g******4 发帖数: 6339 | 1 “一个幽灵,共产主义的幽灵,在欧洲徘徊”。当《共产党宣言》最初用德文在1848
年出版时,“共产主义同盟”还是一个秘密团体,其影响局限在英、法等欧洲国家。过
了半个世纪,到19世纪末叶,这个“幽灵”出现在中华广袤的大地上。又过了半个世纪
,到20世纪中叶,社会主义已经变成滚滚洪流,席卷全球。以共产主义为最终奋斗目标
的中国共产党也在此时夺取了全国政权,神州大地开始英姿勃发地迈向社会主义。再过
半个世纪,到20世纪末叶,一度红红火火的社会主义陷入前所未有低谷,以至有人大胆
断言:历史已经终结,人类社会只有资本主义一途,别无选择。
在过去二十多年里,“市场原教旨主义”甚嚣尘上。它的许诺很简单、也很诱人:只要
将财产权交给私人,将决策权交给追求自身利益最大化的私人业主,将政府干预减至最
低程度,市场这只“看不见的手”就会源源不断地创造出无尽的财富,“下溢效应”最
终会让所有人受益。
然而,正如卡尔•波兰尼指出的那样,“这种自我调节的市场的理念,是彻头彻
尾的乌托邦。除非消灭社会中的人和自然物质,否则这样一种制度就不能存在于任何时
期;否则,它将摧毁人类并将其环境变为一片荒野”。[... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****2 发帖数: 3103 | 2 乔治•梅森是美国独立战争时期重要的思想家、政治家,也是弗吉尼亚权利法案
的撰写人。但因为他后来拒绝在美国宪法上签字(原因下面详述),他的贡献常常被人
们忽视。关于梅森的传记非常少,而据我所知,中文的译本更是没有。
同时期但稍后的由托马斯•杰弗逊起草的独立宣言,现已是美国历史上最重要的
文件之一,但其中的很多思想其实来自于弗吉尼亚权利法案。比如说我们来对比弗吉尼
亚权利法案的第一条和独立宣言的导言:
弗吉尼亚权利法案第一条
1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain
inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they
cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the
enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acqui... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****1 发帖数: 3240 | 3 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
sailor2 (水手) 于 (Wed Aug 15 16:04:45 2012, 美东) 提到:
乔治•梅森是美国独立战争时期重要的思想家、政治家,也是弗吉尼亚权利法案
的撰写人。但因为他后来拒绝在美国宪法上签字(原因下面详述),他的贡献常常被人
们忽视。关于梅森的传记非常少,而据我所知,中文的译本更是没有。
同时期但稍后的由托马斯•杰弗逊起草的独立宣言,现已是美国历史上最重要的
文件之一,但其中的很多思想其实来自于弗吉尼亚权利法案。比如说我们来对比弗吉尼
亚权利法案的第一条和独立宣言的导言:
弗吉尼亚权利法案第一条
1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain
inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they
cannot, by any compact, depriv... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****c 发帖数: 753 | 4 State Laws Regarding Marriages Between First Cousins
Twenty-five states prohibit marriages between first cousins. Six states
allow first cousin marriage under certain circumstances, and North Carolina
allows first cousin marriage but prohibits double-cousin marriage. States
generally recognize marriages of first cousins married in a state where such
marriages are legal.
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/human-services/state-laws-r |
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w**********5 发帖数: 1741 | 5 12. Memorandum of Conversation1
Beijing, February 17–18, 1973, 11:30 p.m.–1:20 a.m.
