解放軍陳思思開唱 避誦中國-生活新聞-新浪新聞中心

解放軍陳思思開唱 避誦中國-生活新聞-新浪新聞中心: "真的是精心挑選，剔除專輯中「親親的中國人」、「祖國你在我心上」等歌誦大中國曲目，還跟特別來賓齊豫合唱「阿里山的姑娘」，要跟台灣聽眾拉近距離，連演唱會主持人徐乃麟跟央視主播李紅都不提陳思思解放軍歌手的身分。

或許是怕敏感，來聽陳思思演唱會的政壇人士只有監委程仁宏、國民黨立委劉盛良跟退休的政務官，立法院長王金平跟台北市議會議長吳碧珠只送花籃致意，解放軍歌手首度在台開唱，政壇很難不敏感。"

Democracy???

Taipei Times - archives: "There’s nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From the time of Elizabeth I’s spy chief Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent provocateurs of the years after Waterloo to the bugging and blacklisting of the postwar decades, espionage against domestic dissenters has long been a staple of British statecraft.

For most of the last century, the secret state targeted the left, trade unionists and peace campaigners, along with Irish republicans and anyone else regarded as a “subversive” threat.

That was all supposed to have been consigned to history after the end of the Cold War, when MI5 declared it had abandoned counter-subversion and switched its focus to the threat of jihadist terror attacks. But, if anything, the apparatus of official snooping and spooking has grown even more inflated than in the days when the state faced a real political challenge from both within and without."

Let poverty in Taiwan by china

Taipei Times - archives: "In recent weeks, governments including Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and India have adopted measures to prevent their domestic property markets from presenting bubble symptoms.

Experience suggests, however, that the limits of those measures will soon be reached, and that interest rate hikes will be the next step. A key question for central banks is how quickly they should act.

One concern is that raising rates too early might stall economic recovery in those Asian economies where signs of sustainable growth are yet to emerge.

Another concern is that, as risk appetite begins to build in Asia along with the rebounding economy, a quick rate hike would likely boost the so-called “carry trade” — in which investors borrow from countries with ultra-low interest rates and invest in countries with higher rates — thus aggravating what we have already seen in Asia with price surges in equities, real estate and other assets."

Red terror when Beijing on power

Taipei Times - archives: "The Dalai Lama called on the foreign media to visit China to “find the reality” in the western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, home to the Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities respectively."

as king this ma

Taipei Times - archives: "Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) on Friday night criticized the government’s relaxation of restrictions on US beef, saying the public may take their frustration out on President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in local elections next month.

Describing the year-end elections as a possible turning point where the KMT could go from prosperity into decline, Lee said many people frustrated over the performance of Ma and his administration were likely to use the elections as a tool to teach Ma a lesson.

“Public displeasure with President Ma did not go away following the Cabinet reshuffle,” he said at a fund raising event organized by the Taiwan Solidarity Union in Taipei on Friday night. “The year-end elections present an opportunity for those unhappy with him to voice their anger. The Chinese Nationalist Party might go downhill from that point on.”"

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political expedient as the case doing

Taipei Times - archives: "Hong said the government must take a more active role in helping foster a healthy environment for professional baseball.

“The team doesn’t have the authority to go after organized crime. All we can do is try to resolve the problems of our players,” Hong said. “It is up to the government to decide whether the Brother Elephants can continue.”

Speaking to the fans gathered outside the dorm late last night, Hong expressed optimism, saying the Elephants would “not easily be disbanded,” and criticized prosecutors for overzealousness."

no guts this man -ma

Taipei Times - archives: "President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday rejected the possibility of renegotiating the recent pact on importing US beef, saying his administration was more cautious than the former Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) government in relaxing restrictions on US beef products.

Emphasizing it was “unnecessary” to relaunch negotiations with Washington, Ma said attempting to renegotiate the protocol would seriously undermine the country’s credibility."

peolple's angry-this man ma

Taipei Times - archives: "The legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee ground to a halt yesterday as Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers insisted National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Su Chi (蘇起) deliver a report on the decision-making process behind a change on US beef imports and vowed to pursue a better deal.

The committee’s morning session got off to a rough start as the DPP asked that the agenda be changed from reviewing the Presidential Office and NSC’s budget requests to having Su report on the policy shift. DPP lawmakers said that the beef policy was more urgent than the budgets because the policy would be implemented next month but the budgets were for next year."

bribery make win win win this man ma

Taipei Times - archives: "“The KMT is a hundred-year-old shop, and the old shop has its power and its burden. We must strengthen our powers and get rid of the burden,” he said.

The party plans to hold six Central Standing Committee (CSC) meetings in local cities and counties to show support for party candidates after the new committee members are elected on Nov. 14."

tell the lie

Taipei Times - archives: "Yu said the government's cross-strait policy consists of three basic principles, with economics coming before politics, taking on easy tasks before difficult ones and focusing on urgent issues before non-urgent issues.

“The MND follows the government's policy toward cross-strait issues,” Yu said.

Yu said that the confidence-building measures were a goal, but the ministry would be conservative in implementing government policy.

“Such an issue cannot be rushed,” he said, adding that: “We will wait for the right moment.”

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like hard for peace in China

Taipei Times - archives: "An important shift in the US stance toward China was made clear during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s China visit, when she asserted that the US’ concerns about Beijing’s human rights record would not derail progress in other areas. Beijing greatly appreciated this.

