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发帖数: 4321 | 1 The big chunk for president vacation is mainly on air-force one. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Posted on June 7th, 2012
This week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made history be being the first
governor to win a recall election. The cost of the recall, including the
primary and the general election, is estimated at $18 million. (And that’s
not including the millions of dollars that were spent advertising and
campaigning.)
The recall election never should have happened. The Wisconsin law allowing
recall elections was created to allow voters to remove from office elected
officials involve... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 2:40 PM, Aug 8, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
A new chart set to be released later today by the Republican side of the
Senate Budget Committee details a startling statistic: "Over 100 Million
People in U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare."
"The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal
means-tested welfare programs," the Senate Budget Committee notes. However,
the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include those who
are only benefiting... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 4 1. I tend to agree. Loosing military dominance will cause major drop in
standard of living in the united states. The capability to inject military
power anywhere anytime is very important.
However, defence spending can probably withstand a 10% to 20% cut without
loosing the dominance.
2. the spending by US fed gov is more or less 5 big chuncks, each about
700B.
medicare/medicaid 20%
defence 20%
Social Security 20%
Income Security 20% (including welfare, pension, benefit to Veterans and Fed
empl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21367 | 5 it's even more naive to raise the example of capital market
is the WSN rich when his nominal worth comes to 2 million dollars?
he IS NOT rich yet.
he IS RICH when he buy properties, when his bank account
show sky high numbers. there's no difficulty to tax on these items.
he can avoid tax by capital investment, by making more wealth from his
wealth. That is exactly what we want this smart WSN to do!
we are not taxing people to punish them. a good taxation encourages
people to make positive effort... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 68 | 6 I told you I burned that 1 million for heating. I was too drunk and high.
Should I provide video tape? well, maybe you will see one video that I am
burning money in my fire palce. But you better be able to prove I really
have 1 million in asset left because all I have is a property worth 1
million and I own bank 1 million.
what if I told you I sent 1 million dollar home as a birthday gift to my dad
in China. You can check the bank transaction. He will confirm my account.
Well, he bought a nice h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 65 | 7 For my own opinion, if you cannot save up enough by your own, vote O8ma. Coz
you want to use others' money.
If you have decent income and are able to save some. Vote Romney. Better
economy may benefit everyone.
Everyone will die. Everyone will have to pay a big chunk of money to
hospital. If you cannot afford the potion of yourself, of course, you have
to use others' money.
my
future
did |
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发帖数: 4321 | 8 Not relevant as long as trillions are being spent on wars.
entitlements need reform, but not before military spending gets seriously
cut.
If seniors are going to lose their big chunk of entitlements, what the heck
do we need military for?
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.5 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 9 are you out of your mind?
private sector, they go busted, one by one.
bear stern gone!
lehman brothers gone!
wamu gone!
that is how marker suppose to work.
while gse are supposed to be gone now!
but they are still alive.
those gse scumbags did this first, holding the largest chunk of subprime
mortgages, and they are still alive.
why?
because they use gun the power to rob tax payers,
that's why!
are you are still paying into this as of today while we are speaking.
you, useful idiots, do you under... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1637 | 10 Truth, 47% , but veteran Conservative Kristol ( you may hear from me 1st
time )
, just said today:
"It's worth recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay
income taxes are Romney supporters—especially of course seniors (who might
well "believe they are entitled to heath care," a position Romney agrees
with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women
serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the
country even if they're not ge... 阅读全帖 |
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e***s
发帖数: 1397 | 11 The real problem demonstrated in this video is, that negro broad actually
thinks it is Obama who paid for her new phone - not the other hard working
tax-payers - who are actually working to pay for her free phone while she is
chanting for Obama on the street.
This is the exact, essential, inherent moral hazard of Communism. The
government acts as a Robin Hood between the rich and the poor - and they
keep robbing from the productive to give to the slackers - while in the mean
time pocketing a big... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 by n*****[email protected] (Mike Mish Shedlock)
The BLS Glossary defines full-time workers as "Persons who work 35 hours or
more per week".
For monthly reporting, the BLS defines part-time as "those who worked 1 to
34 hours during the survey reference week". With that wording, I am not
precisely sure where 34.1 or 34.5 hours fit.
Interestingly, the Obamacare mandate says Anyone Who Works 30-Hour Week Is
Now 'Full-Time'
A little-known section in the Obamacare health reform law defines “full
-time... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 Posted by Bryan Jacoutot Monday, October 29, 2012 at 1:01pm
A new Boston Globe poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey
Center shows Scott Brown is making a successful October push in
Massachusetts to keep his seat in the United States Senate. The Globe now
has Brown leading 47-45.
