殖民时期的残
暴和一个完全腐败感知为君主制，在财政和国家遗产思想上他的同胞许多共鸣。
保护卡扎菲的利比亚这样的组合 - 一个国家，在他的理论... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 27852 | 27 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: lakeriddle (riddle), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 中国茉莉花组织者致全国人民的公开信！转载
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 22 16:29:52 2011, 美东)
2月27日第二波召集. 转自博讯网 http://boxun.com/
首先感谢每一位茉莉花集会的参与者，你的出现，已经让专制政府万分紧张，你的出现
，已经让中国政府明白他们的选择无非以下两条路的其中之一：
一。中国政府真心诚意地反腐败，并接受人民的监督。
二。压制民众抗议，然后继续贪污腐败，继续拒绝接受人民监督。
每一个有梦想的中国人，都希望祖国繁荣富强，人民衣食无忧，政府清正廉洁，司法公
平正义。但是20年过去了，我们看到的是一个日益贪污腐败的政府，和既得利益勾结的
官员们，老百姓并没有从改革开放经济发展中受益，反而要承受高物价高房价，反而没
有基本的医疗教育养老福利。那么10年后呢？我们难道要面临一个更加腐败的政府吗？
更加不透明的司法制度吗？既得利益集团能够放弃他们的既得利益吗？
每一个善良的中国人，请你... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3150 | 28 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lqm1989 (Jeremy Lin), 信区: USANews
标 题: The Myth of Health Care's Free Market By David Cay Johnston
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 6 00:33:29 2014, 美东)
The Myth of Health Care's Free Market
By David Cay Johnston / January 03 2014 1:05 PM
Ever wonder why an appendectomy costs $8,000 in one place and $29,000
elsewhere? REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Has it ever occurred to you to negotiate with the pilot of the plane you
just boarded about her pay?
Assuming the pilot was willing to take bi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110131
Unearthed! Obama's twisted ACORN roots
Track timeline of president's ties to group immersed in scandals
Posted: September 18, 2009
12:10 am Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
ACORN (photo: Dickinson College)
While ACORN remains riddled in scandal, lawmakers have voted to cut off
federal funding to the group, the U.S. Census Bureau has severed ties to the
organization – and the White House has blasted its behavior as "
un |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 巴基斯坦少数社群事务部长Shahbaz Bhatti遇刺身亡，他是天主教徒，正着手修改巴基
斯坦的“渎神法”
Pakistan’s religious minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed by
gunmen Wednesday in the capital, Islamabad. A Christian, Bhatti had received
threats from Islamist militants for his efforts to reform the country's
blasphemy laws.
By News Wires (text)
AP - Gunmen shot and killed Pakistan’s government minister for religious
minorities on Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani
figure who had urged reforming harsh blasph... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 For years now the climate campaign and the politicized science community has
been complaining that it has a “communications problem,” which can be
solved if only they shout louder, or get the human car alarm former Vice
President Al Gore to make an Oscar-winning documentary film or something.
Because, after all, it’s just so easy for a billion-dollar effort at
pushing the climate crisis to be undone by a handful of discredited “
skeptics” with only at tiny fraction of the resources environmenta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 MISSOULA, Mont.—With a homemade .22-caliber rifle he calls the Montana
Buckaroo, Gary Marbut dreams of taking down the federal regulatory state.
Montana passed a law that tries to exempt the state from federal gun
regulation. But the law is now before the courts, in a test of states'
rights. WSJ's Jess Bravin reports.
He's not planning to fire his gun. Instead, he wants to sell it, free from
federal laws requiring him to record transactions, pay license fees and open
his business to government i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By Dan Gainor
December 9, 2011
According to police, a letter bomb was recently sent to the CEO of Deutsche
Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. It was only a matter of time.
Left wing protesters – from the union loonies at SEIU to the equally loony,
but more radical Occupy Wall Street crowd – have been targeting bank
executives for some time. It was bound to happen that someone would take all
the venom aimed by the media and the left at so-called “banksters” and
turn it into a Unabomber homage.
The term ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 By Thomas Lifson
The Reuters news service once again has made itself a laughingstock by
publishing a mistake-riddled hit piece on Marco Rubio, all but ruling him
out as a vice presidential nominee for the GOP because of alleged financial
problems. Many of which turned out to be untrue. Five corrections were
necessary.
Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller outlines a total of 7 falsehoods or
exaggerations in the story. Dylan Byers of Politico spoke to Reuters staff
who refused to go on the record (an in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 by Rossputin
Even the Obama-loving AP has debunked the claim that President Obama will
make again tonight, using Warren Buffet’s secretary as cannon fodder, that
the rich need to pay more in taxes:
http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-07
FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
APBy STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press | AP – Tue, Sep 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants to make sure
millionaires are taxed at higher rates than their se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Somali residents welcome Ethiopian troops after rebel rout
Sun, Mar 4 2012
By Kumerra Gemechu
BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - After three years of killings and violence under
the rule of al Shabaab rebels, residents of the Somali city of Baidoa said
they were happy to see the arrival of Ethiopian soldiers, whose presence
they once resented.