China was also encouraged by Obama’s inclusion of two Chinese-Americans in his Cabinet: Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (朱棣文) and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke (駱家輝). This, however, is a double-edged sword because Beijing believes that Chinese ethnicity should transcend all other loyalties for overseas Chinese, and that they should serve the cause of the motherland and its communist political order.

This was bluntly articulated by Wang Zhaoguo (王肇國), a Politburo member and a former head of China’s United Front Department, at the Eighth National Congress of Returned Overseas Chinese and their Relatives. He reportedly congratulated them for using “blood lineage,” “hometown feeling” and “professional linkages” to achieve “outstanding results in uniting the broad masses of overseas Chinese.” Such calls on overseas Chinese to put their ethnicity before their citizenship can be counterproductive because it raises the specter of a “fifth column.”"

liar ma

Taipei Times - archives: "Beyond China’s breakneck militarization lies a political system that is repressive, anti-democratic and unpalatable to the great majority of people in Taiwan — even those who support Ma’s policies. As long as the political systems on both sides of the Strait cannot be reconciled, meaningful peace will be impossible to achieve, at least as long as Beijing continues to harbor designs on Taiwan’s sovereignty.

Beyond all this, many things could go wrong at every turn of cross-strait talks, especially once sensitive political issues are laid on the table. If Ma were seen to be giving too much, the Taiwanese polity would threaten to undermine his efforts and could oust him from office in 2012. Conversely, if Ma were seen to be dragging his feet on unification, Beijing could grow impatient and become more belligerent in its approach. Either way, instability would be the result and it would soon become evident that the “former bitter rivals” are, in fact, still bitter rivals."

一條牛都搞不定，憑什麼談ECFA？

自由電子報 - 一條牛都搞不定，憑什麼談ECFA？: "台美兩國就美國牛肉進口台灣市場的談判，打從二○○五年我國宣布二度禁止進口至今，已經談談打打了無數回合，帶骨牛肉、絞肉、內臟更從扁政府時期遭禁長達六年之久，以美國對台灣的特殊同盟關係，其壓力之大早就超過貿易範疇，而是政經兩重的千斤罩頂；今天，馬政府不是不可以與美國協商，事實上也無從迴避，但是這次如同水壩崩潰般的萬馬奔騰一瀉千里，已經毫無談判策略、國家利益與國民健康可言，因此事發後受到跨黨派朝野、學界與消費者群空前一致的批評與撻伐，甚至首都市長郝龍斌都難以背書；要求懸崖勒馬、收回成命、重新談判，幾乎已是社會共識。此一民意主張在民主國家不容輕忽推諉，馬政府必須立即納入政策環節積極對應，否則民怨一旦無處紓解，後果將不堪想像。"

not beef problem but liar ma cannot tell the truth

Taipei Times - archives: "“We will not accept products banned in the US, Canada and Europe,” Wu said, referring to parts of the cow such as the brain, eyes, skull and spinal cord.

He said the government’s standard would be as strict as those of the US, the EU, Canada and South Korea."

cooperation need trust

Taipei Times - archives: "In theory, yes; in reality, it depends.

Why the bleak prognosis? Because for “extended deterrence” to work, Washington must be ready — and be seen as ready — to defend allies over which it has cast its nuclear umbrella as though it were defending US soil. Those being deterred must be certain that striking a US ally would bring swift and sure nuclear retaliation, raising the costs of such an attack above any possible benefits. In short, strategic deterrence loses credibility if Washington is not prepared to trade Los Angeles for Tokyo."

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keep Taiwan culture

Taipei Times - archives: "In addition, we must find new methods to protect Taiwan’s small and medium enterprises to prevent the lifeblood of Taiwan’s economy from being washed away by China once the KMT throws the doors wide open to Chinese businesses."

美國牛長驅直入 「喪權辱國」

自由電子報 - 美國牛長驅直入 「喪權辱國」: "民進黨團幹事長王幸男直指，真正拍板定案的人是馬英九總統，而且是在馬與美國在台協會台北辦事處長司徒文會談後就定案了。司徒文日前就曾指出：「美國牛肉進口問題儘快解決後，希望今年底前能恢復ＴＩＦＡ討論。」"

扁辦：若有好人選 珍仍會自聘律師

扁辦：若有好人選 珍仍會自聘律師: "江志銘說，11月6日吳淑珍的庭期在即，可能是高等法院主動按相關程序，先指定義務律師。吳淑珍應該還在徵詢相關人士，如有適當人選，會自聘律師。

媒體追問扁珍二審辯護策略；江志銘說，扁律師團認為扁對國務費、龍潭案、洗錢案，完全不知情，國務費部分應屬歷史共業，因此扁律師團朝陳水扁無罪方向辯護。至於吳淑珍因本就在部分案情中坦承知情，各自律師自然會就扁珍採不同策略。"

ma want to be a king

Taipei Times - archives: "Ma has nascent enemies everywhere he looks. KMT hardliners never trusted him; KMT moderates are beginning to taste Ma’s lack of courage under fire (more pronounced now after Ma’s upbraiding of KMT Legislator Lo Shu-lei (羅淑蕾) for daring to speak her mind); the pro-China press in Taiwan has written aggressive commentaries on his administration and Ma personally; the pro-independence press is ramping up its attacks on Ma for deferring to China at every other opportunity; he remains at a dangerously low ebb in opinion polls; and even his supporters in the foreign think tank community are beginning to wonder if they backed the wrong horse."

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freedom of speaking

Taipei Times - archives: "Press freedom is one of Taiwan’s most precious assets. Warnings, big or small, must be taken seriously to prevent the nation’s press freedom from being eroded any further."

