m*****e
发帖数: 789 | 1 By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer William Foreman, Associated
Press Writer – 2 hrs 3 mins ago
GUANGZHOU, China – A man wielding a knife broke into a primary school in
southern China and stabbed 18 students and a teacher Wednesday, the same day
another school attacker was executed for killing eight children last month,
state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the wounded were taken to hospitals,
but did not say how seriously they were hurt.
The man broke into Leicheng |
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发帖数: 17243 | 2 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-05-17-china-attack_N.htm
6 wounded, assailant killed, in new China rampage
BEIJING (AP) — A cleaver-wielding man attacked and wounded six women before
jumping to his death, police said Monday, in the latest in a series of such
rampages in China.
The attack follows five separate assaults by lone assailants against schoolc
hildren in recent weeks that have left 17 dead and more than 50 wounded.
According to a police news release, Sunday night's attack began |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 3 关于中国部分译文:
(博讯 boxun.com)
1.一个针对全球的电脑攻击行动:
一个中国的线人,在一月份的一份电报中,告诉美国驻北京大使馆,中共政治局指示
入侵Google(谷歌)位于中国的电脑系统.
针对Google(谷歌)的入侵行动,是中国政府组织策划的电脑攻击行动的其中一部分.
中国政府招募的私人保安专家和黑客,负责发动这些攻击.
电报说,自2002年起,中国政府的黑客已经成功入侵美国政府,西方盟国,达赖喇嘛和
美国企业的电脑.
2.一个最终瓦解北韩(朝鲜)的游戏:
美国和韩国官员已经讨论过朝鲜统一的前景,应该发生在北韩(朝鲜)经济困难和政
治转型导致国家内乱.
据美国驻首尔(汉城)人员透露,南韩(韩国)甚至考虑到为中国提供商业利益诱惑.
她在二月份告诉华盛顿(美国),韩国官员认为,适当的商业交易将"有助于解决"让中
国考虑同意与一个统一的韩国相处的问题.而且韩国统一后,中国与美国之间将会形成一
个"良性同盟"关系.
3.它们(电报)展示了美国官员对于中国崛起和俄罗斯民主倒退的应... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 4 (1) Editorial: The Coming Renaissance in U.S. Manufacturing. Washington Post
, May 10, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-coming-
renaissance-in-us-manufacturing/2011/05/10/AFRI53jG_story.html
Quote:
China is "surging from 3 percent of global factory output in 1990 to 19.8
percent in 2010, just ahead of the U.S. share, 19.4 percent.
"Manufacturers have hired just 250,000 workers [in US] since December 2009,
when manufacturing employment hit a postwar low of 11.5 million.
"A key imp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 5 (1) Ching-Ching Ni, Saving His Best for Laughs. No joke: American stand-up
comic Joe Wong used to be Xi Huang, a Chinese biochemist. He decided he'd
rather tickle funny bones than decode genes. Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news
/local/la-me-joe-wong-20110708,0,7821604.story
Note: Xi HUANG 黄 西
(2) David Pierson, China's Hated Municipal Officers Seek Empathy; The
chengguan are asking the public to look at things through their eyes. Los
Angeles Times, July 7, 2011.
http:/... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7918 | 6 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/world/asia/bo-xilai-accused-o
其所引用的報告不知道是哪一個？“posted on a Chinese Web site and verified
independently”？“Its contents were confirmed by a researcher at a ministry
-level institute and by a Chongqing official briefed by colleagues who were
present when the report was read at a government meeting.”
March 19, 2012
Report on Ousted China Official Shows Effort at Damage Control
By MICHAEL WINES and JONATHAN ANSFIELD
BEIJING — Communist Party leaders sacked Bo Xilai, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3205 | 7 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 27 10:00:17 2012, 美东)
Joke: Presidential Debate 2012, Act III
10/22/2012
By Limin Wang
In the evening of October 16, 2012, at the Smack Complex of Hofstra
University on Long Island, New York, President Obama and former governor
Romney had the second finger-to-finger presidential debate. Candy Growly
tried her hardest to moderate them.