PARTICIPANTS
Mao Tsetung, Chairman, Politburo, Chinese Communist Party
Chou En-lai, Premier of the State Council
Wang Hai-jung, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tang Wen-sheng, Interpreter
Shen Jo-yun, Interpreter
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs
Winston Lord, NSC Staff
(At 11:00 p.m. February 17, 1973 at a meeting in a villa near the Guest
House where Dr. Kiss... 阅读全帖 |
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c******o 发帖数: 1184 | 6 评价的不错
http://www.exurbe.com/?p=2176
“The Borgias” vs. “Borgia: Faith and Fear” (accuracy in historical
fiction)
Posted by exurbe on July 26, 2013 Fandom
BorgiaFrenchTVPoster
A French “Spot the Saint” themed poster for “Borgia: Faith and Fear”
assigning Cesare the attributes: archbishop’s robes, scythe, dagger, bloody
hands, blood. The French caption reads “Don’t have faith in them.” I
can’t argue.
There was a Borgia boom in 2011 when, aiming to capitalize on the commercial
success of The Tudor... 阅读全帖 |
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z**********e 发帖数: 22064 | 7 http://www.peruviantimes.com/06/beyond-machu-picchu-choquequira
Beyond Machu Picchu -- Choquequirao, Lost City in the Clouds
By Gary Ziegler --
The first rays of morning sunlight illuminate the great stone altar,
streaming through a square opening over my head. “Inti camac sumac,”
chants the priest. Soaked in sweat, I fight the bindings holding me to the
stone as the grinning, looming, scarlet-cloaked figure slowly brings down a
gleaming, bloodstained bronze knife toward my heaving chest.
“Jefe,... 阅读全帖 |
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G***W 发帖数: 1967 | 8 570 ad 出生,
25岁结婚,595AD, 经过15年准备。
40岁受启示,是610Ad年,
619ad Khadijah 才去逝。。。24-25年的婚姻??与wiki 差不多,仅仅出入1年。。
622年是穆斯林公元元年。。
Muhammad and Khadija were married monogamously for twenty-five years. This
monogamous marriage contrasts with Muhammad's later practice of polygyny
after Khadijah's death. Muhammad's youngest wife, Aisha, was to be jealous
of the affection and loyalty that Muhammad maintained for Khadija even after
her death..
不知道他后来的妻子生了没有,与Khadijah 的wiki 上说。。。 |
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c******o 发帖数: 1184 | 9 Hide
Wiki Loves Monuments: The world's largest photography competition is now
open! Photograph a historic site, learn more about our history, and win
prizes.
Otto Skorzeny
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template
messages)
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t*******a 发帖数: 4055 | 10 谈谈“持枪权”和“推翻暴政的权利”
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每次美国爆发枪击案,关于美国宪法中“持枪权”的话题就会热起来。有一种说法广为
流传:美国宪法规定了人民拥有“持枪权”;更有甚者,还说这个“持枪权”是为了保
证宪法赋予人民“推翻暴政的权利”。但事实上,“持枪权”只是对美国联邦宪法第二
修正案的曲解。而所谓“推翻暴政的权利”则完全是讹传。
谈谈“持枪权”和“推翻暴政的权利”
每次美国爆发枪击案,关于美国宪法中“持枪权”的话题就会热起来。有一种说法广为
流传:美国宪法规定了人民拥有“持枪权”;更有甚者,还说这个“持枪权”是为了保
证宪法赋予人民“推翻暴政的权利”。但事实上,“持枪权”只是对美国联邦宪法第二
修正案的曲解。而所谓“推翻暴政的权利”则完全是讹传。本文接下来分别对二者进行
分析。
§1 美国宪法赋予人民“持枪权”了吗?