Rebiya Kadeer and free country

Taipei Times - archives: "“Japan plays a very important role in Asia. So it’s a responsibility of Japan to talk about the Uighurs’ problems.”
— Rebiya Kadeer, exiled Uighur leader"

這款憲法守門人

自由電子報 - 這款憲法守門人: "然而，本號解釋認為：「法定法官」原則，乃「維護法官公平獨立審判」。但大法官無視本案當時蔡守訓、周占春兩位法官，於羈押程序「心證已揭」且「南轅北轍」，地院竟開「閉門會議」決定管轄，對於相關不受人民監督情節，未審酌具體過程僅「抽象」解釋條文，實無解「人為介入」、「上下其手」人民疑慮。本案至少應要求如同重大案件分案，排除蔡、周兩法官重行抽籤以昭公信。"

國民黨畫紅線 羅淑蕾：有人趕我走

自由電子報 - 國民黨畫紅線 羅淑蕾：有人趕我走: "出席發言 考紀會定期評量

此舉被認為是針對不分區立委羅淑蕾的「羅淑蕾條款」。羅淑蕾對此反諷「我何其榮幸」，並進一步指稱「有人跟我說現在的政府官員最高興的就是把羅淑蕾趕出立法院，假如把我趕出立法院，他們的日子就好過了 」。她激憤不平反問，「錯的政策怎麼辯護？」她會繼續做對的事。"

財團法人台灣大地文教基金會 - 台灣人拜台灣神 不做無根之民 - 阿扁總統給楊緒東醫師的回信（第6封）

財團法人台灣大地文教基金會 - 台灣人拜台灣神 不做無根之民 - 阿扁總統給楊緒東醫師的回信（第6封）: "Aries提到“Dr. Yang與您同是1950，同樣天命的人…”我才知道和您同年。但10月12日是不是我的生日，我是第一次聽到，因為我從來不過生日，身分證上報戶口的日子，已經是隔年的2月，當然不是我的生日。我是1950年農曆9月初二出生的，但換算國曆是否為10月12日，我就不得而知了。對我而言，只要一覺醒來還能呼吸，又代表過了一天，多活了一天，每天活著的日子，就是生日，要過生日過不完，天天都是生日快樂。"

Chen Shui-bian and Roger Lin may face death penalty in Taiwan over U.S. litigation claims

Chen Shui-bian and Roger Lin may face death penalty in Taiwan over U.S. litigation claims: "In a dramatic development that threatens the lives of two men, the longstanding American 'strategic ambiguity' that has enshrouded Taiwan for 64 years is unraveling. Former Republic of China in-exile President Chen Shui-bian and Taiwanese politician and international legal expert Roger C.S. Lin have been subpoenaed by a Kaohsiung court for depositions on possible treason. The sentence for treason under the ROC administration is the death penalty."

not a happy meeting

公視新聞網 PTS NEWS ONLINE: "第四次江陳會12月將在台中市舉行,民進黨市議員已經揚言、如果海協會會長--陳雲林到台中,一定要發動大批民眾抗議。而為了避免發生嚴重衝突市警局估計要動員五千警力進行維安，強調原則是保障合法、取締非法；而市長--胡志強也表示只要是合法申請和平理性的集會遊行、市政府一定尊重人民的權利。 第四次江陳會12月就要在台中登場,民進黨籍市議員把握機會質詢維安,並質問是否有對綠營人士進行監聽 議員要市府提出具體維安警力部署,綠營市議員甚至擺明,如果海協會長陳雲林到台中,一定動員大批民眾抗議 儘管用幽默化解尷尬氣氛,為了避免上一次陳雲林到台北,綠營大規模包圍嗆聲發生嚴重衝突,雖然到目前為止還沒有確實的地點和時間,不過已經針對上次的人力部署,和維安配置交換意見,同時也針對臺中幾個飯店作初步規劃,整個維安規畫初步估計,人力得要5000人以上

從張元元「報效祖國」看馬總統的終極認同

自由電子報 - 從張元元「報效祖國」看馬總統的終極認同: "除了移民美國的例子，我們台灣也有很多類似的情況。部分在一九四九年前後來台的新移民，以及他們的下一代，明明在這裡生活大半個世紀了，還是不認同這塊土地，不把老住民當作同胞看待。相反的，對他們趕盡殺絕的中國共產黨政權，現在卻成為他們的認同對象。他們之中，很多領台灣優渥的退休俸，卻無時無刻不想「報效祖國」：讓曾經庇護他們的台灣淪為中國的一部分。台灣有這種「兩面人」在「報效祖國」的前車之鑑，或許就是新加坡人對張元元特別感冒的原因吧。"

訪台遭拒 熱比婭：馬不民主

自由電子報 - 訪台遭拒 熱比婭：馬不民主: "原認台灣是民主國家 現半信半疑

有關被台灣政府拒絕入境的問題，熱比婭表示，她一直以為台灣是民主國家，但現在半信半疑，「我覺得管台灣的人（指馬英九）不民主」；未來如有機會訪台，她會對馬英九說，「你應該為台灣人做事，不要聽中國的謊言。」

熱比婭強調，希望台灣人繼續為民主自由奮鬥，不要變成中共的宣傳工"

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liar ma do real thing for Taiwan

Taipei Times - archives: "Taiwan planned to buy more weapons from the US to protect itself, although it did not want an arms race with China as trade ties expand and with more deals expected to be signed in the coming year or so, Ma said.

“[There are] more than 1,000 [missiles] and they haven’t changed that. The number continues to go up. That is certainly a great concern for the people here,” Ma said during an interview at the Presidential Office."

