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a*****y 发帖数: 33185 | 2 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-power-microwave-
High-Power Microwave Weapons Start to Look Like Dead-End
Despite 50 years of research on high-power microwaves, the U.S. military has
yet to produce a usable weapon
By Sharon Weinberger | September 12, 2012
E-BLAST
Nature
By Sharon Weinberger of Nature magazine
For some Pentagon officials, the demonstration in October 2007 must have
seemed like a dream come true — an opportunity to blast reporters with a
beam of energy that causes s... 阅读全帖 |
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m********5 发帖数: 17667 | 3 A secrecy order bars the award of a patent, orders that the invention be
kept secret, restricts the filing of foreign patents, and specifies
procedures to prevent disclosure of ideas contained in the application. The
only way an inventor can avoid the risk of such imposed secrecy is to forgo
patent protection.
By the end of fiscal year 1991, the number of patent secrecy orders stood at
6,193. Many such orders were imposed on individuals and organizations
working without government support. This ... 阅读全帖 |
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s********n 发帖数: 26222 | 4 完全公布情报机关经费是不现实, 但是你可以将机密部分剔除, 只公布非机密部分的
经费啊。 或者只公布总数不讲细节。
us也存在是否公布CIA budget的争论, 官司现在还在打。
Official Reveals Budget for U.S. Intelligence
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - In an apparent slip, a top American intelligence
official has revealed at a public conference what has long been secret: the
amount of money the United States spends on its spy agencies.
At an intelligence conference in San Antonio last week, Mary Margaret Graham
, a 27-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency and now ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 5 Switzerland's oldest private bank, Wegelin & Co., had survived three
centuries of upheaval on the continent, including Napoleon's invasion of the
country and two World Wars. But its illustrious history was brought to an
end last month by an unlikely source: a U.S. government desperate to track
down tax evaders.
In early February, in a move that rattled Switzerland's financial industry,
the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Wegelin on charges of helping
wealthy Americans hide $1.2 billion from ... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******n 发帖数: 6889 | 6 正好,看看法庭会有什么说辞驳回原告指控受到的伤害:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-reverses-judges-order
...
Judge Stephen Williams wrote that the plaintiffs “lack direct evidence that
records involving their calls have actually been collected,’’ a stumbling
block that has stalled past lawsuits against the NSA.
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in a separate opinion, said secrecy rules can be
a legitimate form of government regulation. “Regulations of this sort may
frustrate the inquisitive citizen but that does not ... 阅读全帖 |
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s******n 发帖数: 518 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: shaodian (有熊), 信区: History
标 题: 美国生物实验室泄露
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Mar 22 15:25:05 2020, 美东)
Google翻译一次只能3900字符。
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/28/biolabs-pathogens-location-
incidents/26587505/
Investigation reveals hundreds of accidents, safety violations and near
misses put people at risk
Alison Young and Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY
Vials of bioterror bacteria have gone missing. Lab mice infected with deadly
viruses have escaped, and wild rodents have b... 阅读全帖 |
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z****e 发帖数: 54598 | 8 新姿保密是最基本的,做不到这一点的话,你完全没有必要考虑这种公司
如果是高管的话,那有可能被强行泄漏工资,问题在于打工的,这种考虑就joke了
For decades, most U.S. corporations have practiced pay secrecy. They may be
forced to release the pay of senior executives, but they work hard to keep
secret everyone else’s pay. We recently had our annual pay increase
exercise at my university and it did a number of things, including hand
delivering pay worksheets and emailing password-protected Excel spreadsheets
to ensure that the amount of the raises given was a well-kep... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 9 Every two years around this time, a common mantra repeated by Democrats and
Republicans alike makes its way through Capitol Hill: This will be the
Congress that finally cleans up Washington.
"We're going to drain the swamp," Nancy Pelosi vowed in 2006, echoing
congressional leaders before her. And just last week, Eric Cantor, the No. 2
GOP leader in the House, promised virtually the same thing as the
Republicans prepare to take the House majority. "We will drain the swamp
rather than learn to sw... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 10 Is Japan's Elite Hiding A Weapons
Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
4-6-11
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant
cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or
miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady... 阅读全帖 |
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c****o 发帖数: 2071 | 11 TAIPEI, Taiwan — A U.S. diplomatic cable released by the anti-secrecy
website WikiLeaks says former Chinese Finance Minster Jin Renqing was fired
in 2007 for having a sexual relationship with a suspected Taiwanese spy.