Outside the debate building, large swarms of people had decided on their own
to join the show. Some said that they wanted to bring their ow... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 280 | 8 是中国区办公厅主任？ 记得读到过David Baboza是专门负责上海地区的。
并不见得负责审核所有驻中国所有纽时记者的文章。
David Baboza在今年四月曾采访瓜瓜，报导瓜瓜约会美国大使那天未开红法拉利。并在
该文中提到红法拉利在华尔街日报首页报导后，在中国成为对付薄熙来的政治武器。原
文：“The account gained prominence when it appeared on the front page of
The Wall Street Journal in November. It has since circulated widely in China
and become a political weapon wielded against the elder Mr. Bo，...“"
而且该文的标题和首句，均是在为薄辩白。“ “Details Are Refuted in Tale of Bo
Guagua’s Red Ferrari
By DAVID BARBOZA and EDWARD WONG
Published: April 30, 201... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2152 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: erkuai (三天不上bbs,赶得上刘少奇), 信区: Military
标 题: On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 12 23:21:23 2011, 美东)
by Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Translated by Martin H. Bertram
copyright © 1971 Fortress Press & Augsburg Fortress - On the Jews and
Their Lies is from Luther’s Works Volume 47. Augsburg Fortress is the
publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Funded through sales revenue, Augsburg Fortress is called to provide
produ... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 10 Christopher Shea, Chinese Bows Were Superior, Too.. Idea Market, Jan 13,
2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011
/01/13/chinese-bows-were-superior-too/
My comment:
(a) Chinese preference for sword or bow, because they thought 冷兵器 were
superior, though they might be not. Think 大刀王五 or General 張自忠's 大刀
隊.
張自忠
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%BC%B5%E8%87%AA%E5%BF%A0
(1891-1940)
(b) Nieminen TA, "The Asian war bow", in Barbiero E , Hannaford P and Moss D
(eds), 19th Australian Institute of Physic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 36302 | 11 Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American man, the
superintendent of a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia. Frank was convicted
of the murder of one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. The
case is widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.[1]
It was the focus of many conflicting cultural pressures, and the jury's
conclusion represented, in part, class and regional resentment of educated
Northern industrialists who were perceived to be wielding too |
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发帖数: 27100 | 12 South Korea has asked China to send experts to check the findings of the
investigation but Beijing has not yet responded, a senior Seoul official was
earlier quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.
Russia, also a veto-wielding Security Council member, has announced it is
sending experts to assess the evidence |
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发帖数: 27535 | 13 BEIJING (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked China to play a
greater role in solving African crises during a meeting Monday with the
president, but did not discuss the country's human rights record or the
imprisonment of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
Ban met with President Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in the
heart of Beijing, one day after attending a summit in Shanghai with Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao and other leaders.
"Since taking office, you have done a great deal ... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 14 It is simple. QE2 is a jargon economists deliberately create to befuddle
laypersons. The plain English is: injecting $600 billion into US economy.
What will happens to China? That sinking feeling! (But China deserves it,
for stubbonly refusing to appreciate renminbi years after years. I am in US,
so I cheer for US. It is that simple. I do not even think about Taiwan
right now.)
(1) Sewell Chan, Fed Is Poised to Aid Economy, but Impact Is Cloudy. New
York Times, Nov. 2, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 568 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: jnyn (hamster), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 纽约时报报道维基解密：中共政治局发动入侵Google电脑的行动.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 28 17:08:28 2010, 美东)
关于中国部分译文:
(博讯 boxun.com)
1.一个针对全球的电脑攻击行动:
一个中国的线人,在一月份的一份电报中,告诉美国驻北京大使馆,中共政治局指示
入侵Google(谷歌)位于中国的电脑系统.
针对Google(谷歌)的入侵行动,是中国政府组织策划的电脑攻击行动的其中一部分.
中国政府招募的私人保安专家和黑客,负责发动这些攻击.
电报说,自2002年起,中国政府的黑客已经成功入侵美国政府,西方盟国,达赖喇嘛和
美国企业的电脑.
2.一个最终瓦解北韩(朝鲜)的游戏:
美国和韩国官员已经讨论过朝鲜统一的前景,应该发生在北韩(朝鲜)经济困难和政
治转型导致国家内乱.
据美国驻首尔(汉城)人员透露,南韩(韩国)甚至考虑到为... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 84 | 16 "The hostage-taking is over," an aide to the mayor of the eastern French
city of Besancon, Jean-Marc Magda, told The Associated Press by telephone.
