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发帖数: 4825 | 1 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230436720457
By JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Dec. 20, 2013 7:44 p.m. ET
The U.S. once had an unofficial but nonetheless genuine ruling class, drawn
from what came to be known as the WASP establishment. Members of this
establishment dominated politics, economics and education, but they do so no
longer. The WASPocracy, as I think of it, lost its confidence and, with it,
the power and interest to lead. We are now without a ruling class, unless
one includes the e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 2 James May, Cracking the Problem of Hydrogen-Fuel Future; Right then. A few
of you, over on the internet forum, have requested it, so here it is: James
’s Ladybird Book of How It Works - the hydrogen fuel-cell motor
carTelegraph, Feb 24, 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/columnists
/jamesmay/8338090/Cracking-the-problem-of-hydrogen-fuel-future.html
Note:
(a) smashing (adj): "extraordinarily impressive or effective
performance>"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com, except othe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 3 A loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs
Michael Hiltzik
Los Angeles Timesmichael.hiltzik@latimes.com
@hiltzikmA
loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs--and
Congress wants to expand it: http://t.co/y3y6upmDMt
Edison cuts hundreds of tech jobs
Since last summer, Edison has been firing domestic IT workers, replacing
them with outsourced ones from India
'We can get four Indian guys for cheaper than the price of you,' laid-off
Edison worke... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 4 (1) BBC 利特海德, 记者来鸿：从天价大碗面看越南社会主义. BBC Chinese, Feb 18,
2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp
/world/2011/02/110218_fooc_vietnamnoodle.shtml
, which is translated from
Alastair Leithead, Communist Vietnam's $35 bowl of noodle soup. BBC, Jan 21,
2011.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes
/from_our_own_correspondent/9367223.stm
Note:
(a) gawp (vi; English dialect gawp to yawn, gape): "chiefly British GAWK"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com except otherwise identified.
(b) The report mentione... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 5 参见一个homage单词的OED词条：
homage, n.
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Pronunciation: Brit. /hmd/ , U.S. /(h)ɑmd/ (also, chiefly in sense 3b)
Brit. /mɑ/ , U.S. /omɑ/
Forms: ME homoge, ME omage, ME umage, ME ummage, ME–15 hommage, ME–
homage; Sc. pre-17 homadge, pre-17 homag, pre-17 homege, pre-17 omage, pre-
17 ymage (perhaps transmission error), pre-17 17– homage. (Show Less)
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman homaige, humage, Anglo-Norman and Old French
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发帖数: 1879 | 6 来自主题: EnglishChat版 - Re: 标点符号---- @,%,^,&,!,~,`,;,/,|,[,],{,} 英文请教 ~ tilde, swing dash
| vertical pipe? No one around me seem to know.
the rest can be found in
http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/punctuat.htm
PUNCTUATION MARKS
. period (or full stop)
, comma
; semicolon
' apostrophe
quotation marks single (or chiefly British inverted commas)
quotation marks double (or chiefly British inverted commas)
guillemets
? question mark (or interrogation point)
? question marks, Spanish
! exclamation point
! exclamation points, Spanish
interrobang
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发帖数: 5754 | 7
2. Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the
oracles of God.
"2. Much in every way, etc.; that is, very much. He begins here to give the
sacrament its own praise; but he concedes not, that on this account the Jews
ought to have been proud; for when he teaches that they were sealed by the
symbol of circumcision, by which they were counted the children of God, he
does not allow that they became superior to others through any merit or
worthiness of their own, but through t... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 8 Chinese tourists l A new Grand Tour; China’s tourists are carving out a
new European itinerary, with some unexpected stops. Economist, Dec 16, 2010.
http://www.economist.com/node/17722582?story_id=17722582
"Paris shops such as Louis Vuitton are essential stops: witness their
Mandarin-speaking staff.
"It is a standing joke among Chinese travellers that many products snapped
up abroad bear 'Made in China' labels. But there is some sense to this
seeming madness. Thanks to hefty taxes and customs ... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 9 The following three articles are from Financial Times (FT), June 11, 2011.
The last one does NOT require registration.
(1) Richard McGregor, Tale of Two Revolutions Revealed by Zhou's 'Delicious
Misunderstanding'; Former China premier confused 1789 and 1968.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74916db6
-938d-11e0-922e-00144feab49a.html
("Chas Freeman, a retired foreign service officer, sought to correct the
long-standing error. 'I distinctly remember the exchange. There was a mis&
shy;understanding that w... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 10 (1) Tom Orlik, No Appreciation for the Rising Yuan; Heard on the Street.
