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Trying to get rid of surfing, wasted too much time, any suggestion?.......................... 七宗罪?............................... 1,没有原则的政治;2,不劳而获的财富;3,没有理智的享乐;4,没有特点的知识;5,没有道德的商业;6,没有人文关怀的科学;7,没有牺牲的崇拜。............................................. 虽然这是圣雄甘地说老印的.......

Saturday, July 16, 2005

国民党阵痛才要开始


国民党阵痛才要开始

杨泰顺
via Chinatimes
国民党主席之争,总算落幕。成立百馀年的国民党,首次允许党员直选主席,这个第一次当然有其意义。然而,就党的本质与其竞争环境论断,票选党主席的意义其实不必过度誇大。相信在强烈颱风侵台後,或林志玲回国时,恐怕许多人将不复记得,国民党曾有选主席这档子事。
理论上,政党乃一群志同道合者,为了掌控政权实现政策理想而形成的组合。故而,政党为一战鬥性的组织,强调的是中心思想与团结对外。在这样的组织功能下,过度强调党内民主,往往未见其利便已先蒙其弊。毕竟,中心思想少有由民主程序中产生,而团结却容易在选战中受到分化。此次党主席的选举过程中,贿选、送礼传言不断,许多人讥讽国民党本质不改;但平心而论,自十馀年前台湾开始出现党内民主以来,哪个政党的初选或领袖选举不是舞弊频传?当初公认素质最优的新党,一九九八年首度实施初选时,各种怪招与构陷,不就让国人大开了眼界?新党尚且如此,又何忍苛求於百年老店?
民主政党存在的百馀年历史中,我们很少看到其他国家的主要政党,也有党员直选领袖的设计。就算有,如把美国的总统初选也算是一种领袖直选,其成功关键也在於政府以公权力介入禁绝了违规,且各党的时间与程序相同,更防止了他党的分化与运用。民主化程度远不如其他国家的台湾,党内民主的声音却叫得比别人都响,说穿了,无非因为党领袖缺乏历史的担当,无心建立应有的接班体制。反正死的是别人,贫道还可以在开票时出国优游。
一般人民团体为了避免成员因内部选举而分裂,往往规定会长由第一、第二副会长依序升任,故只有第二副会长以下,才有实际的选举竞争。选举获胜者,在此制度的设计下,可以透过会长的缓颊,利用年馀的缓衝时间弥平因选举产生的裂痕。类似的做法,民主国家的政党不乏其例。
党既以政策与其他政党进行竞争,民主国家党领袖的选择,便自然限定只有参与政策制定的才有参赛资格,如此便大大限制了竞争的範围。以美国为例,总统既是政策的核心,当然集行政与政党领袖於一身;而非执政的在野党如果取得国会的多数,在野党魁便必然是国会议长。因为只有议长有能力整合国会议席与总统领导的执政团队进行政策之辩,并为下回大选提前布局。为了避免议长竞争影响党内团结,从二十世纪开始,美国两党便依惯例由多数党领袖升任议长。而落选的总统候选人,虽曾享有党内的叁千宠爱,但因为无法领导政策竞争,便只能转为从事公益,无法再过问党内决策。
内阁制的英国,接班程序也有类似预防分裂的设计。政策既形成於国会之内,有心竞争党魁便必须具备国会议员资格,像台湾以首都市长参与竞争,在美英两国都是无法想像的。依传统,英国执政内阁与在野影子内阁的外交、财政部长,便是最显著的党魁接班人。虽只有两叁人有资格参与党魁竞选,且又只有党籍议员(工党还包括工会代表)可以投票,但为了避免竞争造成分裂,两党均规定胜利者必须获得超高的选票才算当选。以保守党为例,领先者除了必须获得过半选票的支持,他还必须领先次一位竞争者百分之十二以上,才能宣布当选,否则便得进行第二轮的投票。在普遍采行简单多数制的英国,此一设计似乎突兀,但却成功的防止竞争者以小动作获胜的侥倖之心。
马市长此次高票获选党主席,表面上似乎是国民党民主化的胜利,但若以国外经验为师,我们却不能不担心,它反有可能延缓国民党的体质转变。许多人认为,由党组织在国会外进行政策的指导,乃是威权性格(或革命政党)的延续,马市长以个人魅力击败了国会议长,未来成为党内竞争的样板,国民党又将如何转换为内造政党?赢得了党主席,马市长的下一个目标当然是竞争二○○八年的总统大位,受到此一目标的影响,马市长与立院党团的观点便可能不尽相同,届时党中央与党团的歧异又将如何化解?在外省眷村选票与理想性本土票的支持下当选党主席,国民党的裂痕已现,马市长又将如何挥动大刀进行他选前所承诺的改革?看来,马市长的当选,代表著国民党的阵痛才开始。
(作者为文化大学政治研究所所长)

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KMT members decide to embrace the future this morning!


This is a battle between old KMT and new KMT. It is exciting moment to know that new KMT overwhelmed the old one this morning. However I am not saying that the old one is the bad one. Instead people shouldn't forget the glorious history of old KMT.
After KMT was defeated by CCP in 1949, Chiang started his experiments in this small island, Taiwan. The initial step by corrupt governor was a big failure. The conflict between local people and migrants from mainland eventually led to 228, in which thousands died. Most of them were slaughtered by KMT army. After 228, Chiang realized that he and his party must establish a close tie with local people who had received Japanese colonial education for many years before the WWII ended. One of most extraordinary measure by Chiang was to establish the half-democratic peasant association which allows peasants voicing for their own benefits. Simultaneously land reform started and eventually became the solid foundation of Taiwan’s successful industrialization. Many Taiwanese joined KMT, and KMT formed a strong network since then.
However after almost half century advancement towards the modernization, Taiwan’s social structure has changed a lot. Middle class emerged and have become a major political force especially in the urban area. They want a more democratic and open society by their nature. They don't like corruptions either and all urged for a transparent reform. Part of them founded DPP, which is holding the governmental power right now. Still a lot of middle class stays in KMT and they have a more prominent instinct for the typical middle class than DPP's middle class members do: the will of stabilizing. They are mainland China friendly and mostly see China as an opportunity instead of a threat.
While middle class are growing, the political landscape of Taiwan has kept changing. KMT's local networks have grown into corrupt units, manipulated by small groups and stood for personal interests. The founder of libertytimes (No. 1 newspaper) is one of the typical characters who have been benefited by this corrupt relationship between KMT and local special interest groups. A lot of peasants have turned to DPP for their interests. As a result, both DPP and KMT found themselves in a strange situation in which supporters come from two very different social groups: middle class and grassroots. Apparently KMT is losing their foundation from grassroots, but the former party leader Lian’s decision for party's democratic reform expects to gain support from middle class. The first party leader election is then becoming the battle between old grassroots KMT and new middle class KMT. The lost candidate, Wang have won numerous supports from KMT’s legislators before the election. However people’s eyes are still clear. This morning Ma Ying-jeou, representing the new KMT won by a big margin. This is a good sign. This indicates that Taiwan has reached a new stage, a middle class stage, a stage that will not be forgotten by its transparency and prosperity no matter what turns out to be in dealing with mainland China in the future!


Ma Ying-jeou elected as new chairman of Chinese Kuomintang Party in Taiwan
www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-16 23:13:39
BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Ma Ying-jeou, an incumbent vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT) and Taipei Mayor, was elected as the new chairman of KMT in Taiwan Saturday.
Ma defeated another candidate, Wang Jyn-pyng, an incumbent vicechairman of KMT, by winning 72.36 percent of votes in Saturday's election, to take over as head of KMT from retiring Chairman Lien Chan.
Born in Hong Kong July 1950 to parents from Hunan Province on the Chinese mainland, Ma graduated from the Department of Law in Taiwan University, and then got the master's degree of law in New York University and doctor's degree of law in Harvard.
He used to be the English interpreter for Chiang Ching-kuo, late leader of KMT in Taiwan.
Ma was the vice secretary-general of KMT Central Committee between 1984 and 1988, and elected as Taipei Mayor in December 1998 and reelected in 2002.
He was elected as the vice chairman of KMT in March 2003.