Under al Shabaab's control, Baidoa's leaders say the city's people became
poorer, conditions worsened and many were forced to flee. The return of
Ethiopian troop... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
The Anchoress is using Nancy Pelosi as a launching point of sorts to predict
stormy times ahead, for the Church and for the country... but she ends on a
note of hope and wise advice:
I get yelled at when I say this but the worst-case scenario — and I
think it’s inevitable — will be a schism and the creation of an American
Catholic Church, one that works very closely with the government to “do the
right thing” and reaps its worldly rewards, both material and el... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Matthew Fisher, Postmedia News Jul 3, 2012 – 7:18 AM ET | Last Updated:
Jul 3, 2012 11:54 AM ET
OIA, Greece — Why should foreign governments and international funds spend
hundreds of billions of euros in emergency aid to rescue Greece from ruin
when — despite a youth unemployment rate topping 52 per cent — many young
Greeks do not seem interested in working at all?
That is one of many riddles that the new Greek government must try to solve
amid opprobrium and often downright anger from nor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 By ANA CAMPOY
A Texas judge ruled in favor of pipeline operator TransCanada Corp.'s TRP.T
-0.29% use of eminent domain in its effort to build an oil pipeline that
could ultimately stretch from the Canadian tar sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Lamar County Judge Bill Harris ruled late Wednesday in favor of the Canadian
firm in a dispute with a corn and soybean farmer over a patch of land about
100 miles northeast of Dallas, where TransCanada wants to bury part of its
pipeline.
Last year TransCanada ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1263 | 41 奇怪，从GOOGLE可以直接连到这篇WSJ报道的全文，但是拷贝这个网址后则看不到全文
了。算了，我把全文贴在下面吧：
Lack of Data Slows Studies of Gun Control and Crime
Updated December 21, 2012, 12:31 a.m. ET
By JOE PALAZZOLO and CARL BIALIK
There is no shortage of opinions about whether gun-control laws accomplish
what they are designed to do—reduce violent crime. What is lacking are data.
As U.S. lawmakers prepare once again to take up the contested issue in the
wake of the Newtown school massacre, they will find that all data on guns
are surprising... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 AP/Gfk调查，已有医疗保险的美国人中，将近半数的保险会变差，其中77%的人认为是
奥巴马医疗法案造成的恶果
Poll: Americans Blame Obamacare for Inferior Coverage, Higher Costs
Note well, Democrats: These complaints are unrelated to Obamacare's failed
roll-out, and are being driven by the vast majority of Americans covered on
the employer-based market -- whom the White House has falsely claimed will
not be affected by the law's changes:
Americans who already have health insurance are blaming President Barack
Obama's health care overhaul for th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9501 | 43 The Myth of Health Care's Free Market
By David Cay Johnston / January 03 2014 1:05 PM
Ever wonder why an appendectomy costs $8,000 in one place and $29,000
elsewhere? REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Has it ever occurred to you to negotiate with the pilot of the plane you
just boarded about her pay?
Assuming the pilot was willing to take bids for her services, would you have
any idea of how to evaluate the worth of that particular pilot compared to
anyone else who might be at the controls? How long would it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 by Jammie
They claim she was thoroughly vetted. Oops. Now when will Obama be indicted
for fraud?
State health care exchange officials said they had thoroughly vetted
Christa Ann McClure, the Connect for Health Colorado director they placed on
paid administrative leave Tuesday after learning she had been indicted for
stealing from her last employer.
McClure, 51, pleaded not guilty Feb. 6 in federal District Court in
Montana to eight counts of theft and fraud from a nonprofit housing agenc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 California's flawed water system can't track usage
May 27, 2014 - 12:04 AM
By JASON DEAREN and GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Call them the fortunate ones: Nearly 4,000 California
companies, farms and others are allowed to use free water with little
oversight when the state is so bone dry that deliveries to nearly everyone
else have been severely slashed.
Their special status dates back to claims made more than a century ago when
water was plentiful. But in the third year o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 46 Leo vs. science: vanishing evidence for climate change
In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo
DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.”
The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “
carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of
energy are causing dangerous climate change and must be turned off as soon
as possible, DiCaprio says.
But he has identified the wrong monster. It is the climate scare... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 Algerian extremists behead French hostage
September 24, 2014 - 2:08 PM
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Algerian extremists allied with the Islamic State group have
decapitated a French hostage after France carried out airstrikes in Iraq,
according to a video that appeared online Wednesday.
French President Francois Hollande condemned the killing of Herve Gourdel
and said France would continue its fight against the Islamic State group,
which are Sunni militants that have taken over large swaths of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 12 Dead in 'Terrorist' Attack on Paris Satirical Newspaper
Twelve people have died and three others were critically injured as gunmen
opened fire at the office of a Paris-based satirical newspaper today in an
attack that France's president called a "terrorist operation."
The shooting at the office of Charlie Hebdo was a "cowardly attack," said
President Francois Hollande when he was at the scene this morning.
Shooting at Paris Newspaper Office
Chaos in the Streets of Paris After Terror Attack
Gu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 Phone Company ‘Outraged’ By Fraud, Abuse In ‘Obamaphone’ Program
DENVER (CBS4) – A nationwide cellphone company distributing phones and
cellphone plans in Denver as part of a massive government program says it is
“outraged by the unacceptable actions” uncovered by a CBS4 undercover
investigation.
The response from Total Call Mobile comes nearly three months after an
undercover CBS4 investigation revealed multiple examples of fraud and
cheating in the phone distribution program.
The Lifeline prog... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 President George W. Bush wasn’t unintelligent. In fact, he was brilliant…
Joshua Riddle
March 25, 2014 11:08 pm
Keith Hennessey, professor at Stanford Business School, wanted to set the
record straight about President Bush’s intellect. He writes:
I teach a class at Stanford Business School titled “Financial Crises in the
U.S. and Europe.” During one class session while explaining the events of
September 2008, I kept referring to the efforts of the threesome of Hank
Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Tim... 阅读全帖 |
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