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#100: Direct Democracy: 1."The Power of the Powerless" Vaclav Havel. 08.7.10=4 - 7.15=2 11am.

2008-07-10T16:45:00.000-07:00

#100: Direct Democracy: "The Power of the Powerless" Vaclav Havel. 08.7.10-15: 1. "The Power of the Powerless": 2. Habiatat for Humanity local affiliates: "The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe" Vaclav Havel Pub.: M. E. Sharpe (Jun26,1985) http://tinyurl.com/5dp62v [[ " Tolstoy proposes a third alternative to revolution and reform. I have asked Lew to reprint Tolstoy’s letter (set forth below) in the hope that some of those now feeling the sting of disappointment over Obama’s backpedaling may be receptive to pondering Tolstoy’s advice. I recommend it as a starting point, to help dust off the cobwebs. Those wishing to follow up with a more modern and comprehensive treatment would be well rewarded by reading Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless, certainly one of the greatest political works of the 20th Century. Havel’s extended essay provided both a theoretical understanding and practical recommendations for the non-violent resistance that helped end communist rule in Eastern Europe. It contains invaluable insight and lessons for anyone confronting monolithic power. " ---: 'A Letter to Liberals' by Leo Tolstoy, Introduction by Jeff Snyder http://tinyurl.com/62ux75 ]] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon.com: -------------------------------------------------------------------- "" Most Helpful Customer Reviews -------------------------------------------------- 32 of 46 people found the following review helpful: Public Truth Can Overcome Political-Corporate Corruption, July 26, 2002: By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews ----------------------------------------------------------- Living within the truth is the ultimate act of citizenship, and such living, even in the face of totalitarian repression (as in Czechoslovakia) or consumerist subversion and corporate corruption of the political and financial systems (as in the USA) can ultimately empower the powerless. ------------------------------------------------------------ This is an *extraordinary* book that is directly relevant to the circumstances that we now find ourselves in--what Ralph Nader calls "corporate socialism," where the nominal owners of both the federal government (the voters) and the corporations (the stockholders) find themselves disenfranchised, abused, shut out, and their life savings looted by the most senior chief executive officers and politicians. ------------------------------------------------------------- The book is slightly mis-represented, with "et al" in small print after Havel's name as the author. I was even tempted to skip the additional small essays (his leading essay constitutes 44% of the total book, with ten other essays each being roughly 6% of the book) but that would have been unwise. There is real value in the other essays. -------------------------------------------------------------- Both Eastern Europe prior to the revolution, and the USA in particular but Western democracies in general, share a common overwhelming problem, that of the silenced majority. As both Havel here and Nader elsewhere observe, the word "progressive" is contaminated and diluted, while democracy and capitalism (or socialism) in the ideal are completely compromised by a combination of asymmetric information (keeping the people uninformed) and corporate or bureaucratic or political corruption. "" --------------------------------------------------------------- ... ... --------------------------------------------------------------- " Havel places most of his emphasis on reform at the individual and community level, outside of politics and economics. He is especially encouraging in speaking of how unlikely it is to predict the moment when widely differing groups can come together in truth and freedom to overcome an oppressive regime, and yet how likely it is, in today's environment, that such a change might occur. --------------------------------------------------------------- In many ways his long essay reminded me of George Will's collection of thoughts published as "Statecraft as Soulcraft," except that Havel has found the state (either communist or capitalist) to be a failure at its most important function--the people must instead constitute an alternative polis that is initially side-by-side with the state, and ultimately displaces the state with a fresh new start. Incumbents beware, Havel finds that more often than not a clean sheet fresh start is the way to go. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As the USA confronts terrorism and a right-of-center approach to law enforcement, Havel offers a clear warning to citizens at risk of being labeled as terrorists when in fact they are only dissidents and speakers of truth. He speaks of the communist regime "ascribing terrorist aims to the 'dissident movements' and accusing them of illegal and conspiratorial methods." Shades of the present in the West, where anti-globalization activists and legitimate Arab and Muslim personalities have been tarred with the terrorist brush, held without recourse to lawyers, and generally abused in the name of an ill-defined and badly-managed counter-terrorism program. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Among his deepest thoughts, and I will stop here for the essay needs to be read by the same thoughtful people that are reading "Cicero" and "What Kind of Nation" and "Crashing the Party" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", is the following: "The 'dissident movements' do not shy away from the idea of violent political overthrow because the idea seems too radical, but on the contrary, because it does not seem radical enough. For them, the problem lies far too deep to be settled through mere systemic changes, either governmental or technological." Havel, perhaps in concurrence with Lawrence Lessig and his "Future of Ideas" finds both the law and the legal code to be oppressive and abusive of the people--the recent effort to modify bankruptcy laws to reduce the protections of the people from abusive credit card companies, are but one small example--the outrageous extension of copyright and patent laws to keep innovation from the marketplace are another. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Havel anticipates the "whithering away and dying off" of traditional political parties, "to be replaced by new structures that have evolved from 'below' and are put together in a fundamentally different way." He speaks briefly of technology being out of control, and of the ultimate war now taking place, between state control and social control. He concludes that parliamentary democracies are essentially institutionalized forms of collective *irresponsibility*, and that only a moral reconstitution of society, the resurrection of core "values like as trust, openness, responsibility, solidarity, love" will show the way out of the "classic impotence of traditional democratic organizations." ----------------------------------------------------------------- The other authors are not to be missed, and provide complementary but distinct views that are helpful to sparking debate and reflection. " ... ... ======================= ======================= ======================= 2. Habitat for Humanity: 'Find Local Affiliates, Volunteer Opportunities, News, Events' http://tinyurl.com/6lhdg9 : "" Use the search box below to find your closest Habitat for Humanity affiliates plus Habitat news and events in your area. Search For Affiliates In Your Local Area Search by using one of the following: By U.S. zip code : Affiliate Name : U.S. state or Canadian province : UNITED STATES: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming CANADA: Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Territory Country: Afghanistan Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Bangladesh Belize Bermuda Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Democratic Republic of Congo Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Fiji Islands Germany Ghana Great Britain Greece Guam Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary India Indonesia Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mexico Micronesia Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Ireland Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Samoa Senegal Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Switzerland Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uganda United States Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Thank you for visiting the official Habitat for Humanity International Web site. © 2008 Habitat for Humanity® International. All rights reserved. "Habitat for Humanity" is a registered service mark owned by Habitat for Humanity International. "" Taiwan? =================================

#78: Hunger!/Peace!/Ecology/Medicine: NeuRx Diaphragm. 08.6.19=4 11pm.

2008-06-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

#78: Hunger!/Peace!/Ecology/Medicine: NeuRx Diaphragm:----------

Hunger!

Severn Cullis-Suzuki: http://tinyurl.com/3dtqhz : Wiki Jun19,08 : A Child's Cry for the Hungry: http://tinyurl.com/2qd47o --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/57zgty

PEACE!

“SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT”

Psalms 34:14

Third Anniversary Of Commencement of Iraq War: Saturday, March 18^th

Saturdays at Noon—One Hour silent vigil for Peace

U.S. Capitol, West Lawn

Our silent gathering has continued each week since October 15, 2002, as a witness to our concern for peace in Iraq, its neighbors, the Middle East, and around the world.

Our silent vigil and witness for peace and nonviolence was started by a Quaker from the Langley Hill Friends Meeting in McLean, Virginia but we come from many religions and beliefs.

Our message is a positive one. We are encouraging the Congress and the nation to seek peace and build peace. We believe that a reverence for life should guide our nation’s actions, and that our country’s great strength should further the ideal of an international community based on respect and law.

We see many positive opportunities for diplomacy, trade, aid, multilateral organization building and military restraint that will sow the seeds of peace rather than plant the seeds of war.

Our vigil takes place every Saturday at noon for one hour on or near the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol. All who are seeking peace are welcome to join us in silence for our time here. As is our custom we stand with our only banner with the quote from Psalms 34:14, “Seek peace and pursue it.”

During our time here we are grateful for the support of our fellow citizens and foreign visitors who are also seeking peace in their own way. In our silence we are praying for all those affected by war, service people and civilians.

If you would like to join us for only a minute, or for the entire hour, that would be most welcome. Together we can hold your loved ones and the concern for peace in The Light. We welcome all peace-seekers, of any belief, race, or nationality, to gather with us in this silent witness.

For more information about the vigil, or to be on our list serve: garvey73@erols.com

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”

---General Omar Bradley

“No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”

---Croesus, King of Lydia, in Herodotus’ The Persian Wars

“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

---Moshe Dayan

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it.”

---Eleanor Roosevelt

“Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love, or total war.”

---David Dellinger

“Ever gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

---Dwight Eisenhower

“I hope…that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.”

---Benjamin Franklin

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

---Helen Keller

“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

---Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack the way of life.”

---A.J. Muste

“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.”

---Albert Einstein

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

---Nelson Mandela

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Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control

By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. Posted June 19, 2008.

Think Blackwater's days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm.

On June 3, Jeremy Scahill's bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour Square massacre on Sept. 16 of last year, in which Blackwater mercenaries opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood, brutally murdering 17 Iraqi civilians. The killing spree, which the U.S. Army would label a "criminal event," would reveal the extent of the lawlessnewss enjoyed by private contractors abroad and the lengths the Bush administration will go to protect its private army of choice.

Antonia Juhasz caught up with Scahill on the phone the day the new edition was released. A fellow at Oil Change International and author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz is also the author of the forthcoming book The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do to Stop It. Juhasz and Scahill discussed, among other topics, the story behind Blackwater, congressional inaction, radical privatization, Barack Obama, corporate vs. independent media, GI resistance in the age of private mercenaries, getting real about challenging corporations and the power of dissent.

--------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- USA's Iraq: http://tinyurl.com/4nusda

Published on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by The New York Times

'Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back'

Andrew E. Kramer

BAGHDAD - Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP - the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company - along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.

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'Electric Muscle Stimulation with NeuRx Diaphragm Pacer: More Natural Breathing Without a Ventilator'

medGadget: Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Filed under: Rehab , Surgery

The FDA has given clearance to Synapse Biomedical, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) to market their NeuRx Diaphragm Pacing Stimulation system for people with spinal cord injury. The device, that is typically implanted through minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, is indicated for patients with diaphragm dysfunction.

The new device, already approved in Europe last year, uses electrodes attached directly to the diaphragm to electrically stimulate its movement. The result is more natural breathing, and, hopefully, reduced potential to develop pulmonary complications.

From the press release:

In the clinical trial, NeuRx DPS™ provided 98% of SCI patients who had been dependent on mechanical ventilation via a tracheostomy with an alternative that allowed them to breathe normally and live more active lives. To date, over 50% were able to be completely eliminate their need for mechanical ventilation. Patients may be able to transfer from ventilator wards to home or assisted living, and even travel. Speech patterns, often laborious and strained in ventilatordependent patients, return to normal. The senses of taste and smell, severely diminished in ventilatordependent patients, return.
Controlled through a fourchannel battery powered external pulse generator, the NeuRx DPS™ eliminates the need for a source of electricity and the concern for power outages. Patients and caregivers are easily trained in the use of the NeuRx DPS™ reducing the need for external medical supervision. Elimination and reduction of the use of a mechanical ventilator also greatly reduces the patient’s risk of a serious complication: Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia (VAP). In a peer review 2007 report in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinical of North America by Stephen P. Burns MD, the incidence of SCI pneumonia for initial admitted patients was reported to be as high as 50 percent. The associated mortality from pneumonia was reported as 28% in the first year.

Company video explaining the workings of the system...

Press release: Synapse Biomedical Receives FDA Approval of NeuRx Diaphragm Pacing System (DPS)™ For Spinal Cord Injury Breathing Applications

Product page: NeuRx Diaphragm Pacing Stimulation (DPS)™ System ...

#77: Arts/做台灣主人TaiwanColony/Japan: Tsai Intang. 許世楷. 1) Beetles. 2) Bob Dylan. 3) ROC Genocide of Taiwan Leaders. 08.6.14=6 - 6.19=4 11pm.

2008-06-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

#77: Arts/做台灣主人TaiwanColony/Japan: Tsai Intang. 許世楷. 1) Beetles. 2) Bob Dylan. 3) ROC Genocide of Taiwan Leaders:--------------------------------

Stogie Kenyatta’s One-Man Show 'The World is My Home-The Life & Times of Paul Robeson' & the Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Project Friday, June 20, 2008 7:00 PM Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater, Washington DC Jewish Community Center 1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036 (4 blocks from Dupont Circle, 16th & Q Streets) a benefit for Youth Leadership Support Network, www.worldyouth.org

Stogie Kenyatta brings a unique interpretation to the stage,where he majestically captures the essence of Paul Robeson. Portraying 10 characters he chronologically takes us thru the life of history's 1ST Black renaissance man & one of America's most complex, brilliant citizens.

Magnificently performed without intermission, with props, several wardrobe changes & an inspiring finger-snapping Jazz, Bebop,Gospel, Big band soundtrack. The play opens as Robeson's father, a 15 year old runaway slave, rides the underground railroad to freedom. As laugh -out loud funny & entertaining as it is educational, Kenyatta ages from a 5 year old Paul, to the 70 yr old, world weary warrior that the blacklisted Robeson had become.

Tickets $20 For more info: (202) 316-4403 info@worldyouth.org

Youth Leadership Support Network is a violence prevention, arts, education, media and training network based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to empower youth to express themselves and have a voice in society through intergenerational and diverse leadership opportunities and civic engagement. Now in it’s 10th year, YLSN has worked with nearly twenty thousand youth, hundreds of musicians and artists, dozens of media mentors and networked with sister organizations around the block and around the world.

Help Sponsor this gala event, please email us by Thursday, June 19th so we can include you in the program.

Youth Leadership Support Network requests your sponsorship for our upcoming programs. YLSN is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. Your support will help produce the show and provide free tickets to area youth.

http://tinyurl.com/55s32y ==================================== ------------------------------------ '許世楷' 维基百科 Jun17,08 http://tinyurl.com/4sd2cp : "" 許世楷（1934年7月7日－），政治及歷史學者、台灣獨立運動的重要領袖之一、「台灣共和國憲法草案」的執筆人、2004年起則被任命為中華民國駐日本代表，在2008年5月19日提出辭呈，2008年6月捲入中日釣魚台主權紛爭之中，並被外交部下令返台。 " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '台湾は日本の生命線！' melma! Posted Jun15,08 http://tinyurl.com/4t2wb6 '「尖閣に軍艦を！」と叫んだ台北県知事―すべて中国の思惑通りだ' Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/3eugnu ----------------------------------- =================================== '520台灣民眾大會 - 做台灣主人' May20,08 http://www.taup.org.tw/ 台灣教授協會會長的話關於「有情的心美好的仗」一書 - 2008-05-28 10:40 =================================== 1) 'Join the Beatles on our Magical Memory Tour' Telegraph.co.uk Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/5qw6tz Music is one of the most powerful stimuli for the key memories that make us who we are, says Roger Highfield - and we need you to tell us yours ----------------------------------- 2) 'Another side of Bob Dylan' The Independent Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/3qp49h Pied piper, poet and now painter, his artworks are the subject of a much-anticipated exhibition. But are they any good? Michael Glover offers his verdict : " some time between about 1989 and 1992, Bob Dylan took up drawing again. He'd drawn in the past, a great deal in the 1960s. In fact, after that mysterious motorcycle accident of his, he even spent some time in the bowels of Carnegie Hall being tutored in art by a Russian professor of painting. We'd seen his artwork on the sleeves of his albums, too – that strange, startled moon face that stares out at us from Self Portrait, for example, or that bristling sheaf of stark faces on the cover of Planet Waves. " -------------------------------------- 3) Taiwan Foundation:----------------- 'Hollywood Goes Taiwanese: Major Motion Picture Formosa Stars James Van Der Beek' http://tinyurl.com/3ly5rr : " the little known events of the White Terror period " : The systematic murders of a generation of the Taiwanese leadership, by the Chiang KMT ROC enlaving colonial terror rule of Taiwan, through the genocide of Taiwan leaders, supported by the USA in its "Cold War".

#76: Politics/US: DD. Seccession. Anarchism. US. Sirhan. 0) Fundamentalists. 1) "Pyrrhic Victory" French then American. 08.6.14=6 - 6.18=3 7pm.

2008-06-13T20:20:00.000-07:00

#76: Politics:----------------------------- DD: Direct Democracies:----------------- '

Urban Action Camp 2008 http://tinyurl.com/6x3enu

Join us for the first No War No Warming Urban Action Camp! July 21-24 in Washington DC

"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" Naomi Klein: Sep18,07 http://tinyurl.com/5csr66 "" Editorial Reviews Amazon.ca Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. " ============================================== ---------------------------------------------- (-1) Seccession 'Oklahoma declares sovereignty'

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Lance http://tinyurl.com/5wco4v

"" I commend the state of Oklahoma for having the guts to stand up for the rights of the sovereign states. I am sure the Federal government is contemplating striking back. "

---------------------------------------------- (0) Anarchism: 'National-Anarchism: The Way of the Future' Flavio Goncalves http://tinyurl.com/6pmf79 Posted Jun15,08: "Home" to Arts? -------------------- 'National-Anarchism' Wikipedia Posted Jun15,08 http://tinyurl.com/5tsajp This article is specifically about the National-Anarchist movement. See Anarchism and nationalism for general information about fusions of nationalist and anarchist ideas. National-Anarchism is a syncretic political current that developed in the 1990s out of an attempt by former Third Positionists to reconcile anarchism with nationalism and in some cases voluntary racial separatism.[1] It has intellectual roots in the writings of Julius Evola and the neo-Spenglerian Francis Parker Yockey,[2] and includes Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Leo Tolstoy, Murray Bookchin and Max Stirner among its influences.[2] Used in this sense, the term was coined simultaneously by Troy Southgate (England), Peter Töpfer (Germany) and Hans Cany (France), and was used by the now defunct National Revolutionary Faction to describe its ideology.[3] ================================== ================================== USA:------------------------------ 'Fantasies, Fables No Longer Enough For Fragile World' Caroline Arnold; Pub. Jun15,08 by CommonDreams.org http://tinyurl.com/58xgov ---------------------------------- (1) Presidency: 'Telling the Truth' Jun14,08 http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese465.html : " The concept of an imperial president took root in the post-Eisenhower years. Before that, Harry Truman was fond of taking walks in downtown Washington. "E. warned against Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex which has took over and twisted further the USA. (2) 'Shot heard round the world' Stephen Kinzer, guardian.co.uk: Jun13,08 http://tinyurl.com/4hl6w4 It is now clear that Robert Kennedy's assassination 40 years ago was in fact an eminently political act : " Sirhan cried out as he was arrested. "I did it for my country!" " " born in 1944 to a Christian family in Jerusalem. " " Later his family moved to California, ... Israel seized East Jerusalem and other Arab territories in the Six-Day War of 1967. " " Sirhan timed his attack on Kennedy to coincide with the first anniversary of the opening of the Six-Day War. " " Foreign interventions and entanglements often produce unpredictable, even unimaginable long-term consequences. " =================================== 0) Fundamentalists:---------------- ' Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler ' Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. Posted Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/5bgjt4 In his new book, The Family, author Jeff Sharlet reveals sordid details about this power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway fundamentalist group. : "" Did you know that the National Prayer Breakfast is sponsored by a shadowy cabal of elite Christian fundamentalists? Jeff Sharlet's new book, "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," offers a rare glimpse of this remarkable network, which is known variously as the Family, the Fellowship and the International Foundation. The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared to him in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupation with the poor, the weak and the suffering. " --------------------------------------- 'Secrets of a powerful Family' Ian Munro, New York: theage.com.au: Jun14,08: http://tinyurl.com/3or2fd ======================================== 1) "Pyrrhic Victory" French then American: 'Pyrrhic Victory' William S. Lind: Jun13,08 http://tinyurl.com/5mw7nr : "" Robert Doughty's Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, published in 2005, completes his trilogy on the French Army from 1914 to 1940. Both of his other books, The Seeds of Disaster, which is the definitive history of French Army doctrinal development between the wars, and The Breaking Point, the story of the French defeat at Sedan in 1940 when the Second and Third Generations of modern war met head-on, are in the canon. For those new to 4GW literature, the canon is the list of seven books which, read in the correct order, take the reader from the First Generation into the Fourth. It can be found as an appendix to FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation War, on the d-n-i- website. " 2) 'Geopolitical Weekly: The U.S. Air Force and the Next War' George Friedman Jun11,08 attribution to www.stratfor.com http://tinyurl.com/4mfdo6 : " Fourth-generation warfare is warfare carried out by nonstate actors using small, decentralized units and individuals to strike at enemy forces and, more important, create political support among the population. " " unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the keys to defeating the substate actor. " " The combination of space-based reconnaissance and the unmanned cruise missile — in particular, next-generation systems able to move at hypersonic speeds (in excess of five times the speed of sound) " "

#75: Philosophy: 0) Korea Symbols. 1) Capitalist Decivilization. 2) Ayn Rand. 3) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) 08.6.11=3 - 6,19=4 11pm.

2008-06-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

#75: Philosophy: 0) Korea Symbols. 1) Capitalist Decivilization. 2) Ayn Rand. 3) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) ----------------------------------------------- 0) South Korean Symbols: Posted Jun15k08 http://tinyurl.com/6ozymd East: Heaven=geon: Spring: Virtue West: Earth==gon:: Summer: Justice South:Sun====n:::: Autumn: Courtesy North:Moon===gam:: Winter: Wisdom http://tinyurl.com/3qs7vl http://tinyurl.com/3sjmko http://tinyurl.com/3rkpfq ------------------------------ 1) Capitalist Decivilization 'A Civilizing Port in a Storm' Jun14,08 http://tinyurl.com/5ffn3n : "" The website LewRockwell.com has as its slogan "Anti-State, Anti-war, Pro-Market" with the explanation given that its founder "is an opponent of the state, its wars and its socialism." Given the founder’s association with the Mises Institute, the site has come to be known as a "libertarian" website. " " we can continue to drink ancient Portuguese fortified wines today is testament to Portugal’s maintenance of civilization over the centuries (not coincidentally, Portugal managed to avoid the two World Wars.) " ------------------------------- ------------------------------- 2) Ayn Rand:---------------------- 'Religion and Libertarianism'Walter Block Jun19,08 http://tinyurl.com/6nsswn : "" The relationship of libertarianism and religion is a long and stormy one.

It cannot be denied that Ayn Rand has had a long, strong and deep relationship with libertarianism. Although she dismissed us as "hippies of the right" (pronounced "ippes of de racht") many of our number are still enthralled by her, inspired by her, and in debt to her for first introducing us to the moral case for free enterprise. I certainly include myself in this category.

One of the strongest influences she has had on the libertarian movement is her belligerent atheism. For many adherents of the freedom philosophy, an aggressive rejection of God and all things religious might as well be the basic axiom of their world-view. I confess that this too was roughly my own belief on the subject, for many years. It is also the perspective of a rich potential donor to the Mises Institute who would have contributed heavily were that organization to change its viewpoint on this matter and take a principled stand against all religion. Happily, Lew Rockwell refused to pervert the mission of his Institute in this regard. Although a believer himself, Rockwell stuck to his guns: the Mises Institute would continue to involve itself in the study of economics and liberty, and not directly with religion at all. "

" It is time, it is long past time, that the Austro-libertarian movement reject the virulent Randian opposition to religion. Yes, Ayn Rand has made contributions to our efforts. We must not throw out the baby with the bathwater. But, surely, anti-religious sentiment belongs in the latter category, not the former.