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Friday, July 15, 2005

Dancing with the enemy




From The Economist
Doomsayers in Taiwan, who a few years ago gave warning of a rapid “hollowing out” of their country's economy as manufacturing migrated to China, have been proved manifestly wrong. China, with Taiwan's abundant help but not to the island's detriment, has become the pre-eminent manufacturing base for many of the world's information-technology (IT) products. Even the initially sceptical Mr Chen is beginning to realise that Taiwan can only gain by working with China to remove the remaining barriers to cross-strait flows of people, goods and capital.

In the next few years there will be plenty of pro-independence rhetoric as the debate gets under way on Taiwan's proposed constitutional revisions that Mr Chen has said will be endorsed in 2006 and enacted two years later. But if he is sensible, the main achievement of his eight years in office will be not that he made Taiwan truly independent (which, in almost every respect, it has been for 55 years), but that he helped his country to gain unprecedented prosperity, shoulder to shoulder with China. To get there, he will need to ride the tide of Taiwanese identity with skill—and some caution.

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Enough said

污染企业“扎堆”的地方,环保部门衣食无忧;而在污染企业被大量关停的地方,环保人员却连工资都发不出。

如果把排污企业比作“老鼠”,环保执法人员应该是“猫”;现在的状况是“猫鼠同吃一锅粥”,甚至是“老鼠”养“猫”。





基层治污陷怪圈:
污染越重环保部门越富

新华社记者 邓卫华 林嵬 李泽兵

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  如果把排污企业比作“老鼠”,环保执法人员应该是“猫”;现在的状况是“猫鼠同吃一锅粥”,甚至是“老鼠”养“猫”。
  污染企业“扎堆”的地方,环保部门衣食无忧;而在污染企业被大量关停的地方,环保部门或是财政预算的“黑户”,或是财政拨款严重的足,环保人员连工资都发不出。一些基层环保部门也由此陷入“收钱养人、养人收钱”的怪圈。

  记者近日在黄河流域一些省区采访时发现一个怪现象:污染企业“扎堆”的地方,环保部门衣食无忧;而在污染企业被大量关停的地方,环保人员却连工资都发不出。其原因就在于,这些地方的环保部门或是财政预算“黑户”,或是财政拨款严重不足,主要靠“自收自支”生存。
  关一家污染企业环保局就少一块“费源”
  2003年以来,河南省卫辉市先后关停了16家造纸厂、27家石渣厂和2条水泥生产线。其结果是,环境污染减少了,“排污费”收入也跟着锐减。目前,卫辉市环保局全体职工已3个月没领到工资。
  卫辉市环保局共有102名职工,只有不足20人属于财政全额拨款的行政编制人员。
  该市环保局财务科科长杨卫芹告诉记者,局里一年的运转费用大约需要120万元,县财政只拨付15万元,剩下空缺要靠收取“排污费”填补。今年上半年,卫辉市“排污费”收入不足30万元,局里不光工资发不出,还欠下不少外债。光是汽油费就欠了1万多元,加油站已不给环保局“赊油”了,一旦下乡执行排查任务,带队的局领导就得垫汽油钱,有位局领导就已垫了1000多元汽油钱。
  市环保局办公室工作人员李献策说:“每关停一家污染企业,我们就少了一块‘费源’,我们现在只有千方百计寻找新‘费源’。像饭店、美容美发厅这些以前很少涉足的地方,都成了收费目标,10块、8块不嫌少,能收来的都要。”
  河南省获嘉县也面临同样的窘境,环保局已5个月发不出工资了。
  河南省三门峡市是一个省辖市,市环保局130多名职工中,只有30多人是行政编制,其余人员主要靠吃“排污费”。该市环保局局长金明记说,随着国家治污力度加大,基层环保部门任务越来越重,但上级只压任务,却不能足额拨付经费。比如放射性污染管理,以前归公安和卫生部门,现在划给环保局。但划了任务却没有相应的经费,局里的工作人员只好在没有任何相关仪器设备和防护设施的情况下工作。
  “排污费”养出“超生局”
  而在一些污染企业多的地方情况却恰恰相反。由于有了“排污费”这块收入,环保局成了创收余地大的“好单位”,许多人通过控制不严的“地方事业编制”渠道往环保局里“挤”。河南省许多县环保局成了拥有上百职工的“超生局”。一些基层环保部门由此陷入“收钱养人、养人收钱”的怪圈。
  陕县是河南工业较为发达的县,也是污染企业较多的县。2004年陕县“排污费”共收入280万元,除按规定上缴国家及省财政56万元、安排企业专项治污资金40万元外,剩下的180多万元用来发工资和维持运转。这个全县仅34万人的人口小县,环保局却有120多名职工。县环保局局长路桃妮说,这些人员中许多并不是环保局需要的人,而是盯上了“排污费”这块“肥肉”,通过各种关系挤进来的。一旦政府大力关停污染企业,陕县可能也会步卫辉市的后尘,陷入“工资发放难、人员分流难”的困境。
  人员“超生”还造成“人头费”挤占“办公费”,一些基层环保部门多年来无力添置检测设备,无法正常履行环保职能。卫辉市环保局监测站站长尹伟说:“国家对水质无机物污染要求测30多项,可我们只能测18项,全站添置相应仪器设备的资金缺口达60万元。由于监测费用没有纳入财政预算,我们连按时监测都做不到。”而山西省平陆县环保局连基本的水污染化验设备都没有,自己几乎从来不做化验,非做不可就到运城市去做。
  国务院最新颁布的《排污费征收使用管理条例》规定:“排污费应当全部专项用于环境污染防治,任何单位和个人不得截留、挤占和挪作他用。”但在黄河流域的许多基层环保部门,“排污费”绝大部分变成了“人头费”,已成为普遍现象。
  岂能让老鼠养猫
  河南一些基层环保人员说,如果把排污企业比作“老鼠”,环保执法人员应该是“猫”;可现在的状况是“猫鼠同吃一锅粥”,甚至是“老鼠”养“猫”。
  山西省人大城建环保工委在调查中发现,一些地方经济发展了,财政收入增加了,但政府用于环保的投入却没有增加。去年,山西用于治污的投入64亿元,其中多数是社会和企业自筹,政府投入严重不足,特别是用于环境建设和环保能力建设方面的资金,至今没纳入财政预算体系。
  为何会出现“财政不养环保”怪现象?山西省人大城建环保工委郭忠烈说,关键是一些地方的领导眼中,环保和发展是对立的,花钱搞环保不如投资上项目,有的领导甚至提出“宁可呛死,不能饿死”的观点。在这种“发展观”下,环保部门往往是职能“弱化”、地位“矮化”。
  国家规定,到2006年,“排污费”将完全上缴各级财政,实行“收支两条线”运行。一些基层环保人员担心,“排污费”划归地方财政后,这笔钱更回不到环保上,可能被地方政府挪作他用。届时,一些县级环保部门可能“网破人散”,近几年已经取得的环保成果将付之东流。
  采访中,河南省一些环保人员超编严重县叫苦说:“环保局这么大的摊子,财政根本养不起,必须减员分流。”河南省环保局污控处处长马新春说:“基层环保部门人员超编、人浮于事的根本原因是长期以来地方政府乱开口子硬塞人,减员分流是地方政府的事,就该‘谁的孩子谁抱走’。”


《市场报》 (2005年07月15日 第五版)

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苏丹红,孔雀石绿和甲醛-----中国的食品安全警报!

食品安全事关全民的根本利益,绝非儿戏。孙子云:多算胜少算,何况于无算乎!然而在明知隐患存在的情况下,维护国家食品安全的有关部门竟然不作任何防范,当危机爆发时,完全是临阵铸枪,被动应付,并且类似情况再三发生!孙子又云:知兵之将,民之司命。假如有关部门根本是“不知兵之将”,那么谁能保证不会有“夺民之命”的事情发生呢?