Wall Street Journal. June 21, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052
702304070104576397513517003444.html
("It's been a year since the yuan's peg to the dollar ended. * * * The yuan
has reached 6.4696 to the dollar, up 5.5%. * * * Data collected by the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics show the price of U.S. imports from China in May
up just 2.8% year on year. * * * China's trade surplus with the U.S. is
larger in t... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 11 Edward Wong, Repackaging the Revolutionary Classics of China; A revival to
promote stability, not rebellion. New York Times, June 30, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/world/asia
/30redsong.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=wong%20red%20stability&st=cse
Quote:
"'In this absurd time, they encourage you to sing revolutionary songs, but
they do not encourage you to wage a revolution,' He Bing, the vice dean of
the law school at the China University of Political Science & Law, said at a
recent graduation. Sur... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 12 (1) Dan Levin, China's Return To The Silk Road; China is reclaiming its
place as the world's megabazaar, with the city of Yiwu as its one-stop shop
for traders from the muslim world. Fast Company, July-August, 2011.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/157/yiwu-china-muslim-trade
Quote:
"If China is the world's factory, then Yiwu is its showroom.
"Last year, China surpassed the U.S. as the No. 1 exporter to the Middle
East
"Today, 200,000 Middle Eastern traders make the trek to Yiwu every year,
a... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 13 Sledgehammers and Stunned Fish; Globalisation with Chinese characteristics
works at both corporate and national level. Economist, Oct 1, 2011.
http://www.economist.com/node/21530974
My comment:
(a) The title of the posting actually comes from the same issue of Economist
magazine--at the table of contents.
(b) Banyan is the title of a column in the Asia section of Economist
magazine.
(c) The article talks about "white good, as well as some 'brown' ones." See
small appliance
http://en.wikipedia.or... 阅读全帖 |
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e****i
发帖数: 2152 | 14 【 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 | 15 (1) Michael Burleigh, An American Triple Threat; How a trio of generals
worked together, except when they didn't, in taking the fight to Hitler.
Wall Street Journal, Apr 9, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748703806304576236633362199332.html
(book review on Jonathan W. Jordan, Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower,
Patton, Bradley and the partnership that drove the Allied Conquest in Europe
. Caliber, 2011)
Note:
(a) gimp (n): "LIMP "
gimpy (adj... 阅读全帖 |
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B*******e
发帖数: 691 | 16 今天看到一段话，转贴一下：
“What was chiefly lacking in China for the further development of
capitalism was not mechanical skills or scientific aptitude, nor a
sufficient accumulation of wealth, but scope for individual enterprises.
There was no individual freedom and no security for private enterprise,
no legal foundation for rights other than those of the state, no
alternative investment other than landed property, no guarantee against
being penalized by arbitrary exactions from officials or against
interv... 阅读全帖 |
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y***k
发帖数: 9459 | 17 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: yesok (ok博士), 信区: Military
标 题: 上一代人类已经掌握了反重力和星际航行的能力
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Mar 30 23:44:53 2016, 美东)
反引力手册摘录
By D. Hatcher Childress
Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact.
While it assumed that most
flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin,
another possible origin of UFOs is ancient
India and Atlantis.
许多研究员进入不明飞行物谜之内容易看出一个很重要的事实。虽然多数被假定是外星
人的飞碟，或也许
是政府的军事来源，不明飞行物的另外一个可能的来源是古印度和亚特兰提斯岛。
What we know ab... 阅读全帖 |
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u****n
发帖数: 7521 | 18 "Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me
privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of
commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something.
They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so
watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better
not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
- President Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
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e****i
发帖数: 2152 | 19 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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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 20 (1) Evan Ramstad, Shipyards Running Aground; Recession's lagging effect on
orders forces South Korean shipbuilders to cut payrolls, shift course. Wall
Street Journal, June 23, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527
02304778304576375972346103698.html
Quote:
"The downturn is affecting shipyards world-wide. China's shipbuilding
association last month said some of the country's yards would suspend
production after completing existing orders.