关于“持枪权”的说法,来源于对美国联邦宪... 阅读全帖 |
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s*m 发帖数: 1896 | 11
无悔 - 各位先将就着看看, 后面会慢慢上的
rollingrock 11月12日 14:59:08
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刘春林站在公寓的阳台上,瞪着楼下自己那辆本田civic的车牌发愣,车牌上印着Evergreen
State。本来是银灰色的两门coupe在夕阳中逐渐褪成金黄色,闪闪发亮,与周围火
红的枫树相辉映着,融汇在周围方圆百里内的同样背景中,构画成十月的华盛顿州。
半晌,他举起手中的啤酒罐将剩下的啤酒一饮而尽,长长地吐了一口气,然后顺手用
力一捏,将不成形了的铝罐扔进一个纸盒箱里,转身进了屋子。这个一房一厅的公寓
里一片凌乱。刘春林重重地一屁股坐在沙发上,顺手拿起一张报纸胡乱扫了一下,再
随手一扔。然后半身躺下,头枕着沙发垫,用遥控器打开电视,首先跳出来的是CNN
。先是听到那个熟悉的声音,然后是那张熟悉的衰老的面孔,虽然戴着黑边眼镜却仍
然能清清楚楚地看见后面那双神经质的眼睛,还有那个已经看了八年了的鹰钩鼻子... 阅读全帖 |
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s*****i 发帖数: 18 | 12 “大话西游之世界军坛和鼎盛”
原创作者: 滚石
第十部分
Brian看着桌上发了疯一样不停地叫唤着的电话,竟然有些哆嗦起来,不知道是接还
是不接的好,仿佛那电话听筒是块滚烫的烙铁。他知道是谁打来的,只是不知道到时候如
何应对对方的质问。当电话铃声响到第四下的时候,他赶在自己的voice mailbox之前接
起了电话。
“Hello, this is Brian speaking.”
“It’s P. Listen, Brian, that was a big boo-boo! I was really, really
f*ckin impressed!”Peter Ennis的声音明显地听上去很不安。“The whole block was
blown away, buddy! I don’t know what the history of the City of Vancouver
says in the book, but sure this is gonna be a new record!”
Peter Ennis是刚刚接任温哥华警察总长这份差事的。原先那个两个月前因为在皇... 阅读全帖 |
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c*****t 发帖数: 10738 | 13 A new approach to China: an update
3/22/2010 12:03:00 PM
On January 12, we announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty
other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack
originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks
we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of
human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by
third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on |
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D**S 发帖数: 24887 | 14 My youngest uncle said he was easily able to shoot down ten if not twenty
sparrows and grill them for nice day snack back in late 1970's when he was
barely a teenager. I admired him so much for the many wild sparrows but he
did not really seem longing for that era.
多了 |
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F*******e 发帖数: 589 | 15 【 以下文字转载自 MedicalCareer 讨论区 】
发信人: JimmyChoo (JimmyChoo), 信区: MedicalCareer
标 题: Re: 曾经和王立山医生一个实验室工作过
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 29 16:37:24 2010, 美东)
有点跑题了哈。我不反对捐款,只是对版上很多人似乎认为印度人该杀很有意见。
关于种族歧视,我到美国很多年了,从来没遇到过,也许是我不敏感,压根不往那边想
。美国宽松的种族环境,并不是一朝一夕来的。美国主流社会搞过很多种族歧视——歧
视黑人,歧视犹太人,歧视爱尔兰人,歧视意大利人,歧视亚洲人,歧视西裔,甚至曾
经只要不是Anglo-Saxon就受歧视。
上面有位朋友说,你看看人家黑人如何团结。黑人团结了半天有什么用?不就是争取点
穷人的福利之类吗?这么多年,黑人的social-economic status有改善吗?btw,奥巴马
不是黑人给选上去的。
犹太人曾经很受歧视,在美国经济的大发展期间,Gilded Age和Roaring Twenties, 纽
约很多高级公寓甚至不允许犹太人买房。犹太 |
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f******s 发帖数: 713 | 16 你这个假设是错误的,平均20万当量的核弹头即使在平原上也不可能摧毁50公里半径的
东西,看下这个链接 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/nuclear/
100万当量的炸弹,在10.84公里半径距离上 “Residences are moderately damaged.