我们又中埋伏了!
本报记者 王海

  “大军正逶迤前行,忽一声号炮,滚木擂石如雨而下……奔出40余里,方收住阵脚,又有一彪军杀来……”这些历史演义中有关伏击战场景的描述,最近却被人拿来形容目前我国食品安全的形势:毫无戒备、连连遭挫、处处被动,以致“三军大恐”!
  6月5日,英国食品标准局在其市场上销售的鲑鱼体内发现“孔雀石绿”,发出了继“苏丹红1号”后的又一食品安全警报。消息传至中国,媒体和消费者发现,“孔雀石绿”竟是我国渔民最常用的药剂之一,在渔药市场上以每公斤30元的价格大肆出售!一个月后的7月7日,农业部终于下发紧急通知,要求在全国范围内严查违法经营、使用“孔雀石绿”的行为。“孔雀石绿”对人体具有致畸形、致癌作用,在我国却长期被违法用于渔业生产和运输。对此,不少消费者后怕不已,望鱼心悸。在有关部门再次展开声势浩大的“清剿”运动的同时,无数消费者却有这样的感觉:“我们又中埋伏了!”
  前一次“中埋伏”,指的是“苏丹红”事件。2月18日,英国食品标准局公布含有“苏丹红一号”染色剂的食品清单,欧洲迅速开始严查。十多天后的3月1日,国家质检总局官员公开表示:“还没有接到食品中使用苏丹红的报告。”但仅仅3天之后,广东亨氏美味源食品有限公司就被查出“苏丹红”,各地报告也连续不断,消费者一时陷入恐慌。事实上,早在多年前,我国就禁止在食品加工中使用“苏丹红”,却迟迟没有检测标准出台。这场事件中,公众对有关部门的质疑之声扶摇直上:明知“苏丹红”有害,有关部门却长期不检测、不查处、不警告,活生生把广大消费者引入了有毒食品的伏击圈!
  对比“孔雀石绿”和“苏丹红”事件,二者颇多相似:两起事件都由外国率先发出警告继而影响中国;在国内消费者和媒体的推动下,相关部门才介入并大规模查处;被曝光时两种化学药品都已经在国内为害多年;有关部门对两种物质的危害早有掌握,却一直未作出有效的防范及警告。此外,最让消费者不可接受的事实是:查处“苏丹红”之初,我国竟尚未出台相应的检测标准;“孔雀石绿”事发之时,有关部门还不无炫耀地宣称“即将开展检测,相关检测实验室将在两周内搭建完成。”
  据了解,早在1996年,我国出台的《食品添加剂使用卫生标准》就明令禁止使用“苏丹红”。但10年过去了,有关部门竟然还没有拿出来相应的检测标准。所禁项目无从检测,禁令无疑等于一纸空文!与此类似,早在2002年5月,我国就已将“孔雀石绿”列入《食品动物禁用的兽药及其化合物清单》中,并且几年间媒体对“孔雀石绿”的曝光也不断见诸报端,却迟迟未引起有关部门的重视而采取有效措施。直到国外事发,有关部门才慌慌张张开始搭建检测实验室。所禁项目没有检测设施,禁令再多也是白搭。然而“苏丹红”事发,10年没有出台的检测标准一个月搞定;“孔雀石绿”曝光,3年不见影子的检测设施两周搭建成功。可见,对于食品安全,有关部门不是不能为,而是不作为。有关部门10年不为,一次“围剿”就可弥补,但老百姓10年间吞下的毒,由谁来挽回?
  眼下,我国啤酒行业再次爆发“甲醛事件”。事实上,早在几十年前,国外啤酒行业就已对甲醛的使用以及利害达成了共识,但在日韩两国紧急将中国啤酒撤架的同时,国内仍在标准和检测问题上争吵不休。当下尚未有权威部门对此作出定论,但相信不少消费者会一声长叹:“我们又中埋伏了!”
  食品安全事关全民的根本利益,绝非儿戏。孙子云:多算胜少算,何况于无算乎!然而在明知隐患存在的情况下,维护国家食品安全的有关部门竟然不作任何防范,当危机爆发时,完全是临阵铸枪,被动应付,并且类似情况再三发生!孙子又云:知兵之将,民之司命。假如有关部门根本是“不知兵之将”,那么谁能保证不会有“夺民之命”的事情发生呢?


《市场报》 (2005年07月15日 第一版)



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Wang Chien-Ming is out for the rest of season? The rumor is being spreaded all around



Officially wang is only on 15-d dl


" Chien-Ming Wang Placed on the 15-day disabled list with inflammation of the right shoulder (retroactive to July 9th)."

BUT...................


They say Wang will probably be not able to pitch again in season 2005 due to his injury. Is that right? God, please tell me that's not true. It's no fun at all if we miss the chance to see Wang's play~


its looking doubtful but they wont say for sure until after this other doctor that preformed his surgery looks at him. thats our luck that he goes down now, i loved him. its ok the yanks will battle through it. i hope cash is looking for at least one more starting pitcher right now, if hes not whether we make it to the playoffs or not were not going to go far with no pitching



It seems that Wang has already got his loyal fans, and these fans cracked mtnyankfan61 up, this post is hilarious.

Here go the bandwagon fans.
You girls crack me up. Like this is the first injury we have had to over come. Here are some of your quotes in the past 30 mins:

WANG IN THE DL..WERE SCREWED

Out indefinitely....unbelievable...we are inna crisis

.right now I can say our season is slipping away
We're f--cked.

OMG FU--in GOD.WE ARE DOOMED.HE WAS OUR BEST FREAKIN PITCHER.OMG REDDING IS GONNA BE CALLED UP AND HES AWFUL AND GONNA PITCH VS THE SOX.

My goodnes...how can this get any worse?

Now I'm having dizzy spells.

Why don't the baseball gods like us? this blows

OMG!!! THIS SU*CKS!!
WANG IS ON THE DL, WE ARE JUST SCREWED NOW, SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FU(K. IM SO PISSED OFF NOW WE REALLY HAVE TO GO GET A PITCHER

Just when things were starting to look really good..BOOM, we have no pitching staff. Great. :( Looks like the Sox will take the series.

Try to relax ladies. This just cracks me up. Relax. **breathe** It's gonna be ok.

WE HAVE 4 OUR STARTTERS ON THE DL AND I DONT THINK WE HAVE A CHOICE BUT TO TRADE CANO FOR A GOOD STARTING PITCHER.What do guys think?i FREAKIN HATE THIS CAUSE I LOVE CANO.

Edit: I HAD to add that last one. LOL.


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The stupid general needs government to cover his ass!

How come this kind of stupid person can be a dean of national defense university? He was not only violating the national policy and military rules but also forgot what Xiaoping has taught all chinese about the mission of our nation. He should resign from his position! I also highly doubt the true identity of this general. He could be a spy served for someone like American hawkish defense minister Rumsfield. Major general being a spy is not something unheard of in China.
From financial times
In an interview with foreign reporters in Beijing on Thursday, Major General Zhu Chenghu, who is also a dean at China's National Defence University, said Beijing should respond with nuclear weapons if the US targeted Chinese territory. “We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all cities east of Xian [in central China],” he said. “Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”

Taiwan on Friday criticised his remarks but steered clear of blaming the Chinese government. Michael You, vice-chairman of the mainland affairs council, Taipei's cabinet-level China policy body, said: “The statement reveals the ferocious face of the hawks in China. It should be condemned and the person making it should apologise.”

Chinese government officials emphasised that Gen Zhu's remarks were seen as a minority opinion and being the first to use nuclear weapons would contradict Beijing's military strategy.

Gen Zhu, who is understood to have made similar comments in the past, said his remarks were his personal opinion and not government policy. But his comments come at a sensitive time for US-China military relations.

The Pentagon is next week expected to release its annual report on the Chinese military, which is likely to take a more hardline stance than previous years. A string of US officials have raised concerns about the rise of the Chinese military recently. Gen Zhu's comments are also likely to further inflame anti-China sentiment in Washington. Lawmakers have complained of unfair trade practices, allegations of currency manipulation, and opposition to a bid by CNOOC, a state-owned Chinese oil company, for US-owned Unocal.