All 20 children who had been seized and their teacher were released safely,
he said.
The hostage-taker, allegedly suffering from depression and asking for a gun
to kill himself, was detained by police officers from the elite GIPN force,
who slipped into the school as the children were being brought lunch,
Education Minister Luc Chatel said.
He was fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4418 | 17 http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20100124.htm
The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
Noam Chomsky
chomsky.info, January 24, 2010
(abridged version published in In These Times, February 2, 2010)
January 21, 2010 will go down as a dark day in the history of American
democracy, and its decline. The editors of the New York Times did not
exaggerate when they wrote that the Supreme Court decision that day "strikes
at the heart of democracy" by having "paved the way for corporations to use
their vast... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3809 | 18 这次是韩国抓的，在离汉城270公里的“韩国海域”。
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibO9E4jBOaNVFyk-
LI_TCCQbRDBg?docId=8ad015587c064618aa95f973b1a6fa8d
China fishing boat capsizes in scuffle; 1 dead
(AP) – 9 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Chinese fishing boat capsized in a maritime
scuffle with a South Korean coast guard ship trying to curb its illegal
fishing activities Saturday, killing one fisherman and leaving two
others missing, South Korea's coast guard said.
About 50 Chinese fishing boat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 542 | 19 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12026765
18 December 2010 Last updated at 13:04 GMT
China fisherman dies in clash with S Korea coast guard
The crew of a Chinese trawler and a South Korean patrol ship have clashed,
leaving one fisherman dead and two missing, South Korean officials say.
The clash reportedly happened as the coast guards tried to prevent Chinese
boats from fishing illegally off South Korea's west coast.
Video filmed by the coast guard shows officers fighting with fisher... 阅读全帖 |
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m**l
发帖数: 11854 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 Military2 讨论区 】
发信人: zhubaba (zhubaba), 信区: Military2
标 题: 中国渔民又被抓了，还死人了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Dec 18 12:52:15 2010, 美东)
发信人: zhubaba (zhubaba), 信区: Military
标 题: 中国渔民又被抓了，还死人了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Dec 18 12:51:27 2010, 美东)
这次是韩国抓的，在离汉城270公里的“韩国海域”。
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibO9E4jBOaNVFyk-
LI_TCCQbRDBg?docId=8ad015587c064618aa95f973b1a6fa8d
China fishing boat capsizes in scuffle; 1 dead
(AP) – 9 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A Chinese fishing boat c... 阅读全帖 |
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e****i
发帖数: 2152 | 21 by Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Translated by Martin H. Bertram
copyright © 1971 Fortress Press & Augsburg Fortress - On the Jews and
Their Lies is from Luther’s Works Volume 47. Augsburg Fortress is the
publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Funded through sales revenue, Augsburg Fortress is called to provide
products and services that communicate the Gospel, enhance faith, and
enrich the life of the Christian community from a Lutheran perspective.
Part I
I had mad... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6566 | 22 时代不同了。13年前，江总访美的时候，小克也像今天小奥这样热情接待过老江，可那
时候，美国人是居高临下，把中国当小学生看待，时不时会指点指点、训导训导。而眼
下胡总访美，却让很多美国人心里酸酸的，也说不出是高兴还是难受，反正不太自在吧
。按理说，胡总来一趟，就签了四五百亿的商业合同，美国人应当高兴才对。可当他们
把美国和中国的现况一比，比出差距了，比得不那么自信了，甚至不只是不自信，而是
有点不知所措，有些失落感了。这不，我下面要向大家介绍的这篇文章，作者干脆认输
了。连搞资本主义也干不过中国，那美国人还有什么值得骄傲的呢？
（声明，为了方便，这里采用意译加趣译）
Why China Does Capitalism Better than the U.S.