The views expressed above are consistent with the perspective of my long time mentor, Murray Rothbard. This scholar, who was often called "Mr. Libertarian," was very pro-religion, especially pro-Catholic. He ascribed the concepts of individualism and liberty to Christianity (and almost everything else good in Western civilization), and argued strongly that as long as libertarians made hatred of religion a basic or organizing principle, they would go nowhere, since the vast majority of people in all times and places have always been religious.

Walter Block would like to thank William Barnett II and Guido Hülsmann for helpful suggestions regarding an earlier draft of this essay. All errors, omissions and other infelicities are his own responsibility, of course.

June 19, 2008

Dr. Block [send him mail] is a professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans, and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is the author of Defending the Undefendable and the newly-released Labor Economics From A Free Market Perspective. ""

------------------------------- ------------------------------- 3) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Majid Yar, Lancaster University, UK 2006 http://tinyurl.com/556bcd -----The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:----- 1. Chronology of Life and Works 2. Arendt's Thought: Context and Influences 3. On Totalitarianism 4. The Human Condition 5. On Revolution 6. Eichmann and the 'Banality of Evil' 7. Thinking and Judging 8. Influence 9. Criticisms and Controversies 10. Bibliography

#74: Ages: 1) The Sumerian Civilization. 08.6.9=1 11pm.

2008-06-09T22:55:00.000-07:00

#74: Ages: 1) The Sumerian Civilization:------ 'The Sumerian Civilization..' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/3evhvk 'The Sumerian Civilization: Part 2' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/45xxxb : or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A_Political_Debate_/message/21509

#73: Life/Brain: Origin, Evolution, and Complexity. 08.6.9=1 - 6.20=5 11am.

2008-06-09T19:52:00.000-07:00

#73: Life/Brain: Origin, Evolution, and Complexity: Design Principles. --------------------------- 'Race and intelligence' Wikipedia Jun19,08 http://tinyurl.com/chk5r --------------------------- ' How biological 'alchemy' can change a cell's destiny ' Peter Aldhous, "NewScientist" 2661: Jun18,08 http://tinyurl.com/4jpnen < src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/TSAISH%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="">

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Rowan Hooper, online news editor

: "" CALL it biological alchemy: specialist pancreatic cells that secrete digestive enzymes have been converted directly into insulin-producing beta cells. Meanwhile, epithelial cells from the back of the eye have been coaxed into becoming a versatile, new type of stem cell.

Both advances, reported last week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), may take us closer to a "regenerative" approach to repairing damaged tissue. And both are products of a wave of enthusiasm that has built since Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan showed that it is possible to "reprogram" adult cells back to an embryonic state. It's "Shinya-mania", jokes George Daley of the Children's Hospital Boston.

Yamanaka infected skin cells with retroviruses carrying the genes for four transcription factors - proteins that regulate the activity of other genes by binding to DNA. The viruses inserted themselves ... "

--------------------------- --------------------------- Asymmetrical 'Viral DNA imaged inside shell' KurzweilAI.net, Jun18,08 : "" UC San Diego researchers and colleagues used electron microscopy and 3D computer reconstruction to find and image the structure of an asymmetrical virus at 8 Angstroms (.8 nanometer) resolution. Tightly wound viral DNA in a bacteriophage (UCSD) Previously, only symmetrical spherical viruses had been imaged with this resolution. The image will help to unravel how the virus locks onto its host and infects the cells by injecting its DNA. University of California San Diego News Release "" --------------------------- --------------------------- 'Contact: Charlotte Webber charlotte.webber@biomedcentral.com 44-020-763-19980 BioMed Central Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules http://tinyurl.com/4usgty 'Change Lifestyle, Change Genes: 3 Months on Ornish Diet Changes 500 Genes, Many With Anticancer Effects' Daniel J. DeNoon; WebMD Health News; Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD June 16, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/6jdqgs : " The small molecules that are naturally produced in cells are called metabolites. Enzymes, the biological catalysts that produce and consume these metabolites are created according to a cell's genetic blueprints. Importantly, however, the metabolites can also affect the expression of genes. According to the authors "By comparing the gene expression levels of cancer cells relative to normal cells and converting that information into the enzymes that produce metabolites, CoMet predicts metabolites that have lower concentrations in cancer relative to normal cells". The research proves that by adding such putatively depleted metabolites to cancer cells, they exhibit anticancer properties. In this case, growth of leukemia cells was slowed by all nine of the metabolites suggested by CoMet. " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Magnetic Genes' Jun18,08 http://tinyurl.com/3gssej : "" Using a gene from a magnetically sensitive bacterium, scientists have genetically engineered mammalian cells to produce magnetic nanoparticles. The finding, by a team of Emory University researchers, ... The gene comes from a species of pond-dwelling bacteria that uses it to make tiny particles that function as a kind of biological compass needle. The researchers found that inserting the gene into the DNA of mouse cells caused the cells to produce their own magnetic nanoparticles. When the researchers then injected cells expressing the geneinto the brains of live mice, individual cells could be clearly seen with an MRI as a dark blob surrounded by paler normal tissue. " " the fact that a single bacterial gene could get a wide variety of cells to make their own magnets opens up a wide range of possibilities " ---------------------------------------------- 'Trio of super-Earths found around Milky Way star' Jun16,08: NewScientist.com news service: http://tinyurl.com/4znpa4 'Spacewalking microbes may reveal life's origins' Hazel muil NewScientist.com news service Apr15,08 http://tinyurl.com/4yfkgs : "" By sticking microbes to the outside of the International Space Station, Japanese researchers aim to test the "panspermia" theory that comets and asteroids can spread life between planets. The Japanese experiment is called Tanpopo, Japanese for "dandelion", after the plant's fluffy seeds, which travel long distances on the wind. The Tanpopo experiment should begin in 2011 after the bugs arrive at the Space Station. " 0-0-0) 'Genetic building blocks may have formed in space' Rachel Courtland; NewScientist.com news service: Jun13,08: Journal reference: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (vol 270, p 130) http://tinyurl.com/5vdk96 The Murchison meteorite contains the building blocks of DNA and RNA, which may have an extraterrestrial origin (Copyright: Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution/www.si.edu) "" Some fundamental building blocks of our genetic code might have come from outer space, according to a controversial new meteorite study. The study suggests that some organic compounds associated with genetic material might have formed in a meteorite called Murchison before it landed in Australia in 1969. The chemicals are two kinds of nucleobases, ring-like carbon molecules that are essential for the creation of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA. The find might bolster claims that meteorites delivered some of the chemicals needed to create life. "It boosts the idea that the origin of life on Earth may have had an important contribution from an extraterrestrial object," says lead author Zita Martins, a chemist at Imperial College London in the UK. But it may be too early to conclude these nucleobases formed beyond the Earth, says Sandra Pizzarello, a chemist at Arizona State University in Tempe, US. The study "raises a very interesting question that was raised a very long time ago, but I don't think it solves it", she told New Scientist. No one knows how life got its start. Primitive Earth conditions might not have been favourable for the chemistry needed to create life's building blocks. Meteorite impacts Instead, researchers have argued that frequent bombardments by meteorites 3.8 billion years ago – when life is suspected to have first emerged – could have delivered the material to Earth, where it might have helped further the development of life. Studies of meteorites, as well as astronomical observations of interstellar dust and gas, have turned up a number of organic compounds, including sugars and phosphates. But nucleobases are also needed to make a nucleic acid like DNA or RNA. Such chemicals have been found in a number of meteorites, but no one was sure whether they were extraterrestrial in origin or the result of earthly contamination. Noisy signal To study the origins of these nucleobases, Martins and colleagues studied the mass of organic chemicals isolated from the meteorite. The team looked at two different isotopes of carbon in the chemicals, which included the nucleobases uracil and xanthine. The lighter version, carbon-12, is present on Earth in large amounts. Carbon-13 is more common in sweeping clouds of cold, interstellar gas. Large amounts of the stuff usually indicate the material did not form on Earth. The ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12 was unusually high in the two nucleobases, leading the team to conclude the materials likely formed in the meteorite itself rather than on Earth. But Pizzarello says too many other chemicals were present in the samples to clearly distinguish the carbon ratio. "Analytically, it's not convincing," Pizzarello told New Scientist. Astrobiology - Learn more in our out-of-this-world special report. "" ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ 0-0-1) 'Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell' Nikhil Swaminathan: Scietific American, Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/6f3gln "" Researchers get genetic material to copy itself in a recreation of a simple protocell that could have existed eons ago "" "" Modern cells are like microscopic cities: They have power plants (mitochondria), trash dumps (lysosomes), local government (the nucleus, with DNA serving as the legal charter), and many other activities going on inside their boundaries. They also have a border patrol in the form of a double-layered membrane that uses a series of protein-powered pumps, pores and channels to let nutrients in and keep other chemicals and substances out. But, cells were very different when life began 3.5 billion to four billion years ago. Rather than small metropolises, they were more like a purse that carried instructions—consisting of just a membrane with genetic information inside. They lacked the structures and proteins that now make them tick. The question is: How then were they able to take in the nutrients necessary to survive and reproduce? Harvard Medical School researchers report in Nature that they have built a model of what they believe the very first living cell may have looked like, which contains a strip of genetic material surrounded by a fatty membrane. The membranes of modern cells consist of a double layer of fatty acids known as phospholipids. But in designing a membrane for their cell, scientists worked with much simpler fatty acids that they believe existed on a primeval Earth, when the first cell likely formed. The key, says study co-author Jack Szostak, a Harvard geneticist, was to develop one porous enough to let in needed nutrients (such as nucleotides, the units that make up genetic material, or DNA) but strong enough to protect the genetic material inside and keep it from slipping out after replicating. In an attempt to duplicate an early cell, scientists put fatty acids (that were likely membrane candidates) and a strip of DNA into a test tube of water. While in there, the fatty acids formed into a ring, or membrane, around the genetic segment. The researchers then added nucleotides—units of genetic material—to the test tube to determine whether they would penetrate the membrane and copy the DNA inside it. Their findings: the nucleotides did enter the cell, latch onto and replicate the DNA over 24 hours. What scientists now must figure out, Szostak says, is how the original and copycat DNA strands separated and this early cell divided or reproduced. "We're trying to solve a whole series of problems, step by step," he says, "and build up to replicating an evolving system." David Deamer, a biomolecular engineer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says he believes the team is on its way to making a prototype of a primitive cell that has "essentially all the basic properties of life." "" --------------------------------------- 0-1) 'Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab' NewScientist.com news service; Bob Holmes: Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/3r6jr2 : "" A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. " " ...have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events. Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing, US, took a single Escherichia coli bacterium and used its descendants to found 12 laboratory populations. The 12 have been growing ever since, gradually accumulating mutations and evolving for more than 44,000 generations, while Lenski watches what happens. Profound change Mostly, the patterns Lenski saw were similar in each separate population. All 12 evolved larger cells, for example, as well as faster growth rates on the glucose they were fed, and lower peak population densities. But sometime around the 31,500th generation, something dramatic happened in just one of the populations – the bacteria suddenly acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, a second nutrient in their culture medium that E. coli normally cannot use. Indeed, the inability to use citrate is one of the traits by which bacteriologists distinguish E. coli from other species. The citrate-using mutants increased in population size and diversity. " " Rare mutation? By this time, Lenski calculated, enough bacterial cells had lived and died that all simple mutations must already have occurred several times over. That meant the "citrate-plus" trait must have been something special – either it was a single mutation of an unusually improbable sort, a rare chromosome inversion, say, or else gaining the ability to use citrate required the accumulation of several mutations in sequence. To find out which, Lenski turned to his freezer, where he had saved samples of each population every 500 generations. These allowed him to replay history from any starting point he chose, by reviving the bacteria and letting evolution "replay" again. " " Evidence of evolution The replays showed that even when he looked at trillions of cells, only the original population re-evolved Cit+ – and only when he started the replay from generation 20,000 or greater. Something, he concluded, must have happened around generation 20,000 that laid the groundwork for Cit+ to later evolve. Lenski and his colleagues are now working to identify just what that earlier change was, and how it made the Cit+ mutation possible more than 10,000 generations later. In the meantime, the experiment stands as proof that evolution does not always lead to the best possible outcome. Instead, a chance event can sometimes open evolutionary doors for one population that remain forever closed to other populations with different histories. " " ...it says you can get these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events... " " Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803151105) Read our Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions special report. Evolution - Learn more about the struggle to survive in our comprehensive special report. "" --------------------------------------- 0-2) 'Bacterial Chemical Sensors on the Horizon?' medGadget Jun13,08 http://tinyurl.com/3mtoy5 "" New research out of MIT has deciphered part of the bacterial communication network that has long frustrated scientists. The multitude of communication pathways in bacteria share common enzymes, yet they are still able to communicate without any interference or "crosstalk." The MIT scientists were able solve this problem, and even program their own bacterial communication pathways, by finding pairs of amino acid co-evolution. " " "If an organism has tons of this class of signaling pathway, why do we not get a lot of crosstalk?" said Laub. "How does the kinase pick out the right target?" Based on earlier studies, the MIT researchers theorized that the specificity of the interaction is determined by a subset of amino acids on the histidine kinase and a corresponding subset of amino acids on the response regulator. To confirm their theory, they looked for patterns of amino acid co-evolution in pairs of histidine kinases and their target response regulators. Co-evolution occurs when a mutation in one of the two proteins is followed by a secondary mutation in the corresponding amino acid on the other protein, allowing the protein pair to maintain their interaction. After searching a vast database of nearly 1,300 protein pairs, they identified a small set of co-evolved amino acids. They then confirmed that these amino acids govern signaling specificity by successfully rewiring five of the pathways by mutating the target amino acids. " --------------------------------------- 0-3) 'Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/6qpgkn A new study by Princeton University researchers shows for the first time that bacteria don't just react to changes in their surroundings -- they anticipate and prepare for them. The findings, reported in the June 6 issue of Science, challenge the prevailing notion that only organisms with complex nervous systems have this ability. "" "What we have found is the first evidence that bacteria can use sensed cues from their environment to infer future events," said Saeed Tavazoie, an associate professor of molecular biology, who conducted the study along with graduate student Ilias Tagkopoulos and postdoctoral researcher Yir-Chung Liu. The research team, which included biologists and engineers, used lab experiments to demonstrate this phenomenon in common bacteria. They also turned to computer simulations to explain how a microbe species' internal network of genes and proteins could evolve over time to produce such complex behavior. "The two lines of investigation came together nicely to show how simple biochemical networks can perform sophisticated computational tasks," said Tavazoie. In addition to shedding light on deep questions in biology, the findings could have many practical implications. They could help scientists understand how bacteria mutate to develop resistance to antibiotics. They also may help in developing specialized bacteria to perform useful tasks such as cleaning up environmental contamination. In one part of the study, the researchers studied the behavior of E. coli, the ubiquitous bacterium that travels back and forth between the environment and the gut of warm-blooded vertebrates. They wanted to explain a long-standing question about the bug: How do its genes respond to the temperature and oxygen changes that occur when the bacterium enters the gut? " " ...aerobic (oxygen) to anaerobic (oxygen-less) respiration... " " ...An increase in temperature had nearly the same effect on the bacterium's genes as a decrease in oxygen level. Indeed, upon transition to a higher temperature, many of the genes essential for aerobic respiration were practically turned off. " " ...grew the bacteria in a biologically flipped environment where oxygen levels rose following an increase in temperature. Remarkably, within a few hundred generations the bugs partially adapted to this new regime, and no longer turned off the genes for aerobic respiration when the temperature rose. "This reprogramming clearly indicates that shutting down aerobic respiration following a temperature increase is not essential to E. coli's survival," said Tavazoie. "On the contrary, it appears that the bacterium has "learned" this response by associating specific temperatures with specific oxygen levels over the course of its evolution." " " ..."Their biochemical networks were filled with seemingly unnecessary components," said Tagkopoulos. "That is not how an engineer would design logic-solving networks." Pared down to their essential elements, however, the networks revealed a simple and elegant structure. The researchers could now trace the different sequences of gene and protein interactions organisms used in order to respond to cues and anticipate mealtimes. "It gave us insights into how simple organisms such as bacteria can process information from the environment to anticipate future events," said Tagkopoulos. The researchers said that their findings open up many exciting avenues of research. They are planning to use similar methods to study how bacteria exchange genes with one another (horizontal gene transfer), how tissues and organs develop (morphogenesis), how viral infections spread and other core problems in biology. "What is really exciting about our discovery is that it brings together and establishes deep connections between the traditionally separate fields of microbial ecology, network evolution and behavior," said Tavazoie. Source: Princeton University "" --------------------------------------- 1) 'Origins of the brain: Complex synapses drove brain evolution' Jun8,08 http://tinyurl.com/6ghmwn One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the design principles and origins of the human brain. New research has shed light on the evolutionary origins of the brain and how it evolved into the remarkably complex structure found in humans. "" The research suggests that it is not size alone that gives more brain power, but that, during evolution, increasingly sophisticated molecular processing of nerve impulses allowed development of animals with more complex behaviours. The study shows that two waves of increased sophistication in the structure of nerve junctions could have been the force that allowed complex brains - including our own - to evolve. The big building blocks evolved before big brains. " " the protein components of nerve connections - called synapses " " Professor Seth Grant, Head of the Genes to Cognition Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and leader of the project. "... We found dramatic differences in the numbers of proteins in the neuron connections between different species". "We studied around 600 proteins that are found in mammalian synapses and were surprised to find that only 50 percent of these are also found in invertebrate synapses, and about 25 percent are in single-cell animals, which obviously don't have a brain." Synapses are the junctions between nerves where electrical signals from one cell are transferred through a series of biochemical switches to the next. However, synapses are not simply soldered joints, but mini-processors that give the nervous systems the property of learning and memory. Remarkably, the study shows that some of the proteins involved in synapse signalling and learning and memory are found in yeast, where they act to respond to signals from their environment, such as stress due to limited food or temperature change. "The set of proteins found in single-cell animals represents the ancient or 'protosynapse' involved with simple behaviours," continues Professor Grant. "This set of proteins was embellished by addition of new proteins with the evolution of invertebrates and vertebrates and this has contributed to the more complex behaviours of these animals. "The number and complexity of proteins in the synapse first exploded when muticellular animals emerged, some billion years ago. A second wave occurred with the appearance of vertebrates, perhaps 500 million years ago" " " Most important for understanding of human thought, they found the expansion in proteins that occurred in vertebrates provided a pool of proteins that were used for making different parts of the brain into the specialised regions such as cortex, cerebellum and spinal cord. Since the evolution of molecularly complex, 'big' synapses occurred before the emergence of large brains, it may be that these molecular evolutionary events were necessary to allow evolution of big brains found in humans, primates and other vertebrates. Behavioural studies in animals in which mutations have disrupted synapse genes support the conclusion that the synapse proteins that evolved in vertebrates give rise to a wider range of behaviours including those involved with the highest mental functions. For example, one of the 'vertebrate innovation' genes called SAP102 is necessary for a mouse to use the correct learning strategy when solving mazes, and when this gene is defective in human it results in a form of mental disability. "The molecular evolution of the synapse is like the evolution of computer chips - the increasing complexity has given them more power and those animals with the most powerful chips can do the most," continues Professor Grant. Simple invertebrate species have a set of simple forms of learning powered by molecularly simple synapses, and the complex mammalian species show a wider range of types of learning powered by molecularly very complex synapses. "It is amazing how a process of Darwinian evolution by tinkering and improvement has generated, from a collection of sensory proteins in yeast, the complex synapse of mammals associated with learning and cognition," said Dr Richard Emes, Lecturer in Bioinformatics at Keele University, and joint first author on the paper. " " Professor Grant's team have identified recently evolved genes involved in impaired human cognition and modelled those deficits in the mouse. "This work leads to a new and simple model for understanding the origins and diversity of brains and behaviour in all species" says Professor Grant, adding that "we are one step closer to understanding the logic behind the complexity of human brains" Citation: Emes RD, Pocklington AJ, Anderson CNG, Bayes A, Collins MO, Vickers CA, Croning MDR, Malik BR, Choudhary JS, Armstrong JD and Grant SGN (2008), Evolutionary expansion and anatomical specialization of synapse proteome complexity. Nature Neuroscience published online Sunday 8 June 2008 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2135 Source: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute "" --------------------------------------- 2) 'Researchers show how the brain can protect against cancer' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/4k5flj Scientists have been aware for many years that if cancer patients are not able to deal with the stress associated with being sick, the cancer will progress faster than in calmer patients. To counteract this phenomenon, physicians encourage treatments that help cancer patients handle their stress. Scientists theorized that the stress relief may have come as a result of increased beta-endorphin peptide (BEP), the "feel good" hormones in the brain that are released during exercise, a good conversation, and many other aspects of life that give humans pleasure. "" Researchers at Rutgers hypothesized that BEP producing neurons do not just make us feel good, but also play roles in regulating the stress response and immune functions to control tumor growth and progression. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Dr. Dipak K. Sarkar and his colleagues demonstrate the physical mechanisms that support their hypothesis. " " Previous research has shown that too few, or inactive, BEP neurons are associated with various diseases. ...depression and schizophrenia. ...obese patients. In both these cases ...higher levels of infection and more incidence of cancer. " " Source: Rutgers University ""

#72: World Politics/US/EU: -1) Japan, Israel, UK. 0) Mideast. 1) Latin America. 08.6.9=1 - 6.19=4 11am.