"Ships are the country's [Korea's] biggest expo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 108 | 21 五毛逼估计没看到这一段
The cliffs are made chiefly of sediment and rock formations that slope
seawards. The ocean also erodes the base of the cliffs, and there have been
several slow-moving landslides since the 1950s that threatened several
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发帖数: 29576 | 22 According to their analysis, President Barack Obama will win 218 votes in
the Electoral College, short of the 270 he needs. And though they chiefly
focus on the Electoral College, the political scientists predict Romney will
win 52.9 percent of the popular vote to Obama’s 47.1 percent, when
considering only the two major political parties.
Their model correctly predicted all elections since 1980, including two
years when independent candidates ran strongly, 1980 and 1992. It also
correctly predi... 阅读全帖 |
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a*******t
发帖数: 10093 | 23 除了美国宪法明文规定，“政教分离”、“不设国教”之外
美国钱币上的“in god we trust”，美国最高法院是有明确解释的
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“uch practices as the designation of "In God We Trust" as our national
motto, or the references to God contained in the Pledge of Allegiance to the
flag can best be understood, in Dean Rostow's apt phrase, as a form a "
ceremonial deism," [Footnote 2/24] protected from Establishment Clause
scrutiny chiefly because they have lost through rote repetition any
signif... 阅读全帖 |
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G****1
发帖数: 8414 | 24 googlel了 一下public housing
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, government involvement in
housing for the poor was chiefly in the introduction of buildings standards.
New York City's First Houses, dedicated in 1935, were the nation's first
public housing project.[17] Most housing communities were developed from the
1930s onward and initial public housing was largely slum clearance, with
the requirement insisted upon by private builders that for every unit of
public housing constructed... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 25 Human Events：19和20世纪最有害的10本书
“人事”杂志（Human Events）
美国“人事”杂志（Human Events）邀请了15位保守派学者和公共政策领袖组成一个评
委会，来评比19到20世纪世界“十本最有害的书”（Ten Most Harmful Books）。每个
评委可以推荐一定数量的候选书目，然后给全体评委推荐的所有候选书目打分：一本书
如果被一个评委列为第一名（最有害的书），得10分，第二名得9分，依此类推。实至
名归，马克思和恩格斯合著的“共产党宣言”得了最高分，成为上两个世纪“最有害的
一本书”。
1，共产党宣言（The Communist Manifesto）
作者：卡尔•马克思（Karl Marx），弗里德里希•恩格斯（Freidrich
Engels）出版时间：1848得分：74
点评：马克思和恩格斯分别于1818年和1820年出生于德国，是共产主义的精神教父。恩
格斯起初是个左派富家公子：他继承了收入丰厚的纺织厂，马克思人生的大部分靠他资
助。1848年，二人合著了“共产党宣言”，作为他们所属的“共产国际”（Com... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 201 | 26 Xi Jinping and the Chinese dream
The vision of China’s new president should serve his people, not a
nationalist state
N 1793 a British envoy, Lord Macartney, arrived at the court of the Chinese
emperor, hoping to open an embassy. He brought with him a selection of gifts
from his newly industrialising nation. The Qianlong emperor, whose country
then accounted for about a third of global GDP, swatted him away: “Your
sincere humility and obedience can clearly be seen,” he wrote to King
George III, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22064 | 27 http://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20140512/c12yu/
New York Times ChinaFollow the Money, China-Style
By YU HUA May 12, 2014
余华 2014年05月12日
BEIJING — Since China introduced a floating exchange rate on July 21, 2005,
the Chinese yuan has consistently risen in value against the United States
dollar, from a low of 8.28 yuan to the dollar in July 2005 to a high of 6.06
in January of this year. But the appreciation of the yuan has failed to
convince ordinary Chinese people that their money buys more; on th... 阅读全帖 |
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b***n
发帖数: 13455 | 28 Hummingbird, without vetting [Lizhong] Fan further, sought his work visa,
Greschner said, adding that he assumed law enforcement or other government
officials took a closer look at the Chinese national. Greschner said he was
asked by an official with the sheriff's department in 2006 to provide a
numeric code for Fan's name, often used in investigations to pinpoint
Chinese identity, which he did. In the application, Greschner said that Fan
possessed skills not readily available in the U.S.
The Ma... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******n
发帖数: 6889 | 29 http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-looks-to-regulate-internet-fi
By Gillian Wong
July 18, 2015 8:39 a.m. ET
BEIJING—China’s government issued guidelines to regulate fast-growing
Internet finance, aiming to address risks exposed by the recent stock market
turmoil, while pledging to support the sector in directing financing to
small businesses and entrepreneurs.