By Tony Karon
始于2008年的全球经济衰退，让我们看到一个最据伟大讽刺意义的事实，即共产党统治
的中国，竟然比我们美国的民选政府，更会应负和处理资本主义的危机。中国的经济刺
激方案，开支比俺们的还要大，对抗经济衰退的效果也好得多啊。他们的钱大多用在建
设基础设施，从而进一步奠定了将来经济发展的基础。你看看他们建了多少楼... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 23 Christopher Shea, Chinese Bows Were Superior, Too.. Idea Market, Jan 13,
2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011
/01/13/chinese-bows-were-superior-too/
My comment:
(a) Chinese preference for sword or bow, because they thought 冷兵器 were
superior, though they might be not. Think 大刀王五 or General 張自忠's 大刀
隊.
張自忠
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%BC%B5%E8%87%AA%E5%BF%A0
(1891-1940)
(b) Nieminen TA, "The Asian war bow", in Barbiero E , Hannaford P and Moss D
(eds), 19th Australian Institute of Physic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16484 | 24 6 killed as Iraqis protest in 'Day of Rage'
BAGHDAD – Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with
security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most
violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading
in the Arab world several weeks ago.
In two northern Iraqi cities, security forces trying to push back crowds
opened fire, killing six demonstrators. In the capital of Baghdad,
demonstrators knocked down blast walls, threw rocks and scuf... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7077 | 25 【 以下文字转载自 Hubei 讨论区 】
发信人: kayaka (jimm), 信区: Hubei
标 题: Nice piece of article about the jews
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue May 24 04:28:26 2011, 美东)
说中国人很反犹，真他妈搞笑。中国有很多人崇犹就提都不提了。
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/whats-up-with-t
It’s been an interesting week or two for Jews. Mel Gibson’s new film, “
The Beaver,” opens nationwide in theaters and Jews must decide whether to
pay good money to see a movie starring someone whose father is a Holocaust
denier, and who has himself vilified Jews in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 26 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: EUV (奶特都是卖国贼), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: read this carefully!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun May 29 00:08:46 2011, 美东)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29surveillance.html?_r=1&h
AUSTIN, Tex. A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the
surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in
East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of
cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of residents and
guests and, i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 649 | 27 AUSTIN, Tex. — A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the
surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in
East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of
cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of residents and
guests and, in one case, speculated about a suspicious flat object spread
out across the driveway.
“The content could not be determined from the street,” an agent observing
from his car reported one day in 20... 阅读全帖 |
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u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 28 美国普通人非常痛恨过度的福利制度
主贴:
Tea Party 'tantrum' not good for nation
1:30 PM, Aug. 5, 2011 |
66Comments
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20110808/VIEWPOINTS03/108080
Thanks to the Tea Party. For them, it's my way or the highway — does that
remind you of your children's temper tantrums? Well, it worked!
Forget the poor, the elderly and the unemployed, while the wealthiest
continue to enjoy their quality of life at the expense of the rest of us.
God help us.
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert Adkins
Elmira
评论（被... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8734 | 29 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/15/MNG
BART closes Civic Center, Powell stations
(08-15) 18:06 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- BART has closed the Civic Center, Powell
and Montgomery stations in downtown San Francisco after about 75 protesters
gathered on the Civic Center platform to express anger over the transit agen
cy's decision to cut underground cellular phone service for three hours Thur
sday evening in an effort to quell a protest.
The Muni Metro stations at the same locati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 432 | 30 repost from PermntGuest April 25, 2010 - Queens, NY - "A heroic homeless man
, stabbed after saving a Queens woman from a
knife-wielding attacker, lay dying in a pool of blood for more than an
hour as nearly 25 people indifferently strolled past him, a shocking
surveillance video obtained..." |
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发帖数: 4825 | 31 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190449170457657255
Children of the Revolution
China's ‘princelings,' the offspring of the communist party elite, are
embracing the trappings of wealth and privilege—raising uncomfortable
questions for their elders.
By JEREMY PAGE
One evening early this year, a red Ferrari pulled up at the U.S. ambassador'
s residence in Beijing, and the son of one of China's top leaders stepped
out, dressed in a tuxedo.
Enlarge Image
PARTYKIDS
PARTYKIDS
Getty Images
B... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12955 | 32
Where's the body? Where the autopsy report on the body conclusively
showing the wound was caused by the knives? Where's the forensic report
on any wound mark on the fishing boat captain's hand showing he was the
one wielding the knife at the time?