2008-06-09T17:04:00.000-07:00

#72: World Politics/USA:------------ EU? 'The Problem With Europe' Jun17,08 http://tinyurl.com/3g9o8g USA: 'Ron Paul to End Campaign, Launches New Effort: Supporters Plot Shadow Convention, More Revolution' Z. BYRON WOLF: Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/6aoua4 : "" Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday at a rally outside the Texas GOP's convention, ABC News has learned. " ==================================== ------------------------------------ 'Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment' Gore Vidal: Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/4kzxaw : "" On June 9,2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution began in the exact place which had slumbered during the all-out assault on our liberties and the Constitution itself. I wish to draw the attention of the blog world to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s articles of impeachment presented to the House in order that two faithless public servants be removed from office for crimes against the American people. As I listened to Rep. Kucinich invoke the great engine of impeachment — he listed some 35 crimes by these two faithless officials — we heard, like great bells tolling, the voice of the Constitution itself speak out ringingly against those who had tried to destroy it. " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'House Waves Off Impeachment Measure Against Bush' Laurie Kellman: jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/3lg7ra : "" The House has voted to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to a committee that is not likely to hold hearings before the end of his term. By 251-166, House members dispatched the measure to a committee on Wednesday - a procedure often used to kill legislation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago declared the prospects for impeachment proceedings “off the table.” " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'It’s Conyers’s Time to Act on Impeachment' Pub. Jun15,08 by The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild editor: http://tinyurl.com/4flwpj : " Dennis Kucinich is saying exactly what you were saying before you became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. " ==================================== ------------------------------------ -1) Japan, Israel, UK: ------------- (1) Japan & S. Korea, even S. Sakhalin: Sakhalin Online, posted Jun17,08 http://online.sakh.com/en/ ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ' 「白樺」の主権強調　ガス田合意で中国' The Sankei Shimbun & Sankei Digital Jun17,08 http://tinyurl.com/62fvuo

2008.6.17 23:24

東シナ海の天然ガス田「白樺」（中国名・春暁）＝０５年９月、海上自衛隊のＰ３Ｃ哨戒機から

　中国外務省の姜瑜副報道局長は１７日の定例記者会見で、日中両政府が近く正式合意、発表する見通しの東シナ海ガス田共同開発について「中国の立場と主張は一貫している。春暁（日本名・白樺）ガス田は中国主権の範囲内にある」と述べ、日中両国が共同開発対象とした「白樺」ガス田の主権はあくまで中国側にあるとの立場を強調した。

　姜副局長は、同ガス田の主権問題と「共同開発問題とは無関係」と主張。中国側が単独開発してきた「白樺」の共同開発に応じても、原則論をめぐっては日本に譲歩していないことをアピールした。

　日本が中国との排他的経済水域（ＥＥＺ）の境界線と位置付けている日中中間線についても「認めない立場に変わりはない」と述べた。

　一方で副局長は「（日中ガス田協議の）結果は双方にとって利益があるものになるだろう」とも強調。共同開発の早期実施に期待感を示した。（共同）

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'尖閣問題で日本の対応批判　中国' The Sankei Shimbun & Sankei Digital Jun17,08 http://tinyurl.com/5mn8a8

　【北京＝野口東秀】中国外務省の姜瑜報道官は１７日、定例記者会見で、「日本政府に釣魚島付近の海域での違法活動を停止し、類似事件の再発防止を要求する」と日本の対応を改めて批判、台湾擁護の姿勢を示した。

　１７日付の中国共産党機関紙「人民日報」（海外版）は、この問題で「台湾民衆が強く日本を責めている」とする記事を掲載。「悪意ある衝突」「厳正な抗議」「共同で同島を守る」などといった見出しをつけている。

　インターネットでは、中台が連携して対処すべきだとの声が多く、「先祖の遺志を継いで日本鬼子（日本人への蔑称（べつしよう））を追い出せ」「中国海軍を派遣せよ」「国共合作。台湾を孤立させるな」などといった書き込みが目立つ。

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '釣魚台群島：駐日美軍演習場' Jun16,08 http://tinyurl.com/5r9kpm : " 我們是在爭「釣魚島」，還是「釣魚台群島」？參考：http://blog.yam.com/dili/article/5442557 : " 政治鬥爭，也要注重研發時時更新，不要把民眾當傻瓜，白白詐取財物（稅金）。釣魚台群島（的赤尾嶼與黃尾嶼），是駐日美軍（海空軍）的演習場。這是源自戰後美軍對於沖繩的佔領，並於1951年9月8日每日簽署的第一版〈美日安保條約〉之授權，以及1972年「沖繩返還」之再確認所獲得之權力。 " '管内在日アメリカ合衆国軍海上訓練区域一覧表' Aug,07=平成１９年８月現在　http://tinyurl.com/5q6k7c 〈聯合國國際海洋公約〉「第三節　領海的無害通過」（II）' Jun16,08 http://tinyurl.com/5qf92j ==================================== ------------------------------------ 0) Middle East: '“HUMAN CARGO”: BINYAM MOHAMED AND THE RENDITION FREQUENT FLIER PROGRAMME' Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/6dvnzp : " From Goldhawk Road to Guantánamo Bay: Binyam Mohamed’s Torture Odyssey " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' Ghost ships: America's 'floating prisons' are not only illegal, but evidence of the limitless scale of US detention policy ' Shayana Kadidal, guardian.co.uk: Jun5,08 http://tinyurl.com/6nd8r7 : "" This week the Guardian broke the news that an upcoming report from Reprieve – our counterparts across the pond in the Guantánamo litigation – documents the use of as many as 17 American warships as floating prisons to hold detainees in the "war on terror". The report apparently documents not only descriptions of detentions at sea from released Guantánamo detainees, most of whom presumably were held in the early days of the "war on terror", but also more recent detentions on US warships, particularly in the Horn of Africa, a current hot spot for disappearances carried out by the US military and intelligence agencies. The report also claims that in the last two years there have been several hundred renditions – another practice thought to have ceased after President Bush declared an end to it in 2006. " ' War Crimes Committed and Justice Denied' Major General Antonio Taguba, USA (Ret.) Pub. Jun18,08 by Physicians for Human Rights http://tinyurl.com/43ghoc

The fllowing is the preface written for the report, Broken Laws, Broken Lives ------------------------------------ 'Bush Pledges on Iraq Bases Pact Were a Ruse' Jun13,08 http://tinyurl.com/5jkd4n ------------------------------------ '‘Hotline to Iran’ Aims to Head Off War' Jun11,08 http://tinyurl.com/42885p : "" WASHINGTON - Members of Congress joined religious and civil society leaders today in an urgent call to stop the “drumbeat of war” with Iran and open up diplomatic talks to resolve growing tensions between Washington and Tehran. " -------------------------------------- 'Incident Foreshadows Future Attacks in Pakistan' Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/4fow45 'A Line Not To Be Crossed: American-led War on Terror Cannot be Allowed to Spread Into Pakistan’s Pashtun Tribal Area' Eric Margolis, The Toronto Sun: Jun15,08 http://tinyurl.com/6c6l7w "" The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. air and artillery strikes last week shows just how quickly the American-led war in Afghanistan is spreading into neighbouring Pakistan. Pakistan’s military branded the air attack “unprovoked and cowardly.” There was outrage across Pakistan. However, the unstable government in Islamabad, which depends on large infusions of U.S. aid, later softened its protests. The U.S., which used a B-1 heavy bomber and F-15 strike aircraft in the attacks, called its action, “self-defence.” This latest U.S. attack on Pakistan could not come at a worse time. Supreme Court justices ousted by the Pervez Musharraf dictatorship staged national protests this week, underscoring the illegality of Musharraf’s continuing presidency and its unseemly support by the U.S., Britain, Canada and France. Asif Zardari, head of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, shamefully joined Musharraf in opposing restoration of the justice system out of fear the reinstated judges would reopen long-festering corruption charges against him Attacks by U.S. aircraft, Predator hunter-killer drones, U.S. Special Forces and CIA teams have been rising steadily inside Pakistan’s autonomous Pashtun tribal area known by the acronym, FATA. The Pashtun, who make up half Afghanistan’s population and 15% of Pakistan’s, straddle the border, which they reject as a leftover of Imperial Britain’s divide and rule policies. Instead of intimidating the pro-Taliban Pakistani Pashtun, U.S. air and artillery strikes have ignited a firestorm of anti-western fury among FATA’s warlike tribesmen and increased their support for the Taliban. The U.S. is emulating Britain’s colonial divide and rule tactics by offering up to $500,000 to local Pashtun tribal leaders to get them to fight pro-Taliban elements, causing more chaos in the already turbulent region, and stoking tribal rivalries. The U.S. is using this same tactic in Iraq and Afghanistan. This week’s deadly U.S. attacks again illustrate the fact that the 60,000 U.S. and NATO ground troops in Afghanistan are incapable of holding off the Taliban and its allies, even though the Afghan resistance has nothing but small arms to battle the West’s hi-tech arsenal. U.S. air power is almost always called in when there are clashes. In fact, the main function for U.S. and NATO infantries is to draw the Taliban into battle so the Afghan “mujahidin” can be bombed from the air. Without 24/7 U.S. airpower, which can respond in minutes, western forces in Afghanistan would be quickly isolated, cut off from supplies, and defeated. But these air strikes, as we saw this week, are blunt instruments in spite of all the remarkable skill of the U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots. They kill more civilians than Taliban fighters. Mighty U.S. B-1 bombers are not going to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. Each bombed village and massacred caravan wins new recruits to the Taliban and its allies. OPEN WARFARE The U.S. and its allies are edging into open warfare against Pakistan. The western occupation army in Afghanistan is unable to defeat Taliban fighters due to its lack of combat troops. The outgoing supreme commander, U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, recently admitted he would need 400,000 soldiers to pacify Afghanistan. Unable to win in Afghanistan, the frustrated western powers are turning on Pakistan, a nation of 165 million. Pakistanis are bitterly opposed to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and their nation’s subjugation to U.S. policy under dictator Musharraf. “We just need to occupy Pakistan’s tribal territory,” insists the Pentagon, “to stop its Pashtun tribes from supporting and sheltering Taliban.” But a U.S.-led invasion of FATA simply will push pro-Taliban Pashtun militants deeper into Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier province, drawing western troops ever deeper into Pakistan. Already overextended, western forces will be stretched even thinner and clashes with Pakistan’s tough regular army may be inevitable. Widening the Afghan War into Pakistan is military stupidity on a grand scale, and political madness. But Washington and its obedient allies seem hell-bent on charging into a wider regional war that no number of heavy bombers will win. Eric Margolis is a columnist for The Toronto Sun. "" -------------------------------------- 1) Latin America: 'Losing Latin America: What Will the Obama Doctrine Be Like?' Greg Grandin Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/5p7p2k : ... " Latin America, in fact, has been indispensable in the evolution of U.S. diplomacy. The region is often referred to as America’s “backyard,” but a better metaphor might be Washington’s “strategic reserve,” the place where ascendant foreign-policy coalitions regroup and redraw the outlines of U.S. power, following moments of global crisis. " " We are once again at a historic crossroads. An ebbing of U.S. power — this time caused, in part, by military overreach — faces a mobilized Latin America; and, on the eve of regime change at home, with George W. Bush’s neoconservative coalition in ruins after eight years of disastrous rule, would-be foreign policy makers are once again looking south. Goodbye to All That “The era of the United States as the dominant influence in Latin America is over,” says the Council on Foreign Relations, in a new report filled with sober policy suggestions for ways the U.S. can recoup its waning influence in a region it has long claimed as its own. Latin America is now mostly governed by left or center-left governments that differ in policy and style — from the populism of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to the reformism of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. Yet all share a common goal: asserting greater autonomy from the United States. Latin Americans are now courting investment from China, opening markets in Europe, dissenting from Bush’s War on Terror, stalling the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, and sidelining the International Monetary Fund which, over the last couple of decades, has served as a stalking horse for Wall Street and the Treasury Department. And they are electing presidents like Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, who recently announced that his government would not renew the soon-to-expire lease on Manta Air Field, the most prominent U.S. military base in South America. Correa had previously suggested that, if Ecuador could set up its own base in Florida, he would consider extending the lease. When Washington balked, he offered Manta to a Chinese concession, suggesting that the airfield be turned into “China’s gateway to Latin America.” " " But things have changed. “Latin America is not Washington’s to lose,” the Council on Foreign Relations report says, “nor is it Washington’s to save.” The Monroe Doctrine, it declares, is “obsolete.” Good news for Latin America, one would think. But the last time someone from the Council on Foreign Relations, which since its founding in 1921 has represented mainstream foreign-policy opinion, declared the Monroe Doctrine defunct, the result was genocide. Enter the Liberal Establishment That would be Sol Linowitz who, in 1975, as chair of the Commission on United States-Latin American Relations, said that the Monroe Doctrine was “inappropriate and irrelevant to the changed realities and trends of the future.” The little-remembered Linowitz Commission was made up of respected scholars and businessmen from what was then called the “liberal establishment.” It was but one part of a broader attempt by America’s foreign-policy elite to respond to the cascading crises of the 1970s — defeat in Vietnam, rising third-world nationalism, Asian and European competition, skyrocketing energy prices, a falling dollar, the Watergate scandal, and domestic dissent. Confronted with a precipitous collapse of America’s global legitimacy, the Council on Foreign Relations, along with other mainline think tanks like the Brookings Institute and the newly formed Trilateral Commission, offered a series of proposals that might help the U.S. stabilize its authority, while allowing for “a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.” There was widespread consensus among the intellectuals and corporate leaders affiliated with these institutions that the kind of anticommunist zeal that had marched the U.S. into the disaster in Vietnam needed to be tamped down, and that “new forms of common management” between Washington, Europe, and Japan had to be worked out. Advocates for a calmer world order came from the same corporate bloc that underwrote the Democratic Party and the Rockefeller-wing of the Republican Party. " " At that moment throughout Latin America, leftists and nationalists were — as they are now — demanding a more equitable distribution of global wealth. Lest radicalization spread, the Trilateral Commission’s executive director Zbignew Brzezinski, soon to be President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, argued that it would be “wise for the United States to make an explicit move to abandon the Monroe Doctrine.” The Linowitz Commission agreed and offered a series of recommendations to that effect — including the return of the Panama Canal to Panama and a decrease in U.S. military aid to the region — that would largely define Carter’s Latin American policy. Exit the Liberal Establishment Of course, it was not corporate liberalism but rather a resurgent and revanchist militarism from the Right that turned out to offer the most cohesive and, for a time, successful solution to the crises of the 1970s. Uniting a gathering coalition of old-school law-and-order anticommunists, first generation neoconservatives, and newly empowered evangelicals, the New Right organized an ever metastasizing set of committees, foundations, institutes, and magazines that focused on specific issues — the SALT II nuclear disarmament negotiations, the Panama Canal Treaty, and the proposed MX missile system, as well as U.S. policy in Cuba, South Africa, Rhodesia, Israel, Taiwan, Afghanistan, and Central America. All of them were broadly committed to avenging defeat in Vietnam (and the “stab in the back” by the liberal media and the public at home). They were also intent on restoring righteous purpose to American diplomacy. As had corporate liberals, so, now, neoconservative intellectuals looked to Latin America to hone their ideas. President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the UN, Jeane Kirkpatrick, for instance, focused mainly on Latin America in laying out the foundational principles of modern neoconservative thought. She was particularly hard on Linowitz, who, she said, represented the “disinterested internationalist spirit” of “appeasement” — a word back with us again. His report, she insisted, meant “abandoning the strategic perspective which has shaped U.S. policy from the Monroe Doctrine down to the eve of the Carter administration, at the center of which was a conception of the national interest and a belief in the moral legitimacy of its defense.” At first, Brookings, the Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Trilateral Commission, as well as the Business Roundtable, founded in 1972 by the crème de la CEO crème, opposed the push to remilitarize American society; but, by the late 1970s, it was clear that “normalization” had failed to solve the global economic crisis. Europe and Japan were not cooperating in stabilizing the dollar, and the economies of Eastern Europe, the USSR, and China were too anemic to absorb sufficient amounts of U.S. capital or serve as profitable trading partners. Throughout the 1970s, financial houses like the Rockefellers’ Chase Manhattan Bank had become engorged with petrodollars deposited by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, and other oil-exporting nations. They needed to do something with all that money, yet the U.S. economy remained sluggish, and much of the Third World off limits. So, after Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential victory, mainstream policymakers and intellectuals, many of them self-described liberals, increasingly came to back the Reagan Revolution’s domestic and foreign agenda: gutting the welfare state, ramping up defense spending, opening up the Third World to U.S. capital, and jumpstarting the Cold War. A decade after the Linowitz Commission proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine no longer viable, Ronald Reagan invoked it to justify his administration’s patronage of murderous anti-communists in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. A few years after Jimmy Carter announced that the U.S. had broken “free of that inordinate fear of communism,” Reagan quoted John F. Kennedy saying, “Communist domination in this hemisphere can never be negotiated.” Reagan’s illegal patronage of the Contras — those murderers he hailed as the “moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers” and deployed to destabilize Nicaragua’s Sandinista government — and his administration’s funding of death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala brought together, for the first time, the New Right’s two main constituencies. Neoconservatives provided Reagan’s revival of the imperial presidency with legal and intellectual justification, while the religious Right backed up the new militarism with grassroots energy. This partnership was first built — just as it has more recently been continued in Iraq — on a mountain of mutilated corpses: 40,000 Nicaraguans and 70,000 El Salvadorans killed by U.S. allies; 200,000 Guatemalans, many of them Mayan peasants, victimized in a scorched-earth campaign the UN would rule to be genocidal. The End of the Neocon Holiday from History The recent Council on Foreign Relations report on Latin America, arriving as it does in another moment of imperial decline, seems once again to signal a new emerging consensus, one similar in tone to that of the post-Vietnam 1970s. In every dimension other than military, Newsweek editor Fareed Zacharia argues in his new book, The Post-American World, “the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance.” ..." " ...The fiasco in Iraq, the fall in the value of the dollar, the rise of India and China as new industrial and commercial powerhouses, and of Russia as an energy superpower, the failure to secure the Middle East, soaring oil and gas prices (as well as skyrocketing prices for other key raw materials and basic foodstuffs), and the consolidation of a prosperous Europe have all brought their dreams of global supremacy crashing down. Barack Obama is obviously the candidate best positioned to walk the U.S. back from the edge of irrelevance. ..." " Parag Khanna, an Obama advisor, recently argued that, by maximizing its cultural and technological advantage, the U.S. can, with a little luck, perhaps secure a position as third partner in a new tripartite global order in which Europe and Asia would have equal shares, a distinct echo of the trilateralist position of the 1970s. ... Spain’s Fernando VII or Britain’s Clement Richard Attlee, each of whom presided over his country’s imperial decline.) "? " Certainly, there are already plenty of feverish conservative think tanks, from the Hudson Institute to the Heritage Foundation, that would double down on Bush’s crusades as a way out of the current mess. ..." " The Right’s decay as an intellectual force is nowhere more evident than in the fits it throws in the face of the Left’s — or China’s — advances in Latin America. The self-confidant vitality with which Jeane Kirkpatrick used Latin America to skewer the Carter administration has been replaced with the tinny, desperate shrill of despair. “Who lost Latin America?” asks the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney — of pretty much everyone he meets. The region, he says, is now a “magnet for Islamist terrorists and a breeding ground for hostile political movements… The key leader is Chávez, the billionaire dictator of Venezuela who has declared a Latino jihad against the United States.” Scare-Quote Diplomacy But just because the Right is unlikely to unfurl its banner over Latin America again soon doesn’t mean that U.S. hemispheric diplomacy will be demilitarized. After all, it was Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush, who, at the behest of Lockheed Martin in 1997, reversed a Carter administration ban (based on Linowitz report recommendations) on the sale of high-tech weaponry to Latin America. That, in turn, kicked off a reckless and wasteful Southern Cone arms race. And it was Clinton, not Bush, who dramatically increased military aid to the murderous Colombian government and to corporate mercenaries like Blackwater and Dyncorp, further escalating the misguided U.S. “war on drugs” in Latin America. In fact, a quick comparison between the Linowitz report and the new Council on Foreign Relations study on Latin America provides a sobering way of measuring just how far right the “liberal establishment” has shifted over the last three decades. The Council does admirably advise Washington to normalize relations with Cuba and engage with Venezuela, while downplaying the possibility of “Islamic terrorists” using the area as a staging ground — a longstanding fantasy of the neocons. (Douglas Feith, former Pentagon undersecretary, suggested that, after 9/11, the U.S. hold off invading Afghanistan and instead bomb Paraguay, which has a large Shi’ite community, just to “surprise” the Sunni al-Qaeda.) " " ...Seven decades ago, Franklin Roosevelt supported the right of Latin American countries to nationalize U.S. interests, including Standard Oil holdings in Bolivia and Mexico, saying it was time for others in the hemisphere to get their “fair share.” Three decades ago, the Linowitz Commission recommended the establishment of a “code of conduct” defining the responsibilities of foreign corporations in the region and recognizing the right of governments to nationalize industries and resources. The Council, in contrast, sneers at Chávez’s far milder efforts to create joint ventures with oil multinationals, while offering nothing but pablum in its place. Its centerpiece recommendation — aimed at cultivating Brazil as a potential anchor of a post-Bush, post-Chávez hemispheric order — urges the abolition of subsidies and tariffs protecting U.S. agro-industry in order to advance a “Biofuel Partnership” with Brazil’s own behemoth agricultural sector. This would be an environmental disaster, pushing large, mechanized plantations ever deeper into the Amazon basin, while doing nothing to generate decent jobs or distribute wealth more fairly. Dominated by representatives from the finance sector of the U.S. economy, the Council recommends little beyond continuing the failed corporate “free trade” policies of the last twenty years — and, in this case, those scare quotes are justified because what they’re advocating is about as free as corporate “social justice” is just. An Obama Doctrine? So far, Barack Obama promises little better. A few weeks ago, he traveled to Miami and gave a major address on Latin America to the Cuban American National Foundation. It was hardly an auspicious venue for a speech that promised to “engage the people of the region with the respect owed to a partner.” Surely, the priorities for humane engagement would have been different had he been addressing not wealthy right-wing Cuban exiles but an audience, say, of the kinds of Latino migrants in Los Angeles who have revitalized the U.S. labor movement, or of Central American families in Postville, Iowa, where immigration and Justice Department authorities recently staged a massive raid on a meatpacking plant, arresting as many as 700 undocumented workers. Obama did call for comprehensive immigration reform and promised to fulfill Franklin Roosevelt’s 68 year-old Four Freedoms agenda, including the social-democratic “freedom from want.” Yet he spent much of his speech throwing red meat to his Cuban audience. Ignoring the not-exactly-radical advice of the Council on Foreign Relations, the candidate pledged to maintain the embargo on Cuba. And then he went further. Sounding a bit like Frank Gaffney, he all but accused the Bush administration of “losing Latin America” and allowing China, Europe, and “demagogues like Hugo Chávez” to step “into the vacuum.” He even raised the specter of Iranian influence in the region, pointing out that “just the other day Tehran and Caracas launched a joint bank with their windfall oil profits.” Whatever one’s opinion on Hugo Chávez, any diplomacy that claims to take Latin American opinion seriously has to acknowledge one thing: Most of the region’s leaders not only don’t see him as a “problem,” but have joined him on major economic and political initiatives like the Bank of the South, an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and the Union of South American Nations, modeled on the European Union, established just two weeks ago. And any U.S. president who is sincere in wanting to help Latin Americans liberate themselves from “want” will have to work with the Latin American left — in all its varieties. But more ominous than Obama’s posturing on Venezuela is his position on Colombia. Critics have long pointed out that the billions of dollars in military aid provided to the Colombian security forces to defeat the FARC insurgency and curtail cocaine production would discourage a negotiated end to the civil war in that country and potentially provoke its escalation into neighboring Andean lands. That’s exactly what happened last March, when Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe ordered the bombing of a rebel camp located in Ecuador (possibly with U.S. logistical support supplied from Manta Air Force Base, which gives you an idea of why Correa wants to give it to China). To justify the raid, Uribe explicitly invoked the Bush Doctrine’s right of preemptive, unilateral action. In response, Ecuador and Venezuela began to mobilize troops along their border with Colombia, bringing the region to the precipice of war. Most interestingly, in that conflict, an overwhelming majority of Latin American and Caribbean countries sided with Venezuela and Ecuador, categorically condemning the Colombian raid and reaffirming the sovereignty of individual nations recognized by Franklin Roosevelt long ago. Not Obama, however. He essentially endorsed the Bush administration’s drive to transform Colombia’s relations with its Andean neighbors into the one Israel has with most of the Middle East. In his Miami speech, he swore that he would “support Colombia’s right to strike terrorists who seek safe-havens across its borders.” Equally troublesome has been Obama’s endorsement of the controversial Merida Initiative, which human rights groups like Amnesty International have condemned as an application of the “Colombian solution” to Mexico and Central America, providing their militaries and police with a massive infusion of money to combat drugs and gangs. Crime is indeed a serious problem in these countries, and deserves considered attention. It’s chilling, however, to have Colombia — where death-squads now have infiltrated every level of government, and where union and other political activists are executed on a regular basis — held up as a model for other parts of Latin America. Obama, however, not only supports the initiative, but wants to expand it beyond Mexico and Central America. “We must press further south as well,” he said in Miami. It seems that once again that, as in the 1970s, reports of the death of the Monroe Doctrine are greatly exaggerated. Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University. He is the author of Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism and The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. ""

#71: Sciences/Computers: 0) Universes/Life. 1) Math. 2) Quantum Physics: Scientists find new 'quasiparticles' 08.6.3=2 - 6.18=3 11am.