The poll is a reversal from a September Globe survey that showed Warren
ahead 43 percent to 38 percent, as well as several other recent polls that
have found Warren with a slight lead. The shift... 阅读全帖 |
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B******e
发帖数: 16928 | 14 Because stupid democrats do not agree and he has to compromise.
As for the difference, temporary is like give you 1M for one-time. You are
going to save not spend the majority of it. Permanent is like give you 1M
each year, then you will spend a huge chunk of 1M each time. |
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发帖数: 16928 | 15 Because stupid democrats do not agree and he has to compromise.
As for the difference, temporary is like give you 1M for one-time. You are
going to save not spend the majority of it. Permanent is like give you 1M
each year, then you will spend a huge chunk of 1M each time. |
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发帖数: 353 | 16 Is capitalism better than socialism? yeah, it should be. But there is
corruption in capitalism too. E.g.,sometimes those CXOs sitting on the board
may have taken a big chunk of the cake before they fuck up the whole
company.
No matter what the system is, the hard working middle class should be
growing instead of shrinking. Using the graph posted by LZ to demonstrate
that the rich people is overpaying their fair share is pointless. Is the
current tax burden for the rich too much if their wealth i... 阅读全帖 |
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l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 17 Ford investing $6.2 billion, creating 12,000 new jobs by 2015
Ford Motor Co. plans to invest $6.2 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing
base, a move that will help it save 3,240 existing jobs and add another 12,
000 positions by 2015.
A large chunk of the investment will go into the maker’s home state of
Michigan, which will see the addition of 2,350 new jobs.
“These investments, many of which are already under way, will ensure our
southeast Michigan manufacturing facilities can support our a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 18 [Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. (September 18, 1951)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you so much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Obama,
distinguished guests – which included everybody. Thank you so much for this
wonderful honor to be at this stage again. I was here 16 years ago, and the
fact that they invited me back means that I didn’t offend too many people,
so that was great. [LAUGHTER]
I want to start by reading four texts which will put into I want to start by
reading four texts which... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5417 | 19 Here's the transcript of his speech on national breakfast.
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[Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr. (September 18, 1951)] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you so much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Obama,
distinguished guests – which included everybody. Thank you so much for this
wonderful honor to be at this stage again. I was here 16 years ago, and the
fact that they invited me back means that I didn’t offend too many people,
so that was ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — National Guard troops are firing tear gas and
plastic bullets to disperse students protesting the official results in
Venezuela's disputed presidential election.
The students are hurling chunks of concrete and stones back at the troops on
a highway in the capital of Caracas.
The students are trying to reach the western part of Caracas, where most of
the government is headquartered and where Nicolas Maduro is being declared
winner of Sunday's election to replace the dece... 阅读全帖 |
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M****9
发帖数: 240 | 21 In US attorneys will take one out of ten complaints to make a case in courts
and most of these cases settle out of the court. You can calculate from
this to have an idea how often physicians get sued. A large chunk of
physicians' income pays for malpractice insurance. Obamacare did not address
this issue at all. Oh, he is an attorney, why would bark at his own people. |
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a***e
发帖数: 27968 | 22 30% is not majority, just big chunk of it.
1 doctor with 3 nurse will make over 1M a year. another 1M for all other
cost.
this 2M would be paid by the people they served, say 400. everyone would pay
5000 out of pocket each. 300M ppl means $1.5T. |
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发帖数: 27968 | 23 in US, per capita healthcare cost is twice of Europe and 3~4x of Japan
yet life expectancy is same as Chile, which health cost is about 10% of US
per capita. Most europe and Japan running health care for all policy.
The US way of health care is a dead spiral and the Ins policy is big chunk
of it.
Running health Ins for profit purpose is a solution looking for doom.
20% of your ins $ is paying those investors.
化。 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 Along with being the worst built website in history, Healthcare.gov also
appears to be the most expensive, and we get stuck with the bill. How lovely.
Via Digital Journal:
It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the
befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled,
and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is
challenged only by Congress.
The site it... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 by Jammie
What would Christmas be without a massive lump of coal from the Scrooge in
the White House?
Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill.
The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit
Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on
their income-tax bills.
Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on
to premiums, opting instead to discretely pass them on to customers while
quietly lobbying lawmakers for a break.
B... 阅读全帖 |
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T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 26 总统倒是直接承认自己从小就吸大麻。“As has been well documented, I smoked
pot as a kid”。现在他认为是个坏习惯。
Smoking pot no more dangerous than drinking: Obama
Washington — President Barack Obama says smoking pot is no more dangerous
than drinking but calls it a "bad idea," amid a push for legalization in
several states.