軍紀敗壞的根源

自由電子報 - 軍紀敗壞的根源: "從老蔣時代的「反攻大陸，解救同胞」，經國先生的「三民主義統一中國」，李登輝與陳水扁總統的「為台灣生存而戰」，國軍「為誰而戰，為何而戰」的使命非常明確；但自從馬政府上台之後，一連串的「傾中媚共」政策，及高官爭相往對岸朝貢，與所謂「敵人」杯觥交錯，已逐漸模糊了國軍的敵我意識。"

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all give to China

Taipei Times - archives: "The MOU will allow Chinese banks to open branches in Taiwan. The problem is that China has no private banks — they are all state run. Their branches in Taiwan can therefore be expected to serve a political purpose. If they offer higher interest rates than local banks, they will attract the majority of deposits and can then lend this money to Chinese-invested businesses in Taiwan, allowing them to buy up key resources and take control of the economy."

sunshine bills

Taipei Times - archives: "LEGISLATIVE AGENDA: Citizen Congress Watch said Ma should allow the legislature to vote on cross-strait pacts and the KMT caucus should back ‘sunshine’ bills
By Flora Wang
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, Oct 19, 2009, Page 3

Citizen Congress Watch urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday to push legislative reform now that he is also chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

The legislative watchdog said in a press release that it expected Ma to allow the legislature to approve or reject the content of any cross-strait agreements signed by the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), instead of allowing the agreements to take effect automatically."

protest this man

Taipei Times - archives: "President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was touring a night market in Kaohsiung late on Saturday night when he was confronted by about a dozen angry protesters. A man was whisked away by Ma’s security detail after he tossed a bottle of white paint that barely missed the president.

Ma spent the night in the city after he was reinstated to the post of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman earlier in the day."

Ma's detention Chen

Taipei Times - archives: "The Supreme Court sent the Taiwan High Court’s judgment to extend former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) detention back to the High Court last week, saying its reasons were inadequate. But the collegiate panel handling the case at the High Court decided to extend Chen’s detention anyway, citing almost exactly the same reasons.

This has again highlighted the nation’s problematic custody system. Can the same collegiate panel be expected to overrule a decision it has made previously? Can the High Court simply ignore the concerns cited by the Supreme Court?"

Liar ma saying nothing

Taipei Times - archives: "The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday that the party would deal with its party assets before the 2012 presidential election as President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) promised to handle the issue after taking up the party chairmanship today.

Ma won the election for KMT chairman in July and will take the helm of the party at the KMT’s 18th national convention today."

link to washigton

Taipei Times - archives: "Wexler, 48, a Democrat, is to become president of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation in Washington.

Insiders said that he was leaving public office for financial reasons.

“He will be greatly missed, it’s a big loss for Taiwan,” said Coen Blaauw, executive director of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs."

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自由電子報 - 滅台語 滅台文 滅台史

自由電子報 - 滅台語 滅台文 滅台史: "連橫說：「滅人之國，先滅其史」。國民黨的教育政策，滅亡台灣史、滅亡台灣文學、滅亡台灣語言，正好確證其滅亡台灣，併入中國的本質。而民進黨中央，長期對台灣本土教育缺乏關心，也極少提出有力的本土教育政策，民進黨從教育上所要呈現的台灣主體立場是什麼？

從民進黨的黨綱、黨章來看，有教育政策，卻看不到本土教育政策。立法院的問政，如果有關心台灣本土教育，也都是立委個人的關懷，不是黨的政策。"

ww3 will come soonly

中央廣播電台新聞頻道: "北韓在15日發出這項警告的時機頗耐人尋味，因為最近以來南北韓的關係正逐漸升溫，一方面，才剛進行過韓戰南北韓離散家庭的團圓會；另一方面，北韓也在14日，就臨時津江水壩放水，導致6名南韓人死亡的事件，公開道歉。"

台灣維新影子政府網站(謝長廷)_Shadowgov.TW

台灣維新影子政府網站(謝長廷)_Shadowgov.TW: "長仔的噗浪：
frankcthsieh 說 大陸觀光客不准去高雄,說是上級交代的,這是典型的政治不當干預,政府不應沉默旁觀,吳敦義.馬英九若願意可以講話,可以抗議,但他們選擇沉默,沉默比言語更擲地有聲,就是支持以商逼政.中國將予取予求."

running dogs

Taipei Times - archives: "The first time the Dalai Lama wanted to visit after President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) took office, the Tibetan spiritual leader was turned down because it was not an “appropriate time for him to visit.” When World Uyghur Congress president and former political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer was invited to visit, the government said she was “linked to terrorists.”

Then there were the beat-ups. World Uyghur Congress secretary-general Dolkun Isa had not even planned to visit when the National Immigration Agency barred him based on intelligence from a “friendly country” indicating that he had links to terrorist groups. Isa, who has visited Taiwan before, was surprised and disappointed.

Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi (李洪志) might be equally surprised to hear that he, too, is not welcome in Taiwan — even though he has not made public any plans to come."

no need to push a-bian to die

Taipei Times - archives: "Chen reiterated his opposition to Lin using his name to seek donations, saying that Lin’s aggressive efforts had upset various groups.

Lin petitioned a Washington district court in October 2006 to rule on the nationality of the people of Taiwan. He wanted the US court to decide what rights Taiwanese have under the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the US Constitution, including whether they should be issued US passports."

the US military government

Taipei Times - archives: "The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday lodged a complaint against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) at the Taiwan High Prosecutors’ Office, claiming the former president’s petition last month asking the US to view him as “an agent in Taiwan for the US military government” constituted treason, among other crimes.