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#71: Sciences/Computers: 0) Universes/Life. 1) Math. 2) Physics: Top Supercomputers Jun18,08 http://tinyurl.com/4mn3j5 next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance computing (HPC), mainstream and consumer applications. Jun16,08 http://tinyurl.com/6m5njy 0-1) Universes:---------- 'Before the beginning' Ron Cowen, ScenceNews WebEd Jun12,08 http://tinyurl.com/5w3wcw "" Theory suggests a pre-Big Bang universe "" " Caltech scientists have developed new models of the universe that account for the recent finding that temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation over half the sky appear to be about 10 percent greater than the variations in the other half. " http://tinyurl.com/4y3nyk "" Some people are loath to take a lopsided view of the universe, but cosmologist Sean Carroll and his colleagues are positively reveling in it. Embracing a study that suggests the pattern of radiation left over from the Big Bang looks surprisingly different from one side of the sky to the other, Carroll and colleagues have come up with some mind-bending possibilities to explain the puzzle, described in a paper posted online June 3. In one scenario, the universe existed before inflation — the short-lived but enormous growth spurt associated with the Big Bang. In the other scenario, the universe is but a tiny part of a primordial structure now grown so big it exceeds the horizon of the observable universe. Either way, the explanations suggest “that something outside our observable universe or before the period of inflation left a relic, left some imprint on what we can observe today,” says Carroll, of Caltech. Inflation theory posits that during the first minuscule fractions of a second, the subatomic-sized universe swelled to something like the size of a grapefruit. The rapid stretching explains why widely separated parts of the universe appear so much alike. It also explains why the radiation generated during the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background, is uniformly distributed across the sky. Tiny temperature differences in that radiation signify the primordial seeds that ultimately gave rise to galaxies and galaxy clusters, but according to the simplest model of inflation the magnitude of those tiny hot and cold spots ought to be about the same over different parts of the sky. However, that belief seems to be contradicted by a recent finding. An analysis of the cosmic radiation recorded by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, shows that the temperature variations over half the sky appear to be about 10 percent greater than the variations in the other half, Hans Eriksen of the University of Oslo in Norway first reported in 2004. He says the asymmetry “looks quite significant, but one shouldn't throw everything else overboard quite yet.” WMAP theorist David Spergel of Princeton University says the finding is “certainly not at the level to make a convincing claim of an asymmetric sky.” But taken at face value, an asymmetric sky poses a problem for the simplest model of inflation, notes Carroll. That’s where he and his Caltech colleagues Marc Kamionkowski and lead author Adrienne Erickcek come into the story. Simply tweaking the theory doesn’t work, Carroll notes. But when his team added major modifications, the model reproduced the asymmetry seen by Eriksen. One of those revisions posits the existence of a “supermode” — a primordial fluctuation in density so much larger than the universe that the fluctuation appears to look uniform. As Carroll notes in a recent blog, it’s as if the cosmos were sampling such a tiny piece of a sine wave that the wave looks likes a straight line instead of oscillating. The neat thing about having a supermode, says Carroll, is that it must have originated before the period of inflation during which the tiny lumps were created that grew into galaxies. Either the supermode came from an even earlier period of inflation, or it preceded inflation entirely. Inflation’s stretch “usually provides a veil between us and the pre-inflationary and/or superhorizon universe,” says coauthor Kamionkowski. But if the asymmetry in the microwave background is confirmed “and if our interpretation is correct, then it provides a window toward regimes of the early universe that we hitherto thought observationally inaccessible.” The new work may also shed light on what sparked inflation in the first place. “What I'm happiest about with this new work are the prospects it opens up for learning more about the physics of inflation, how it got started and/or what happened before inflation,” Kamionkowski adds. The European Space Agency’s Planck mission, set for launch this fall, will look at variations in the cosmic microwave background on finer scales than WMAP and should determine whether or not the asymmetry is real, Eriksen says. Alan Guth of MIT, who first proposed the inflation theory nearly three decades ago, says he suspects “the reported lopsidedness will more likely turn out to be a fluke.” However, he adds, “the concept of inflation is really only the framework of a theory, and so far experiment has given us very little guidance in trying to fill in the details. The authors of this paper are doing just what is needed: they are taking a hint from the data and elaborating it into a theory.… It is only by pursuing such hints that … we will have a chance to find the right way to put meat on the inflationary skeleton.” - - - - - - - - - - - - ======================= 0-2) Life:------------- 'The Ordovician: Life's second big bang' James O'Donoghue, NewScietist 2660: Jun11,08 http://tinyurl.com/5l34pq "" JUST over half a billion years ago, evolution hit a purple patch. In the space of a few million years, once-empty seas were suddenly overrun by all manner of newfangled life forms. Animals had arrived on the scene and life on Earth never looked back. At least, that's what we originally thought the fossil record was telling us. It now turns out that this spectacular event - known as the Cambrian explosion - stuttered to a halt not long after it began. Around 515 million years ago, evolution ran out of steam and the increase in biodiversity went into reverse. For the march of progress to continue, life needed rebooting. It came in the form of a second explosion of life called the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, a little-heard-of episode which has been the focus of intense scientific interest in recent years. Since discovering hints of it around 20 years ... "" ======================= ======================= 1) Math:--------------- 'Grand designs: Symmetry's hidden depths' Jun11,08 http://tinyurl.com/3glz2o * Marcus du Sautoy * Magazine issue 2660 OSLO, May 2008. King Harald of Norway presents mathematicians John Thompson and Jacques Tits with the Abel prize, one of the highest accolades in mathematics. There is a pleasing symmetry at the heart of this year's award. The winners are being honoured for ground-breaking work that led to the completion of a project started by Niels Abel, the 19th-century Norwegian mathematician after whom the prize is named. Appropriately enough, that project concerns mathematicians' attempts to answer the question: what is symmetry? 2) Physics:------------- ' Scientists find new 'quasiparticles' ' Jun2,08 http://tinyurl.com/59qjds : " Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum computers that might be powerful, yet highly stable. " ---------------------------- 'World's Largest Quantum Bell Test Spans Three Swiss Towns ' Lisa Zyga; PhysOrg.com. Jun16,08 http://tinyurl.com/5tsq7l

: "" In the Bell test, two photons from an entangled pair were sent from Geneva to Satigny and Jussy, two small towns located 18 km apart. This distance enabled the space-like separation necessary for finishing a quantum measurement in each town, which required a macroscopic mass to move. Detection of the mass’ movement was completed before information could have traveled between the two towns. Credit: D. Salart, et al. In an attempt to rule out any kind of communication between entangled particles, physicists from the University of Geneva have sent two entangled photons traveling to different towns located 18 km apart – the longest distance for this type of quantum measurement. The distance enabled the physicists to completely finish performing their quantum measurements at each detector before any information could have time to travel between the two towns. Many other experiments have observed quantum nonlocality – the “spooky interaction at a distance” that occurs between two entangled particles – and also known as a violation of Bell inequalities. " " Different interpretations of quantum mechanics lead to different answers. The most common view is that a quantum measurement is finished as soon as the photons are absorbed by detectors. Previous experiments have been set up to allow enough distance between particle detectors to prohibit communication under this view. But there are also other views of when the measurement is finished, including “when the result is secured in a classical system,” “when the information is in the environment,” or even that it is never over – a view that leads to the many worlds interpretation. The Swiss team followed a view proposed independently by Penrose and Diosi, which assumes a connection between quantum measurements and gravity, and requires a macroscopic mass to be moved. In this view, the measurement takes more time than it does for a photon to be absorbed by a detector. The significance of the Swiss test is that it is the first “space-like separated” Bell test under the Penrose-Diosi assumption. “There is quite a large community of physicists that speculates on possible connections between quantum gravity and the measurement problem,” coauthor Hugo Zbinden told PhysOrg.com. “The advantage of the Penrose-Diosi model is that it is testable using today's technology.” In the physicists’ experiment, the detection of each photon by a single-photon detector triggers a voltage to a piezoelectric actuator. The actuator expands, which in turn causes a tiny gold-surfaced mirror to move. By measuring the mirror displacement, the researchers could confirm by the gravity-quantum connection that the quantum measurement had been successfully finished. All of the steps – from photon detection to mirror movement – take about 7.1 microseconds, which is significantly less than the 60 microseconds it would take a photon to cover the 18 km between interferometers. So measurements made simultaneously at each of the interferometers could not be been influenced by anything traveling at – or even a few times more than – the speed of light. “The significance of our experiment lies entirely in achieving space-like separation, even under the assumption that a quantum measurement is only finished after a macroscopic mass has moved, as in the Penrose-Diosi model,” Zbinden explained. Altogether, the experiment serves to fill a loophole by ruling out any kind of communication between two entangled particles separated by a distance, provided the collapse happens only after a mass has moved. By spatially separating the entangled photons, the test once again confirms the nonlocal nature of quantum correlations. More information: Salart, D.; Baas, A.; van Houwelingen, J. A. W.; Gisin, N.; and Zbinden, H. “Spacelike Separation in a Bell Test Assuming Gravitationally Induced Collapses.” Physical Review Letters 100, 220404 (2008). ""

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"黃虎印=Yellow Tiger Stamp=Taiwan Democratic Nation, 1895: National Flag. " '新編歷史歌仔戲—黃虎印' Jun12-15,08 雲集台灣頂尖一流劇場名星跨界演出風華桂冠小生－唐美雲　歌仔戲界女帝－許秀年／領銜演出 " ===================================== ' 我最敬愛的外公，寧願燒盡、不願銹壞；許昭榮與台籍老兵' Jun11,08 http://tinyurl.com/5mofhy : "" 1. 謝謝你讓大家知道哪些高雄議員的腦殘,那吳大人唯一為台灣做對一件事,捐出廢地一塊,可惜唯德不足未出錢建設! 希望大家有志者來出力吧!用行動來幫忙圓許老先生的夢! NCKU 2008-06-09 20:01:02 email 2. neo，昭榮伯的悲哀，我完全能夠理解，不管本省兵外省兵，他們都是時代的犧牲者。不容青史竟成灰，老人家唯一的心願，也只是留下歷史見證罷了。結果台灣民主聖地高雄，卻無容身之地，哀莫大於心死，陳菊市長這實在太令我們失望吧！往者已矣，勇者的身影在前，我們後輩不能退縮，請大家一人一信，為高雄發聲請命，為歷史請命，為昭榮伯爭尊嚴。 waterx92 2008-06-10 18:42:25 email 3. 阿榮大的孫..大哥給你講.希望你可以提供這部短片檔.不然你貼在youtube...這無名不好用..為何要這樣.因為貼片伺服器如果死了.這片也不會動.我們要在各地各點把聲音喊出去慶離 2008-06-10 22:54:59 homepage 4. 老前輩安息！文仔 2008-06-11 10:43:53 email 5. 我把他轉載到我的部落格，希望你不介意。大地文教基金會的楊緒東董事長在5/9寫了一篇有關台籍老兵的書評--無國之奴今如是－台灣人真悲哀，這篇文章在5/16放上大地網站http://www.taiwantt.org.tw/tw/index.php?option= com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=1 沒料到5/20就發生台籍老兵許榮昭先生自焚事件，除了佩服楊董事長的未卜先知以外，還是惋惜這篇文章來不及擋住許昭榮自焚的決心。一切都是天意！ Amy 2008-06-11 11:54:34 homepage 6. 1. 不應說是歷史的犧牲或是天意, 明明是國民黨所做的惡事，苦苦的纏住台灣人。 2.如果可以，影片真的應該放到YUTOBE, 無名也是被YAHOO買走的啊。她們對中國的態度... Khai 2008-06-11 19:54:37 email homepage 7. 這是典型從戰敗國的國民搖身一變，成為戰勝國的被殖民之悲哀。從日本國民，日本兵去打中國奴，變成中華民國兵去打共匪。台灣人，你還在顧你的股票嗎？哪日要變成共產黨兵，不要緊嗎？昭榮兄，有氣魄！！思念你的爽朗笑聲，你下酒菜的手藝，以及非常執著敬業的精神！版主，謝謝剪接這個影片。我是你外公的清請好朋友，一起在多倫多曾有一段快樂無拘無束高談理想的好時光。你外公走得光榮，有氣魄，夠膽識，是值得學習的好台灣軍人。 Ajin 2008-06-11 20:01:10 email homepage 8. so touching steve 2008-06-12 00:40:08 9. I honor this "OLD WARRIER" at my highest respection. Ronny225 2008-06-12 08:27:40 email 10. 許老先生為台灣的尊嚴值得全世界敬意與懷念李龍騰 2008-06-12 09:47:48 email 11. 敬愛的許昭榮老前輩,過去多年與您常在民主運動中相遇,520晚上從網路新聞得知您自焚殉道,內心深受衝擊,自此深層的愴痛不曾止息.每天向主禱告,願主保佑您安息主懷. 6月7日早上我從台北搭高鐵到鳳山市長老教會參加追思會,向您致上最高敬意.懷著無比傷痛,再一次接受您的教誨,感念您為台灣人的尊嚴所做的奉獻.您雖然已往生,您的身影親切猶如仍然陪伴我們身邊.時間越是流逝,您的身影越是精神昂然;您是台灣烈士,您是台灣的英雄巨人!您留給後代最珍貴的台灣文化資產-- 您為台籍老兵守護用血淚構織的歷史,您用生命守護旗津台灣兵無名戰士英靈紀念碑.敬愛的老前輩英靈,安息吧!旗津台灣兵無名戰士英靈紀念碑永遠矗立在許昭榮老前輩自焚殉道之處,這裡是台灣人世世代代榮耀的聖地,我們在這裡敬仰為台灣犧牲的先人,在這裡鍛鍊,學習,直到台灣國建立之時--在這裡舉杯與先人英靈一同歡慶! 願主保佑許昭榮老前輩和台灣兵無名英靈,安息主懷! 願主保佑遺族. 平安! 曾心儀寫於台北永和20080612 曾心儀 2008-06-12 10:21:53 email 12. 台灣萬歲!台灣人萬歲 2008-06-12 10:41:15 13. 願主看顧台籍老兵，許先生安息。無限哀思.. VIPsingjen 2008-06-12 10:57:00 email homepage 14. [收藏] 願主看顧 VIPsingjen 2008-06-12 10:59:01 "" ===================================== ------------------------------------- Web:--------------------------------- 'Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/3hnctg 'Militarizing Your Cyberspace' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/66a9x5 ===================================== ------------------------------------- State: ------------------------------ Armed & Free People: 'Machiavelli Was Right' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/5v44rt 'Global Military Spending Soars 45 Percent in 10 Years' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/4md526 'America's Democratic Collapse' Chris Hedges, Jun3,08 http://tinyurl.com/5kd8f7 : " keynote address on Wednesday, May 28, in Furman University's Younts " " I used to live in a country called America. " " Our state, our nation, has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations and a narrow, selfish political elite, a small and privileged group which governs on behalf of moneyed interests. " " NAFTA...1994, had the curious effect of reversing every one of Clinton's rosy predictions. " " Clinton's welfare reform bill, which was signed on Aug. 22, 1996, obliterated the nation's social safety net. " " George Bush has also done more to dismantle our Constitution, ignore or revoke our statutes and reverse regulations that protected American citizens from corporate abuse than any other president in recent American history. " " There has been a Weimarization of the American working class. And the assault on the middle class is now under way...being outsourced " " We have watched over the past few decades the rise of a powerful web of interlocking corporate entities, a network of arrangements... " " The corporate state, begun under Ronald Reagan and pushed forward by every president since, " " as we saw in Italy and Germany... Antitrust laws...serve as bulwarks to protect democracy. And now that they are gone, " " I spent two years traveling the country to write a book on the Christian right called "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." In depressed former manufacturing towns from Ohio to Kentucky it was the same. " ------------------------ 'Bringing Bush to Court' Elizabeth de la Vega and Tom Engelhardt: Nov28,06 http://tinyurl.com/6ccfl2 "United States v. George W. Bush et al." Elizabeth de la Vega: Nov1,06 http://tinyurl.com/47bdq7 : Amazon.com: " Product Description In United States v. George W. Bush et al., former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega brings her twenty years of experience and her passion for justice to the most important case of her career. The defendants are George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell. The crime is tricking the nation into war, or, in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States. Ms. de la Vega has reviewed the evidence, researched the law, drafted an indictment, and in this lively, accessible book, presented it to a grand jury. If the indictment and grand jury are both hypothetical, the facts are tragically real: Over half of all Americans believe the president misled the country into a war that has left over 2,500 American soldiers and countless Iraqis dead. The cost is $350 billion-and counting. " ------------------------------------- 'Kucinich Calls For Bush Impeachment' Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/4zvvq6 ------------------------------------- State:------------------------------- 'Obama Capitulates – to the Israel lobby' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/55q4m6 'Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't bet the ranch on it' Jun4,08 http://tinyurl.com/68ppfl 'The Fed’s War on the Middle Class' Jun4,08 http://mises.org/story/2983 : " Multimillionaires like Hillary Clinton and Lou Dobbs butter their bread by defending middle-class Americans. " " All four problems stem from a common cause — the Federal Reserve. History tells us that we either root out this cause or face economic demise. " 'Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy' http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard-lib.html Murray N. Rothbard 1984 http://tinyurl.com/2xuttf Cmmercial bankers, engaged as they are in unsound fractional reserve credit, are, in the free market, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Hence they are always reaching for government aid and bailout. Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt. Both sets of bankers, then, tend to be tied in with government policy, and try to influence and control government actions in domestic and foreign affairs. is a certain mentality that, no matter how convincing the evidence, would never even consider the argument put forward in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy. " An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard" Justin Rainmondo ------------------------------------- 'Know the Enemy' May31,08 http://tinyurl.com/52ynod " Behind the State, and concealed by it, is the ultimate social force, the banking. The banks create money from nothing, and charge interest for it. Repayment is made possible by more lending. The State has been the biggest borrower, but as long as it pays interest, the principle need not be repaid: the state’s reward for legitimizing this abomination. There’s nothing new in this system, and we can learn from the past that it inevitably fails. " Now the chickens are coming home to roost. A system that cannot exist without continuous borrowing will fail when the cost of borrowing simply becomes too high. " ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ====================================== Ages: -------------------------------- 'Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/6o2gaa 'Huge Flying Reptiles Ate Dinosaurs' May27,08 http://www.livescience.com/animals/051201_dinosaur_history.html Age of Dinosaurs some 230 million to 65 million years ago " " pterosaurs " " fossils of a group of toothless pterosaurs called azhdarchids, which are much larger on average than other http://www.livescience.com/animals/080211-mini-pterodactyl.html : " For example, one of the largest azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus, weighed about 550 pounds (250 kilograms) with a wingspan of more than 30 feet (10 meters) and a height comparable to a giraffe. " " Back before they went extinct 65 million years ago during the event that also killed off non-avian dinosaurs, these pterosaurs could lunch on animals ranging from small bird-like Velicoraptors to babies to amphibians. " ------------------------------------- 'Vatican unveils restored pagan tomb: 2nd-century burial grounds were covered up by Emperor Constantine' May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/4dmh9n : " VATICAN CITY - The Vatican unveiled the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs in the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday after nearly a year of restoration work. " "Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, had the pagan burial grounds covered up in the 4th century so the basilica could be built over the site holding St. Peter’s tomb. The Valeri tomb, made up of several rooms, is several hundred feet from the burial place of the Apostle Peter, venerated by Catholics as the first pope. Peter was martyred in Rome in the area near the Vatican known as Nero’s Circus during the first century persecution of Christians by the Romans. " " The mausoleum is considered a particularly fine example of the stucco work popular from that era, as well as for the bas reliefs and statues that adorn the tombs. The tomb tells the history of the family, particularly in bas reliefs, of a girl and a boy from the Caius Valerius Herma family. The children died young, possibly from plague. Such stuccoed objects as a quill pen and a skein of yarn tell the tale of daily life in the Valeri family. Reliefs of major gods and other pagan figures attest to their strong religious belief. " ======================== ======================== =================================== Religion:-------------------------- 'Religions of the World' May30,08 http://tinyurl.com/4xngpx 'A Comparison between Cesidianism and major Christian denominations' May30,08 http://tinyurl.com/5v7ajs 'Why Can’t All Cults Get a Fair Shake?'May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/3lla7q 'Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests' May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/6a2vrc : " James Dow, an evolutionary anthropologist...wrote the program – called Evogod " " "Sometime between 100,000 years ago to the point where writing was invented, maybe about 7000 BC, we begin to have records of people's supernatural beliefs," Dow says. " " The model looks at the reproductive success of the two sorts of people – those who pass on real information, and those who pass on unreal information. Under most scenarios, "believers in the unreal" went extinct. But when Dow included the assumption that non-believers would be attracted to religious people because of some clear, but arbitrary, signal, religion flourished. "Somehow the communicators of unreal information are attracting others to communicate real information to them," Dow says, speculating that perhaps the non-believers are touched by the faith of the religious. Ancient needs http://www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/sosis/ Richard Sosis, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, US, says the model adds a new dimension to the debate over how religion could have evolved, which has previously relied on verbal arguments and speculation. But "these are baby steps", he cautions. Sosis previously found that in some populations – kibbutzim in Israel, for instance – more religious people receive more assistance from others than the less faithful. But he notes that the forces that maintain religion in modern humans could be very different from those that promoted its emergence, thousands of years ago. Palaeolithic humans were probably far more reliant than modern humans on the community they were born into, Sosis says. " ----------------------------- "The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions" Apr1,08 http://tinyurl.com/5j57kx Amazon.com: " Product Description Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement–one that now includes much of the scientific community. " ==================== ==================== ============================ Universe:------------------- 'Doughnut-shaped Universe: Astronomers say Universe is small and finite' May23,08 http://tinyurl.com/3vqr5s : " the probable size of the Universe: 56 billion light years across. " ============================= ----------------------------- Universe to Life:------------ 'Molecular brakes for nanotechnology machines' Jun4,08 http://tinyurl.com/4jhslb (Nanowerk Spotlight) ..." So far, the development of a practical braking system for nanomotors remains a challenge. Researchers in Taiwan now have reported development of a light-driven molecular brake that could provide on-demand stopping power for futuristic nanotechnology machines. " ..." Dr. Jye-Shane Yang " ... " a professor...at National Taiwan University (NTU), collaborated with scientists at NTU and the Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica in Taipei. ...in the May 3, 2008 online edition of Organic Letters, 10 (11), 2279–2282 ("A Pentiptycene-Derived Light-Driven Molecular Brake"). " 'Brown researchers work toward ending cartilage loss' Jun3,08 http://tinyurl.com/4gydgz " the tubes, due to their unique surface properties, work well for stimulating cartilage-forming cells, known scientifically as chondrocytes. The nanotube’s surface is rough; viewed under a microscope, it looks like a bumpy landscape. Yet that uneven surface closely resembles the contours of natural tissue, so cartilage cells see it as a natural environment to colonize. " "Ufos Over Africa" Cynthia Hind: Jun,97 http://tinyurl.com/6bksmd ============================= ----------------------------- Life:------------------------ 'Will We Recognize The Future?' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/5bkjhs : " what happens when the rate of technological change becomes so fast that the fundamental nature of what it means to be human changes, too? In this segment, Ira talks with inventor, technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil about the idea of 'the Singularity' -- what happens when technology advances so much that it's impossible to predict what happens next. Will artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology be able to completely reshape what it means to be human? " "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" Ray Kurzweil Sep22,05 http://tinyurl.com/5rf23g : " From Publishers Weekly ... Renowned inventor Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines) may be technology's most credibly hyperbolic optimist... here, his quarry is the future of consciousness and intelligence. Humankind, it runs, is at the threshold of an epoch ("the singularity," a reference to the theoretical limitlessness of exponential expansion) that will see the merging of our biology with the staggering achievements of "GNR" (genetics, nanotechnology and robotics) to create a species of unrecognizably high intelligence, durability, comprehension, memory and so on... argument is necessarily twofold: it's not enough to argue that there are virtually no constraints on our capacity; he must also convince readers that such developments are desirable. In essence, he conflates the wholesale transformation of the species with "immortality," for which read a repeal of human limit. In less capable hands, this phantasmagoria of speculative extrapolation, which incorporates a bewildering variety of charts, quotations, playful Socratic dialogues and sidebars, would be easier to dismiss. But Kurzweil is a true scientist—a large-minded one at that—and gives due space both to "the panoply of existential risks" as he sees them and the many presumed lines of attack others might bring to bear. What's arresting isn't the degree to which Kurzweil's heady and bracing vision fails to convince—given the scope of his projections, that's inevitable—but the degree to which it seems downright plausible. (Sept.) " 'Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts' Jun5,08 http://tinyurl.com/574xh3 : " Fluid intelligence, an aspect of a person's IQ, allows people to solve unfamiliar problems by understanding relationships between various concepts independent of previous knowledge or skills. Research shows that training short-term, or working memory, can improve fluid intelligence, which was once thought to be extremely difficult. " 'Genesis of a Virus: Scientists witness the birth of an HIV particle as it happens. ' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/5yvzv2 " By homing in on this outer membrane, and tagging one of the virus's major structural proteins, called Gag, with a fluorescent protein, the researchers were able to watch as the molecules aggregated to form a single virion. Visually, it showed up as little bright spots appearing and disappearing, "like little stars appearing in the sky," Simon says. "It was really beautiful." " 'Amyloids Have Have Potential as a Nanomaterials' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/5pm592 'That gut feeling: How friendly bugs protect us' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/5ffw7q : " The "good bacteria" that inhabit our guts just got even better. As well as crowding out undesirable or dangerous organisms, they may also release molecules that reduce inflammation and protect against colitis.Bacteroides fragilis is a common bacterium found in the human gut that produces a molecule called PSA, " 'Gene therapy increases survival for end-stage head and neck cancer' May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/4hrbqf : " A gene therapy that restores tumor-suppressor gene : " developed by University of Texas, has become the first gene therapy to succeed in a U.S. phase III clinical trial. The therapy uses a modified adenovirus that expresses the tumor-suppressing gene p53 for end-stage head and neck The p53 gene is inactivated in many types of.. Its normal role is to halt the division of a defective and then force the to kill itself. " 'Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species In Last Year' May26,08 http://tinyurl.com/6qt3z6 : " 16,969 new to were discovered and described in 2006. " ==================== ==================== =========================== Naked:--------------------- A Plea of Innocence and a Plea for Humanity' US Torture May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/4a68go Iraq War: 'A Whole School of Trout in the Milk' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/4k8wkg 'Revealed: Secret Plan to Keep Iraq Under US Control: Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors' Jun5,08 http://tinyurl.com/67jmrj 'Iraq Lawmakers Want US Forces Out As Part of Deal' Jun5,08 http://tinyurl.com/3ovwdt 'US Issues Threat to Iraq’s $50bn Foreign Reserves in Military Deal' Jun6,08 http://tinyurl.com/5khqwx 'Treaty Tensions Mount as Iraq Tells the US It Wants All Troops Back in Barracks' Jun9,08 http://tinyurl.com/68lkp4 'US Seeking 58 Bases in Iraq, Shiite Lawmakers Say' Jun10,08 http://tinyurl.com/462xhn 'War Immemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.' May26,08 http://tinyurl.com/3qml6a 'I Rise to Speak – On This Memorial Day – In Refusal of Murder' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/4d65q2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'John Bolton Escapes Citizen’s Arrest at Hay Festival' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/5gfa46 'People Must Reclaim Power' Winter Soldier May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/6yg44p 'Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted' May28,08 'http://tinyurl.com/5yf933' : " Paralyzed from the chest down by Vietnam War wounds, and confined to a wheelchair for almost 40 years, Ron Kovic stands as a symbol of the brutality of war. He also exemplifies a man’s ability to transform such tragedy into a lifelong pursuit of peace—for himself and his country. " 'Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes!' May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/5m7ak4 : " The Lieberman-Warner scheme is cloaked in a climate change bill " " Safe energy advocates are outraged by their scheme. " " “Taxpayers should not be asked to continue bankrolling a nuclear power industry that has never been financially or environmentally viable,” says Sandra Schubert " " “It’s so deceitful,” says Kay Drey of Beyond Nuclear, who is also incensed that the media have virtually made no mention of “this would-be half-trillion dollar nuclear bail-out.” " " major support in the Senate – especially from John McCain " " Price-Anderson Act... limits liability to $10 billion for a catastrophic accident " " like trying to treat heroin addiction with crack. Lieberman and Warner would have us pay for hundreds of billions of dollars for atomic crack. " Naked 'Israel Has ‘150 or More’ Nuclear Weapons: Carter' May2708 http://tinyurl.com/6xjgfx : " said: “The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (sic) has about the same; Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. ” “We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry, not only of enormous weaponry, but of rockets to deliver those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target,” Naked 'Inconvenient Facts About World War II' May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/6qdwbw Naked: 'Was World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq, asks Peter Hitchens' Apr19,08 http://tinyurl.com/3kg43a : "The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization" Nicholson Baker. : "Churchill, Hitler And The Unnecessary War" Patrick Buchanan May13,08. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - " Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World " Patrick J. Buchanan: May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/5x5nzy Amazon.com: "" Product Description Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations. " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' The 'Good War' and the Terrible Peace ' Patrick J. Buchanan http://tinyurl.com/4vsd8w : "" In attacking my book Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, Victor Davis Hanson, the court historian of the neoconservatives, charges me with "rewriting ... facts" and showing "ingratitude" to American and British soldiers who fought World Wars I and II. " 'Man of the Century' Patrick J. Buchanan May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/4nbrzh 'Rethinking Churchil' Ralph Raico May31,08 : " Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. " " selling out the Empire and everything else for the sake of total victory over Germany. " " with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, " " Early in the war, Churchill, declared: "I have only one aim in life, the defeat of Hitler, and this makes things very simple for me." " " Roosevelt's nauseating flattery of Stalin is easily matched by Churchill's. Just like Roosevelt, Churchill heaped fulsome praise on the Communist murderer, and was anxious for Stalin's personal friendship. " " Churchill's benign view of Stalin and Russia contrasts sharply with his view of Germany. Behind Hitler, Churchill discerned the old specter of Prussianism, which had caused, allegedly, not only the two world wars, but the Franco Prussian War as well. What he was battling now was "Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism," the "two main elements in German life which must be absolutely destroyed." " " With the attack on the French fleet, Churchill confirmed his position as the prime subverter through two world wars of the system of rules of warfare that had evolved in the West over centuries. " " Churchill claimed that only military and industrial installations were targeted. In fact, the aim was to kill as many civilians as possible thus, "area" bombing, or "carpet" bombing and in this way to break the morale of the Germans and terrorize them into surrendering. " " Solzhenitsyn wrote, of Winston Churchill: He turned over to the Soviet command the Cossack corps of 90,000 men. Along with them he also handed over many wagonloads of old people, women, and children. . . . " " The "purge" of alleged collaborators in France was a blood-bath that claimed more victims than the Reign of Terror in the Great Revolution and not just among those who in one way or other had aided the Germans: included were any right-wingers the Communist resistance groups wished to liquidate. The massacres carried out by Churchill's protégé, Tito, must be added to this list: tens of thousands of Croats, not simply the Ustasha, but any "class-enemies," in classical Communist style. There was also the murder of some 20,000 Slovene anti-Communist fighters by Tito and his killing squads. When Tito's Partisans rampaged in Trieste, which he was attempting to grab in 1945, additional thousands of Italian anti-Communists were massacred. " " Having destroyed Germany as the natural balance to Russia on the continent, he was now forced to try to embroil the United States in yet another war, this time a Cold War, that would last 45 years, and change America fundamentally, and perhaps irrevocably. " " Winston Churchill was a Man of Blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history. " =============================== =============================== 'Conservatives over Reflections on Attending the 2008 Libertarian Party Convention in Denver' May31,08 http://tinyurl.com/3t3gtk : " Dr. Ron Paul, a prominent member of the GOP is more libertarian than the two standard bearers of the LP. " 'The Revolution, Phase II' Johnny Kramer May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/42phh3 : "Ron Paul: A Better Way" Johnny Kramer 08 'RON PAUL: THE LIBERTARIAN DARK HORSE STILL RIDES: An Exclusive Interview with Wajahat Ali' May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/5o37zb ======================================== 'The Future – According to nVidia' computer tech. etc.' May25,08 http://tinyurl.com/56y6as 'amsung unveils 'world's smallest' 256GB SSD drive' May26,08 http://tinyurl.com/4zo82x : "id state drive that is less than 10mm thick and 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives." --------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Roman "Globalisation" May26,08 http://tinyurl.com/6prmhn 'Flamboyant archeologist believes he has identified Cleopatra's tomb' May25,08 http://tinyurl.com/3ukce9 --------------------------------------------------------- 'Re-mapping Latin America's Future' May26,08 http://tinyurl.com/6763oa 'Socialism and the Chinese Earthquake' May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/4nyome 'Who Is Being Reckless, Obama or McCain?' May27,08 Hysteric Campaign? ttp://tinyurl.com/5je7sf 'Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies' May19,08 http://tinyurl.com/3g2ccr 'Georgia rebels ready for war, hope for prosperity' Reuters May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/6cmrj2 : " Fifteen years after Abkhazia won a war to throw off Georgian rule, tensions over the region are close to spilling over again into an armed conflict. " Institute for Local Self-Reliance: http://www.ilsr.org/ : 'The New Rules Project': http://www.newrules.org/ ============================== 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' UDHR Dec10,08=60th http://tinyurl.com/3h4hye 'Virtual Cantons: A New Path to Freedom?' Autumn 1993 issue of Formulations, published by the Libertarian Nation Foundation http://tinyurl.com/4tjbts 'Declaration of Taiwan Status: 新細明體;台灣地位宣言' http://tinyurl.com/6xejju : 新細明體;揭開台灣真正國際地位與人民權益" 林志昇, 何瑞元「保護臺灣大聯盟」政治研究組成員 ======================== 'Historical Development of the Legal Status of the Republic of China on Taiwan' http://tinyurl.com/489umf 新細明體; 揭開台灣國際地位: 林志昇精選集' 取材自林志昇與何瑞元文集 http://www.taiwanbasic.com/tw/ http://tinyurl.com/k56gw '蕭惟仁綜合法理論述: 如何掌握台灣的未來?' (取材自何瑞元和林志昇文集 http://www.taiwanbasic.com/tw/ 與自由時報的簡報資料) http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo But, also 'Taiwan is an inseparable part of Japanese national territory'? http://tinyurl.com/4xzkfv ---------------------------------- 美台週刊 US TAIWAN CESSION WEEKLY No.50 May25,08 http://www.taiwanus.net/roger/weekly_50.htm or http://tinyurl.com/4tscd2 :---- '台灣地位之謎（三）林志昇‧何瑞元, 台灣平民政府召集人 May5,08. 硫磺島生死決戰 2月19 日晨 8:30 蝶衣 May24,08.