In comments to The New Yorker magazine published Sunday, the US leader also
noted that poor minority youths are more likely to get prison time for using
marijuana than their richer counterparts.
"As has b... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 by: Alex Nussbaum
February 12, 2014
(Bloomberg) — Health insurers told to pay $150 billion in taxes over a
decade to help fund Obamacare are now shifting at least part of that cost
back to taxpayers.
Congress passed the insurer tax four years ago to help cover the uninsured
under the Affordable Care Act. Now, the industry is pushing to include some
of the cost in contracts with Medicaid programs for the poor that are
jointly funded by state and federal governments.
The strategy may add $36 billi... 阅读全帖 |
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m**k
发帖数: 1503 | 28 不是一律废除，而是高收入废除，低收入的还是有的
with middle-class households keeping all or most of their deductions, higher
-income taxpayers keeping around half of theirs, and the very wealthy losing
a significant chunk of theirs.
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发帖数: 5965 | 29 Trump-Carson is no go, though I have much respect for Dr. Carson, I do
believe his honesty and modest tone is what American people value and want
to see in their President. But Carson is low energy, not aggressive enough
at this point of time when everything is about destroying the Democrats
first then fix the problems.(攘外必先安内)
Trump-Rubio is a team of charm, but Trump and Rubio has gone through a
little bit of personal attack it's uncomfortable. Rubio represents GOP
establishment, that's a drag... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5965 | 30 Trump-Carson is no go, though I have much respect for Dr. Carson, I do
believe his honesty and modest tone is what American people value and want
to see in their President. But Carson is low energy, not aggressive enough
at this point of time when everything is about destroying the Democrats
first then fix the problems.(攘外必先安内)
Trump-Rubio is a team of charm, but Trump and Rubio has gone through a
little bit of personal attack it's uncomfortable. Rubio represents GOP
establishment, that's a drag... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 World's First Robot-Run Lettuce Farm to Produce 30,000 Heads Daily; Tipping
Point for Workerless Agriculture
updated on Fri Jan 29, 2016 07:20
Future of Farming
The future of farming has arrived. It's vertical, soilless, and run by
robots.
Tech Insider reports World's First Robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads
of lettuce daily.
The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of
the future will be robots.
So much so that Spread is creating the world's first farm m... 阅读全帖 |
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V**3
发帖数: 12756 | 32 Some people in the crowd at a graduation ceremony at California State
University, Fullerton, shouted at the commencement speaker after she talked
about presidential candidate Donald Trump and gave a brief section of her
address in Spanish.
“It’s really sad,” the commencement speaker, Maria Elena Salinas, an
anchor for Spanish language broadcast network Univision, said Tuesday. “And
it’s a testament to what has happened in our country. Our country is
really divided.”
Salinas gave the keynote addr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 33 WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday made an
impassioned plea for the nation to do more to address the combative
relationship between local police forces and the black and Hispanic
communities they serve, after the shootings of two black men by police in
Minnesota and Louisiana in two days.
"When incidents like this occur, there's a big chunk of our fellow citizenry
that feels as if because of the color of their skin they are not being
treated the same," Obama said shortly... 阅读全帖 |
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g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 34 看看奥巴马的煽动语言：
"According to various studies — not just one but a wide range of
studies that have been carried out over a number of years — African-
Americans are 30 percent more likely than whites to be pulled over.
After being pulled over African-Americans and Hispanics are three times
more likely to be searched.
Last year African-Americans were shot by police at more than twice the
rate of whites.
African-Americans are arrested at twice the rate of whites.
African-American de... 阅读全帖 |
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c******o
发帖数: 1184 | 35 Friends:
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last
summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for
president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald
J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous
part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president.
President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them
for the next four years: “PRESIDENT TRUMP... 阅读全帖 |
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D**s
发帖数: 6361 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: Daos (刀丝斋), 信区: Military
标 题: 路透社：审计发现美国国防部伪造了数万亿美元的账目
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 20 05:49:51 2016, 美东)
2016-8-20
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1IG
The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions
of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its
books are balanced.
审计发现美军的账目非常混乱。为了符合开支账目甚至不惜修改了账目表，总数高达数
万亿。
The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army
made... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1572 | 37 FoxNews put themselves into a position where they tell a good chunk of the
population what they want to hear and then say they shouldn't trust anyone
who says something that doesn't fit their narrative, so when you ask FoxNews
viewers if they trust the media, they say "no, I only trust Fox." |
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a****e
发帖数: 1560 | 38 http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
可怜的左逼
Friends:
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last
summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for
president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald
J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous
part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president.