And wasn't just a few days ago when they say the weapon was a piece of
broken glass? With so many version of story, their words don't hold any
credibility. |
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u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 33 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020368620457711616
By JEREMY PAGE
YANJI, China—When North Korea closed its frontier with China to visitors
and trade after the death of Kim Jong Il, people here braced for a long wait
frozen.
Within 48 hours, however, many border crossings sprang open again,
underlining the reality facing Mr. Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Eun:
The impoverished country can ill afford to close itself off for long from
China—which has long been its economic lifeline.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 34 Reports Describe Deadly Shootout in Restive Region of China
By EDWARD WONG
Published: December 30, 2011
BEIJING — Police officers killed seven people they accused of being
kidnappers in a remote mountainous area of Xinjiang on the turbulent western
frontier, according to reports by state-run news organizations on Friday.
One police officer was said to have been killed in the shootout, which
occurred on Wednesday.
Parts of Xinjiang, particularly in its southern reaches, experience regular
waves o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16484 | 35 美国杨佳，刀捅法官，枪击警察，不过很牛，跑了。
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker stabbed a judge and shot a
sheriff's deputy with her own gun in a county courthouse in Washington state
on Friday, prompting a lockdown of schools and government buildings as
police and SWAT teams searched for the attacker.
The gunman, described as relatively well dressed and carrying a briefcase,
confronted the deputy inside the main entrance of the Grays Harbor County
Courthouse in Montesano, County Undersheriff Rick Scott t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 56 | 36 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/world/asia/bo-xilai-accused-o
BEIJING — Communist Party leaders sacked Bo Xilai, the powerful party chief
of metropolitan Chongqing, after being told that he had schemed to remove
his police chief and impede a corruption investigation involving his family,
according to a preliminary report on Mr. Bo’s actions circulated among
government officials.
Connect With Us on Twitter
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines.
Twitter List: Reporte... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 542 | 37 South Korea has arrested nine Chinese sailors after officials were injured
when they boarded a ship suspected of illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea.
Four South Koreans were injured in a fight involving Chinese sailors armed
with clubs and knives, South Korea's coast guard says.
The 227-ton vessel was spotted near Heuksan island, 72km (44.7 miles) north-
west of South Jeolla province.
There have been several confrontations over illegal fishing in the Yellow
Sea.
The South Korean coast guard said i... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 974 | 38 Original Article
Details Are Refuted in Tale of Bo Guagua's Red Ferrari
Reuters
BEIJING — The tale has taken on mythic proportions in China, tainting one
of the country’s most ambitious leaders and adding fuel to a scandal that
is still unfolding in the halls of power here.
It goes like this: Bo Guagua, the younger son of the leader, Bo Xilai,
arrived one evening last spring at the home of the United States ambassador
to pick up one of the ambassador’s daughters for a dinner date. He was
suppose... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 18 | 39 看看NYTimes, 薄瓜瓜根本就没有什么豪车泡洋妞。 抹黑薄的手段而已. 中了别人的计了
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/asia/in-china-details-i
BEIJING — The tale has taken on mythic proportions in China, tainting one
of the country’s most ambitious leaders and adding fuel to a scandal that
is still unfolding in the halls of power here.
Related
On a Tightrope, President Prods China on Rights (May 1, 2012)
Times Topic: Bo Xilai
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发帖数: 872 | 40 http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-end-gamethe-dark-side-of-
1. The frustrated and aggressive central bank
If one wants to know how bad the health of China's economy has gone, look no
further than the PBOC's composure, which seems rather frustrated and
aggressive as of late. On 5th July, the central bank cut benchmark interest
rates for the 2nd time in less than a month. This happened right after the
fact that in December 2011, PBOC cut the reserve requirement ratio(RRR) by a
50 bp to 21%, it... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20343 | 41 各个单项的开支。
5. USA Taekwondo
2008 Olympic medal tally: 1 silver, 2 bronze
2008 spending, based on audit: $2.78 million
Spending per medal: $926,666
The U.S. taekwondo team had a smaller budget than both its boxing ($5.25
million) and diving ($2.9 million) counterparts yet took home three times
more medals in Beijing than those sports combined. Ain't that a kick?
4. USA Fencing
2008 Olympic medal tally: 1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze
2008 spending, based on audit: $5 million
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发帖数: 29576 | 42 Re: Scary.....