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"" ======================================== 'Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" 1984 http://tinyurl.com/2xuttf 'Welcome to the U.S. of Amnesia' Spectator.CO.UK May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/5rq8vn : "Gore Vidal tells Mary Wakefield that America has forgotten its constitutional roots, and explains why Bobby Kennedy was ‘the biggest son of a bitch in politics’" 'Churchill’s Colossal Blunders' May24,08 http://tinyurl.com/5w5k3n : "Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" : "How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World" Patrick J. Buchanan May27,08 http://tinyurl.com/4edxwp ======================================== #68 US! Bananas //Neurotheology// 司法追殺謝長廷. 520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會: 08.5.13=2 6-10pm - 5.22=4 7pm. 'Why Bananas Are a Parable for Our Times' May22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4zk68w : .."more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible." .."There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon — in five, 10 or 30 years" .."United Fruit took one particular type — the Gros Michael — out of the jungle and decided to mass produce it on vast plantations, shipping it on refrigerated boats across the globe." .."United Fruit developed a cruel business model to deliver it. As the writer Dan Koeppel explains in his brilliant history Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, it worked like this. Find a poor, weak country. Make sure the government will serve your interests. If it won’t, topple it and replace it with one that will." -------------------------------------- 'Switching a National Psyche from War to Peace — Japanese Style' Ann Wright http://tinyurl.com/4suxh9 ====================================== ====================================== "NEW PHYSICS AND THE MIND" Aug2,06 http://tinyurl.com/5lr573 : " Some physicists think that Big Science has kidnapped physics and left the mind and consciousness behind. What is the mind? And how can physicists, of all people, be the ones to explain consciousness and the mind? " Amazon.com: http://www.ama " Some physicists think that Big Science has kidnapped physics and left the mind and consciousness behind. New Physics and the Mind tells these radical physicists' stories--why the mind belongs in physics, and how recent discoveries in particle physics and cosmology combine with mind physics to produce a new scientific agenda for the twenty-first century. Brain surgery meets rocket science at New Physics and the Mind. " 'In the Works: MEMS Brain-Computer Interface' May28,08 http://tinyurl.com/3jj7g4 Neurotheology etc.:-------------------- "neural basis", "neural machinery": ' Brain's 'trust machinery' identified ' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/6aa97e : "May 22, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron" "The brain centers triggered by a betrayal of trust have been identified by researchers, who found they could suppress such triggering and maintain trust by administering the brain chemical oxytocin. The researchers said their findings not only offer basic insights into the neural machinery underlying trust; the results may also help in understanding the neural basis of social disorders such as phobias and autism." ... ... --------------------------------------- 'Cat brain could provide bionic eye firmware' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/5dta4r "Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute researchers hope one day to develop implants that make it possible for people to see without an optic nerve, by stimulating a part of the brain called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which receives and processes visual information from the retina, via the optic nerve, before sending it on to the cerebral cortex." ... ... --------------------------------------- [08.5.22=4 7:12pm] to news@kurzweilai.net: Dear gentlemen, How nice your work, thanks so much! I have actually very simple question: Could the human nature be studied by systematic research into "religion" and related areas of human brain? Have those areas stared from the very beginning of brains? Are they most developed compared to other areas, and compared to other species, in human brains? And then, could those understandings contribute significantly to the solution of our serious contemporary problems? Your insights would be highly appreciated. Tsai Sheh-gni http://bbcwebb.blogspot.com --------------------------- [Tsai 08.5.18 #1] Beyond history and philosophy, science I think should be fully utilized to get to the human nature, so that the current serious human problems could be dealt with fundamentally. So we need brain studies. Beyond individual survival, group survival is essential to the former. By controlling others? Highly problematic, I think. Rational behavior, has to be grounded on natural human nature, to be effective, it seems. Blind obedience and single-mindedness and deadly seriousness in some religious endeavours, could be overcome by "the nerual Buddhism"? Original:------------------------ [Tsai 08.5.17=6 #1] Reply to Daily Digest gets blank epost with only "To" given. We humans evolved from the emergence of life with memory for survival, but with the emergence of "superpower" over all other lives. What is the latter? The basic human nature perhaps was born from there. It was not just the most powerful, like lions. It has something to do with organizing groups, but beyond ants or bees groups. It is accumulative beyond individuals group memory for survival AND for control over all others. Is the "religion" its instrument? Is the "religion" regions of the brain, connected with all other similar experience, for example the effects of certain drugs and of all other similarly effective functions and materials? R:--- I think the answer to your question (assuming that I understood it!) is closely tied to 9/11 - both the event itself, the reasons for it, and the reaction to it. ... ... --------------------------------------- 'The Neural Buddhists' DAVID BROOKS May13,08 http://tinyurl.com/5qhn5s 'Brain Waves: Neurotheology Rising - The Neural Buddhists' Zack Lynch May14,08 http://tinyurl.com/5h2556 "David Brooks continues his quest to discuss everything in terms of neuroscience. This week in The Neural Buddhists he declares, "Just as 'The Origin of Species' reshaped social thinking, just as Einstein’s theory of relativity affected art, so the revolution in neuroscience is having an effect on how people see the world. He goes on, "This new wave of research will not seep into the public realm in the form of militant atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call neural Buddhism." The implications of which he suggest will be the following. "First, the self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships. Second, underneath the patina of different religions, people around the world have common moral intuitions. Third, people are equipped to experience the sacred, to have moments of elevated experience when they transcend boundaries and overflow with love. Fourth, God can best be conceived as the nature one experiences at those moments, the unknowable total of all there is." And he so aptly ends with, "We’re in the middle of a scientific revolution. It’s going to have big cultural effects." I think Brooks will be a fan of The Brain Wave when it is released next May." ======================================= ======================================= '司法追殺謝長廷清算抹黑不手軟' 李心怡 Apr17,08 New Taiwan:630 http://tinyurl.com/48audf : "外界對於司法界的觀感，仍有「法院是國民黨開的」的感觸，民進黨執政時尚且如此，將來國民黨重新拾回政權，更難以撼動，對於未來司法方面的清算，謝長廷心裡有底" ========================= 520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會 Posted by: "台灣教授協會1" taup@seed.net.tw Tue May 13, 2008 9:29 am (PDT) 520「台灣民眾大會」籌備記者會（一）日期：2008年5月13日（星期二）（二）時間：上午10:00 （三）地點：台大校友會館3樓A室 (台北市濟南路一段2-1號3樓) （四）主辦單位：台灣教授協會（五）協辦單位：台灣北社、九O八台灣國運動（六）新聞稿：要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸一群主張台灣獨立建國的本土社團代表於五月二日決議：選定五月二十日下午二點，在台北市大安森林公園召開「台灣民眾大會」。大會將以升旗、演講及示威遊行等活動，來向全世界宣示台灣人堅持獨立建國、當家做主的決心。大會主題定調為：「要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸。」由台灣教授協會會長蔡丁貴教授擔任總指揮。在五月二十日同一天，外來的中國國民黨﹝以下簡稱中國黨﹞將重新獨裁「中華民國」。這個自1945年以「族群歧視」和「階級剝削」遂行少數「外省權貴」統治的邪惡體制，是中國黨強架在台灣人身上的枷鎖。即使到2000年民進黨執政後，整個台灣社會只能卸下20%的枷鎖，根本無法執行「轉型正義」使國家社會正常化、合理化。中國黨繼續壟斷80%的國家機器，並運用其長期掠奪自台灣社會的龐大黨產，橫行台灣社會、顛倒是非，阻止政治和社會革新。它所掌控的「立法院」繼續用「鳥籠公投法」來剝奪台灣人的政治權利，好讓「外省權貴」能繼續以少數人控制多數的台灣人，施行假民主。台灣雖有表面上公開的選舉，事實上沒有公平的競爭基礎。因此，台灣人一定要拋棄這個落伍、反動的外來體制，建立屬於台灣人自己的現代國家，做台灣的主人。過去十年，台灣人國家意識高漲，居少數卻又不認同台灣獨立建國的「外省權貴」，為了維護他們在台灣社會的影響力和不法利益，不惜聯合圖謀併吞台灣的中共，共同模糊、壓制台灣人的獨立建國意識，以換取中共的支持。馬英九當選後，迫不及待地傾向中共，勾結沒有台灣國家意識的資本家，要方便他們掏空台灣的資金去幫助中國，也大力吹捧「中國富豪」要來台灣作投機炒作，企圖用飆高的房價來製造經濟將好轉的假象，完全無視台灣的國家安全和經濟安全。這種發展若不加以制止，台灣的政治和經濟將落入中國的掌握，「外省權貴」將成為中共在台灣的買辦，而台灣人將淪為中國的政治和經濟奴隸。因此，台灣人一定要澈底醒悟，起來為自己的出頭天打拼。要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸！（七）520活動規劃： 1、活動日期：2008年5月20日(星期二)。 2、集合時間：下午1點30分。 3、活動時間：下午2點至4點。 4、集合地點：台北市大安森林公園露天音樂台區。 5、遊行路線：大安森林公園集會→沿新生南路左轉→仁愛路左轉→金山南路右轉→愛國東路→台灣民主紀念館大孝門前解散。（八）活動照片： ◎ 一群主張「台灣獨立建國」的本土社團代表於5月2日決議：選定5月20日下午2點，在台北市大安森林公園召開「台灣民眾大會」。 ◎ 「台灣民眾大會」由台灣教授協會會長蔡丁貴教授（左）擔任總指揮，右為副會長劉聰德教授。 ◎ 5月3日（星期六）台灣教授協會執委會中確認520召開「台灣民眾大會」，由左至右：李欣芬（副秘書長，擔任記錄）、陳彥升（科技組執委）、許文輔（科技組執委）、廖宜恩（中區執委）、謝志誠（秘書長）、蔡丁貴（會長，擔任主席）、劉聰德（副會長）、潘振輝（副秘書長）、張信堂（北區執委）、薛化元（人文組執委）。 ◎這是籌備記者會在台大校友會館1樓的看板。 ◎籌備記者會，由左至右：劉重義（即劉聰德，台教會副會長）、蔡丁貴（台教會會長）、周福南（台灣北社副社長）、王獻極（九O八台灣國運動總召）。 ◎ 由左至右，前排：楊東傑醫師、辜寬敏先生、黃崑虎先生；後排：劉重義副會長、蔡丁貴會長、王獻極總召、周福南副社長。 ◎陳師孟教授（前左）。 ◎名政論家金恆煒先生（前右）。 ◎蔡丁貴會長接受民視記者訪問。 ◎台灣玉山網路電視台的執行長魚夫先生（左）及其太太（右）。 ◎王獻極總召（前）接受台灣玉山網路電視台的專訪。 ◎蔡丁貴會長（左）接受台灣玉山網路電視台的專訪，右為執行長魚夫先生。由左至右：敏紅小姐（史明先生助理）、劉重義副會長、蔡丁貴會長、周福南副社長、王獻極總召、楊東傑醫師。 ─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─ ※ 後記： 520 就要到了，那個既無能力又無擔當，並且善變膚淺的馬英九就要成為台灣總統了，我們是有骨氣尊嚴並有民主素養的台灣人民，所以我們不會到總統府前去鬧馬英九的就職大典，但我們要在520這個特別的日子裏，在大安森林公園升自己的國旗、唱自己的國歌，亦即向國際社會宣示：我們「要做台灣主人，不做中國奴隸」！最後並遊行至台灣民主紀念館，希望大家能踴躍參加520的「台灣民眾大會」。最後，我仍要說：建國尚未成功，同志仍須努力，期盼大家的相挺………… ─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─•─ 台灣教授協會（TAUP）副秘書長：李欣芬拍攝整理 2008/5/13 Posted by bbcweb at 6:04 PM 0 comments Links to this post Sunday, March 30, 2008 #67: US! Taiwan! Commonwealth? CMoore. 近代台灣慘史檔案盧主義與3F.. 廖述炘烈士. R Paul. 228 ROC Massacre > PLEBISCITE. Bogus Terror War? 08.3.30=7 - 5.22=4 7pm. 'World Renowned Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq War, the Bush Presidency, the War on Terror & More' May12,08 http://tinyurl.com/5qy9q5 'Mr. Zbig: Brzezinski brings wisdom—and controversy—to Barack Obama’s campaign' The American Conservative May5,08 http://tinyurl.com/5zrcgq 'Can Barack Obama Become the Jackie Robinson...' May16,08 http://tinyurl.com/42yqw7 'Edwards Launches 10-Year Effort to Halve Poverty' May22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4ez8qz : ".. it is a question of restoring the fundamental fairness that this country was founded upon.” : The campaign, billed as “Half in Ten,” aims to reduce poverty by half nationwide over the next 10 years. 'The Enemy Is Always the State' May20,08 http://tinyurl.com/55p8uf : "The Rise and Decline of the State" Aug28,1999 http://tinyurl.com/5rdqhw : : 'the birth of the bureaucratic state, its rising place in the management of society, its catastrophic results in the 20th century, and its systematic decline in the 21st century.' : : amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/3vrp3v History/Civilizing? 'Programming the 21st Century' May16,08 http://tinyurl.com/6hjgvf But 'Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas' May16,08 http://tinyurl.com/4kyyew & UK Labour Empire May15,08 http://tinyurl.com/6dohue And 'An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of Life on Earth' May16,08 http://tinyurl.com/5t5uq9 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 'The Long Night' from America May10,08 http://tinyurl.com/54vj67 : The USA defeated the Nazi Germany to realize USA's whole world enslavement. 'War and the Morality of Americans' May1,08 http://tinyurl.com/5hjpfn 'Terrorism and American Foreign Policy' Robert Elias (Politics Prof. U of San Francisco) Sept25,01 http://tinyurl.com/5okcbx ': Children in US Custody..Without Due Process' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/686o57 ' For His Treatment of Children in the ‘War on Terror,’ Bush Is a War Criminal ' May22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4fy5gf 'Members of Congress Press for US Action; Treaty Includes Strong Victim Assistance Provisions' May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/52b936 After landmine, 'America AWOL on Cluster Bombs' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/5mjq6a : Also "China, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, India" stockpile, "only Russia and Israel have used them". So, only America, Israel, & Russia savages? US Pressures 'Britain Obstructs Global Ban On Use of Cluster Bombs' May19,08 http://tinyurl.com/4p8yjf 'Cluster Bombs Ban Treaty Text Agreed: Ireland' May29,08 http://tinyurl.com/5emvc4 " Britain would withdraw all its cluster bombs from service " 'The Prime Directive: U.S.war plans targeting Iran are all about "protecting" Israel' May12,08 http://tinyurl.com/5dhvpd : "Why are our leaders ignoring the evaluation of our own National Intelligence Estimate on the question of Iran's nuclear program" 'The Nightmare Made Real: Torture, Murder and Endless Horror Institutionalized and Normalized -- by Democrats' May3,08 http://tinyurl.com/6dqgqp 'Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions' "has continued to decline, in some cases precipitously." May12,08 http://tinyurl.com/6syvoe @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ' New home for Greece's holy grail' Humanism Home May7,08 http://tinyurl.com/5fxvmv @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 'Bernanke's Nightmare Chart' May7,08 http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north624.html : -------------------------- : The Chart 'Factors Adding to Reserves and Off Balance Sheet Securities Lending Program' http://www.cumber.com/home/Factors.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/697td8 : The Chart 'Adjusted Monetary Base (May 1, 2008)' May5,08 :-- http://www.garynorth.com/public/3476.cfm or http://tinyurl.com/4z5fwu : 'Monitor These Charts Weekly if You Want to Get an Early Warning of Problems Ahead' :-- http://www.garynorth.com/public/department29.cfm or http://tinyurl.com/3sro9d ---------------------------- : 'Federal Reserve System and its effects on the economy' http://snipurl.com/fedvideo @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 'Thousands Killed by US’s Korean Ally' May19,08 http://tinyurl.com/5zaqhs 'The True Legal Status of Taiwan' Taiwan Nation May20,08 http://tinyurl.com/5lca26 'Start Receiving PR-inside.com News Headlines..' May20,08 http://tinyurl.com/6ojwep "Formosa Betrayed" Nay10,08 copied http://tinyurl.com/bbw4w 228 Payment ONLY '政院：八年執政核定228受難賠償金10億' May7,08 http://tinyurl.com/3ohx4o 'White Paper 2001 Regarding Taiwan and its Future' Feb24,04 http://tinyurl.com/3ty9ge : or http://www.taiwandc.org/white-pa.htm '洛杉磯藏匿經濟犯二二八慘死的顯靈' May12,08 http://tinyurl.com/47p6s2 '馬上全民監督(1):總統就職演說全文 VS 矮化' [轉載自:RTI] May20,08 http://tinyurl.com/3tcb9o '蔡英文:馬演說未談台灣主權獨立' May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/3epjcf '數位台灣家族@msn: 真理來自抗爭' May15,08 http://tinyurl.com/4k3eq5 : '《蕭泰然作品精選集》音樂 CD' Apr29,08 http://tinyurl.com/4ohq7q =================================== =================================== 'Cumnatione: We midwife new nations' May10,08 http://cumnatione.com/ 'United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA)' 'Micronation legally invades U.S. and annexes 11 islands/atolls' : May6,08 http://tinyurl.com/62mxe4 >>> ----------------------------------- 'Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini' Jan. 2008: http://hmct.dk/ =================================== 'Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies' May19,08 http://tinyurl.com/3g2ccr ----------------------------------- 'SECEDE & SURVIVE: Hostile Takeover of Largest Pro-Secession Group?' May22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4hysy5 Libertarian Party < "have worked to make the radical LIBERTARIAN Party a CONSERVATIVE Libertarian Party. Most of these people are not as hardcore libertarian as Republican Ron Paul!" =================================== =================================== "...TCP/IP, Second Edition", Jul 2003: http://tinyurl.com/6og2ww 'Live Webcast: Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts' Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:00 P.M. ET | 11:00 A.M. PT | 18:00 GMT http://tinyurl.com/6398uo '5 TIPS FOR THE PERFECT DOMAIN NAME' Copied May5,08 http://tinyurl.com/5h7kvx ==================================== 'CAROLMOORE.NET' http://carolmoore.net/ : "CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNITY" Synopsis of Carol's book in progress, : "SECESSION.NET: ..break up violent nation states through nonviolent secession" : "LIBERTARIAN PARTY needs a secession strategy" : "Video of Baby Boomer Turning 60": May 5th is Cinco de Mayo in Mexico, Japanese Children's Day, Europe Day and the birth day of Karl Marx and a lot of minor and not very memorable figures - including me. .." http://tinyurl.com/66f4qn : "Carol Moore Videos" May5,08 http://youtube.com/carolmoore ==================================== ==================================== Direct Democracies < mind-control technique May3,08 http://tinyurl.com/4mkvcn : 'Orwell Today' Jun21,05 http://tinyurl.com/5w6zc7 'iHeroWhy: Iron Man is like Steve Jobs' May3, 08 http://tinyurl.com/5jpxbkn 'Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear' May6,08 http://tinyurl.com/49jvls : "food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics—ruthless legal battles against small farmers—is its decades-long history of toxic contamination." - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America' Bay Area National Anarchist Apr30,08 http://tinyurl.com/5ubqua 'Native Hawaiians blockade historic palace' May1,08 http://tinyurl.com/5pwrsr Rich Euro-Bolivian 4+2?