The KMT caucus was referring to Chen’s temporary endorsement of a lawsuit activist Roger Lin (林志昇) filed in a Washington district court to rule on the nationality of the people of Taiwan. Lin wanted the court to decide what rights Taiwanese have under the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the US Constitution."

very moving and fantastic experience

Taipei Times - archives: "“I did sort of vaguely know when I was a kid about her existence. The way I know about it, if you look on a library computer her name pops up.

“I’ve always slightly wondered about her ever since I was a kid. It was just amazing for me to come face to face with her and it was fantastic.”(AFP)"

want to war ?

Taipei Times - archives: "Japan’s coast guard said the North had warned of “firing exercises” in the Yellow Sea day and night until Oct. 25.

Pyongyang nevertheless agreed yesterday to Seoul’s request for talks on various issues.

They will meet tomorrow to discuss flood prevention in a cross-border river and on Friday for talks on humanitarian issues including family reunions, Seoul’s unification ministry said.

The North on Sept. 6 released millions of tonnes of water from a dam across the Imjin river, sweeping away six South Koreans camping or fishing downstream.

Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Jung Ok-keun told South Korean lawmakers the KN-02 missiles fired on Monday have a range estimated between 130km and 160km, greater than the 120km previously believed."

讓女人願意生育 大學就不會倒閉

自由電子報 - 讓女人願意生育 大學就不會倒閉: "另一項是美國賓州大學柯勒教授團隊甫於今年八月「自然」雜誌發表的論文，指出在高度發展國家，女性是否能夠兼顧工作和家庭，以及家庭中兩性是否平等，是決定生育率高低的關鍵性因素。而日本、南韓這些富裕東亞國家生育率持續低落，應是肇因於「未能建立制度實現工作／家庭平衡與性別平等」。

後一項研究針對聯合國的「人類發展指數」進行分析，由於我國不是會員國，因此逃過日、韓所受的批評，但是，顯然「未能建立制度實現工作／家庭平衡與性別平等」也完全適用於台灣。"

no space for Taiwan

Taipei Times - archives: "Opposition politicians lashed out at the government for undermining freedom of expression and movement, as well as the sovereignty issue. The most polite criticism came from Wang Dan (王丹), a dissident who left China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, when he said he could understand the refusal to issue a visa based on concerns over cross-strait relations, but not based on a connection between Kadeer and terrorism."

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自由電子報 - 冷清國慶 馬仍大談兩岸開放

自由電子報 - 冷清國慶 馬仍大談兩岸開放: "對馬英九的國慶文告，民進黨昨批評這是一篇只有兩岸、沒有國家；只有休兵、沒有主體的內容。強調面對中國展示的窮兵黷武，馬不僅一言未發，還自我矮化，根本是篇宣示傾中的國慶文告。"

This is our ma's condition

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BEWARE OF THE PSYCHOPATH MY SON
By Clinton Callahan
Sunday, 11 May 2008
http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/485#

[The following is extracted from two articles: Twilight of the Psychopaths, by Dr. Kevin Barrett and The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade by Silvia Cattori. Both articles are recommended. Both articles reference the book Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes, by Andrzej Lobaczewski. Cattori's article is longer and includes an interview with the book's editors, Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Henry See.]

I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn't seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.

The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination. The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers - was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies - especially military hierarchies.

Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld - the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it.

During the past fifty years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task. All of the so called scandals that have come up, any one of which would have taken down an authentic administration, are just farces played out for the public, to distract them, to make them think that the democracy is still working.

One of the main factors to consider in terms of how a society can be taken over by a group of pathological deviants is that the psychopaths' only limitation is the participation of susceptible individuals within that given society. Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active deviants of approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5% other psychopathies and characteropathies.) The essential psychopath is at the center of the web. The others form the first tier of the psychopath's control system.

The next tier of such a system is composed of individuals who were born normal, but are either already warped by long-term exposure to psychopathic material via familial or social influences, or who, through psychic weakness have chosen to meet the demands of psychopathy for their own selfish ends. Numerically, according to Lobaczewski, this group is about 12% of a given population under normal conditions.

So approximately 18% of any given population is active in the creation and imposition of a Pathocracy. The 6% group constitutes the Pathocratic nobility and the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous.

When you understand the true nature of psychopathic influence, that it is conscienceless, emotionless, selfish, cold and calculating, and devoid of any moral or ethical standards, you are horrified, but at the same time everything suddenly begins to makes sense. Our society is ever more soulless because the people who lead it and who set the example are soulless - they literally have no conscience.

In his book Political Ponerology, Andrej Lobaczewski explains that clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent competitions to climb the ranks of social hierarchies. Because they can lie without remorse (and without the telltale physiological stress that is measured by lie detector tests), psychopaths can always say whatever is necessary to get what they want. In court, for example, psychopaths can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible manner, while their sane opponents are handicapped by an emotional predisposition to remain within hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the judge or jury imagines that the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then issues decisions that benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too with those charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to promote in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths. Since psychopaths have no limitations on what they can or will do to get to the top, the ones in charge are generally pathological. It is not power that corrupts, it is that corrupt individuals seek power.

How can we distinguish between psychopaths and healthy people? What is the portrait of a true psychopath?