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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

William H. Overholt, a real American patriot.

who truly understands China as well! See his bravo comments below:
"China today has huge advantages and huge problems. It is like a running man chased by a lion. If you focus on the man, he is running very fast. But if you focus on the lion, the man will likely be eaten by the big cat. "

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Today China is the country that sends missions throughout the world seeking best practice. It adapts not just foreign technology and foreign corporate management techniques but also a wide variety of foreign institutions and practices: international accounting standards; British, U.S. and Hong Kong securities laws; French military acquisition systems; a central bank structure modeled on the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank; Taiwan-style regulations for foreign portfolio investment; an economic development strategy adapted from South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan; and many others. Among the most important of these changes are the decision to adopt the Western concept of rule of law; adoption of competition as a centrally important economic practice; and adoption of English language as virtually a second language for the educated Chinese population.

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Manchuria and modern state formation of Korea

An interesting article, although it's not logically robust enough

In the Korean newspapers in the 1930s, Manchuria was presented as an exit from a crowded Korea, which further induced immigration. [20] Some Koreans became low ranking policemen (Jones 1949: 69). Many who later would become leaders in many fields of South Korea, spent their youth in Manchukuo. Even some respected nationalist intellectuals chose Manchukuo for their new (collaborating) lives. For instance, Choe Nam Sun, the famous poet who wrote the Declaration of Independence for the 1919 March First Independence Movement, taught at Jianguo University (Allen 1990: 788). Three ex-presidents of South Korea experienced Manchukuo. Park Chung Hee was an officer in the Manchukuo Army and Choe Kyu Ha had a temporary position in the Manchukuo government. The extremely impoverished Chun Doo Hwan family also crossed the border for a better life. Kim Il Sung, the North Korean leader, was a cadre of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, while Park served on the opposite side in Manchukuo (Suh 1988: 20). Indeed, Manchukuo incubated the leadership of both Koreas.

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"推崇八年抗战是对台湾人民进行历史批判?"

Libertytimes published an unbelievable editorial yesterday!
Clearly this editorial exposes the true color of libertytimes, which does not represent taiwanese people as it claims at all, but rather represent the reviving Japan militarists instead!
One message of this editorial is trying to confuse people by smearing out the huge difference between the exploited colonialized Taiwanese people and exploiting colonializing Japanese militants. It is well known that WWII liberated Taiwanese people from Japan's colonization, and moreover liberated Japanese people from cruel militarism as well, instead, the editorial seems to acknowledge the WWII defeated Japanese as well as Taiwanese people. Did taiwanese people become victims just because Japan lost WWII or they were the victims because Japan used them as a tool in WWII? Are the 60th anniversary memorials of WWII for KMT army victimizing and criticizing the taiwanese people as well as their history? Yes, but only if you consider taiwanese people were identical to Japanese militarists! Apparently before writing this article, the author had already equated himself to a militarist.


前几天的七月七日,是中国、日本七七事变六十週年的日子,陈总统为此发表「追求和平的世界、实现自由的梦想」专文。文中,陈总统指出,今年适逢抗战胜利六十週年,同时也是第二次世界大战终战一甲子。陈总统推崇说,六十多年前,国军历经八年的浴血奋战,确保国家的安全和领土、主权的完整,造就今天的中华民国(台湾)。然而,七七事变、八年抗战的中华民国,早就成为过去的历史了。至於过去统治中国的中华民国,以及之後在台湾寄生的中华民国,两者之间的断裂则未见说明。

值得注意的是,所谓的七七事变、八年抗战,台湾都不在中华民国的领土範围之内,台湾的民选政府拿来纪念,似乎是出自一种历史的迷惘。大家都知道,一八九五年清国便永久割让给日本的台湾,二次大战期间是在日本的统治下与中国互相敌对。换言之,当时中华民国与台湾是势不两立。如果肯定八年抗战确保了中华民国的安全和领土、主权的完整,那麽当时的台湾人民就是站在破坏此一命题的对立面了。而且,这也印證了当时台湾根本不属於中华民国。而今,中华民国寄生在台湾,却对台湾人民进行历史批判,岂非彻底颠倒了台湾的主体性?



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两党大鬥「法」 百年说从头

2005.07.13  中國時報

林博文


除了总统选举,美国联邦最高法院大法官的任命可说是民主、共和两党对峙最激烈、最火爆的战役。女大法官欧康诺宣布退休的消息一传出,两党参议员立即向布希喊话必须找一个他们认可的人,自由派与保守派两大阵营旗下的团体马上动员叫阵。从政党到遊说团体,个个摩拳擦掌,準备在炎炎夏日奋力搏击。

美国总统拥有无限权力,在众多权力中影响最深远的是任命大法官,总统做满四年或八年就走人,但他所任命的大法官却是终身职,可以一直做到老病退休,欧康诺就做了廿四年之久,要不是她的丈夫得了老人癡呆症(病情越来越严重),而她本人身体也不太好(罹患乳癌十馀年),否则她不会在七十五岁退休,原先大家以为患有晚期甲状腺癌的八十岁首席大法官芮恩奎恩斯特会退休。欧康诺和芮恩奎斯特在史丹佛大学法学院同班,芮第一名毕业,欧第叁名。


由於大法官肩负解释宪法之责,其职位太过重要,因此每位总统总想任命一个和他具有相同或近似法律观点的人出任大法官,以阐扬其政治、文化与社会理念。在这个原则下,自由派总统提名自由派大法官,保守派总统任命保守派大法官,就成为二百多年来的模式。但弔诡的是,许多总统常选错人而懊恼悔恨不已,老罗斯福矢志打击大企业联手组成的托辣斯,一九○二年刚好最高法院有缺,他任命麻州高等法院法官霍姆斯出任大法官。霍姆斯在麻州高院做过亲劳工、反资本家的判决,很对老罗斯福的胃口;老罗斯福亦亲自口试霍姆斯,很欣赏他的法律哲学,没想到霍姆斯当了大法官後,在一项反托辣斯法大案中竟然支持大企业。老罗斯福气得差点中风,从此与霍姆斯绝交。

一九五二年艾森豪总统上台後,任命共和党籍的加州州长华伦出任首席大法官,一九四八年大选时,华伦曾为共和党总统候选人是纽约州长杜威的竞选搭档,本应是党性坚强,当了首席大法官後却变成激进的自由派,在其十六年任内,「华伦法院」成为美国司法史上最具自由派色彩的最高法院,通过了一连串保护民权、黑白合校的裁决。艾森豪对华伦的「左倾」深恶痛绝,他公开说:「我这辈子所做的最愚蠢的事,就是任命华伦出任首席大法官。」

有些大法官到了最高法院之後才慢慢改变他们的法学思想和法律观点,其中多半是从保守派转变为温和派或自由派。尼克森於一九七○年任命的大法官布拉克曼,是个保守派,但他却在一九七叁年的一项堕胎案(Roe v. Wade)赞成妇女拥有合法堕胎的权利,并负责撰写多数派裁决书。这项判决不仅使全美保守派跳脚卅二年,并且是造成美国社会两极对立的根源之一。保守派一直想要推翻这项裁决,公开要求布希在遴选大法官时,须以「反对堕胎」为第一要素。

雷根做八年总统任命了首席大法官芮恩奎斯特,和叁个大法官。芮恩奎斯特是保守派,叁个大法官里面,访问过台湾的史卡利亚是大右派,但欧康诺和甘迺迪都是中间偏右,说细一点就是「政治保守、文化温和」,他们在一些具有政治涵义的案件中偏右(如二○○○年支持布希佛州胜选),但在堕胎、政教分离、同性恋、民权等有关文化与社会的案件里,他们常和自由派大法官站在同一战线。过去十年,欧康诺的角色愈来愈重要,在五个保守派、四个自由派中,她扮演了举足轻重的角色,几乎变成她靠哪一边,哪边就获胜;因此媒体为十年来的最高法院贴上「欧康诺法院」的标籤。

在蓝(民主党)红(共和党)严重对立中,联邦最高法院目前已变成自由派与保守派捉对廝杀最重要的角力场。美国社会的分化与对立,在大法官人选的攻防战中,非但显露其严重性,而且越来越呈现对抗性的矛盾,双方丝毫无妥协馀地,尤其是保守派,声势浩大、财力雄厚、嗓门特大、立场最硬,据说布希很想提名现任司法部长冈萨雷斯补欧康诺的遗缺,冈氏是拉丁裔,也是布希的德州老班底,但因冈氏过去有支持堕胎的纪录,一批右翼组织公开警告布希不得任命冈氏,尤其是极右的基督教福音派,吵闹声震天,惹得布希和共和党高层极度不悦。

民主党原本不太欣赏欧康诺,但因担心布希提名大右派,这一阵突然大力鼓动布希提名一个「像欧康诺这样的大法官」。欧康诺是主流的保守派,重实际而轻意识形态,但她常做出一些令保守派不高兴的裁决,民主党很技巧地打出了「欧康诺牌」,不知能否奏效?