/9 Provinces Autonomy Vote > Indigenization : May4,08 http://tinyurl.com/5q2c3x "Celtic" Lombardy and Veneto for Independence May29,01 http://tinyurl.com/6j7jm7 : 'Will Scotland-by-the-Med march on Rome?' May3,08 http://tinyurl.com/6xvek9 : "Nationalism in Italian Politics: The Stories of the Northern League, 1980-2000" Damian Tambini May3,08 http://tinyurl.com/4x53jh - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jesus, an authentic libertarian, Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/5dy3qw 'The Rev. Wright' May3,08 > Obama http://tinyurl.com/55fjr9 'The Crucifixion of Jeremiah Wright' May8,08 http://tinyurl.com/3khjlo Obama Organizing Fellows: http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/fellowsapp : or http://tinyurl.com/2mzctc Copied May5,08 'Ron Paul's Revolution' Jun4,08 : US Constitution " must be read in a way consistent with the underlying principle of the document, the promotion of freedom. " "The Revolution: A Manifesto" Ron Paul Apr30,08 http://tinyurl.com/26zcgl : 'What Ron Paul’s Book Accomplishes' Apr30,08 http://tinyurl.com/45jvvm : 'Manifesto Destiny' May1,08 http://tinyurl.com/5wcnu2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'A New Look at How World War II Happened' May1Thomas J. DiLorenzo, May1,08 : http://tinyurl.com/5m28ya : professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and the author of "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War", (Three Rivers Press/Random House). His latest book is "Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe" : Nicholson Baker’s new book "Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization" 'Warring as Lying Throughout American History' May8,08 http://tinyurl.com/5k7z4z "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives" Mar18,08 http://tinyurl.com/6rcyw2 http://tinyurl.com/6xptd7 'U.S. nuclear weapons policy: The Cart before the Horse:..' : Union of Concerned Scientists May6,08 http://tinyurl.com/3srfep 'The Truth About Veteran Suicides' May6,08 http://tinyurl.com/5lv9we : "in just those 45 states, there were at least 6,256 suicides among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week, in just one year." : "aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age." Nick Turse 'Torturing Iron Man' Pentagon-Hollywood May21,08 http://tinyurl.com/3nh9gk 'Iron Man and the Merchants of Death' May7,08 http://tinyurl.com/4wf8dx : "a bestseller book in 1934 with the title Merchants of Death. (Here is the PDF and here it is in hard copy.)" : "the nature of the warfare state: namely, that they only way to restrain it was to keep centralized power of all sorts at bay." 'It's hell being a superhero' Nov5,08 http://tinyurl.com/5vpvby '‘You Become Accustomed to the Smell of Blood During War’: John Hoyland’s artwork..' Apr.25,08 http://tinyurl.com/6s6v27 'The Tragedy of Ignorance' of Islamophobia Apr15,08 http://tinyurl.com/65rwcu US 'Prison Nation' political criminaization industry Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/6rrn6n 'Rethinking Churchill' < "The Costs of War" http://tinyurl.com/4vhxvt < "The Costs of War" http://tinyurl.com/6kkjwf ===================================== '79 Religious Org..New Nuclear Bomb Plant' Apr30,08 http://tinyurl.com/6pk4yo 'IAEA Slams US On Syria Bombing;..' Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/3n5ujw 'Massacre in March1947 Taiwan' 郭勝華 Margaret Lu, M.D,MPH Feb18,08 http://tinyurl.com/38g4oh 'Taiwan -- The Raising of the Flag' Mar16&26,08 http://tinyurl.com/6jsbc4 'Flags of Taiwan', Feb24,04: http://www.taiwandc.org/flags.htm USA National Archives & Records Administration Documents: Taiwan status http://tinyurl.com/3tzvq5 And 'Up the Yangtze: Documentary..of Three Gorges Dam..' Apr24,08 http://tinyurl.com/4gdcx3 And 'History Will Not Absolve Us' Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/6safxl : "According to an explosive ABC News report on April 9, dozens of top-secret meetings took place in the White House, beginning in 2002, in which the president’s top advisors approved the use of torture. Those involved were members of the National Security Council’s “Principals Committee” — Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John Ashcroft." ... ... 'All the President’s Liars: Fun new game! Which TV news ‘military expert’ is really a whore for the Bush administration? (Hint: all of them)' Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/4tmxvq 'Free Press Calls for..Into Pentagon Pundits' Apr21,08 http://tinyurl.com/59fkql 'The Pentagon’s Corrupt Sock Puppet..' Apr21,08 http://tinyurl.com/49wd33 "Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times", by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and David Goodman : ISBN: 1401322883 : http://tour.democracynow.org/ 'Party Like It’s 1932: The Obama Option' populist surge Apr21,08 http://tinyurl.com/43arh3 'Obama Is Riht' about Bitter People Apr14,08 http://tinyurl.com/3lfuz9 Diego Garcia? In 1973 Apr14,08 http://tinyurl.com/5toter 'Leading To War' Iraq Apr14,08 http://tinyurl.com/6c7gcb MjGn Benjamin F Butler/A Lincoln:-Black Emigration Wntr08 http://tinyurl.com/5ebaae Judge Andrew Napolitano’s "A Nation of Sheep" Apr9,08 http://tinyurl.com/3w4p2u ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- '陳水扁是台灣的罪人(上)---自由漫談' Apr22,08 http://tinyurl.com/4x3unk '司法追殺謝長廷清算抹黑不手軟' Apr17,08 http://tinyurl.com/48audf '台灣演義彭明敏戲劇性人生'video Apr27,08 http://tinyurl.com/3n3mhc '台灣的未來在哪裡？在那裡！' 謝志偉 Apr12,08 http://tinyurl.com/3mj6q4 :------- "近代台灣慘史檔案", 邱國禎 Jun1,07 ISBN：9789578015364 #1/2:----- http://tinyurl.com/2yyvzc : '以將近一年的時間蒐集資料，完成二百八十餘個代表性案例的記述，串起台灣從日治時期至蔣家王朝專制獨裁統治期間的慘痛史具象。' : '作者在1998年將這些個案逐日發表在民眾日報上，獲得非常廣泛的迴響，九年後在千催萬喚下才結集出版，實感於外來政權復辟勢力囂張，往昔是湮滅台灣悲痛歷史，近年則竭盡所能變本加厲地竄改史實，持續其洗腦台灣住民的黨國卑劣伎倆，台灣住民不容他們奸計得逞。' : '邱國禎: 資深媒體人（筆名：馬非白）。　從事新聞工作之前開設心影出版社，進入新聞界後，歷任民眾日報記者、專欄記者、新聞研究員、巡迴特派員、資訊組主任、採訪組主任、民眾電子報召集人、民眾日報社史館館長、編輯部總分稿、核稿、言論部主筆，以及短暫在民眾日報留職停薪去環球日報、中國晨晚報擔任副總編輯及主筆。民眾日報在1999年10月易手給「全球統一集團」，人事異動前即主動離去。　自2000年起專職經營南方快報（www.southnews.com.tw）。　編著：《高雄市黨外風雲》（1984）、《馬可仕的獨裁愛死症》（1986，敦理出版社）、《李應元的挑戰》（1990，與陳銘城合編，前衛出版社）、《搶救台灣》（1990，前衛出版社）。' #2/2:------------------- '國民黨暴政百科全書' 辛在台 Aug23,07 :--- http://tinyurl.com/2yu7be : '涵蓋若干日治晚期故事，主要皆為國民黨時期慘史，真可謂小型國民黨暴政百科全書。國民黨在台灣施行暴政，以百姓為芻狗，其來有自。「國民黨撤退台灣後的十餘年間，可以說是國府權力中心最不穩定，而且高層鬥爭最慘烈的年代」。宮廷內鬥之外，「蔣政權為了在台灣遂行獨裁，除政治上的專制恐怖手段，還壟斷經濟資源的支配權和宰制人民的文化生活」。以往，控訴國民黨暴政者，大多出之以個案，或道德性批判。《近代台灣慘史檔案》則展示，一個接一個怵目驚心的血案，所構成的暴政全覽圖。書中所述受害者，既有宮廷高層，也有鄉野小民，既有本省同胞，也有外省人士；易言之，地不分東西南北，人不分男女老幼，皆在天羅地網之中，逃不過獨裁者及其鷹犬之噬血爪牙。' : '此力著亦凸顯，所謂轉型正義之追求，焦點集中於黨產，推倒獨裁者銅像，至於眾多幫兇，則為漏網之魚，安享餘年。反觀受害者，家破人亡，妻離子散，其家屬後代至今未能恢復正常生活者，大有人在。如果幫兇逍遙法外，受害者無人扶持，即便沒收不義黨產，推倒獨裁者銅像，又何能誇說是轉型正義之實現？' ------------------------------------- ' 盧先生的英文造詣很深, 他在 Taipei Time 的筆名是李天福', Allen Kuo introducing John J. Tkacik, Jr. (譚慎格) & 美國臺獨運動的創始人之一盧主義 (Jay Loo):-------> after Margaret Lu, M.D.'s letter to Dr. Rice, US Secretary of State, on Chiang KMT's ROC 228 Massacre of the Taiwanese > '弔為台灣人言論自由犧牲的廖述炘烈士' 美台週刊43 Apr6,08 http://tinyurl.com/5oaqxv '【警鐘】一張嘴救不了台灣、選舉不可能建國' 美台週刊42 Mar30,08 http://tinyurl.com/5o988a : 日本之聲編集長　林建良 '錯誤主權論述將害死台灣'? 美台週刊41 Mar23,08 http://tinyurl.com/6xsp7u 'ＲＯＣ是虛假的國家並論台灣人民國籍' & chorus Apt6,08 http://tinyurl.com/3zyykl John J. Tkacik, Jr. on 'Taiwan's Elections' Mar24,08 http://tinyurl.com/3dgemb '美國會研究處提新報告觀察馬英九' Apr17,08 http://tinyurl.com/58m8vm 《我是台灣人不是中國人》連署運動 Apr17,08input http://tinyurl.com/4tpo77 Korea: '【韓國留學心語】作為中國人的尷尬(1)' 淨源 Apr21,08 美台週刊49 May18,08 http://tinyurl.com/66wc3d :-- '台灣地位之謎（二）如何詮釋renounce（放棄）的真義' 林志昇‧何瑞元, 台灣平民政府召集人 May2,08 '『中華民國』流亡政府代表人為何訪美困難重重? ' 蝶衣 May8,08 美台週刊48 May11,08 http://tinyurl.com/4ayjlh :-- '林志昇團隊上訴巡迴法院全文' 林志昇建國黨、台灣平民民主黨:政治組 May10,08 '台灣地位之謎（一）如何詮釋The Principal occupying power？' 林志昇˙何瑞元台灣平民政府召集人 May1,08 ' 《台灣國際地位隸屬美國軍事政府佔領》' By 蝶衣 May7,08 美台週刊47 May4,08 http://tinyurl.com/3h386b :-- '回應「流亡政府」心態' 林志昇 Apr24,08 '給彭明敏教授的一封信'Japanese 陳辰光 '台灣人權問題' 林志昇台灣平民政府召集人 '美國政府與台灣平民政府的互動' 蝶衣 Apr29,08 '美軍在琉球群島(Okinawa)的軍事演練' 美國海軍網站 http://tinyurl.com/rpr6h '台灣割讓區美國國民護照: Passport of Taiwan Cession U.S.A.' '新書介紹: "台灣最終地位" 林志昇、何瑞元合著' '美國台灣割讓區台灣平民政府籌備中心秘書處誠徵志工' 蝶衣 Feb3,08 '台灣永遠是台灣人的台灣' 林志昇 Feb25,08 美台週刊46 Apr27,08 http://tinyurl.com/5y2l4f '中華民國佔領台灣澎湖的非法性' 林志昇,何瑞元 Apr13,08 美台週刊46 Apr27,08 As above. 美台週刊45 Apr20,08 http://tinyurl.com/4nya2o :------ '書名: "台灣最終地位" ( 林志昇、何瑞元合著)' '再探【林志昇控美案】法官思維: 要求美國法院認定核發台灣人旅行證件（護照）是國務院應承擔的權責' Apr14,08 '台灣共和國( Republic of Taiwan )' "" 國名詮釋：亞洲之星，綠意映然之國國旗詮釋：紅日之國，尊貴黃土，溫文雅儒，亞洲之星。旗幟成長方形，長與寬之比是三比二，台灣共和國旗面是白色，象徵純樸憨厚，正中間是紅紅的太陽，象徵熱忱與誠實，黃色土地的孕養，代表的是尊貴與堅忍。亞洲最後的明日之星 - 台灣共和國就此誕生。 "" 'UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS: Court Documents' on Lin vs. USA, up to Apr7,08 http://tinyurl.com/66g7zr '【林志昇控美案】的最新發展 ', 控訴美國政府的代表者：林志昇, 「建國黨」、「台灣平民民主黨」政治組 2008/04/10 : At the end of #67. & '命運坎坷的台灣身世之謎' 美台週刊44 Apr13,08 http://tinyurl.com/5rvdf5 'Taiwan Touches Your Heart' Tourism video Sept30,06 http://tinyurl.com/2zmslq Taiwan Music: 二胡鋼琴演奏: http://www.taiwanus.net/bgmusic/2fp/ '維新館的一個令人感動的小故事' Taiwan song, Mar30,08: http://tinyurl.com/4q6ktb The Making Of The Beatles’ ‘LOVE’ by Cirque du Soleil Jun24,08 http://thebeatles.com/core/news/ '..Four Leaders of 1968 Student Uprising..' Apr25,08 http://tinyurl.com/6cd52a 'In Love and Hope for a Peaceful World' by Cindy Sheehan Apr21,08 < 5rq9ol ="=" 59l68f ="=" 4kkb27 ="=" 5="6" 0080 ="=" 10 ="=" 1="5" 5="6" 12pm ="=" 29htx6 ="=" 2298j7 ="=" 23="7" 2wta8a ="="> Cambodia: "Expendable Elite" D Marvin video rev. http://tinyurl.com/35v376 "The war conspiracy;: The secret road to the second Indochina war" PD Scott http://tinyurl.com/yp26z3 ------------------------------------ Irag Aggresion: 'Childhood Is Dying' Mar10,08 http://tinyurl.com/yqv7bb Reality: 'http://tinyurl.com/2kxdsg' Mar17,08 http://tinyurl.com/2kxdsg 'Iraq War Protesters Arrested at IRS' Mar19,08 http://tinyurl.com/yrzfpp 'Resistance is Futile - Or Is It?' Mar19,08 http://tinyurl.com/26l9ct 'The Cult of the Suicide Bomber' Robert Fisk; Published on Fri,Mar14,08 by The Independent/UK: http://tinyurl.com/25p6pg "" the “cult” of the suicide bomber has seeped across national frontiers. Within a year of the Iraqi invasion, Afghan Taliban bombers were blowing themselves up alongside Western troops or bases in Helmand province and in the capital Kabul. The practice leached into Pakistan, striking down thousands of troops and civilians, killing even the principal opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto. The London Tube and bus bombings "" "" One of George Bush’s most insidious legacies in Iraq ..., the birth of an unprecedentedly huge army of Muslims inspired by the idea of death. UK: 'A Gross Failure That Ignored History and Ended With a Humiliating Retreat', Mar17,08: http://tinyurl.com/2drlmq 'Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam Hearings' Mar14,08 DemocracyNow! http://tinyurl.com/2mytu3 Winter Soldier: 'US Veterans Urge Soldiers to Speak Out Against Iraq War' Published on Fri, Mar14,08 by Agence France Presse: http://tinyurl.com/29rouj '..Winter Soldier..: Victory for Independent Media'Mar17,08 http://tinyurl.com/2p2paf 'Winter Soldier: US Vets, Active-Duty Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan Testify About the Horrors of War' Mar17,08: http://tinyurl.com/3d87hv 'Half a Decade of War: ...Winter Soldier Hearings' Mar19,08 http://tinyurl.com/2afffm 'Winter Soldier Marches Again', Mar20,08: http://tinyurl.com/2vvwzt 'Winter Soldier 2008: A Marine Mom’s Eyewitness Account of the Testimony' Mar25,08 http://tinyurl.com/2jfftf 'To My Daughter, on the Fifth Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq' by Stephen Zunes; Published on Fri, Mar14,08 by CommonDreams.org http://tinyurl.com/2g42l2 "Stephen Zunes is a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the Middle East Studies program. A version of this article originally appeared in Foreign Policy in Focus." 'British Teachers Told to Rewrite History of I.W.' Mar14,08 http://tinyurl.com/3dn3w5 '..., Australia Takes a Stand Against the Dark Side' 3/10 http://tinyurl.com/yted6o ------------------------------------ North American Union & VCHIP TRUTH 7/13/07 http://tinyurl.com/34tjzd ------------------------------------ New World Order ENDGAME 10/25/07 http://tinyurl.com/2gmljp ==================================== ==================================== ==================================== ---------------!SOS!---------------- '因果322', by 楊緒東 Posted by: "Cheng-Kuang Chen" chengkuangchen@yahoo.com ChengKuangChen Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:01 am (PDT) 因果322 作者台灣大地文教基金會董事長楊緒東 2008/03/24, Monday 我常講一句話：「硬到底，才能保台」。 2000年，三分天下，阿扁得台灣神之佑，半勝，2004年，阿扁喊出制憲、正名、台灣國，台灣人民給他機會，此時台灣神顯化，擋下二顆子彈，扁呂過半全勝。此時阿扁應該得台灣神之助，速速正名，趕緊制憲，要善用人民的力量，來抗衡立法院泛藍多數的鴨霸；然轉型正義的遲滯不行，已經違反天職與民聽。簡單的說，就是違反天命之所託，故一連串的姻親與第一夫人的無甚了得之事，經過統媒的渲染，成為了不得的大邪惡。慈悲用爛的時候，慈悲之舉反而助長邪惡勢力如TVBS、中天相關統媒的反噬，台灣人民給予阿扁的權掌，拒而不用，並非勇者之行，反而令台灣國人民喪失對阿扁執政的信心。一、軟性訴求為何大敗？終於2008年，立法院大敗，而繼之總統大選由謝領軍的軟性訴求亦大敗，為何？台灣神不顯化嗎？絕非如是，我列出此下幾點： 1. 對中資TVBS電視台的寬容，促成紅杉軍大亂，是因果報應，亦是警訊。 2. 對江炳坤中國之行，促成國共會談，採取寬容之道，使得叛國無罪，附共有理，台灣的經濟與政治合法親中，造成統派士氣大振。 3. 對台灣國鄉親街頭運動的反制太過嚴厲，而對統派激烈行動顯然寬鬆，執政的首長不敢護佑台灣國基本派選民，還以為公正執法，終於使執法人員能放肆的對付台灣國人民。此因果造成阿扁未來官司緜緜，亦使人民喪失對民進黨執法的信心，不再期待民進黨的保護。 4. 阿扁執政太多的權力交換，與虎謀皮的結果，過半的中國黨立法委員視阿扁如無物，阿扁任命的執政團隊，飽受侮辱，而基層事務官更不把執政黨放在眼裡，這些挺扁的選民，反而飽受中國黨的威迫，而某些民進黨官員好自為之，令人氣餒。 5. 謝長廷先生的和解共生放到高雄市尚可，但加在中國中央體制的國民黨立法委員身上，會被亂棒打死。台灣只能堅持制憲、正名、台灣國的大方向去做，基本層的深綠支持者，無怨無悔、甘心情願相挺，無非是想透過各種政治活動來完成台灣建國的目標。台灣國人民忍了8年，如果謝長廷先生當選，還得忍受4年到8年，不理性的中國黨會於台灣人當總統的和解之下，把深綠基本盤完全消滅掉了。 228台灣神最後的大顯化就是不希望台灣人建國意識被消滅，謝長廷再受到中國黨的侮辱。反之，全民監督馬執政的時代來了，馬英九的全面執政，得負全面責任，544萬台灣國選民，經過這一次的洗禮，要能認清楚台灣總統，只能在台灣國執行，絕不可沉迷於所謂「一中原則」的假相之中。二、因果報應來了未來台灣人要執政，機會不多，但是台灣神的護佑之下會有下列的因果報應： 1. 馬英九團隊多行不義，急於爭功委過、忙於內鬥、不眠不休。 2. 立法院與總統府的鬥爭由隱而顯，真是笑話。 3. 媒體挺馬的時代，不復存在，中國與中華的矛盾加深，統派媒體動向怪異。 4. 泛藍選民期待太高終則潰散，有事變。 5. 民間的力量不論為綠或藍有合調的現象。 6. 中國勢力深入基層，社會動蕩不安，街頭暴力遽增。 7. 228台灣神的信仰，成為眾神護台的真正力量，成為唯一和祥正面的信仰中心。凡吾等台灣國鄉親，須效法台灣民族英雄為民主、人權、言論自由犧牲的精神，信仰祂、敬誦祂們，才會有真正台灣和諧的一天。過去，國民黨污名祂們，成就民進黨；民進黨忽略祂們，不敢成為建國信仰，坐令妖氣橫行。我要勸未來民進黨的領袖們，228台灣英靈是神、是大菩蕯、是大如來、是佛，具有上帝的精神力，祂們是台灣的民族英雄，唯台灣英雄才是「神明」，請尊敬祂，祭拜祂，不要坐令台灣神的信仰，一再受到打壓，這一切的一切，非228家屬之事，是台灣人民的大事。簡而言之，台灣神的力量會越來越強，西藏抗暴的英靈，已經歸位加入台灣神的行列，因果報應的力量會在2008之後的4年中，一再的啟示，期望台灣國鄉親，不要失望、喪志，真正轉型正義的力量，就在我們身上，台灣神護之、祐之、勉之。切記，信仰建國228，追思感恩台灣神。 ==================================== ==================================== ==================================== Taiwan Status:---------------------- 'We are still at the level of District Court, it is far far away from the Supreme Court!' Thurs Mar20,08 10:18:17 PM "" 為何是幸災樂禍????挺中國人?愛中國?? 第一回合受挫又怎樣? 離最高法院還很遠! 不要搞茶壺中暴風雨,對外無行動陳辰光 ............................ 美首度駁回「Lin et. al. v. USA」案的理由 "" ... ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Our lawsuit has the first slump, but, not closed already!' Thurs Mar20,08 6:14:48 PM "" 美首度駁回「Lin et. al. v. USA」案的理由筆者於二零零六年十月二十四日，以「Civil Action No. 06-1825（RMC）」案，向華盛頓聯邦法院控告美國政府：「美日太平洋戰爭時，戰敗台灣後，未依照美國憲法規定，給予臺灣人旅行證件（美國國民護照）」。本案經十三次雙方文書攻防，美國國務院兩次以「事渋管轄與政治問題為由」，要求法院不要受理，但經法院「兩次駁回請求」；二零零八年三月十八日，美國聯邦法院法官ROSEMARY M. COLLYER第一審判定：「原告訴人被了解並同情，戰後六十年，因為麥克阿瑟將軍於一九四五年（一般命令第一號）的緣故，台灣地位停留在懸空狀態（international limbo），被美國及國際忽視，由於毛澤東與中國共產黨，強勢且戲劇性的改變台灣海峽狀態，造成美國與中國長久以來的緊張關係，太平洋戰後，任何正常關係都因朝鮮戰爭，而致使美國與中國共產黨武力對抗而放置一邊。」法官COLLYER沒有反對筆者所控訴內容：「原告是居於美國軍事管轄下之領土，應享有美憲法與美法律體下的基本人權保障，應享受憲法第五修正案，不得剝奪其旅行權（申請護照權），與第十四修正案之生命、自由、財產與正當法律程序之保障，憲法第八修正案之不得處於被殘酷或奇特之懲罰，包含剝奪國籍權和淪落為無國籍者」，這些法律觀點與論述都得到法官的認同。法官強烈同意支持美國行政部門所述：「台灣沒有獨立」，而且「台灣不屬於中國」，這兩個法律觀點，這可以讓持有「台灣主體意識」的台灣人今後有所「憑藉」，也是中國反對最激烈的「法理台獨」。法官「駁回原告理由」，認為：筆者在本案最後要求時，牽渋「主權問題」，雖然台灣地位尚未決定，主權歸屬也未定，這一切都是「政治問題」，應由美國國會或美國總統全權處理。筆者堅持：法官結論並不正確，因為Military occupation is a question of fact軍事佔領是事實問題（參考美陸軍野戰手冊FM 27-10 第355段）；和舊金山和平條約是美國參議院所通過的，應該被解釋為「可以約束所有美國政府機關的法律文件」，基於這兩點，足以證明筆者所談，絕非法官所認定的「政治問題」。原告將在三十天的法律期限內，向聯邦法院提出上訴要求。作者：林志昇建國黨決策委員˙台灣平民民主黨政治組二零零八年三月二十日 "" ===================================== 'China Continues Crack Down on Tibet Protests' Mar20,08 http://tinyurl.com/2pd6ej 'SPIEGEL INTERV.W. TOP CHINESE MILITARY STRATEGIST'Mar19,08 http://tinyurl.com/yq73jn '李登輝：胡錦濤找台灣人的總統談才有效' Mar20,08 http://tinyurl.com/2uk2l4 【大紀元3月20日報導】（中央社記者葉素萍台北二十日電）... ... '李登輝：全世界我最了解中國有多恐怖' 3/4/08 http://tinyurl.com/yr6hhj '中國對台飛彈年增百枚綠委質疑中共和平誠意' 3/8/08 http://tinyurl.com/25upeb '二二八紀念碑 The 228 Monument 吟詩' 鄭何如 [原著] http://tinyurl.com/ywos5t [台北台語進步社]於2008-03-10 02:11:29上傳[180] 228: Feb. 28, 1947 Chiang KMT's ROC soldiers' massacre of the Taiwanese: --------- '呂副總統：228事件的核心是主權問題'2/28/08 http://tinyurl.com/2t4jmb '中樞紀念228 總統籲究責!, 2/29/2008, http://tinyurl.com/223ckg '謝營：228條例國民黨一路反對' 2/28/08 http://tinyurl.com/2xk4p4 koe 2008 on 228: http://tinyurl.com/2cy4yj Chiang KMT: '追思228 馬：認錯、道歉沒別的可說' 2/29/08 http://tinyurl.com/2m4um7 ------------------------------------ '台灣週報再出刊檢方稱非黑函' Mar15,08 http://tinyurl.com/2g6oal Taiwan Pres.Election/Referendum Joining UN, on 3/22/2008: 馬英九 '一路走來，騎牆如一 (自由時報)' Mar23,08 http://tinyurl.com/yt4vex 'Taiwan’s Independence Movement Likely to Wane' EDWARD WONG NYTimes, Mar12,08: http://tinyurl.com/3xy7eu "兩岸共同市場？" Mar13/08 http://tinyurl.com/26t2gw '陳總統：不讓中國得利入返聯公投都過關' 3/4/08 http://tinyurl.com/366k6e '總統:公投過關比選總統重要否則被世界笑' 3/3/08 http://tinyurl.com/29afsn '扁：不投謝也要挺台灣突顯公投重要', 3/3/08, http://tinyurl.com/2rlxhk '謝：我當總統可讓吳伯雄當院長', 3/3/2008, http://tinyurl.com/2j9lbp ------------------------------------ '陳總統：美英中開羅宣言沒簽字中國錯誤解讀' 呂欣憓 Mar14,08 「開羅宣言」真相, Mar14,08 記者王宗銘台北報導 http://tinyurl.com/2wga8b ==================================== ==================================== 'Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born' ZDNet 2/6/08: http://tinyurl.com/2n4wom ===================================== US Empire: 'In Focus: Military' FPIF | Tuesday, March 4, 2008 "" The United States maintains more than 700 bases around the world and is pushing to set up even more. What are these bases doing, how is the Pentagon rethinking their functions, and how can we reduce this military footprint? As Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison explain in Pushing Missile Defense in Europe, the United States wants to establish bases in Poland and the Czech Republic-over the objections of the citizens of those countries. With the new Africa Command, Daniel Volman and Beth Tuckey argue in Militarizing Africa (Again), the United States is increasing its military presence on an energy-rich continent. "" ... ... "" Links Pushing Missile Defense in Europe: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5005 Militarizing Africa (Again): http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4997 The Million Year War: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4977 Dems: What about the Military Budget?: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5009 "" 'Iran Contra 2.0: How the Bush Admin Lied to Congress and Armed Fatah to Provoke Palestinian Civil War Aiming to Overthrow Hamas' "" after Hamas swept Palestinian elections two years ago "" 3/5/08 http://tinyurl.com/yonwx7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - InfraGard: http://tinyurl.com/2k55bx 'InfraGard: An Unhealthy Government Alliance'2/23/08 http://tinyurl.com/2q7xx4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'FBI Domestic Intelligence Activities: COINTELPRO Revisited - Spying & Disruption' By Brian Glick (author of War at Home, South End Press) http://tinyurl.com/74ge9 "" INTRODUCTION Activists across the country report increasing government harassment and disruption of their work: "" ... ... ------------------------------------ '"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic: Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t' 2/28/08, F. William Engdahl: http://tinyurl.com/ysd4gn ----------------------------------- 'ENDGAME- ALEX JONES - Blueprint for ...' Conspiracy?? 10/25/07 http://tinyurl.com/2gmljp =================================== '...Time to Reject Nuclear Arms' 3/3/08: http://tinyurl.com/3d3xz2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Documents Debunk Myth of French Nuclear 'Success': Reality a Radioactive Mess: Reprocessing and Plutonium Fuel Have Cost Billions'2/27/08: http://tinyurl.com/25hydy ==================================== 'Strengthening Freedom in Asia: A Twenty-First-Century Agenda for the U.S.-Taiwan Partnership' Dan Blumenthal, Randall Schriver 2/22/08: http://tinyurl.com/ys53ld '鞏固自由亞洲: 二十一世紀的美台關係議題' '美國重新發現台灣: 評「二十一世紀美台關係議題報告」'賴怡忠2/27/08: http://tinyurl.com/2pmpsy "" 美國企業研究所與阿米塔吉國際顧問公司共同發表的「鞏固自由亞洲：二十一世紀美台關係議題」之政策建議書，由於其革命性的打破過去台海政策的思考框架，以新典範來處理今天的台海情勢與美台關係，十分值得參考。