Such a dangerous question has almost never been successfully asked. The reason is that we mistakenly confuse healthy for normal. Human psychological diversity is the health of our race. There is no normal because healthy humans continuously evolve beyond all normalizing standards. The terrorism of searching through hierarchies for anyone deviating from normal is no different from witch hunts or Inquisitions. You must remember that hierarchies thrive on such low dramas, torturing victims until they confess to evil beliefs. Not so long ago the church and state ongoingly acquired significant income and property through witch hunts and Inquisitions. This continued for over two hundred and fifty years. Ten generations of Europeans understood pogrom as normal life. Let us not return to that nightmare. Testing for normal is guaranteed to backfire in our face. There is no normal. But there is conscience.

We have very little empirical evidence to support the idea that true psychopathy is the result of an abused childhood, and much empirical evidence to support that it is genetic. The neurobiological model offers us the greatest hope of being able to identify even the most devious psychopath. Other recent studies lead to similar results and conclusions: that psychopaths have great difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal affective (emotional) material, that they tend to confuse the emotional significance of events, and most importantly, that these deficits show up in brain scans! A missing internal connection between the feeling heart and the thinking brain is detectable.

Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions. In fact, when Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain scans on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words, one set of neutral words with no emotional associations and a second set with emotionally charged words, while different areas of the brain lit up in the non-psychopathic control group, in the psychopaths, both sets were processed in the same area of the brain, the area that deals with language. They did not have an emotional reaction until they intellectually concluded that it would be better if they had one, and then they whipped up an emotional response just for show.

The simplest, clearest and truest portrait of the psychopath is given in the titles of three seminal works on the subject: Without Conscience by Robert Hare, The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, and Snakes in Suits by Robert Hare and Paul Babiak. A psychopath is exactly that: conscienceless. The most important thing to remember is that this lack of conscience is hidden from view behind a mask of normality that is often so convincing that even experts are deceived. As a result, psychopaths become the Snakes in Suits that control our world.

Psychopaths lack a sense of remorse or empathy with others. They can be extremely charming and are experts at using talk to charm and hypnotize their prey. They are also irresponsible. Nothing is ever their fault; someone else or the world at large is always to blame for all of their problems or their mistakes. Martha Stout, in her book The Sociopath Next Door, identifies what she calls the pity ploy. Psychopaths use pity to manipulate. They convince you to give them one more chance, and to not tell anyone about what they have done. So another trait - and a very important one - is their ability to control the flow of information.

They also seem to have little real conception of past or future, living entirely for their immediate needs and desires. Because of the barren quality of their inner life, they are often seeking new thrills, anything from feeling the power of manipulating others to engaging in illegal activities simply for the rush of adrenaline.

Another trait of the psychopath is what Lobaczewski calls their special psychological knowledge of normal people. They have studied us. They know us better than we know ourselves. They are experts in knowing how to push our buttons, to use our emotions against us. But beyond that, they even seem to have some sort of hypnotic power over us. When we begin to get caught up in the web of the psychopath, our ability to think deteriorates, gets muddied. They seem to cast some sort of spell over us. It is only later when we are no longer in their presence, out of their spell, that the clarity of thought returns and we find ourselves wondering how it was that we were unable to respond or counter what they were doing.

Psychopaths learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to themselves. They also become conscious of being of a different world from the majority of other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance.

Think about the ramifications of this statement: Psychopaths are, to some extent, self-aware as a group even in childhood! Recognizing their fundamental difference from the rest of humanity, their allegiance would be to others of their kind, that is, to other psychopaths.

Their own twisted sense of honor compels them to cheat and revile non-psychopaths and their values. In contradiction to the ideals of normal people, psychopaths feel breaking promises and agreements is normal behavior.

Not only do they covet possessions and power and feel they have the right to them just because they exist and can take them, but they gain special pleasure in usurping and taking from others; what they can plagiarize, swindle, and extort are fruits far sweeter than those they can earn through honest labor. They also learn very early how their personalities can have traumatizing effects on the personalities of non-psychopaths, and how to take advantage of this root of terror for purposes of achieving their goals.

So now, imagine how human beings who are totally in the dark about the presence of psychopaths can be easily deceived and manipulated by these individuals, gaining power in different countries, pretending to be loyal to the local populations while at the same time playing up obvious and easily discernable physical differences between groups (such as race, skin color, religion, etc). Psychologically normal humans would be set against one another on the basis of unimportant differences (think of Rwanda 1994, think of Israelis and Palestinians) while the deviants in power, with a fundamental difference from the rest of us, a lack of conscience, an inability to feel for another human being, reaped the benefits and pulled the strings.

We are seeing the final desperate power-grab or endgame (Alex Jones) of brutal, cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers; money-laundering international bankers and their hit-men - economic and otherwise; corrupt military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate predators and their political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as psy-ops and PR specialists - in short, the whole crew of certifiable psychopaths running our so-called civilization. And they are running scared.

Why does the Pathocracy fear losing its control? Because it is threatened by the spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any psychopath is of being found out.

Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely different from other people. Deep down they know something is missing in them. They quickly learn to hide their lack of empathy, while carefully studying others' emotions so as to mimic normalcy while cold-bloodedly manipulating the normals.

Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of unmasking the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the healthy human being - a civilization without war, a civilization based on truth, a civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical few would gravitate to positions of power. We already have the knowledge necessary to diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of power. We have the knowledge necessary to dismantle the institutions in which psychopaths especially flourish - militaries, intelligence agencies, large corporations, and secret societies. We simply need to disseminate this knowledge, and the will to use it, as widely and as quickly as possible.