Commercial buildings have sustained minimal damage. Twenty-five percent of
the population between the 2 and 1 psi rings have been injured, mainly by
flying glass and debris.”假设minimal damage 算是核武器的覆盖面积, 那么30000
件20万当量的核武器覆盖的面积是 30000×20/100×3.1416×10.84X10.84=2214934
kilometer square, 大约相当于1.48% of 地球陆地。远远不能无缝覆盖。
可虑的是核冬天,但这个从来没有事实证明过,美国科学家试炸第一 |
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t***m 发帖数: 459 | 17 The Republic of Korea is honored to chair the Group of Twenty in 2010.
http://www.g20.org/ |
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d*********t 发帖数: 4393 | 18
How often does a 100-year flood occur?
Large floods are often given designations as a "one-hundred-year flood" but
a 100-year flood does not mean that such a flood occurs once every 100 years
; instead it means that there is a one in one-hundred (or 1%) chance of such
a flood occurring in a given year.
Two 100-year floods could occur a year apart or even a month apart -- it all
depends on how much rain is falling or how quickly the snow melts. A "20-
year flood" has a one in twenty (or 5%) chan |
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d*********t 发帖数: 4393 | 19
How often does a 100-year flood occur?
Large floods are often given designations as a "one-hundred-year flood" but
a 100-year flood does not mean that such a flood occurs once every 100 years
; instead it means that there is a one in one-hundred (or 1%) chance of such
a flood occurring in a given year.
Two 100-year floods could occur a year apart or even a month apart -- it all
depends on how much rain is falling or how quickly the snow melts. A "20-
year flood" has a one in twenty (or 5%) chan |
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d*********t 发帖数: 4393 | 20 How often does a 100-year flood occur?
Large floods are often given designations as a "one-hundred-year flood" but
a 100-year flood does not mean that such a flood occurs once every 100 years
; instead it means that there is a one in one-hundred (or 1%) chance of such
a flood occurring in a given year.
Two 100-year floods could occur a year apart or even a month apart -- it all
depends on how much rain is falling or how quickly the snow melts. A "20-
year flood" has a one in twenty (or 5%) chanc |
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f**********r 发帖数: 2137 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 bluechips 俱乐部 】
发信人: fingerdancer (碍眼猫), 信区: bluechips
标 题: 六四学生领袖李禄可能做巴菲特接班人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 29 22:59:21 2010, 美东)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393180048272028.html?
mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square
protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to Warren
Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Mr. Li, 44 years old, has emerged as a leading candidate to |
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t***h 发帖数: 5601 | 22 Twenty-one years ago, Li Lu was a student leader of the Tiananmen Square
protests. Now a hedge-fund manager, he is in line to become a successor to
Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Dennis Berman tells the story about one of the leaders at Tiananmen Square
who is now one of the top candidates to manage Berkshire Hathaway's
investment portfolio.
Mr. Li, 44 years old, has emerged as a leading candidate to run a chunk of
Berkshire's $100 billion portfolio, stemming from a close friendship w |
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u****n 发帖数: 7521 | 23 http://www.amazon.com/Beijing-Consensus-Authoritarian-Dominate-Twenty-First/dp/0465013619
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Halper cogently rejects the conventional wisdom that suggests America's
relationship with China is on track in this lucid, probing text. Moving
beyond approaches to China that focus on its burgeoning economic dominance,
the book—in the vein of Martin Jacques's recent When China Rules the World
—underscores the political and cultural challenge that a rising China
pres |
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k*******1 发帖数: 526 | 24 爱因斯坦得到Recognition of Distinguished service to "Applied Mechanics
Reviews"
Among Professor Einstein's numerous honors and awards were a Guggenheim
Fellowship (1953), research awards from the American
Society of Civil Engineers (1959 and 1960), The Berkeley Citation from the
University of California (1971), the Certificate of Merit from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (1971), and a certificate of recognition for
more than twenty years of devoted and distinguished service to
Applied Mechanics Re |
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p****n 发帖数: 9263 | 25 Do you have kids?