目前最高法院的大法官以史卡利亚和黑人汤玛斯最为保守,汤玛斯庭辩时甚少发言,总是跟随在史卡利亚後面,已成为法界和媒体的笑柄。布希说史、汤是他最心仪的两位大法官,并认为他们两人都是首席大法官的人选。如果芮恩奎斯特如外界预料的在欧康诺继任人选决定後辞职,布希得以一口气提名两位保守派大法官出任,则美国社会必然会烽火遍地!

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Here's why we shouldn't expect the true apologies from Japan

I noticed that Nariaki Nakayama just apologized for his another comments on "comfort women" in the last month. Apparently, he apologized not for his comments, but for "causing trouble".
"I apologize for causing trouble," Nakayama told Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda


Minister apologizes for sex slave remark

Washington Times

Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 14 (UPI) -- Japan's Education Minister Nariaki Nakayama apologized Tuesday for a controversial remark he made about wartime sex slaves.

During a recent town meeting in Shizuoka, Nakayama had said, "The term 'comfort women' has not always existed."

"I apologize for causing trouble," Nakayama told Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda in the Diet Building Tuesday morning, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.

"I'd like you to consider the diplomatic repercussions of your remarks when you speak," Hosoda warned Nakayama.

Shortly after the town meeting, Nakayama explained that he meant the term "comfort women" is relatively new and that he was aware that a massive number of women were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Among the comfort women, "there were many Japanese people and many people from the Korean Peninsula. I know they can't even find words to describe the hardships they experienced," Nakayama said. "I meant that there was no such term, even though I know (sex slaves) existed," he added.

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Nariaki Nakayama's opened his stinky mouth, again!

"the occupation was something they could have pride in, given their existence soothed distraught feelings of men in the battlefield"


Ok, great, comfort women should be proud of themselves for their forced sex service to the Empire army! What's wrong with this Japan Education minister? He should be proud of what he's taught his Japanese young fellow generations too.


Nakayama won't drop `comfort women' issue
07/12/2005


The Asahi Shimbun
FUKUOKA-Education minister Nariaki Nakayama spent nine minutes Sunday reading out an e-mail message from a Japanese student in Canada to make a point: that he is not alone in believing "comfort women" have no place in textbooks used in Japanese schools.

Nakayama has repeatedly come under fire for his remarks concerning women who were forced into frontline prostitution before and during World War II.

In a lecture here, Nakayama said he had received a "lot of encouragement from young people." He went on to read the e-mail message from a student who he said shares his view that the term "comfort women" was coined only after World War II.

"I was impressed," Nakayama said. "Young people think about the issue really seriously. I appreciate it."

According to Nakayama, the student is a woman in her 20s who is attending a graduate school in Canada.

He quoted her as follows: "The term was created by some Japanese after World War II in a self-incriminating way.

"Those women deserve much sympathy, but (being forced to provide sex) is not so much different from what was commonly seen" in poor rural Japanese communities in the past, where women were sold to brothels.

"It could be said that the occupation was something they could have pride in, given their existence soothed distraught feelings of men in the battlefield and provided a certain respite and order," he quoted her as writing.

Nakayama has frequently upset China and South Korea since he became education minister last September.

In November, he said, "It is good that expressions such as comfort women and forced labor have decreased in history textbooks." In June, he denied the term "comfort women" existed during the wartime years.(IHT/Asahi: July 12,2005)


update:新华网消息 据法新社报道,日本文部科学大臣中山成彬10日再次就亚洲“慰安妇”问题大放厥词。中山援引一位日本学生的话说,亚洲妇女应该引以自豪。
  法新社是根据“朝日新闻”(Asahi Shimbun)的消息从东京发出这一报道的。“朝日新闻”援引中山10日在福冈市的一次讲话说,他的有关慰安妇问题的谈话受到了批评,但他同样得到了许多年轻人的鼓励。
  中山在较早时候曾经说过,新的日本历史教科书中不再写入“慰安妇”一词是件好事,并且说,在第二次世界大战中,这样一个词根本就不存在。此话一出,立即遭到韩国、中国和其他亚洲国家的批评,日本政府也拉开它同中山的距离,说日本承认有慰安妇,并且进行了道歉。
  然而中山10日在福冈的讲话中说,他对青年人的支持“感动”了,并且宣读了一个留学加拿大的日本学生发给他的电子信件。中山说,这位20来岁的日本学生认为慰安妇一词是由少数性受虐狂的日本人虚构的。
  中山援引这位日本学生的电子信件说,“我们应该对他们(慰安妇)感到极大的同情,但(被强迫沦为妓女)同旧时代日本农村所看到的情况是没有什么两样的。”
  中山还援引这位日本学生的话说,这些亚洲妇女能够被说成是遭到强暴,她们应该感到自豪,因为她们消除了在战场上作战的男人的不安情绪,让他们得到休息,精神上得到一定的平静。
  法新社的报道说,中山的办公室不能证实媒体所报道的中山在福冈市的这一谈话,但是说,有许多的人曾经给这位大臣发来了鼓励的言辞,其中多数是通过电话和电子信件。
  日本第一次承认二次大战中强迫亚洲妇女充当慰安妇是在1993年8月4日。历史学家们说,20多万亚洲妇女被强迫成为慰安妇,充当日本士兵的性奴隶,其中多数是朝鲜妇女,还有中国、菲律宾和印尼妇女。(米奇)(专稿)

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Monday, July 11, 2005

我们宁肯饿死在城里,也不会再回农村了!

中国青年报

“我们宁肯饿死在城里,也不会再回农村了。”记者采访到的许多新生代民工都在这么说。

矛盾来了:一方面新生代民工不愿意回家,另一方面城市现在又不能给他们落实城里人的待遇。一方面新生代民工与吃苦耐劳的父辈不同,他们受教育程度高,职业期望值高,物质和精神享受要求高,但工作耐受力低,另一方面社会还在习惯性地把他们视为“廉价的劳动力”,于是有了令人措手不及的不同以往的新生代民工荒现象。

“没有人能帮得了我们。”面对从北京特意来找他的记者,年仅20岁的阿新几乎一直冷冷的。他说,除了《南方周末》的傅记者外,他没有城里人朋友。5年的打工经历告诉他,没有哪个城里人愿意帮助他。

“只能靠自己。”阿新的意思是说,要么是像他弟弟这样老老实实没日没夜地挣那点儿血汗钱,要么就是像“上映帮”老乡那样,从城里人的口袋里抢。

事实上,在整个珠三角,外来务工人员的确如阿新所说分成了这两类。一类人靠苦力吃饭,一类人靠暴力吃饭。不过,据首都经贸大学劳动经济学院纪韶教授所知,还有一部分打工者是“傍老族”。他们往往和父母一同出来打工,但自己不能接受太苦太累的工作,就变成了游荡在城市边缘的闲人,由在工厂做工的父母养着。

在东莞,纪韶教授见到许多打工者三三两两地坐在路边打扑克,一问才知道,他们大多没工作,生活完全靠父母。

纪韶教授接受国家发改委的委托,正在做一个有关农村流动人口的课题。尽管这些外来务工人员在城市的现状并不是此项专题研究的内容,但通过近一年的调查,她发现,新一代农民工与老一代有着很大的不同。

这些18岁到25岁的外出务工青年,是现今农民工群体的主流,这些在计划生育政策下出生、成长的第二代民工,被称为“新生代民工”。专家把他们的特征归纳为 “三高一低”:受教育程度高,职业期望值高,物质和精神享受要求高,工作耐受力低。他们对工作所要求的,已不仅是增加几十元工资或者减少几小时加班这么简单。

新生代民工,与社会所固有的对民工的印象也几乎有天壤之别,与父辈不同,他们不再老老实实地待在最脏、最累、最“没出息”的工作岗位上,不再省吃俭用攒钱往家里寄,更不会等挣够了钱就回家盖房子娶媳妇,在家乡做点小买卖。他们想的到底是什么呢?