Until the knowledge and awareness of pathological human beings is given the attention it deserves and becomes part of the general knowledge of all human beings, there is no way that things can be changed in any way that is effective and long-lasting. If half the people agitating for truth or stopping the war or saving the earth would focus their efforts, time and money on exposing psychopathy, we might get somewhere.

One might ask if the weak point of our society has been our tolerance of psychopathic behavior? Our disbelief that someone could seem like an intelligent leader and still be acting deceptively on their own behalf without conscience? Or is it merely ignorance?

If the general voting public is not aware that there exists a category of people we sometimes perceive as almost human, who look like us, who work with us, who are found in every race, every culture, speaking every language, but who are lacking conscience, how can the general public take care to block them from taking over the hierarchies? General ignorance of psychopathology may prove to be the downfall of civilization. We stand by like grazing sheep as political/corporate elites throw armies of our innocent sons and daughters against fabricated enemies as a way of generating trillions in profits, vying against each other for pathological hegemony.

Nearly everyone who has been part of an organization working for social change has probably seen the same dynamic play out: The good and sincere work of many can be destroyed by the actions of one person. That doesn't bode well for bringing some sort of justice to the planet! In fact, if psychopaths dominate political hierarchies, is it any wonder that peaceful demonstrations have zero impact on the outcome of political decisions? Perhaps it is time to choose something other than massive, distant hierarchies as a way of governing ourselves?

So many efforts to provide essays, research reports, exposés and books to leaders so they might take the new information to heart and change their behavior have come to naught. For example, in the final paragraph of his revised edition of the book, The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg writes:

I still believe that if the people of the world can be helped to understand the situation we are in, the options available, and the consequences of the path we are currently on, then it is at least possible that they can be persuaded to undertake the considerable effort and sacrifice that will be entailed in a peaceful transition to a sustainable, locally based, decentralized, low-energy, resource-conserving social regime. But inspired leadership will be required.

And that is the just-murdered fantasy. There are no inspired leaders anymore. And in hierarchical structures there can't be. Assuming that you can elect men or women to office who will see reason and the light of day, and who will change and learn and grow, make compassionate decisions and take conscientious actions... is a foolish, childish dream. Continuing to dream it simply plays into psychopathic agendas.

Only when the 75% of humanity with a healthy conscience come to understand that we have a natural predator, a group of people who live amongst us, viewing us as powerless victims to be freely fed upon for achieving their inhuman ends, only then will we take the fierce and immediate actions needed to defend what is preciously human. Psychological deviants have to be removed from any position of power over people of conscience, period. People must be made aware that such individuals exist and must learn how to spot them and their manipulations. The hard part is that one must also struggle against those tendencies to mercy and kindness in oneself in order not to become prey.

The real problem is that the knowledge of psychopathy and how psychopaths rule the world has been effectively hidden. People do not have the adequate, nuanced knowledge they need to really make a change from the bottom up. Again and again, throughout history it has been meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If there is any work that is deserving of full time efforts and devotion for the sake of helping humanity in this present dark time, it is the study of psychopathy and the propagation of this information as far and wide and fast as possible.

There are only two things that can bring a psychopath under submission:

1. A bigger psychopath.
2. The non-violent, absolute refusal to submit to psychopathic controls no matter the consequences (non-violent noncompliance).

Let us choose path 2! If individuals simply sat down and refused to lift a hand to further one single aim of the psychopathic agenda, if people refused to pay taxes, if soldiers refused to fight, if government workers and corporate drones and prison guards refused to go to work, if doctors refused to treat psychopathic elites and their families, the whole system would grind to a screeching halt.

True change happens in the moment that a person becomes aware of psychopathy in all its chilling details. From this new awareness, the world looks different, and entirely new actions can be taken. Distinguishing between human and psychopathic qualities begins the foundation of responsibility upon which we have a real chance to create sustainable culture.

Clinton Callahan, originator of Possibility Management, author of Radiant Joy Brilliant Love, founder of Callahan Academy, empowers responsible creative leadership through authentic personal development. http://www.just-stop.org/

fear too much of Red

Taipei Times - archives: "Then the wire got the museum director’s lame excuse:

“‘In accordance with professional museum ethics, we can’t collect disputed artefacts,’ said Chou Kung-shin [周功鑫], director of the museum which boasts the world’s largest collection of classical Chinese art.”

That might make sense, were it not for the fact that the entire National Palace Museum collection is disputed — the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) looted the whole damn pile, and Beijing still claims it all.

None other than a KMT legislator summed up my thoughts nicely.

“‘The museum is spineless. [Berge] wants to give the relics to you and you won’t even accept?’ said Lee Ching-hua [李慶華], a lawmaker from the ruling Kuomintang party.”

Yes, being director of the National Palace Museum is hard — especially in the touchy-feely era of “warming cross-strait relations.”"

justice for nothing

Taipei Times - archives: "t is clear that a comprehensive review of the legal system is essential to restoring trust in it. A non-partisan body of legal experts is needed to review the entire system and the way prosecutors, defense counsel, judges and ministerial officials go about their business. The haunting question is: Is Taiwan remotely capable of forming such a group?

We have suggested Taiwan’s legal fraternity refer this case to the International Council of Jurists for investigation. The qualified body’s silence points to, at best, a distinct feeling of embarrassment on the part of even professional victims of such cant. If any competent collection of eminent jurists were to probe this farrago, the fear might be that the self-esteem of every lawyer, prosecutor and judge would be damaged to an unbearable degree as international scorn rains down on the industry.