The reported affair occurred during the administration of Taiwanese
President Chen Shui-bian, when tensions between Taiwan and China were high
because of Beijing's anger over Chen's pro-independence policies. Since then
relations have improved substantially, guided by Chen's China... 阅读全帖 |
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y***u 发帖数: 7039 | 12 1991年版的前言部分提到的。
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In my lectures throughout this nation, and in my appearances on many radio
and television programs, I have sounded the toxin that the Federal Reserve
System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all,
but rather, a criminal syndicate. From November, 1910, when the conspirators
met on Jekyll Island, Georgia, to the present time, the machinations of the
Federal Reserve bankers have been shrouded in secrecy. Today, that secrecy
has cost the American people... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n 发帖数: 38600 | 13 In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
- George Orwell
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julian-assange/wikileaks-bradley-
Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time
Julian Assange.
Editor-in-Chief and Founder, WikiLeaks
Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since
his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-
year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cabl... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 14 呵呵.新闻里说的.
As The Hill reports, the U.S. Senate’s “top tax writers have promised
their colleagues 50 years worth of secrecy in exchange for suggestions on
what deductions and credits to preserve” in a tax “reform” bill that aims
to overhaul the tax code from scratch. The system, reports the newspaper,
allows only 10 congressional staff members to have “direct access to a
senator’s written suggestions” and “each submission will be given its own
ID number and be kept on password-protected servers, ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 15 50年不变,算不算小平同志的价值观.
As The Hill reports, the U.S. Senate’s “top tax writers have promised
their colleagues 50 years worth of secrecy in exchange for suggestions on
what deductions and credits to preserve” in a tax “reform” bill that aims
to overhaul the tax code from scratch. The system, reports the newspaper,
allows only 10 congressional staff members to have “direct access to a
senator’s written suggestions” and “each submission will be given its own
ID number and be kept on password-protected ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****g 发帖数: 21627 | 16 rocket propulsion systems cause severe damage to our mesosphere... once a a
point of no return is reached catastrophic failure will occur. All rocket
launches need to end now. The U.S. government is holding this information as
classified. Destroying our atmosphere is the greatest crime in human
history. Our scientists are forced to sign secrecy agreements. I was asked
to sign a secrecy agreement with a writ of order attached for my execution
if I violated the terms. |
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C******y 发帖数: 3249 | 18 作为敌国的一部分,美国公民可以由美国武装力量直接处死。推测处死张是美国军方,
NSA,CIA 多方的联合行动。
这样的处死不需要任何审判,不需要对媒体公布细节,不需要承认或否认。
目前还不清楚处死的细节,有未经证实的消息说,张跳楼后,看到有两个戴着黑色墨镜
的亚裔从楼后门匆匆离去。
Lawyers for the Obama administration, arguing for their ability to kill an
American citizen without trial in Yemen, contended that the protection of US
citizenship was effectively removed by a key congressional act that blessed
a global war against al-Qaida.