Postby dvdmc » Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:45 pm
Thank you to my mate, Matt, for giving out the right info about the
stabbings, but today I thought enough is enough and signed into this forum.
I am the Australian man who was stabbed by the knife-wielding ‘loony’ in
Shanghai on Sunday afternoon. Firstly, I am very relieved that the American
victim is ok, and I will not dare to comment on his behalf. But, I am
stunned by the articles friends sent me (especially today) and how it has
be... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4140 | 43 Joke: Presidential Debate 2012, Act III
10/22/2012
By Limin Wang
In the evening of October 16, 2012, at the Smack Complex of Hofstra
University on Long Island, New York, President Obama and former governor
Romney had the second finger-to-finger presidential debate. Candy Growly
tried her hardest to moderate them.
Outside the debate building, large swarms of people had decided on their own
to join the show. Some said that they wanted to bring their own tough
questions. Some said that they wanted ... 阅读全帖 |
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t*c
发帖数: 6929 | 44 Xi Jinping 习近平
The 59-year-old presumptive next leader of China is a so-called "princeling,
" the son or daughter of a revolutionary veteran. Born in Fuping County,
Shaanxi Province, Xi was sent to work on an agricultural commune before
being accepted into the prestigious Tsinghua University in 1975.
Xi studied chemical engineering and went on to serve as a personal secretary
to the then minister of defense Geng Biao. His early political career took
him from his native province to Hebei and late... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9831 | 45 【 以下文字转载自 LeisureTime 讨论区 】
发信人: jindj (山长水阔知何处), 信区: LeisureTime
标 题: 20 mass shootings per year (zz)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 14 16:52:08 2012, 美东)
The Past Year in Mass Shootings in the United States: A Timeline
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Posted by news intern Chelsea Kellogg
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/14/the-past-y
According to former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, who was just interviewed
by reporters in the wake of today's elementary scho... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5274 | 46 Meanwhile in China today, where guns are tightly regulated and not available
to the public at large, a man wielding a knife allegedly stabbed 22
children, none of whom died. |
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发帖数: 235 | 47 2012-12-16 HKT 03:19
美 國 阿 拉 巴 馬 州 一 間 醫 院 發 生 槍 擊 案 ， 獨 行 槍 手 打 傷 三 人
後 ， 被 警 方 擊 斃 ， 暫 時 未 知 槍 手 動 機 。
事 發 在 阿 拉 巴 馬 大 學 伯 明 罕 分 校 附 屬 醫 院 ， 一 名 槍 手 在 當
地 凌 晨 4 時 左 右 闖 入 醫 院 ， 開 槍 打 傷 兩 名 職 員 和 一 名 警 察 後
， 被 另 一 名 警 察 擊 斃 。
http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/news/expressnews/20121216/news_2012
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A Birmingham police officer shot and killed a gun-
wielding assailant who opened fire when confronted by police.
The shooting hap... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26222 | 48 China academics warn of "violent revolution" if no political reform
By Ben Blanchard | Reuters – 8 hrs ago
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent group of Chinese academics has warned in a
bold open letter that the country risks "violent revolution" if the
government does not respond to public pressure and allow long-stalled
political reforms.
The 73 scholars, including well-known current and retired legal experts at
top universities and lawyers, said political r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26222 | 49 China academics warn of "violent revolution" if no political reform
By Ben Blanchard
BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent group of Chinese academics has warned in a
bold open letter that the country risks "violent revolution" if the
government does not respond to public pressure and allow long-stalled
political reforms.
The 73 scholars, including well-known current and retired legal experts at
top universities and lawyers, said political reform had not matched the
quick pace of economic expansion.
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Y****g
发帖数: 662 | 50 美国政府只听好话, 谎言好话, 听不了真话和实话
Read below:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/05/business/sp-lawsuit-department-of
S&P faces lawsuit over high credit ratings: Why now?
By Ramy Inocencio and Kevin Voigt, for CNN
updated 12:34 AM EST, Tue February 5, 2013
A sign for Standard & Poor's rating agency stands in front of the company
headquarters in New York, September 18, 2012.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
U.S. government lawsuit against S&P would be first for a credit ratings
agency
S&P parent company, McGraw-Hill, plunged 13.... 阅读全帖 |
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