The guidelines, posted on the central bank’s website Saturday, call for
closer supervision of the sector. Chiefly, they clarify the divisi... 阅读全帖 |
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y***k
发帖数: 9459 | 30 反引力手册摘录
By D. Hatcher Childress
Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact.
While it assumed that most
flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps Governmental Military origin,
another possible origin of UFOs is ancient
India and Atlantis.
许多研究员进入不明飞行物谜之内容易看出一个很重要的事实。虽然多数被假定是外星
人的飞碟，或也许
是政府的军事来源，不明飞行物的另外一个可能的来源是古印度和亚特兰提斯岛。
What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from ancient Indian
sources; written texts that
have come down to us through the centuries... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****o
发帖数: 1121 | 31 ˈzē, Canada, British, & Australian ˈzed, chiefly dialect ˈi-
zərd |
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a*****y
发帖数: 33185 | 32 贴一个washingtonpost的：
"China’s continued economic development will bring the country increasingly
into direct competition with the United States, which is why Trump has
explicitly stated the proposed U.S. tariffs are designed to impede the Made
in China 2025 program. But this strategy is unlikely to be effective and
risks undermining rather than boosting U.S. manufacturing."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/03/what-is-made-
in-china-2025-and-why-is-it-a-threat-to-trumps-t... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 33 是一个什么腺体里喷射出来的。问题是怎么可能会喷射这么大量呢？
This Is What Comes Out When a Woman Ejaculates
Everything you want to know about the elusive squirt.
It was, and remains, one of the most spectacular things I’d ever witnessed.
A dozen women, my then-partner among them, shooting arcs of liquid the air
from from their genitals for the very first time, in unison. What had begun
90 minutes earlier as a fairly granular anatomy lesson in a Brooklyn
townhouse had seamlessly morphed into something resembling the fountain ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****n
发帖数: 1998 | 34 马克图温算是白人里面少数有良知的人之一， 当初他从密西西比跑到加州， 正逢加州
排华，马克图温写了一个正面的报道，结果自己被闲置了， 这是他成名前的事情
OF course there was a large Chinese population in Virginia--it is the
case with every town and city on the Pacific coast. They are a harmless
race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than
dogs; in fact they are almost entirely harmless anyhow, for they
seldom think of resenting the vilest insults or the cruelest injuries.
They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they
are a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 35 OF course there was a large Chinese population in Virginia--it is the
case with every town and city on the Pacific coast. They are a harmless
race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than
dogs; in fact they are almost entirely harmless anyhow, for they
seldom think of resenting the vilest insults or the cruelest injuries.
They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they
are as industrious as the day is long. A disorderly Chinaman is rare,
and a lazy o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 36 OF course there was a large Chinese population in Virginia--it is the
case with every town and city on the Pacific coast. They are a harmless
race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than
dogs; in fact they are almost entirely harmless anyhow, for they
seldom think of resenting the vilest insults or the cruelest injuries.
They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they
are as industrious as the day is long. A disorderly Chinaman is rare,
and a lazy o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 37 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HANKOW
China's Commercial And Industrial Capital.
From The Far Eastern Review.
Ever since the fateful fire which destroyed the Chinese city of Hankow
during the Revolution of 1911-12 it has been generally known that the
Chinese Government has been desirous of rebuilding the city upon modern
lines and making other improvements in the vicinity compatible with the
importance of such a flourishing commercial and industrial center. It was,
therefore, not surprising when it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 38 THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HANKOW
China's Commercial And Industrial Capital.
From The Far Eastern Review.
Ever since the fateful fire which destroyed the Chinese city of Hankow
during the Revolution of 1911-12 it has been generally known that the
Chinese Government has been desirous of rebuilding the city upon modern
lines and making other improvements in the vicinity compatible with the
importance of such a flourishing commercial and industrial center. It was,
therefore, not surprising when it ... 阅读全帖 |
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z****g
发帖数: 3509 | 39 这文章太牛皮了，而且能直接登在匈牙利的主流报纸上。虚伪的盎萨的主流媒体再反中
，也不敢登这样的文章，哈哈哈哈。
Chinese newcomers to post-Communist Hungary have turned the country into a
hub of trade with Central and Eastern Europe. But they generally keep to
themselves and refuse to assimilate.