Known as the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), the broad and
controversial 2001 law playe... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 19 January 1, 2012 by Charlie Quidnunc
I rarely agree with proven sock puppet Glenn Greenwald. But he does have the
admirable quality of being willing to criticize the President and other
lefties when they fail to live up to the Greenwald standard of liberal
perfection. In his typical long winded and multiple times updated, extended,
and revised post today, he nails all the things about Obama that drive the
left crazy. They are all issues that could potentially drive independents
away from the Demo... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 20 Is Japan's Elite Hiding A Weapons
Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
4-6-11
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant
cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or
miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 21 Is Japan Hiding A Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
4-6-11
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant
cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or
miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady purpose... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 22 Is Japan's Elite Hiding A Weapons
Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
4-6-11
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant
cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or
miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 23 Is Japan's Elite Hiding A Weapons
Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
By Yoichi Shimatsu
4-6-11
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant
cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or
miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo
Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady... 阅读全帖 |
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D**0 发帖数: 2048 | 24 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
afei (阿飞) 于 (Thu Dec 9 21:31:39 2010, 美东) 提到:
因发表后争议剧烈,特做如下声明。
本文因当时报道刘晓波邀请疆独领袖热比亚作为嘉宾参加诺贝尔颁奖仪式,从而引起首发版面对于与藏独疆独合作是否为叛国争论这一事件产生。我对刘晓波抨击政府,发表08宪章,获得诺贝尔等其他事迹立场完全中性,并无抨击。
不吵架,说点历史故事。
这次被多次使用来嘲笑土共的1935年诺贝尔和平奖获得者,Carl von Ossietzky,因为
当年被Nazi政府禁止领奖,基本都是用来类比这次的刘小波,当然含义就是,土共是
Nazi
于是有了点兴趣,看了看这位Carl von Ossietzky的生平。他是因为向外国媒体泄露德
国违背凡尔赛条约,重新装备空军并在苏联训练飞行员的事件,而被德国当时的魏玛
共和国(原文发表时为纳粹,后经指正改为事实上的当时民主国家魏玛共和国)
以间谍罪和叛国罪起诉并定罪的。他的获奖造成了巨大的争议,甚至有评奖委员会成
员辞职,认为将奖金颁给他是不应该的。“他... 阅读全帖 |
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M*V 发帖数: 3205 | 25 In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
- George Orwell
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julian-assange/wikileaks-bradley-
Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time
Julian Assange.
Editor-in-Chief and Founder, WikiLeaks
Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time since
his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-
year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cabl... 阅读全帖 |
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l***a 发帖数: 5114 | 26 最近翻出阿西莫夫作品全集来重看,真挺有意思的,不仅囊括了他最早期那些名不见经
传的短篇,还有自己写的“创作感想”。看到TRENDS那一篇,居然发现他在1938年(当
时他还在读大学)成功预测成两件事:1)1940年第二次世界大战,2)1970年,人类登
月。
两件事都只差1年而已!
我一直觉得那个SF黄金时期的创作高峰,后来者很难翻越……
下面附TRENDS 的原文。
TRENDS
John Harman was sitting at his desk, brooding, when I entered the office
that day.
It had become a common sight, by then, to see him staring out at the Hudson,
head in
hand, a scowl contorting his face—all too common. It seemed unfair for the
little bantam
to be eating his heart out like that day after day... 阅读全帖 |
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m****t 发帖数: 570 | 27 http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-twin-prime-hero
The Twin Prime Hero
–Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics
MICHAEL SEGAL
Yitang “Tom” Zhang spent the seven years following the completion of his
Ph.D. in mathematics floating between Kentucky and Queens, working for a
chain of Subway restaurants, and doing odd accounting work. Now he is on a
lecture tour that includes stops at Harvard, Columbia, Caltech, and
Princeton, is fielding multiple professorship offers, and spends two hours a
day d... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******9 发帖数: 9032 | 28 Summation of Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity
An excerpt from: Occult Ether Physics
by William R. Lyne
From: Don Allen
d**[email protected]
According to Tesla's lecture prepared for the Institute of Immigrant Welfare
(May. 12, 1938), his "Dynamic Theory of Gravity" was one of two far
reaching discoveries, which he "...worked out in all details", in the years
1893 and 1894. The 1938 lecture was less than five years before his death.
More complete statements concerning these discoveries can ... 阅读全帖 |
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o**********e 发帖数: 18403 | 29 Last time Japan did this was after Tokyo Earthquake 1923. Japan has not
learned its lessons. It will just repeatedly blame everything on China and
attack China everytime it gets into a mess of their own making.
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/15/shock_doctrine_in_japan_s
Quote from the full transcript:
"AMY GOODMAN: You talk about a Japanese shock doctrine.
KOICHI NAKANO: Right. The state secrecy law that was passed in December last
year, just a month ago, basically two years after the big ea... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 30 Mure Dickie, China Mobile Shows Power Still Lies With the Party. Financial
Times, July 6, 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e14aa0a
-a729-11e0-b6d4-00144feabdc0.html
Quote:
"In a terse notice last week the listed company revealed that Mr Wang [
Jianzhou] had been replaced as secretary of the Communist party committee at
the state-owned parent company by Xi Guohua, former vice-minister for
information technology.