States in the U.S. mandate immunization, or obtaining exemption, before
children enroll in public school. Exemptions are typically for people who
have compromised immune systems, allergies to the components used in
vaccinations, or strongly-held objections. All states but West Virginia
and Mississippi allow religious exemptions, and twenty states allow
parents to cite personal or philosophical objections. A widespread and
growing number of parents falsely claim religious and ph |
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t*******h 发帖数: 2882 | 26 看来改革开放以前中国落后印度二十年在印度是个共识:
When we got to Beijing, the Indians I was with, were as
angry as I was at how far India had been left behind by a country that till
the seventies was at least twenty years behind us. |
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P*****t 发帖数: 4978 | 27 这个有点太过分了
A St. John's dean fired for stealing $1 million also got free labor -
forcing scholarship students to cook, clean, babysit and take out the
garbage, the feds said.
Cecilia Chang, 57, was arrested Thursday and charged with turning scholars
into indentured servants who were bullied and berated.
For nearly 20 years, Chang was dean of the university's Center of Asian
Studies - and used it as her personal piggy bank, prosecutors charged.
She had the authority to grant up to 15 scholarships e... 阅读全帖 |
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w*******r 发帖数: 7276 | 28 I've heard people talking about this for twenty years, and the fact is,
today's china is worse than 1989 in terms of democracy and speech of freedom. |
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s*********8 发帖数: 901 | 29 DENMARK, Me. — The house that set off the national furor over faulty
foreclosures is blue-gray and weathered. The porch is piled with furniture
and knickknacks awaiting the next yard sale. In the driveway is a busted
pickup truck. No one who lives there is going anywhere anytime soon.
Nicolle Bradbury bought this house seven years ago for $75,000, a major step
up from the trailer she had been living in with her family. But she lost
her job and the $474 monthly mortgage payment became difficult, ... 阅读全帖 |
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K**W 发帖数: 6346 | 31 Prime Minister: "We want a strong relationship with China"
Introduction
Twenty five years ago I came to Hong Kong as a student.
The year was 1985.
Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher had recently signed the historic Joint
Declaration.
The remarkable story of the successful handover of Hong Kong and the great
progress Hong Kong has continued to make is an example to the world of what
can be achieved when two countries cooperate in confidence and with mutual
respect.
Since then, China has changed ... 阅读全帖 |
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g*q 发帖数: 26623 | 32 BEIJING, China — Twenty-nine miners trapped in a flooded mine in China were
rescued after more than 30 hours, with crews lifting them out in rapid
succession, state television reported today.
The miners emerged from the mine one after another and were loaded on
gurneys, as state television broadcast the event live from Sichuan province.
The crowd clapped as the last miner emerged from the Batian Coal Mine in
Neijiang. It took rescuers less than an hour to pull out all 29 miners.
Meanwhile, in Ne... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 33 Jeffry John Aufderheide
vactruth.com
05/25/2010
http://vactruth.com/2010/05/25/vaccines-rockefeller-social-control/
PART I.
History books proclaim with absolute certainty that the pinnacle of public
health is defined by the polio vaccine program. Disease finally conquered by
science. The polio effort was a benchmark for the public to mentally accept
the concept “shots prevent disease.” However, hidden to most Americans
was an elaborate Public Relations scheme being carefully applied by
Rockefell... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 34 奥巴马困境可能成为2011年热词
http://www.sina.com.cn 2010年12月09日01:41 红网-潇湘晨报
据新华社电 美国全球语言研究所预测2011年英语十大热门词汇,一定程度上反映
出全球政治、经济、文化等领域新动向。
美国趣味科学网站8日援引全球语言研究所负责人保罗·帕亚克的话报道:“为了
预测2011年热门词汇,我们分析了所监测的范畴,然后从代表各种世界趋势的词汇中作
出选择。”
第一热门词汇当属“Twenty-Eleven”,这是“2011”年的英语发音,全球大约15.