“我们宁肯饿死在城里,也不会再回农村了。”无论是阿新还是记者采访到的许多新生代民工,他们大都给出这样的答案。

一方面,新生代民工不愿意回家,而城市又不能给他们城里人的待遇;另一方面,新生代民工“三高一低”,可谁又能满足这些“廉价的劳动力”的新要求呢?

每次到广东出差,当地的朋友都会叮嘱记者,出门的时候少带点现金,晚上最好别一个人出去,这里的治安很差。

一个多月前,记者在深圳街头随意采访了5名女性,其中3人有过被抢包的经历。傅剑锋也告诉记者,他在广州的3名男性同事,都遭遇过抢劫,其中一人还被用刀戳到脖子。

几年前出现在广州主要街道上的“五步一岗,十步一哨”(约每一里地有一个手持器械的治安联防队员站岗———记者注),如今仍在珠三角的许多城市继续上演。

在从北京到汕头的飞机上,记者看到7月5日的《汕头特区晚报》单是涉及到外来工犯罪的报道就有好几篇。其中2版的一条图片新闻说,一女子在骑摩托车下班回家的路上,遭到两名骑摩托车歹徒的夹击抢劫。为抢夺她挂在脖子上的手机,这名女子被强行拉下行使中的摩托车,浑身血迹斑斑。

与此对应,当天该报的一版头条《48项目签约总投资额57.6亿》披露,在深圳刚刚举行的汕头投资环境推介会暨项目签约仪式,掀起了汕头新一轮的投资建设热潮。

记者无法估算这总投资57.6亿元的项目总共需要多少个工人,但可以肯定的是,随着汕头乃至整个珠三角地区的发展,当地还需要更多的外来工。

然而,汕头乃至正在高速发展中的全国各个城市,是否真正摸清了这些新生代民工的特点,是否将农民工城市化的问题摆在了与招商引资同等重要的位置上呢?

去年在东莞采访时,记者从当地劳动部门的官员那里听到一个真实的故事:

一天晚上,当地某镇的镇长看到自家阳台上有人影晃动,出去一看,一个民工模样的年轻人刚刚爬上他家的阳台。

“你干什么?”

“你家阳台上的花很好看,我爬上来看看。”面对镇长的质问,对方不紧不慢。

“看看花还犯罪?”镇长报警后,对方干脆坐在阳台上不走了。

第二天,被警方带走的那人又来爬镇长家的阳台。这回,早有准备的镇长拿着开水瓶往下浇。结果,第三天,这人又来爬了。而且边爬边说:“你用开水烫伤了我,要是不赔钱,我天天来爬。”无奈,镇长只好掏出500元钱才送走“瘟神”。

这位劳动部门的官员告诉记者这件事,是想说明一个道理:当这个社会遗忘了农村的时候,农民就只有进城;当城里人不能合理接纳、安置他们的时候,他们中就会有人爬进你的家。

“不只是这些问题(指中国城市治安问题),我们担心的是(农村)集体情绪的仇恨城市。”中国社科院教授刘建国在发行《2005年社会蓝皮书》时这样说。

不仅是城里人的安全问题,由于农民工的新特点而导致的劳动力成本不断上升,已经让很多工厂的老板开始头疼了。

广东省开平市侪达制衣厂的张毅生总经理说,去年以来广东出现的民工荒,并不是民工就真的少了。事实情况是,开出700元钱以下工资的厂子招不到人,而800元钱以上的厂子就会有好多人排队应聘。

他说,新一代民工不仅对工资要求高,而且对工作环境、住宿条件的要求都提高了。去年,在工人要求和国际订单的压力下,张毅生的工厂全面引入SA8000国际劳工标准。然而,企业成本为此增加了30%。

“现在两个厂的利润刚好能抵得上过去一个厂。”张毅生说,许多小厂已经开始搬离珠三角,迁往广西、湖南这些成本较低的地方。

张毅生判断,随着工人权利意识的增强,珠三角大批劳动密集型企业的成本还会继续上涨。“涨到老板没钱赚的时候,估计中国的产业结构调整就自然完成了”。

上个月央行发布的一个调查报告也部分印证了张毅生的观点:农民工短缺现象在一些地区客观存在,它已开始影响企业的生产能力和劳动力成本,预计今后几年这种现象仍将继续存在。

从这个角度看,新生代民工引发的不仅仅是社会治安问题,就连中国鼓吹多年的劳动力成本优势问题也受到了挑战。如果没有了劳动力成本优势,中国经济发展的优势又在哪里呢?

如此矛盾,已经成为中国经济社会发展中无法回避的问题。中央政府高度重视这一问题。几天前,农业部农村经济研究中心副主任宋洪远说,今年温总理给他们一个最重要的课题是:把农民工的问题彻底搞清楚。(中国青年报 何磊)

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Worse than Watergate II (report in Chinese)

Chinese media start reporting on this case.
While you still can find the link in english here, you can choose to read chinese version too. It's not bad at all. Salute to NanfangDaily and the author Anti again!

布什政府设局,司法与媒体肉搏 

  2005-07-11 09:30:47  

 

  ■海外观潮
  之安替专栏
  
  7月6日,《纽约时报》57岁的女记者朱迪思·米勒因为拒绝向华盛顿联邦地区法庭透露未刊登新闻的消息来源而被判“藐视法庭”,立刻入狱直至10月28日。她微笑着走向拘留中心,声称“如果新闻记者不能保守秘密,不能获取信任,那么就无法履新职责,新闻自由也无从谈起。”而同案要求提供消息来源的,还有《时代周刊》记者马修·库珀,不过他经过消息来源的授权,同意和法庭合作,避免了牢狱之灾。
  米勒的勇气得到了《纽约时报》的赞扬,也得到了同行的敬佩;相反,《时代周刊》和库珀被同行认为是懦弱和破坏新闻界的规矩。中国媒体对此事进行了报道,普遍把此事与水门事件的《华盛顿邮报》、深喉进行了对比,认为这是美国媒体捍卫新闻自由的新的努力,而法官判记者入狱,是美国新闻自由的一次倒退。
  事实上,此事比这些简单报道诡秘得多,表面上是司法机关制裁媒体记者,其实螳螂捕蝉、黄雀在后,无论是司法还是媒体,都是牺牲者,而真正获胜的是保守的、操控媒体越来越娴熟的布什行政当局。
  米勒“藐视法庭”而所要保护的消息来源,却是法庭真正在调查的一场对公民打击报复的罪行的被告。这个消息来源的行为,直接危害了一个揭露真相的公民及其家人的安全。
  2003年7月,前美国驻伊拉克大使约瑟夫·威尔逊,指责布什政府在萨达姆试图从尼日利亚购买核原料问题上撒谎,布什政府故意制造这些根本不存在的证据,证明伊拉克拥有大规模杀伤性武器,以发动伊拉克战争。
  威尔逊这样一位真正的深喉,这样一位揭露政府在撒谎的人,却遭到了政府方面立刻的近乎无耻的报复。当月(7月)14日,保守派专栏作家罗伯特·诺瓦克透露,根据政府高级官员的消息,前大使威尔逊的夫人是CIA特工。不但如此,政府的秘密消息来源,也通知了《时代周刊》的库珀和《纽约时报》的米勒。库珀写了两篇相关的报道,米勒没有发表任何报道。
  在任何国家,官员泄漏特工的身份都是罪行。即便在美国,政府官员泄漏其他官员的特工身份,也要判处十年以下的徒刑。何况是政府出于打击报复“深喉”的目的,让威尔逊的夫人处于很危险的境地,实在是令人心寒。从另一个方面来说,新闻媒体被政府利用,成为对说出真相的公民实施惩罚的帮凶,其实也不是很光彩的事情。此事如果成为惯例,谁还敢批评布什政府的不是?因此,在各方抗议下,司法当局在2003年12月展开了调查,联邦独立检查官菲茨杰拉德为找到这个卑鄙的政府内部出卖者而奔波。普遍认为,布什高级顾问卡尔·罗夫是消息来源的可能性最大。
  可以看出,威尔逊大使和新闻记者本来站在捍卫真相和自由的同一战壕,而布什政府的高官却通过向媒体告密,让媒体竟然成为惩罚英雄的工具;司法当局为了捍卫法律,保护公民的合法利益,打击政府某些人士的卑劣报复行径,不得不向记者开刀,形成了司法和媒体的直接肉搏。而无论谁最后获胜,都是美国自由的退步,希望拥有更多权力、一直鄙视自由派媒体的布什政府,都会笑到最后。
  有两件事情可以佐证这次事件的诡异。一是最早透露消息的专栏作家罗伯特·诺瓦克,一点事情都没有,继续在写他的保守评论;二是这位女记者米勒,虽然在2002年因为本·拉登和基地的报道获普利策奖,但她并不是一个令人尊重的记者。《纽约时报》有几个记者,以拥有白宫内部消息为豪,常常抛出没有另外信源的报道,否定驻外记者的报道,几乎成为政府的喉舌,米勒就是其中一个。而《纽约时报》也指出,在伊拉克报道中该报过于依赖政府方面消息来源,可能报道失实,而举出的14篇有问题的宣传性报道中,12篇是米勒的。
  此事被称为“特工门”事件。美国的新闻自由当然因此遭受了打击:根据报道,《克利夫兰诚实商人报》的主编在律师的建议下,撤销了可能导致自己报纸记者入狱的两篇调查报道,这就是此事的寒蝉效应。更为可悲的是,《纽约时报》女记者的这场牺牲,不是为了公民的自由和社会的公义,而是为了一帮无视法律、打击报复公民的政府高官。“水门事件”之后,美国新闻界自由惯了,而“特工门”事件,是他们遇到的第一个新闻伦理难题。