"As party secretary, Mr Xi – who was also named vice-chairman of the parent
company an... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 31 Simon Rabinovitch, China to Take Shot at Aircraft Duopoly; Aerospace;
Support for local manufacturing; Plan upgrade follows Train crash. Financial
Times, Aug 5, 2011.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f0aab712
-be81-11e0-ab21-00144feabdc0.html
Quote:
"High-speed rail was also in that category [the seven-industry plan].
However, the Shanghai Securities News said aircraft would be 'the most
important part' of high-end equipment manufacturing and made no mention of
high-speed rail.
"In the wake of July’s r... 阅读全帖 |
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J*V 发帖数: 3150 | 32 BEIJING — The detention of an Australian Rio Tinto Ltd. employee on spying
charges could damage the business environment for foreign companies wanting
to work in China, an Australian cabinet minister said Sunday.
The comments from Financial Services Minister Chris Bowen came as Rio Tinto
employee Stern Hu began a second week in detention in Shanghai on charges of
stealing state secrets.
“The Chinese government will be very aware that it is not good for business
certainty if there’s a regular pat... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V 发帖数: 3365 | 33 U.S. warns countries against Snowden travel
By James Pomfret and Lidia Kelly
HONG KONG/MOSCOW | Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:54pm EDT
(Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was
seeking asylum in Ecuador on Sunday after Hong Kong allowed his departure
for Russia in a slap to Washington's efforts to extradite him on espionage
charges.
In a major embarrassment for President Barack Obama, an aircraft thought to
have carried Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday, and the anti-secrec... 阅读全帖 |
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F*V 发帖数: 3978 | 34 作者: James Wardner
in his book, "Unholy Alliances", 1996
The pioneer on the subject of Masonic control is James Wardner in a 1996
book entitled Unholy Alliances. Here are 10 facts about their control of
Congress and the Judiciary in the recent past. You can be sure that things
have only gotten worse.
1. Wardner lists names of 75 congressmen who were Freemasons in the 1980's
but there were probably many more. These included both liberals and rednecks
Specter. Presidents who were Freemasons: George... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V 发帖数: 3365 | 35 As drone monopoly frays, Obama seeks global rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who vastly expanded U.S.
drone strikes against terrorism suspects overseas under the cloak of secrecy
, is now openly seeking to influence global guidelines for their use as
China and other countries pursue their own drone programs.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-drone-monopoly-frays-obama-seeks-global |
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c***s 发帖数: 70028 | 36 WikiLeaks网站搅乱了整个世界,令美国外交情报机器短期内基本失效,令网络业界出现两种极端对立的态度,而阿桑奇则成为「时代英雄」。中国网民在分享「秘密大餐」中,也透视自己国家的前途,将自己融入追逐「秘密」的变革波澜中。
一个成立只有四年的小网站,因为揭爆美国外交电文而搅乱了整个世界,引发自由和权力解构的大辩论。中国网民在这场「秘密大餐」中也得以分享并透视到自己国家的前途,借助社会性媒体,追逐「秘密」的每个个体都融入了社会变革的波澜中。
就在二零一零年十一月底之前,我周围大部分人还根本分不清维基百科和维基揭密(WikiLeaks)的区别,时常看到很多中文媒体张冠李戴,将「维基揭密」称之为「维基百科」所为。殊不知维基百科是有十年历史由全球成百上千万网民协作完成的知识库,而维基揭密只是由一些黑客和特立独行的新闻人所组成的小网站而已。
但就是这个小网站,在一系列波澜不惊的揭秘个案后,终于引爆了有史以来最有杀伤力的机密「核弹」,其触及利益范围之广,令举世震惊。
这颗核弹就是美国在全球的外交机密电文。外界相信维基揭密的团队透过美国外交系统的内部人员的泄密或者信息网络的漏洞获取了超过二十五万份机... 阅读全帖 |
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i***s 发帖数: 39120 | 37 乔布斯和妻子
Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto, Calif., called an old friend’s home number and asked if he was well enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time。
过去几个月里,不断有人到加州的帕洛阿尔托(旧金山)想要拜访他们的老朋友乔布斯,并打电话询问他能否接待这些客人,也许是见最后一面。
In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that, after years of fighting cancer, his time was becoming shorter. He quietly told a few acquaintances, and they, in turn, whispered to others. And so a pilgrimage began. The calls trickled in ... 阅读全帖 |
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o***s 发帖数: 42149 | 38 在陷入“洗钱”丑闻后,中国男演员、导演英达昨晚首度对媒体发声,强调自己没有洗钱也没有被捕,更是指自己很冤枉。他还透露说,自己之所以往美国带现金,大部分是为了给在美国学冰球的儿子英如镝交冰球学费。
之所以“人肉背现金”,英达辩解称那是因为“我国那时还没有设立外汇业务或者是外国银行在中国设立办事处,没有这个业务,我只能拿现金。”“而且每一笔钱都在海关申报过,不存在偷税漏税情况。”
事实真的如此么?当时国家没有设立外汇业务?大部分都给儿子交了学费?冰球的学费到底有多贵?为何英达拆分存入6个银行账号、每次存款均低于1万美元的操作方式会被美国法律认定为违法?记者对此展开调查。
英达称当时中国没有外汇业务?
NO! 知情人士:“他这是乱说!”
根据美国康涅狄格州的检方指控资料显示,2011年4月至2012年3月,被告英达先后将46.4万美元存入他和妻子在四家银行开的6个联名账户,为避免填写现金交易报告,他每次存款额度低于1万美元,前后分50次存入。
指控书中还提到现金来源,2010年3月至2011年11月期间,英达多次往返中美两国,每次入境,英达都携带3万到7万美元现金。一年多的时间里,英达“人肉... 阅读全帖 |
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y****i 发帖数: 1050 | 39 The first appearance of the Tiger on the Eastern Front was unsuccessful. The
first Tigers were issued to the 1st platoon of the 502 Battalion of Heavy
Tanks (Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502). On the 29th of August 1942, the four
Tigers arrived at the Mga railway station near Leningrad. Early that day,
the tanks were unloaded and prepared for battle. At 11:00 AM, the Tigers
went into their battle positions. Major Richard Merker commanded the platoon
, which included four Tigers, six PzKpfw III Ausf.... 阅读全帖 |
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y****i 发帖数: 1050 | 40 The first appearance of the Tiger on the Eastern Front was unsuccessful. The
first Tigers were issued to the 1st platoon of the 502 Battalion of Heavy
Tanks (Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502). On the 29th of August 1942, the four
Tigers arrived at the Mga railway station near Leningrad. Early that day,
the tanks were unloaded and prepared for battle. At 11:00 AM, the Tigers
went into their battle positions. Major Richard Merker commanded the platoon
, which included four Tigers, six PzKpfw III Ausf.... 阅读全帖 |
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y****i 发帖数: 1050 | 41 The first appearance of the Tiger on the Eastern Front was unsuccessful. The
first Tigers were issued to the 1st platoon of the 502 Battalion of Heavy
Tanks (Schwere Panzer Abteilung 502). On the 29th of August 1942, the four
Tigers arrived at the Mga railway station near Leningrad. Early that day,
the tanks were unloaded and prepared for battle. At 11:00 AM, the Tigers
went into their battle positions. Major Richard Merker commanded the platoon
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s*******w 发帖数: 2257 | 42 华夏文摘】老钱:硅谷传奇:计算机发展简史- -(附录)
发表于 2016 年 04 月 22 日 由 老钱
人类的进步主要由两个部分组成:一是人类的组织原则和组织结构的进步,另一个是科
学技术的进步。近代以来,人类在组织原则和组织结构方面的进步相对比较缓慢。但是
,科学与技术则有了翻天覆地的变化。用理工科的说法就是,以往的世代里,科技进步
是线性的,近代以来则是以指数形式在发展。近代的科技发展,赋予了人类无以伦比的
力量。这么说吧,要是把人类和地球上其他物种进行比较的话,今天人类的能力堪比上
帝。
十八世纪的第一次工业革命给我们带来了蒸汽机,人类在力量、速度、和距离上开始主
宰世界,这是力学与热学综合应用的产物。十九世纪和二十世纪初的第二次工业革命,
给我们带来了新能源,电力、石油、化工等等新兴产业主宰了我们的日常生活,尽管这
次工业革命也带来了一场世界性的农业革命,但从此人们对土地的依赖越来越弱了。这
是热力学、电磁学、化学综合应用的产物。到了二十世纪末,一场彻底改变人类传统生
活方式的工业革命发端了。这是以技算机、互联网、无线通讯兴起的产业革命。这是以
量子力学为代表的近代物理的综... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V 发帖数: 17544 | 43 NEW YORK – Dubbed "The Wedding of the Century," the Chelsea Clinton and
Marc Mezvinsky nuptials this month are shrouded in secrecy. Lynnley Browning
lifts the veil on the mansion, the party, the guests, and the gift bags.