8亿讲英语者会经常说到这个词。
“奥巴马困境”(Obama-mess)有望成为第二大热词。帕亚克说:“如果(美国总统
贝拉克·)奥巴马再次施展魔法,他可以摆脱‘奥巴马困境’;如果他的支持率继续下
跌,他将为‘奥巴马困境’所吞没。”
鉴于经济萧条有望于明年止步,全球经济力争复苏,“大萧条”(great recession
)一词可能成为2011年第三大热门词汇。
“佩林主义”(Palinism)是全球语言研究所预测的第四大热词。事实上,这个单词
已经出现一段时间,大多用来形容美国前共和... 阅读全帖 |
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u****n 发帖数: 7521 | 35 http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/12/the-top-ten-china-myths-of-2010.html
The Top Ten China Myths of 2010
Posted by Evan Osnos
1. Dissidents no longer matter in global diplomacy. Fact: After China joined
the World Trade Organization and hosted the Beijing Olympics, the image of
the impassioned, ink-stained inmate began to seem as retro as a Cold War spy
swap. When the presidents of China and the U.S. convened, they could hardly
be expected to have more than a ritual exchange of... 阅读全帖 |
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L*********d 发帖数: 7037 | 36 The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 U.S.C. § 2385) of 1940 is a
United States federal statute that makes it a federal criminal offense for
“ Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such
government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes
, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising,
or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing
or destroying any government in the United States by... 阅读全帖 |
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w****2 发帖数: 12072 | 37 亨利.波奎特1763年7月13日致阿姆赫斯特将军的信,提议用发放毛毯来“给印地安人
接种”。
阿姆赫斯1763年7月16日给波奎特回信,批准他的计划,并提议“尝试任何其它有助于
根除这个该死的种族”的办法。
1763年5月24日,特仑特记载如下:
……我们给了他们两条天花医院的毛毯和手绢。我希望效果理想。
1495年,圣多明戈原住民人口的57%到80%被天花灭绝了。1515年,天花消灭了波多黎各
印地安人的三分之二。科尔特兹来到墨西哥之后十年,原住民人口从2500万减少到650
万,降低了74%。即便最保守的估计也认为天花造成的死亡超过65%。
根据各种渠道估计,欧洲人到来之前南北美洲土著居民人口约9千万到一亿。在16世纪
里,北美印地安人约1200万,而到20世纪时,人口数量已经减少到大约17万4千。如今
已无法计算出欧洲人带来的天花等致命疾病究竟杀死了多少万美洲印地安人。
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http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
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A*Q 发帖数: 1579 | 38 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Suburban_Railway
More than 3,500 people die on the Mumbai suburban railway tracks annually
due to unsafe riding on trains or trespassing on railway tracks or as a
result of suicide attempts. This is believed to be the highest number of
fatalities per year on any urban or suburban railway system. Most of the
deaths are of passengers crossing the tracks on foot, instead of using the
footbridges provided for going from one platform to another, and are hit by
pass... 阅读全帖 |
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f*r 发帖数: 408 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 Stock 讨论区 】
发信人: flr (我是牛人), 信区: Stock
标 题: Madoff 案里另一个被自杀的浮出水面,老婆还钱了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 17 21:49:22 2010, 美东)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/17/AR2010121705773.html
Widow of longtime Madoff investor to return money
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 17, 2010; 7:01 PM
Before his death, Jeffrey M. Picower had benefited more than anyone from
Bernard Madoff's fraud. A longtime investor with the disgraced financier, he
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a********e 发帖数: 5251 | 40 Economic Models Explained
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk
away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull
Your herd multiplies... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****s 发帖数: 33 | 41 Hu will just wave a twenty dollar bill under Obama's nose, and Obama will
sit, shake, roll over, and fetch for it. |
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H****g 发帖数: 14447 | 42 你说的污染没错,但是饮食习惯和癌症(以及其他疾病)的关系也是有研究证实了的。
而且这个研究本身的名字就是叫中国研究。http://www.thechinastudy.com/
"The China Study" of the title is taken from the "China-Oxford-Cornell Study
on Dietary, Lifestyle and Disease Mortality Characteristics in 65 Rural
Chinese Counties", or China Project, a survey of death rates for 12 kinds of
cancer in over 2,400 counties and 880 million people, which studied the
relationship between mortality rates and dietary, lifestyle, and
environmental factors in 65 mostly rural counties... 阅读全帖 |
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u***r 发帖数: 4825 | 43 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870343950457611622
By MARC CHAMPION
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—Like the protesters who have flooded the streets of Egypt
in the past week, the country's large minority of Coptic Christians worry
about joblessness and lack of freedoms. But most want President Hosni
Mubarak to stay in power.