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Macroeconomic Policy in China Economic Growth

Not bad at all, the businesschina blog!


Macroeconomic Policy in China Economic Growth



The major finance comes from borrowing, in three ways. First, domestic loans, that is loans of various forms borrowed by investing units from banks and non-bank financial institutions. Second, “raised” funds, that is extra-budgetary funds for investment in fixed assets received by investing units from central government ministries, local governments, enterprises and institutions. And third, “other funds”, that is funds for investment in fixed assets received from other sources, including capital raised through issuing bonds by enterprises or financial institutions, funds raised from individuals, and funds transferred from other units.

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Clearly then it is the flexibility to acquire funds that enables different entities to undertake such investment expenditures that raises the investment income ratio and keeps growth going at high levels. Credit to finance such expenditures has indeed been easily available because the transition from a controlled to a more decentralised monetary system has implied a relatively lax monetary policy. This has resulted in a situation where local government functionaries, who influence appointment of banking and other functionaries at the local level are able to easily access funds for their projects
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The problem confronting the Chinese government is to deal with the inflation that results in such circumstances of “overheating”. What the government can try and do is engineer an increase in (administered) interest rates. But, there is no evidence that the kind of investment expenditure being spoken of is interest rate sensitive. Further, increases in interest rates could create a host of problems. In the first instance they can, just as a possible revaluation of the yuan, result in a spurt in capital inflows into the economy, worsening the exchange rate management problem. Second, they would adversely affect the viability of the already weakened state-owned enterprises, default by whom would worsen the non-performing assets problem of the banks.

All this results in a situation where the Chinese government falls back on administrative measures, including the use of central “commands” and guidelines to hold back runaway rates of investment. So despite the overt emphasis on markets and capitalistic growth, Chinese macro policy remains still very reliant on the use of administrative measures which serve to dampen economic cycles.



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联合国人权专家称日本种族歧视严重有仇外情绪

update: 阿伊努族=虾夷族=Ainu (in English)
Some say that the history of Japan is a history of slaughtering Ainu people.

  联合国人权专家11日指出,日本国内对少数民族存在着严重歧视。而且,对于民众明显的“仇外”情绪,作为决策层的日本政府却没有意识到问题的严重性。
  种族歧视根深蒂固
  “根深蒂固”是来自塞内加尔的联合国人权委员会特派员杜杜·迪内对日本歧视问题的描述。

  通过对日本为期9天的访问,迪内在临走前批评说,日本政府缺乏实际行动,未能遏制本国的“仇外”情绪和行为,这令他感到“震惊和不安”。

  他举例说,居住在日本北部地区的阿伊努族就是日本种族歧视的直接受害者。阿伊努人属于日本的土著民族,主要居住在北海道,萨哈林岛和千岛群岛一带。数百年来,他们在就业、婚姻等方面都受到不公正的待遇。

  通过调查,迪内还发现,在对种族歧视现状的理解上,日本政府官员也与这些少数族裔之间存在明显的分歧。

  呼吁立法解决问题

  迪内是联合国人权委员会2002年5月任命的人权特派员。今年4月,他的任期又被该委员会延长了3年。他此次访日之行,也是联合国种族问题人权特派员首次赴日进行考察。

  为了解日本保护人权的状况,迪内拜访了不少日本中央与地方官员,并与阿伊努人,以及朝鲜裔、华裔等外来族裔居民进行交流。

  迪内向日本政府呼吁,应该从最高层面上表达出更强烈的政治愿望来解决这个问题,并通过全国性法律制裁歧视行为。

  在临行前的新闻发布会上,迪内说:“(日本)没有针对歧视的细致的全国性法律。我强烈建议起草一部国家法律,而且(这部法律)不仅应建立在日本参与的国际机构的准则上,还应咨询少数族裔关心的事宜。”

  此外,他还建议日本政府设立全国性专门机构,推动少数族裔的平等权利。

  联合国官员要求约见东京都知事石原慎太郎被拒

  结束此次行程前,迪内向日本政府通告了他的初步调查结果。在起草一份将于明年3月递交人权委员会的报告前,他将等待日本政府的回应。

  报告正式递交前,迪内会先在一份临时报告中将他的看法告知联合国秘书长科菲·安南。

  在新闻发布会上,迪内肯定了日本政府对他考察工作的积极配合。他认为,这表明日本将“以积极的方式”接受建议,解决这个问题。

  不过,迪内指出,他曾约见东京都知事石原慎太郎,但却遭到拒绝。石原曾屡次散布民族主义言论,并因此广受国内外舆论谴责。

  石原慎太郎曾用侵略时期的一个轻蔑字眼形容中国人。迪内对此评论道:“从政治层面这样的高度来看,他的说法似乎代表了一些人的看法。对我来说,这是一个很严重的问题。”

  东京市政府拒绝对迪内的批评发表任何评论。
http://www.sina.com.cn 2005年07月12日02:32 新闻晨报

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Sina gets really low!

Sina, the top internet news portal in China, dare put this photo on today's news homepage!
Is this a shame?