If Chelsea Clinton gets a migraine during the final fitting for her custom
Oscar de la Renta wedding gown, she'll have a stylish new place to rest her
cerebral head.
Clinton recently bought two cream, lavender, and taupe sofa pillows at
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y***e 发帖数: 676 | 44 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
By Noah Shachtman
July 28, 2010 | 7:30 pm | Categories: Spies, Secrecy and Surveillance
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that
monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to
predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of
websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the |
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f****0 发帖数: 835 | 45 HORRIBLE toilets. Stagnant puddles buzzing with dengue-spreading mosquitoes.
Collapsing masonry. Lax security. A terrorist attack. India’s preparations
for the 72-nation Commonwealth games, which are scheduled to open in Delhi
on October 3rd, have not won favourable reviews. “Commonfilth”, was one of
the kinder British tabloid headlines. At best—assuming that the organisers
make a last-minute dash to spruce things up—the Delhi games will be
remembered as a shambles. The contrast with China’s pra... 阅读全帖 |
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x*********g 发帖数: 11508 | 46 一年前的文章,现在读仍然很有意义。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/11/rare_earth_the_new_great_game.html
Rare earth: The New Great Game
Post categories: China, Energy, Technology, Trade
Paul Mason | 14:57 UK time, Wednesday, 18 November 2009
The rare earth story goes to the heart of China's relationship with the West
- not just that, but to the heart of the West's inability to understand
China.
It is a complicated story, involving a whole chunk of the Periodic Table,
high secrecy, patent batt... 阅读全帖 |
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p******g 发帖数: 125 | 48 A crown prince is anointed in a vast kingdom facing vaster stresses. China
is in
a fragile state(在一个面临更大挑战的巨大王国,继承者被选定。中国处于脆弱的状
态。)
“The next emperor”(下一位皇帝)
www.economist.com(经
济学网
站)
“WITH you in charge, I am at ease,” Mao Zedong is supposed to have told
his
successor, Hua Guofeng. It proved a disastrous choice. Mr Hua lasted a
couple of
years before being toppled in 1978.A decade later succession plans once
again
un... 阅读全帖 |
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p****g 发帖数: 881 | 49 不错, 有人开始怀疑米帝特务密探警察操纵wiki了
Some on the Internet Start to Wonder—Is WikiLeaks for Real?
By Behrouz Saba | New America Media | December 02, 2010
The quarter of a million American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks
reveal that American diplomats have a low opinion of the thuggish Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. They call him “feckless.” Equally
underwhelming are the revelations that Nikolas Sarkozy is “temperamental”
and Muammar al-Gaddafi likes flamenco and blondes. What is more, som... 阅读全帖 |
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l**a 发帖数: 1964 | 50 According to the case law of the Supreme Court of the German Reich, the
illegality of covertly conducted actions did not cancel out the principle of
secrecy. According to the opinion of the Supreme Court of the German Reich,
every citizen owes his Fatherland a duty of allegiance regarding
information, and endeavours towards the enforcement of existing laws may be
implemented only through the utilization of responsible domestic state
organs, and never by appealing to foreign governments.
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