Fear of what may follow the removal of Mr. Mubarak, a secular strongman who
has ruled the country for the past 30 years, is making reluctant supporters
out of the country's ... 阅读全帖 |
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w**j 发帖数: 1032 | 44 In the Roman Empire, a family of 6 persons would need to cultivate 12 iugera
/ 3 hectares of land to meet minimum food requirements (without animals).[10
] If a family owned animals to help cultivate land, then 20 iugera was
needed. The same amount would also be required to meet subsistence levels if
the land was farmed using sharecropping, as in Africa Proconsularis in the
2nd century AD, in which case a third of the total crop goes to the
landowner as rent[10] (See Lex Manciana).
Such figures ... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******h 发帖数: 2882 | 45 俄国价格:
http://www.bakerbotts.com/64/turkmen-gas-export-strategy-and-tr
The first agreement established twenty-year gas pricing principles, pegging
the price paid by Russia for Turkmen gas to the average wholesale European
and Ukrainian prices received by Russia, resulting in a rise from around $
150 per 1,000 cubic metres in 2008, to approximately $225 per 1,000 cubic
metres for 2009. The second agreement secured for Turkmenistan Russia's
financial and technical assistance for the development of ... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******7 发帖数: 3763 | 46 这个American Academy of Environmental Medicine还真的不是被学术界正式
accredited的组织。
你自己看看这个链接吧:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2564
Environmental Medicine – Not Your Average Specialty
I recently received an announcement for a conference on “Inflammation and
Autoimmunity.” The topic sounded interesting, but as I read further I saw
some red flags:
A gathering of healthcare leaders with a shared vision.
This event focuses on the the [sic] true causes and effects of inflammatory
and autoimmune diseases, ... 阅读全帖 |
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w***u 发帖数: 17713 | 47 是原来中国农村户口只有城市户口选举权1/4的反面,难怪日本能做到拼死不进口美国
米中国米,被迫进口了也放成陈米做饲料。
The apportionment of electoral districts still reflects the distribution of
the population in the years following World War II, when only one-third of
the people lived in urban areas and twothirds lived in rural areas. In the
next forty-five years, the population became more than three-quarters urban,
as people deserted rural communities to seek economic opportunities in
Tokyo and other large cities. The lack of reapportionment led to a... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d 发帖数: 61690 | 48 宪法第27修正案。
The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) prohibits any law that
increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking
effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for
Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to the United States
Constitution, having been ratified in 1992, more than 202 years after its
initial submission in 1789. |
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w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 49 Rothschilds Stage Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt To Kill Islamic Banks In
Emerging North African Markets
PwP Exclusive ©Feb 9 2011
Background: Tunisia has undergone increasing economic liberalization over
the last decade: In the 2010-2011 World Economic Forum’s Global
Competitiveness Report, it was ranked as the most competitive country in
Africa, as well as the 32nd most economically competitive country globally.
North Africa’s large Muslim populations are a vast business opportunity
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s********n 发帖数: 26222 | 50 Rothschilds Stage Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt To Kill Islamic Banks In
Emerging North African Markets
PwP Exclusive ©Feb 9 2011
Background: Tunisia has undergone increasing economic liberalization over
the last decade: In the 2010-2011 World Economic Forum’s Global
Competitiveness Report, it was ranked as the most competitive country in
Africa, as well as the 32nd most economically competitive country globally.
North Africa’s large Muslim populations are a vast business opportunity
... 阅读全帖 |
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