Taiwan’s notoriously high prosecution rate, widespread flouting of the rights of the accused — no better illustrated than by police parading unconcealed, handcuffed suspects in police stations — the lack of an interface between the legal establishment and the education system, the utter incompetence of Minister of Justice Wang Ching-feng (王清峰) and the overall impotence of her predecessors (on both sides of politics), a litany of bizarre and corrosive court judgments, and the general sense of unaccountability to a professional standard has left the system reeling."

Red terror in Taiwan

Taipei Times - archives: "Presiding Judge Teng Chen-chiu (鄧振球) listed several reasons for the court’s decision, saying that since Chen left office he has kept in frequent contact with people overseas and, as a former president, he knows more channels for fleeing the country than ordinary citizens. The judges also said that if he chose to escape, he would live comfortably off the funds he and his family had overseas."

外電：收屍人將來自內部──中共快完了（圖）

外電：收屍人將來自內部──中共快完了（圖）: "但假如你對那些儀式有興趣，半官方的中國網民將遊行隊伍……從第一火箭發射器到最後……全放在YouTube供人欣賞。

所有的節目都在那裏：戴著白手套、踢正步的軍人隊伍、不斷循環播放的荒謬軍樂、刻意表情呆滯的共產黨官員們，為了顯示“人民”的參與，寥寥幾十個特別挑選的愛國市民揮舞著旗幟，空蕩的天安門廣場迴響著他們的歡呼聲。這一切是這麼地熟悉。

簡而言之，那整個就是一場冷淡的、沒活力的政治自慰。那是中國共產黨自己一手敲出的掌聲。"

自由電子報 - 一個父親的心願

自由電子報 - 一個父親的心願: "人權律師被關下去，揭露豆腐渣工程的被關下去，出庭作證的被公安打下去，練功的人內臟被挖出去，不聽話的人被趕出去，有冤屈上訪的人被武警Ｋ下去…"

自由電子報 - 《林保華專欄》地方派系的選擇

自由電子報 - 《林保華專欄》地方派系的選擇: "不像有些外來過客，即使台灣亡國，即使台灣自然環境遭到巨大破壞，他們有綠卡可以遷居美國，或有「紅卡」可以到中國。也因為這一點，也就是對自己鄉土的愛護，民進黨與地方派系有合作的可能。至於「黑金」問題，以後通過改革來逐步解決，因為真正大黑金就是中共。"

自由電子報 - 十一？雙十？以上皆非！

自由電子報 - 十一？雙十？以上皆非！: "在馬英九政府親中政策下，中華民國自我矮化為「中華台北」，中國特使來了，國旗要收起來，「雙十」國慶的光輝更黯淡，「十一」偽國慶反而逆勢放冷光。

中國慶祝建國六十年，搞大閱兵及武器秀，台灣的親中電子媒體大肆報導「壯盛軍容」，有如中國宣傳喉舌央視的分台，馬總統聘的四個國策顧問、官派華航董事長魏幸雄等人直奔北京朝天，魏回台後還一副政府管不著姿態，調查局長吳瑛日前對立委去參加對岸國慶，竟稱沒怎麼樣嘛！"

Taiwan’s sovereignty

Taipei Times - archives: "‘President Ma Ying-jeou’s government often claims that it would never sell out Taiwan. The fact is that it has no right to do so even if it wanted to because Taiwan’s sovereignty does not belong to the ROC"

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自由電子報 - 郝龍斌話中有話

自由電子報 - 郝龍斌話中有話: "反觀台北市，從忠孝東西路公車專用道、龍山寺地下商場、新生高架橋到現在可能終止合約的大巨蛋、還沒驗收就開放搭乘連連出事的柵湖線，更不用說貓空纜車，這些都成為對施政無能「沈默的抗議」。"

自由電子報 - 星期專論／中國大閱兵 假想敵是誰

自由電子報 - 星期專論／中國大閱兵 假想敵是誰: "中國為什麼要把美國作為假想敵？除了爭奪亞洲的戰略主導權，更主要目標，是準備武力犯台、美國干預時，跟美軍交手。這說明不管馬政府如何各方面「休兵」，都是一廂情願。中國仍以兩位數的比例增長軍費，瞄準台灣的飛彈有增無減。北京閱兵等於告知台灣，馬政府的全面「休兵」，只是全面投降而已；北京不僅不會縮減任何武力犯台的準備，而更加快步伐，增進強度。"

this country is evil as Ma

Taipei Times - archives: "“The appeal was rejected but we will take it to the high court,” said Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer and the spokesman for her National League for Democracy party, Nyan Win, after the hearing."

Anti-Secession” Law

Taipei Times - archives: "The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that found independence activist Su Beng (史明) guilty of using violence or threatening behavior at a public gathering and other crimes in a 2005 protest against then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan’s (連戰) visit to China.

On April 26, 2005, the day Lien embarked on his trip to China, hundreds of pan-green and pan-blue supporters clashed in the lobby of the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. The visit came shortly after China passed its “Anti-Secession” Law, which says the People’s Liberation Army can use “non-peaceful means” against Taiwan."

red tourism

Taipei Times - archives: "Four years ago, Beijing launched a drive to promote ‘red tourism’ in hopes of reinvigorating the ‘national ethos’ of visitors and the economies of mostly poor, landlocked areas

By Tania Branigan
THE GUARDIAN, YAN’AN, CHINA
Friday, Oct 02, 2009, Page 9



The bullet tore through Mao Guangrong’s back and came out through his groin. It took five men to hold him down as they stuffed the wound with cloth to staunch the bleeding — the only treatment the troops could muster as they struggled to defend the communist base at Yan’an."