Anna Szalai
“I’m not racist, but I hate Chinese people and blacks.” This sentiment,
aired in the course of a survey on how foreign pupils are received at
Hungarian schools, has become all too familiar. While the number of new
immigrants to Hungary has steadil... 阅读全帖 |
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U*E
发帖数: 3620 | 40 According to their analysis, President Barack Obama will win 218 votes in
the Electoral College, short of the 270 he needs. And though they chiefly
focus on the Electoral College, the political scientists predict Romney will
win 52.9 percent of the popular vote to Obama’s 47.1 percent, when
considering only the two major political parties.
Their model correctly predicted all elections since 1980, including two
years when independent candidates ran strongly, 1980 and 1992. It also
correctly predi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 June 23, 2012 by Charlie Quidnunc
People sometimes say that the Republicans are the pro-business party, and
the Democrats are the pro-consumer party. I would prefer to think of it,
perhaps naively, that the Republicans are pro-market, and the other guys are
pro-regulation. When given the chance many business people will do whatever
it takes to make money, skirting as close to the law as possible, seeking
favors from powerful politicians to defeat their competitors, and generally
trying to maxim... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 "Based on our forecasting model, it becomes clear that the president is in
electoral trouble"
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Let's all hope the University of Colorado streak continues:
A University of Colorado analysis of state-by-state factors leading to
the Electoral College selection of every U.S. president since 1980 forecasts
that the 2012 winner will be Mitt Romney.
The key is the economy, say political science professors Kenneth Bickers
of CU-Boulder and Michael Berry of CU Denv... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly
released... and here is the chart to prove it
The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012
there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures
This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about
the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996
By David Rose
PUBLISHED: 16:42 EST, 13 October 2012 | UPDATED: 20:21 EST, 13 October 2012
The ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 44 U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis’ Hands
By JAMES RISEN, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms
shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials
later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the
weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and
foreign diplomats.
No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 In that dreary winter of 1979, the piles of uncollected trash in London's
Finsbury Park seemed to stretch for miles. The garbagemen were on strike. So
too, at one time or another, were hospital workers, ambulance drivers,
truck drivers, railwaymen. Also gravediggers: In Liverpool, corpses had to
be warehoused as they awaited burial—yet another long queue that socialist
Britain had arranged for its patient masses.
This was the "Winter of Discontent," when Great Britain came about as close
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发帖数: 1041 | 46 福克蘭群島事件。
儘管因為削減政府開支，國家正在縮衣節食。但遇到這種侵略領土、主權的挑釁，咬著
牙都得打。
我要反思一下我對釣魚台的看法了。
The same went for the Falklands. Critics of that war paint it as a display
of jingoism, carried out chiefly for Thatcher's political convenience. Yet
the issues at stake were larger than the possession of some rocky and frigid
islands in the South Atlantic. Would Argentina's unprovoked aggression be
resisted or rewarded? Would 1,800 Falklanders—loyal to the Crown, English-
speaking—be consigned without real protest to foreig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 47 by Jammie
All of these places voted overwhelmingly for Obama, who has suddenly become
the champion of income inquality in between lavish vacations and golf
outings.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of
the United States’ most prosperous and largest cities.
The economic divides in Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, New York,
Chicago and Los Angeles are significantly greater than the national average,
according to a study released last week by the Brookin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2053 | 48 https://www.yahoo.com/politics/if-biden-runs-he-shouldnt-run-from-his-record
-on-128211958156.html
Sen. Joe Biden with Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell during
negotiations for the 1994 crime bill. (Photo: John Duricka/AP)
There was a time in Democratic politics when nothing mattered more than
being “tough on crime.” Think back to 1992, when Bill Clinton — mindful
of the way Michael Dukakis had been pilloried over prison furloughs and his
opposition to the death penalty four years earlier —... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7733 | 49 Donald J. Trumpall but erased his enormous fund-raising disadvantage
againstHillary Clintonin the span of just two months, according to
figures released by his campaign on Wednesday, converting the passion of his
core followers into a flood of small donations on a scale rarely seen in
national politics.
Mr. Trump and theRepublican National Committeeraised $64 million
through a joint digital and mail effort in July, according to his campaign,
the bulk of it from small donations. All told, Mr. Tru... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2054 | 50 现炒现卖, 回答你对Bannon立场的疑惑:
An establishment Republican, with their overriding belief in the glory of
the free market, might be moved to tear down a cathedral and replace it with
a strip mall if it made economic sense. Such an act would horrify a natural
conservative. Immigration policy follows a similar pattern: by the numbers,
cheap foreign workers on H1B visas make perfect economic sense. But natural
conservatives have other concerns: chiefly, the preservation of their own
tribe and its culture.
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