President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 39 Friends:
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last
summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for
president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald
J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous
part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president.
President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them
for the next four years: “PRESIDENT TRUMP... 阅读全帖 |
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b*********0
发帖数: 1441 | 40 a good chunk of Dem voters are really selfish short-sighted and narrow
visioned. see below for proof
( |
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d***p
发帖数: 937 | 41 终于知道为什么创粉老是传播假新闻了。创粉喜欢听创普的好话。 喜欢听攻击希拉里
的新闻，不管真假。于是欧洲前那斯拉夫的Macedonia一个镇的年轻人创建了一百多个
支持创普的政治网站。这些网站Link到Facebook。为了从Facebook吸引Followers，这
些网站专门制作有利于trump的假新闻，吸引创粉制造流量来赚钱。
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-global-hub-
for-pro-trump-misinfo?utm_term=.lmRqPXXNb#.msoL6zzD2
How Macedonia Became A Global Hub For Pro-Trump Misinformation
BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a
single town in the former Yugoslav Republic.
posted on Nov. 3, 201... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 42 “This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com
. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in
2017 for crimes related to her email scandal.
“Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline.
For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the
baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on
Facebook.
Meanwhile, roughly 6,000 miles away in a small town in the former Yugoslav
Republic of... 阅读全帖 |
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h*******n
发帖数: 8906 | 43 What a joke maybe Muslim want a chunk of Germany land for their own county |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 44 if they do what t dummies said, they 'll lose a big chunk of their market
shares
so stupid! |
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发帖数: 2406 | 45 How SCOTUS decides this case is not important.
The current court has lost a big chunk of credibility as an independent
branch of this Republic since the ACA ruling by Roberts.
I think the Judicial branch won't be able to regain respect of middle Ameica
until a correct ruling on natural born citizenship .
As for how the current case goes, lets just enjoy it like the drama/shows
between 11 8 2016 and 1/20/2017. |
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S*******h
发帖数: 7021 | 46 USTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas election officials have acknowledged that
hundreds of people were allowed to bypass the state's toughest-in-the-nation
voter ID law and improperly cast ballots in the November presidential
election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo ID.
The chief election officers in two of the state's largest counties are now
considering whether to refer cases to local prosecutors for potential
perjury charges or violations of election law. Officials in many other ... 阅读全帖 |
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A**d
发帖数: 13310 | 47 hehe. Asian moms were a big chunk of their customers, and they were even
more offended than white males. Their stupid "research" was either purely
fake or didn't see Asian ladies as deserving respect.
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S*******i
发帖数: 2018 | 48 前任大屎的villa， 当public rights lawyer赚得不错嘛：
Michelle and Barack have Borgo Finocchieto to themselves during their five-
night stay — at an eye-watering cost of $15,000 per night.
Not that the couple is likely to have paid, as the villa is owned by the ex-
president's former ambassador to Italy, John Philips,who made a sizable
chunk of cash working as a public rights lawyer. |
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发帖数: 528 | 49 这是有关经费信息。只有傻瓜才认为别人都是傻瓜。
Ensuring finance
In the Paris Agreement, the developed countries reaffirmed the commitment to
mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020, and agreed to
continue mobilizing finance at the level of $100 billion a year until 2025.[
40] The commitment refers to the pre-existing plan to provide US$100 billion
a year in aid to developing countries for actions on climate change
adaptation and mitigation.[41]
Though both mitigation and adaptation require increased cl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 164 | 50 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
galapagos (galapagos) 于 (Fri Oct 21 16:16:30 2005) 提到:
有时候确实是运气的问题。
三个礼拜前， 开着实验室的车去学校本部上课，同车还有一个同学，我开车。 车速65左
右，就听“呜”的一声闷想，一个感觉黑影从后窗掠过，再看后视镜，黑呼呼的一扇门板
样东西摇曳着飘道路边去了。 那个美国同学说那个好像是个bumper，也不确定， 当时旁
边有辆十八轮， 我俩还猜是不是什么东西从那个十八轮上掉下来了，一路相谈甚欢，不
表。 等到了学校，俩人一下车，傻眼了，整个车屁股没了，整个bumper，包括车牌，一
直到后轮后缘一整扇蒙皮都不见了，就剩下chunk完整。 下课后灰溜溜的开回实验室的
maintenance， 一帮维修的 后勤的 打扫卫生的 割草的已经在候着了，围着车屁股捂着
肚子笑开锅。
终场：一个state trooper拣到了那个bumper，在跟我电话聊天两次之后，maintenance的
人从局子里把bumper和tag领回来。我获得一个bu |
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