這份報告有以下幾點特色：確認台灣本身的重要性，而不是一個美中和戰的棋子；並在這個基礎上，平行發展美台與美中雙邊關係，而不將台灣視為美中互動的下屬關係；嘗試找出美台關係惡化的結構性因素，而不單純歸罪於個人；並尋求正面的議程以發展美台關係的可能性。 "" ... ... '美台關係不應置於美中架構之下' Liberty Times 2/27/08 http://tinyurl.com/2864ro "" 由多位前美國官員與專家組成的「台灣政策工作小組」，最近分別在美國與台灣發表第一份台灣政策報告，這份報告並沒有挑戰美國現行的一個中國政策，但其中有提到三點意見十分值得注意，一是呼籲美國解除對美台高層互動的限制，二是建議美國主導在亞洲成立一個以價值為基礎的多邊組織，讓台灣成為成員，三是美台關係應該有自主的議程，不應置於美中架構之下。 "" ... ... ------------------------------------ 'Chaos and Controversy in Taiwan: Where is the Solution?' http://tinyurl.com/26hfap ------------------------------------ http://tinyurl.com/38g4oh 'Massacre in March1947 Taiwan' "" Monday, December 31, 2007 PETITION AND MEMORIAL OF THE PEOPLES OF FORMOSA TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA "" ------------------------------------ http://tinyurl.com/363tfj or http://www.taiwanus.net/roger/civil_government.htm '依法組織台灣平民政府公告' To Whom It May Concern: Dept. of State Washington, D.C. 20520 October 19, 2007 Please find the attached document entitled “Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government.” After careful consideration and discussion here in Taiwan, this document has been drafted to explain the basic steps which we feel are necessary for proceeding with the implementation of the reality of Taiwan’s true international legal position. If the thoughts outlined in this document are acceptable to the US Dept. of State and National Security Council, our next step would be to proceed with the selection of an initial thirty-one members here in Taiwan, and to organize their basic biographical and other introductory data for your examination and approval. We look forward to receiving your evaluation, comments, and criticism at an early date. Sincerely, Roger C. S. Lin Taipei, Taiwan http://www.taiwankey.net/dc/viewpoint.htm CC: Raymond F. Burghardt, Chairman, AIT Washington Stephen M. Young, Director, AIT Taipei 組織台灣平民政府籌備委員會 Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government Oct. 19, 2007, Taipei 成立要旨 Organizational Premises 台灣人林志昇和旅台美人何瑞元先生加上兩百位台灣鄉親，多年來，不斷地共同向美國國務院與法務署，爭取台灣人民在美國憲法體系中的權利，並於二零零六年十月二十四日向華盛頓聯邦法院提出訴訟，並經受理審理中，國務院相關人士已經告知，白宮、美國國務院美國國防部與國家安全會議委員會，傾向全面承認林、何論述之內容，即戰後台灣仍是美國軍事政府管轄下的美國海外領土，台灣人民應享受美國憲法基本人權保障，台灣人應該領取美國國民護照。 Roger C. S. Lin (a native Taiwanese) and long-time Taiwan resident Richard W. Hartzell (a US citizen) along with his Taiwanese wife and over 200 other local Taiwanese supporters have been in contact with the US Dept. of State and Dept. of Justice over the last several years, urging that the Taiwanese people’s civil rights under the US Constitution should be fully recognized. On Oct. 24, 2006, a lawsuit was filed in United States District Court in Washington, D.C. regarding this agenda, and that lawsuit is continuing at the present time. A highly-placed Dept. of State official has advised us that the White House, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of State, and the National Security Council are in favor of accepting the content of this Hartzell-Lin agenda, which in essence holds that from late-October 1945 to the present Taiwan is an overseas territory under the jurisdiction of the United States Military Government, and the Taiwanese people should be enjoying “fundamental rights” under the US Constitution, including the rights of travel and holding a passport, which are included in the liberty of the Fifth Amendment. 事實陳述 Statement of Facts 美國不支持台灣申請進入聯合國，美國也表示台灣不能獨立。 ... ... 法理論述 Legal Rationale 台灣到底是什麼？林、何論述充分顯示，台灣是美國軍事政府管轄下的一塊領土，美國是台灣的主要佔領權國。中華民國在台灣則是從一九四五年十月二十五日起的身份是「次要佔領權國」。一九四九年十月一日中華民國被中華人民共和國宣告滅亡，一九四九年十二月中旬起中華民國在台灣的身份則是加上「流亡政府」。 What, after all, is Taiwan? The Hartzell-Lin agenda shows that Taiwan is a territory under the jurisdiction of the United States Military Government, and the United States is the principal occupying power of Taiwan. The ROC in Taiwan is a subordinate occupying power beginning Oct. 25, 1945. Oct. 1, 1949, in Beijing saw the founding of the PRC, which simultaneously announced the end of the “Republic of China” era. As of mid-December 1949, with the transfer of its central government to occupied Taiwan, the ROC has become a government in exile. 據美國國務院告知，美國政府自第二次世界大戰以後，建立了一個基金，是台灣「重建」的所需款項，伊拉克戰後也設有同等數目基金。美國二戰後一直都沒有動用到這個「基金」，現在，等待正確台灣重建論述的學者專家提出申請，美國國務院願意協助「台灣平民政府」正確使用，熟悉美國行政作業體系的人士表示。在台灣曾經有國民黨和民進黨的領袖向美國申請動用這個基金，但是，這些申請案沒有通過，主要原因是他們對台灣法律上的地位缺乏正確的認知，所以無法提出正確的觀念來申請這個款項。現在，林、何論述都是從美國憲法、美國法律和國際法為出發點，當然可以通過美國政府高層的檢驗，願意幫台灣人取得這項款項重建台灣。 According to information communicated from the Dept. of State, after WWII the United States established a “Taiwan fund” for all necessary rebuilding and reconstruction in Taiwan, which is similar in many respects to the fund established for rebuilding in Iraq. However, the “Taiwan fund” has remained untouched up to the present day, awaiting application for funding from whatever scholars and other experts can present the correct formulation for handling Taiwan’s future needs. At the present time, it is believed that the Dept. of State is willing for a “Taiwan Civil Government” to make application for funding from this “Taiwan fund.” In previous years in Taiwan, other highly-placed individuals (some of which were associated with the DPP and KMT political parties) have made applications for funding, but they have not received approval, their major fault being an inadequate understanding of Taiwan’s true international legal position. However, at the present time the Hartzell-Lin agenda is known to be precisely based on the US constitution and US legal principles, also with a firm grounding in international law, and so can pass the rigorous inspection of high-ranking US Executive Branch officials, in order that the Taiwanese people can obtain funding for meaningful projects from this “Taiwan fund.” 籌備台灣平民政府 Preparation for Taiwan’s Civil Government 林志昇與何瑞元等，將組織「台灣平民政府」籌備委員會向美國政府申請動用此基金，以便打破目前「統一與台獨」的錯誤現況，展開新的局面。初步的構想，除了購買台灣電視台外，也考慮到各種宣傳資料的印刷、研討會議的召開、報紙的刊登等等。台灣平民政府籌備委員會將包括設置台灣行政長官公署、台灣制憲大會、台灣平民議會等等。台灣平民政府籌備委員會將設置三十一位委員，由不同行業和領域的代表參加，參加者應有基本的英文閱讀能力及能用英文簽名。 Roger C. S. Lin and Richard W. Hartzell are anxious to begin organizing a Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government, and to make application to the US government for funding from the aforementioned “Taiwan fund.” They desire to present the correct legal reality to the Taiwanese public, and to break free from the current paralysis in thinking which only sees the two options of “Taiwan independence” and “Unification with the PRC” for Taiwan’s future development. Initial items for serious funding consideration will include the purchase of an existing TV station in Taipei, Taiwan, the printing of pamphlets, brochures, and leaflets, the holding of scholarly conferences, Taiwanese newspaper advertising, etc. This Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government will also have to have office space and staff, and will consider weighty issues such as the future organization of a Governing Council for Taiwan, the calling of a constitutional convention under US administrative authority, the organization of a new bicameral Taiwanese legislative body, etc. This Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government is envisioned as initially having thirty-one members, all of whom will be outstanding individuals selected from different fields and professions in Taiwan. It is to be expected that these individuals will have basic English reading ability, and be able to sign documents in English. 台灣平民政府籌備會會不定期地在台北市開會，開會的內容首先要擬出向美國政府申請款項的內容說明和明細；討論如何：「讓台灣人民知道台灣真正的國際地位」，讓台灣人過真正有尊嚴的日子，讓台灣人民不再過沒有明天的將來，與不知未來的明天。 This Preparatory Committee for the Organization of Taiwan’s Civil Government will meet in Taipei according to a schedule to be determined. Initial tasks will include drafting a Projected Expense Statement and supporting explanations. The goal of all monies spent will be to let the Taiwanese people know the truth of Taiwan’s international legal position, so that in the future the Taiwanese people can obtain their dignity, and not be constantly worried about what the future may bring. * END * 說明: 依法組織台灣平民政府的相關文件已於 October 19, 2007 送交美國國務院，時間至今已滿三個月，經美國律師告知時間已到自然生效之效力。 ... ... 填表格式如圖: Application for ID Card Application for Passport [回首頁] ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ worldjournal.com: http://tinyurl.com/ywjetc 2008-02-01 舊金山和約研究會宣布台灣平民政府籌備處2日成立【本報記者周傦桑尼維爾報導】灣區舊金山和約研究會1月31日在桑尼維爾舉行記者會，公布2月2日將在台北成立「台灣平民政府籌備處」消息。灣區舊金山和約研究會成員謝鎮寬當天表示，由林志昇、何瑞元所代表的「台灣二二八關懷總會」、「保護台灣大聯盟」、建國黨、農民黨等多個社團人士，訂於台北時間2月2日下午2時，在台北市新生南路三段31號一樓福華國際文教會館，舉辦成立台灣平民政府籌備處記者會。謝鎮寬表示，依據「舊金山和約」及「台灣關係法」，台灣在第二次世界大戰後的國際地位未定；台灣不屬於中華民國或中華人民共和國所擁有。他指出，台灣的領土主權，目前仍由美國軍事政府所持有，台灣人民依法有權成立平民政府。與會人士陳辰光表示，台灣平民政府將是四百多年來台灣第一個不帶有外來政權標記的政府。 2008-02-01 Posted by bbcweb at 8:48 PM 0 comments Links to this post Tuesday, January 22, 2008 #65 Cascadia. 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Why not Vermont?' 2/15/08: http://tinyurl.com/3y4stq - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vermont Commons blog: http://www.vtcommons.org/ Vermont: 'Story About Petition-Drive to charge Bush, Cheney with War Crimes Generates Flame War' 1/30/2008: http://tinyurl.com/2m8p6c Vermont: 'Brattleboro to Vote on Arresting Bush, Cheney': http://tinyurl.com/2kn23y "" BRATTLEBORO - Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.0127 04 The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning. "" ... ... "" Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, "" ... ... "" “If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes,” Daims said. Contact Susan Smallheer at susan.smallheer@rutlandherald.com. © 2008 The Rutland Herald "" ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- 'Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini', Mar24,08: http://hmct.dk/ 'Cyberterra.net - The Metrosite' Mar24,08 http://cyberterra.net/ 'The Commonwealth Nations Research Society is born'2/21/08: http://tinyurl.com/2wta8a "" born at the beginning of this month. "" "" The CNRS was founded by the former United Commonwealth Society (UCS) President, Vice President, and a few other UCS members. The mission of the new society is to foster closer bonds between current Commonwealth states, especially the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; to foster a wider Commonwealth by attracting non-Commonwealth states and nations; and to foster a stronger Commonwealth by educating about Commonwealth history and culture. "" 'CNRS: Five-Variable Formidable Union', c2008, Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini, CNRS Committee: http://cnrsociety.org/5v-f-union.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Independent Long Island [ILI], a national member of the United Commonwealth Society [UCS]: http://tinyurl.com/yue4n3 ILI represented by Hon Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini: http://hmct.dk/ ---------------------------------- 'Ummoa/Amomu Emails and URLs' 2/22/2008: http://ummoa.net/info.html 'General Ummoa News': "" The Kingdom of Ogginia, an Italian-speaking new micronation, has applied today to become an Ummoa member, so Ummoa now has 8 member nations/micronations! "" UMMOA: a country truly like no other: http://ummoa.net/proposal.html Taiwan / North Hakka Autonomous Nation : tw / nhan : http://nhan.ummoa.net/ :--- Just supplied by UMMOA, with an Autonomous National Flag, Jan. 23, 2008. "" UMMOA background In January 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) reportedly dropped the .UM country code top-level domain (ccTLD) from the master list of domain names in response to the domain being unused, and the desire of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI) to divest itself of responsibility for the domain. Since the US still legally assumes that Roman law extends to the Internet (false assumption, because it can be demonstrated that Cesidian law really governs the Internet); since the .UM ccTLD also legally represents the United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, and consisting of 11 insular United States possessions (map); officers of the Cesidian Root, an intercontinental Internet independent of the ICANN, were prepared to legally occupy the .UM ccTLD as soon as ICANN and the ISI abandoned it. Like any seaworthy ship abandoned in international waters, any pirate could have legally occupied the .UM ccTLD. "" ... ... ----------------------------- "" UMMOA / AMOMU Flag Flag Coat of arms Motto: "E Interrete Libertas" (Latin) "From the Internet, Freedom" Anthem: to be established Location of UMMOA Type of entity Multi-oceanic archipelago of 11 insular possessions Location(s) Pacific Ocean; Caribbean Sea Capital To be established Official/Semiofficial Languages English, Italian, Interlingua Leadership Hon. Most Rev. Dr. Cesidio Tallini et al Date of Foundation Circa 2008 Area 34.3 km² (13.3 mi²) Population No indigenous population States with claims # Independent Long Island # Ttf-Bucksfan GDP No figures available Currency Ideal currency conceived, but still under development Time zone BMT or UTC+1 (no DST); local times are between UTC-12 and UTC+12 Internet TLDs .um, .ummoa, .amomu (alternate root) Calling code +808 (Midway, Wake, etc.) Purported organisational structure Governed by a Federation of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth World nations # Organisational Memberships Micronational Professional Registry Patron Saint Saint Liliana Tallini (proposed) UMMOA background In January 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) reportedly dropped the .UM country code top-level domain (ccTLD) from the master list of domain names in response to the domain being unused, and the desire of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI) to divest itself of responsibility for the domain. Since the US still legally assumes that Roman law extends to the Internet (false assumption, because it can be demonstrated that Cesidian law really governs the Internet); since the .UM ccTLD also legally represents the United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, and consisting of 11 insular United States possessions (map); officers of the Cesidian Root, an intercontinental Internet independent of the ICANN, were prepared to legally occupy the .UM ccTLD as soon as ICANN and the ISI abandoned it. Like any seaworthy ship abandoned in international waters, any pirate could have legally occupied the .UM ccTLD. Once the .UM ccTLD was legally occupied, the President of the Cesidian Root would have used the legally occupied .UM ccTLD to legally annex the United States Minor Outlying Islands (if the US can occupy the Internet based on territorial claims, then the reverse should also be kosher from a legal standpoint...), and would have renamed the islands the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA). There were even Italian and Interlingua translations of the name of the new country. The Italian version of the new country's name was the Arcipelago Multi-Oceanico delle Micronazioni Unite (Amomu). In Interlingua the country was the Archipelago Multi-Oceanic del Micronationes Unite (Amomu). Tallini even had a national motto ready ("E Interrete Libertas", or "From the Internet, Freedom", a beautiful flag, a coat of arms, and two additional TLDs for the country's use, the .UMMOA and .AMOMU ccTLDs. Unfortunately, these things were no secret to Cesidian Root operators, but were also no secret to US intelligence officers, who are spying on everyone's emails and possibly even undisclosed Internet files, especially the emails and the files of the folks of the Cesidian Root. The .UM ccTLD was never abandoned. In November 2007, at the registry website of www.nic.um, a message stated that "Registration is CLOSED at this time. We are only accepting Registrar Accounts." In December 2007, registration was opened with an "Annual Account Maintenance" fee of $1,200 and a $30 annual domain registration. None of these actions, of course, make sense under a purely economic point of view, and in fact there are no active .UM sites other than the registry itself. These actions would make sense, however, if the sole true purpose of the company is essentially to preserve the sovereignty of the United States over the islands of UMMOA, and to fend off any possible legitimate and brilliant attack by a rogue Internet like the Cesidian Root. Moreover, the United States Minor Outlying Islands are not quite a "territory" by International legal standards anyway since: 1. The US Minor Outlying Islands are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience (they are not a real territory in Montevideo Convention terms, even though the entity is associated with real natural islands); 2. The US Minor Outlying Islands are not administered collectively (they are not a real country or state); 3. The US Minor Outlying Islands do not share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States (they are not a real nation). Given these characteristics, UMMOA is more legitimately the property of a federation of autonomous and scattered micronations, than the idiotic claim of an otherwise legitimate country the size of the United States. The idea On 19 January 2008 the www.ummoa and www.amomu domains came alive in the Cesidian Root. While the President of the Cesidian Root had more or less abandoned the UMMOA project, two Cesidian Root officers showed no indication they were willing to abandon UMMOA. The previously mentioned domains are visible to anyone even outside of the Cesidian Root through the http://ummoa.com and http://amomu.com domains — the Interlingua versions of the domains are the http://ia.amomu.com or http://ina.amomu.com. The Hon. Most Rev. Dr. Cesidio Tallini, who is already Governor of Independent Long Island, Voting Member and Representative for Independent Long Island on the United Commonwealth Society Executive Council, President and Founder of the Cesidian Root, Bishop of the Cesidian Church, and Chancellor of the Saint René Descrates University, is now interested in starting a first Independent Long Island registered organisation called the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), for the expressed purpose of eventually providing each macro- and micronational member of the organisation an UMMOA-based embassy, so any micronation can stand on legal ground in Montevideo Convention terms. Tallini now understands that the project, despite the shenanigans of the .UM organisation, would still be on legal grounds if it went forward. When Tallini abandoned the UMMOA project in disgust on 16 August 2007 to start the Independent Long Island project, he commenced that project more because he felt he was an Independent Long Islander than for any other rational reason. However, Tallini discovered in November 2007 that the Independent Long Island project also stood on legal ground, legal ground actually more solid than even what jus cerebri electronici can provide. If jus cerebri electronici is entirely kosher, since it is actually based on international law, things are not that different with jus cerebri humani, which also stands on a foundation