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怀疑绿色和平组织是美CIA打手 炸毁彩虹战士号 密特朗主使

2005.07.12  中国时报
蔡筱颖/巴黎十一日报导


一九八五年七月十日深夜,「绿色和平」组织的抗议船只「彩虹战士号」在纽西兰奥克兰港被炸毁,这个著名的环保事件在廿年後的今天,因为一份机密报告直指是当年法国总统密特朗下令炸沉,又掀起了法国与绿色和平组织的新仇旧恨。

绿色和平组织於欧洲的发展速度不若其在世界其他地区,尤其在法国,该组织一直备受非议,不仅法国政府以间谍手段炸毁「彩虹战士号」表现其敌意,连「绿党」和环保人士都避之唯恐不及,社会大众更是嗤之以鼻,最主要的原因就是怀疑绿色和平组织是美国「中央情报局」的打手。


一九六○年二月十叁日,法国成功试爆了第一颗原子弹,戴高乐总统坚持法国要独立於美国和苏联的两大势力之外,就必须发展自己的核武,此原则一直是法国国防奉行的圭臬,法国只是没料到,发展核武保护自己的第一场「战争」就是与美国的争鬥。

法国曾在南太平洋的基地举行多项核爆,并以电脑控制水底核爆技术独步世界,而法国对其核爆不会污染周遭环境的自信,来自於主动接受世界各环保团体的检验,只是这些努力当时都屡遭绿色和平组织的阻挠。

打著环保和世界和平的旗号,法国政府认为,该组织只针对法国的核试从事抗议行动,却无视其他国家更甚於法国的核试,这套思考逻辑让法国意识到绿色和平组织的政治性大於环保。而「彩虹战士号」装备精良,船员训练有素,并经常停靠於美国控制的港口,甚至拥有源源不绝的大笔经费,在在都让当时的法国大大怀疑绿色和平组织获有美国的支持。

一九八五年,「彩虹战士号」本来打算前往南太平洋穆鲁罗瓦环礁,反对法国进行计画中的核子试验。当年七月十日晚间,停靠在纽西兰奥克兰港的「彩虹战士号」连续发生两次爆炸,船上的葡萄牙籍摄影师派瑞拉罹难。案发後,纽西兰警方在现场附近找到标有「法国製造」字样的氧气桶和救生艇,并逮捕一对持瑞士护照的夫妇,而经过一个月的侦查,警方认为,爆炸事件与法国有关。

当时的总统密特朗在纽西兰警方抵达巴黎从事调查後,就要求总理法毕士立即对该事件进行「严格调查」,法国政府也首次公开指派高层官员主司其事。九月廿二日,法毕士发表声明,承认「彩虹战士号」是法国「海外安全总局」的特工奉命炸毁的,而该局局长拉科斯特和国防部长赫努也因此事件被免职。十一月廿二日,两名法国特工被奥克兰高等法院判处十年徒刑;十二月廿叁日,法国外交部指出,法方已同意向绿色和平组织赔偿「彩虹战士号」的损失。

廿年後的今天,法国《世界报》披露了有关这个事件的内幕:「彩虹战士号」被炸,是密特朗亲自授权法国「海外安全总局」幹的。

《世界报》刊出最近才公开的一份廿叁页的文件中,有关拉科斯特一九八六年所撰备忘录的部分内容,他在备忘录中说,一九八五年五月十五日,他和密特朗会晤时曾询问密特朗是否允许他执行「海外安全总局」炸毁「彩虹战士号」的「撒旦行动」,而密特朗则答称他同意,并强调法国核试的重要。拉科斯特并写道:「如果没有得到总统的同意,我是绝对没有这个胆量去执行这个行动计划的。」

拉科斯特也透露,整个行动当时并曾获得国防部参谋总长的批准,而国防部还拨了钜款资助。

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Sunday, July 10, 2005

买凶杀妻 河南副省长下狱

买凶杀妻 河南副省长下狱大陆新闻中心/台北报导 via Chinatimes
具有美国博士学位的河南省副省长吕德彬,因涉嫌买凶杀妻并碎屍,日前被中共公安逮捕并被撤销其党政职务。被杀者是吕德彬的第二任妻子,她被大卸十块,其中两块碎屍迄今未寻回。来自河南当地的消息称,吕为买凶付出人民币一百叁十七万元(约台币五百五十万元)。
上个月中旬,「河南日报」突然公布吕德彬撤消副省长职务,并指其涉嫌刑事犯罪。本月八日,「新华社」再报导,中共全国政协通过撤消吕德彬政协委员职务。不过,对於吕德彬所犯何罪,直到昨天「南京晨报」揭露案情以前,大陆媒体一直未有只字报导。
现年五十二岁的吕德彬是大陆改革开放後第一批赴美留学生,获堪萨斯州立大学遗传学博士学位,回大陆後在河南农业大学任教,前年一月任分管农业的河南省副省长,有「海归政坛新星」之称。
吕德彬的第二任妻子是和原来照顾其父母的小保母结婚,两人年龄相差了十多岁。吕近年与新乡一名林业部门负责人的妹妹勾搭成姦,此事被女方的丈夫及吕德彬的妻子发现。为了阻止他们来往,吕妻多番吵闹。
吕德彬所指导的博士生之一,河南省新乡市副市长尚玉和知道吕的窘境後,一年前就耸恿吕德彬杀妻,并设计了多种杀妻方案。吕起初未将此话当真,但後来尚又给吕物色一个年轻漂亮的女子做保母,这使吕妻更为不满,加剧了夫妻之间的吵闹廝打程度。
六月初吕妻以握有吕德彬受贿的把柄为由要挟吕,并声称「如果离婚就全家同归於尽」。吕终於失去理智动了杀心,他给尚玉和打电话,让尚雇请杀手,尚则委託了新乡市公安局一名副局长,从唐河县找来两个无业遊民,六月九日,两人搭乘尚玉和的专车,以带吕妻买车为名,将吕妻骗上车,车出省府大院不到一公里,两名杀手即用绳子将吕妻勒死,随後将其大卸十块,并将碎屍包裹後,假装成绑架撕票案,丢弃在唐河县的一个水塘中。
而吕当天以妻被绑架为名向公安机关报案,当地公安神速出动,不到二十四小时,即擒获两名杀手,侦讯後揪出幕後主谋。六月十一日吕被传讯,十五日被正式逮捕。但吕妻尚有两块碎屍至今未寻回。另有一种说法是,案发後,尚玉和发短信通知吕德彬,吕继而打电话与涉案人员联繫。孰料河南公安部门在电讯网路中发现了这些蛛丝马迹,首先将尚玉和抓获,而新乡市另一涉案者在惊恐中将案情全盘道出。

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南沙群岛占领现状地图

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南沙群岛占领现状地图





赤瓜礁
美济礁 钢筋混凝土建筑楼房完工 1999年03月22日

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太平岛周边岛礁多遭占领 via Chinatimes

Just for reference..........

太平岛周边岛礁多遭占领
吴明杰/新闻分析


太平岛位於南沙群岛西北部,面积零点四五平方公里,距高雄八百六十海浬,到西沙永兴岛机场四百一十浬,距菲律宾、马来西亚、越南最近距离各约两百、两百八和叁百叁十浬,距前美军驻菲律宾苏比克湾基地约四百四十浬。

太平岛古称「黄山马礁」,民国卅五年政府重新接收南沙时,由海军上校姚汝钰率「太平号」等四艘军舰接收该岛重立国碑,并以接收舰队的「太平舰」命名﹔四十五年改编为「南沙守备区」,并派陆战队担任守备。

七十九年内政部登岛设立「南疆锁钥」国界碑,重申我国对南海之主权。同年二月,行政院核定高雄市政府成立管理委员会,接管太平岛﹔八十一年内政部再增设南沙群岛收复照壁,举證南沙群岛为我国领土。

八十八年海巡部接防太平岛,隔年二月海巡署成立,并成立「南巡局南沙指挥部」,岛上海巡人员目前约有百人。另设有南沙气象站,隶属海军的气象中心,但仅有五名官兵。

太平岛周边海域的岛礁,大多已经遭到其他国家占领,并持续在岛上加强驻军,中共已占领十一座岛礁、菲律宾占有九座岛礁、马来西亚占有叁座岛礁,越南占有二十八座岛礁最多。

其中菲律宾在距离太平岛以南叁十八浬处的中业岛,已派遣海军陆战队进驻,并建有飞行跑道供小型战机起降。越南也派出海军陆战队占据郑和群周边所有可以被占领的岛礁,如敦谦沙洲、舶兰礁、鸿庥岛,以及安达礁。

中共方面除驻防西沙永兴岛,也早已在南沙的永署礁设立指挥部,同时修造足以停靠四千吨级军舰的码头,在美济礁也兴建坚固工事并驻紮人员,并在我太平岛附近的南薰礁与渚碧礁构築高角屋派驻军队,南北就近控太平岛进出的航道。

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My god, worse than Watergate?

Worse than watergate?

God bless American, God bless Rove!


But who said let him burn in the hell and take religious rights with him?? (via pekingduck.org)

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