of international law. In fact, jus cerebri humani is even more fundamental than jus cerebri electronici, and would allow the existence of legal territorial nations and micronations that are intellectual creations, as much as new and distinct territorial claims! Tallini figured out that the UMMOA project could now stand on the same legal high ground as the Independent Long Island project, and since UMMOA has no indigenous population, it is an even more plausible project than Independent Long Island! The proposal With the help of like-minded nations and micronations, Tallini would like to start the UMMOA project, and gather support from as many nations and micronations as possible. Nations or micronations will be accepted as supporters regardless of whether they have other territorial claims, or not, so long they do not claim any island of UMMOA, or any group of islands. The purpose here is to guarantee any ambitious micronation valid territorial claims, even if it didn't have any before, because it, as a member of the UMMOA federation, can claim at least a piece of land on UMMOA sufficient to build its own embassy. Claims beyond these in magnitude, however, claims that seek to deprive other nations of sufficient land to build an embassy building, shall not be accepted or considered legal claims by UMMOA. The claim of the United States and of other states to one or more islands of UMMOA is in fact not considered legal. UMMOA exists to augment the sovereignty of many nations, not to monopolise the claims of a power-hungry few. UMMOA exists to bring power back to "We the People", while the United States no longer exists for these reasons, and in fact exists for reasons that contradict the assumption of popular sovereignty, the assumption upon which the words "We the People" are based. Nations yield no sovereignty to UMMOA. New York State and other states may have lost most sovereignty to the US Federal government, and the same thing may already be happening in the European Union as well, but this in not the reason for the UMMOA federation. UMMOA exists to provide any nation with claims, or with additional claims. It exists to support independence, to support sovereignty, not to stamp it out as other federal unions have done in the past. UMMOA in fact exists to create a territorial imperium where none existed before. These claims, will be in turn supported by the intelligence of UMMOA project supporters, and hopefully with significant numbers of nations and micronations a significant neopower can be created. The UMMOA project will try to add visibility to the micronational hobby/activity, by granting any good-willed nation or micronation a stronger foundation for its claims to sovereignty and statehood. It will maximise both micronational independence, as well as micronational collective potential by leveraging the good work of others on multiple levels. The UMMOA project will not concentrate more power into a particular leader, but gather more power in general to micronations and micronationalism. This project is not another impractical YAMO (Yet another micronational organisation), nor does it exist for any other reason than the empowerment of many micronations, and the empowerment of micronationalism itself. We seek to make micronationalism more attractive to a greater number of people. We seek to make micronationalism or alternative nationalism a genuinely wholesome religion of the many, not a fanatical cult of the few. The UMMOA project aims to be expense-free, but it cannot guarantee it will remain expense-free forever. Nevertheless, the UMMOA project will make small demands on nations and their peoples' time. It cannot be expected that a single person shoulders any and all needed expenses or responsibility. For the growth of the UMMOA project, volunteer work will need to become a common currency if it is to succeed in the short and longer term. Tallini guarantees that if he receives support from you and your nation, he will spare no effort to bring UMMOA to its maximum potential, in order to ensure UMMOA draws the attention even of member states of the UN. Currently UMMOA is only a member of the Micronational Professional Registry (MPR); however, Tallini will seek membership and support in many more organisations. You support, your encouragement, your spreading of the word is crucial to the success of the UMMOA project, and to the success of your own nation or micronation as an UMMOA federation member. Conclusion If you believe in the general philosophy of the UMMOA project, Tallini urges you to join the UMMOA federation. There are no forms to sign, no particularly disabling obligations, but without your support, help, and enthusiasm, the UMMOA project cannot reach even a single of its stated goals. If nothing is ventured, nothing can be gained. If you wish to register your nation or micronation for the UMMOA project, please fill-in the form below. Thank you for your time, and please spread the word in other forums, and to other nations. UMMOA Project First Name: * Sheh-gni Last Name: * Tsai Email Address: * bbcwebb@yahoo.com Nation/Micronation: * Taiwan / North Hakka Autonomous Nation Founded Month/Year: * January 2008 Unique 2-3-4 letter nat'l code: * tw / nhan Member UCS/5WC/MPR (specify): 5WC / MPR Other micronational organisations: How do you plan to help UMMOA? * 1) My blog: http://bbcwebb.blog.com 2) Online forums 3) Other future projects "" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Re: Unmoa's 8 members #100 < 22="5"> Group Size, & Lang. 08.1.4=5-3.30=7 7pm. 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Vance 2/25/08 http://tinyurl.com/2385sp '...MLKing...Antiwar and Economic Justice Activism' 2/28/08 http://tinyurl.com/2w4clx 'WFBuckley...1969 Debate...Noam Chomsky on Vietnam' 2/28/08 http://tinyurl.com/yupprr a Monopoly on 'Moral Conscience'? http://tinyurl.com/2z533k 'Only Anarchists Are Really Conservative' "Looking Homeward, America": http://tinyurl.com/yrdpuj ---------------------------------- 'On...China, Sudan...Olympics' China e-Lobby 2/20/08: http://tinyurl.com/28r7yq Strategic Forecasting logo 'China: Guanxi and Corporate Security', By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart ; Stratfor, January 16, 2008 ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- 'Music special: The roots of music' 2/20/2008: http://tinyurl.com/2dscjt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Earth's Buddhist Music: http://tinyurl.com/333at3 :' The internal 'orchestra' of the earth ', By Billy Baker, Globe Correspondent / January 21, 2008 'Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images' E Cole 2.15.08 http://tinyurl.com/2thkj4 ---------------------------------- Linguistic Terrorism of English-Only Laws: http://tinyurl.com/2bhfly ================================== Bio-Altruism: Edward O Wilson, sociobiology: http://tinyurl.com/26tbjw 'Evolutionists At War Over Altruism’s Origins', 1.10=4 CommonDreams: http://tinyurl.com/22rxgk/ ================================== http://tinyurl.com/2u33wt "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference", by Malcolm Gladwell ; Back Bay Books (January 7, 2002) ---------------------------------- 'The Ghost of the Racism', 1.7=1: http://tinyurl.com/2cytda ---------------------------------- [Conflict] Paul or Obama? #101: For Rational Future! < 5="6"> To: Conflict@yahoogroup s.com Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 4:19:27 AM Subject: Re: [Conflict] Ron Paul or Barack Obama? #100+: Remarkable: Where Future? < 4="5" r2="0.764," t34="10.35," cr="4.1." 17="1" 16="7" yt4mgv ="=" 35egq7 ="=" 15="2" 27u848 ="=" republicanism ="=">'Ron Paul's Revolutionary Manifesto', by Floy Lilley, February 1, 2008: http://tinyurl.com/2tqdhk ------------------------- ' Let's Legalize Competing Currencies', by Ron Paul: http://tinyurl.com/2rmrpk : Before the US House of Representatives, February 13, 2008 ------------------------ 'The Political and Economic Agenda for a Real Gold Standard', by Ron Paul ; LewRockwell.org ; Jan. 19, 08 : http://tinyurl.com/yptvr2 " originally delivered at the Mises Institute's 1985 conference on the gold standard. It later appeared as the final chapter in The Gold Standard: Perspectives in the Austrian School. " 'The Deflation Time Bomb', by Mike Whitney ; LewRockwell, 1.19=6 : http://tinyurl.com/yuo5bc ------------------------- 'Frodo Baggins: Ron Paul' of "Lord of the Rings": http://tinyurl.com/274kwz " Ron Paul is now in a similar situation as Washington was in early 1777 ": http://tinyurl.com/yss57e ========================= ========================= Paulians online: http://tinyurl.com/32na4p The Loneliest Supporter in Israel: http://tinyurl.com/25b8mj ========================= The Person: http://tinyurl.com/2usbuu Happiness: 'Ron Paul and the New Revolutionaries": http://tinyurl.com/25vsxy ========================= ========================= A Bibliography for Paulists: http://tinyurl.com/387w89 ========================= Ron Paul, "Pillars of Prosperity": http://tinyurl.com/yuhjlb 'Recession or Depression?' LewRockwell 1.10: http://tinyurl.com/yr6fpp ------------------------- "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship" (June 15, 2007): http://tinyurl.com/yonln7 ' Ron Paul has always believed that foreign and domestic policy should be conducted according to the same principles. ... ... He has told the truth, always. For this, every American, every citizen of the world, is deeply in his debt. We can't but be deeply grateful that Ron Paul's prophetic words have been collected in this book. May it be widely distributed. May its lessons be absorbed by this and future generations. '-- Foreword, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'The Big Business of Organized Crime in Mexico', Rodger Baker 2/13/2008: http://tinyurl.com/yrkwzp - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Thousands of Protesters Greet US War Games in Philippines' 2/19/08: http://tinyurl.com/2lnfge ========================= http://tinyurl.com/34uxdh ' Are Libertarians 'Anarchists'? ', by Murray N. Rothbard ; written in the mid-1950s for "Faith and Freedom" ; not published. ------------------------- Right and Left: http://tinyurl.com/2qjv8d ------------------------- "Our" Jefferson: http://tinyurl.com/3bdbzb Unique Ron Paul: http://tinyurl.com/2e8rpn Gun Owners: http://tinyurl.com/3aetkn Houses and Money: http://tinyurl.com/27s7my A Family Life of RP: http://tinyurl.com/2jzwdf Charlie Wilson's War: http://tinyurl.com/3dnple ; http://tinyurl.com/2299hs ========================= To Anarchists, Counterculturalists, Feminists, Gun Owners, Pagans, Pastors, Left Libertarians, Liberals, Pakistan. Pakistan: http://tinyurl.com/yw2gmk [Leave peoples alone here and everywhere] ------------------------- To Pastors: http://tinyurl.com/2kwx43 "Big Daddy" Don Garlits' 25: http://tinyurl.com/2gbgzu Feminists: http://tinyurl.com/2vhoxp Liberals: http://tinyurl.com/3yfvnq ------------------------- USA 2007: http://tinyurl.com/yqdddr NYT 'Look at America': http://tinyurl.com/2qrnfw USA’s Deadliest Year in Iraq: http://tinyurl.com/2dmmfj ------------------------- ========================= Grass Farming > Global Warming: http://tinyurl.com/36e3dm ========================= RT Philosopher's blog: http://www.fullmoon.nu/book/ ========================= Ron Paul future predicted by Murray Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/35ht8v ------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/38k6yn 'The Real Aggressor', by Murray N. Rothbard ; LewRockwell.com: "" This article originally appeared in the April 1954 issue of Faith and Freedom. A sign of our time is the split-personality of the conservatives. Many to the right of center are off on a schizophrenic pursuit of both liberty and collectivism. In domestic affairs this regrettable condition is gradually being recognized for what it is. But the time is nigh for conservative foreign policy, as well, to be psychoanalyzed in hope of a cure! "" ... ... "" Yet while conservatives once preferred peace and "isolationism," in our day they appeal in vague terms for liberation of foreign nations and hint that "We've been at war with Communism for years, so let's get it over with." They bitterly denounce European "allies" for being neutralistic and therefore "unreliable," while they praise Chiang, Rhee, and Franco for being anti-Communist and therefore "reliable friends of the United States." They denounce our having entered the Korean War; yet denounce the Korean Truce and call for programs to carry war ever upward and onward. The notion – very widespread – that we should not have entered the Korean War, but once in it should have launched a total war against China, flouts rules of logic. The best preventive of war is to refrain from warring – period. "" ... ... ... ... "" in general, the "emotional complex of fear and vaunting" noted by Garet Garrett, which Harry Elmer Barnes calls the "1984 pattern." The tragic part of the whole situation is that it is the erstwhile isolationists, the ones who above all others should know better, who are leading the war parade. Sinking ever deeper into a war psychosis, these conservatives have failed to perceive that our whole problem today, broadly speaking, is ideological rather than military! "" ... ... ... ... "" What we really have to combat is all statism, and not just the Communist brand. To take up arms against one set of socialists is not the way to stop socialism – indeed it is bound to increase socialism as all modern wars have done. "" ... ... "" The battle can only be waged in the realm of ideas and reason. "" ... ... "" But some conservatives are failing to recognize that the enemy is statism, rather than simply Communism. "" ... ... "" It is a fundamental libertarian proposition that the State only has the right to use force to defend the person and property of individuals against force. "" ... ... "" Yet, being duped by State officials is precisely what mankind has been putting up with for thousands of years. "" ... ... "" In a libertarian society though, it is the individual, not the State, which has the primary choice as to whether and how his defenses shall be maintained. "" ... ... ... ... "" The moral policy for libertarians is to see that the scope of war is kept as localized as possible. The State must be held to its responsibility to enter no foreign war – and to provoke no war via rash and irresponsible statements, official condemnations of other governments, or inordinate armament buildups. Even if our nation is directly attacked by another, justice for those who look askance upon war efforts and levies still requires that the scope of State action be kept within responsible limits. The goal of all State action at such times must be a negotiated peace, "" ... ... ... ... ... ... "" Old-fashioned international law facilitated the maintenance of neutrality and served the important purpose of greatly limiting the scope of any wars that arose. Public opinion could then be educated to impose this type of international law to limit the scope of State action, just as Americans once used the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The United Nations, unfortunately, does not afford a good breeding ground for such constructive principles of international law and order. For it is the seedling of a world State, a master imperialistic power that would dominate the citizens of the entire subject world. Furthermore, the UN is basically committed to collective-security warfare against "aggression" and is therefore a warmongering organization in its very essence. "" ... ... "" To begin, the United States should pull out of the United Nations, and also out of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. Secondly, our government should repudiate all other foreign commitments and agreements and foreign aid or "security" endeavors, while withdrawing the military from foreign bases. "" ... ... "" Thirdly, the United States government should "recognize" Red China – on the basis of the old-fashioned international law principles of recognition. Prior to the interventionism of Woodrow Wilson, it was always understood that recognition – especially by a neutralist state – does not imply moral approval. The doctrine that it does has already been responsible for too many wars and bloodshed (vide the Stimson policy toward Japan). Recognition simply means recognizing the physical existence of a state – it is an act of sanity, not an act of praise. Whether we like it or not, Chiang is now ruler of Formosa alone – and no mere recognition or nonrecognition will alter that fact. Unfetter World Trade Fourthly, there should be reestablishment of free and unhampered trade with the Communist countries, by our own nation and by all other nations. Free world trade would not only help break down the iron curtain, but would benefit anti-Communist nations as well as Communist. "" ... ... "" Above all, our foreign policy must not be self-defeating; it must be consistent; it must pursue peace instead of war; and it must advance individual American freedom. Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was the author of Man, Economy, and State, Conceived in Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money, For a New Liberty, The Case Against the Fed, and many other books and articles. He was also the editor – with Lew Rockwell – of The Rothbard-Rockwell Report. "" ------------------------- ------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/2nsqyd 'The Growth of Local Power Is a Bright Spot in Seven Bleak Years of Bush', Published on Friday, December 28, 2007 by The Guardian/UK ; CommonDreams.org : American cities, counties and states have offered a crucial counterweight to the White House on the issues that really matter by Rebecca Solnit "" The centre cannot hold, and that’s the good news in the United States these days. Quietly, doggedly, cities, regions, counties and states have refused to march to the Bush administration’s drum when it comes to climate change, the environment and the war. Some of the recent changes are so sweeping that they will probably drag the nation along with them - notably efforts by Vermont, Massachusetts and California to set higher vehicle emissions standards and generally treat climate change as an environmental problem that can be addressed by regulation. "" ... ... ... ... Activist and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit is the author of Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power; comment@guardian.co.uk ========================= ========================= ------------------------- "Ron Paul is likely to be the next president": http://tinyurl.com/32qca8 ------------------------- And Approaching LIBERTY without state: http://tinyurl.com/28xats ------------------------- And Not Garet Garrett's essay, "Rise of Empire" cooking frogs: http://tinyurl.com/3bq66p ------------------------- ========================= ========================= Anarchists: http://tinyurl.com/3xz4os http://tinyurl.com/378xyq ========================= Counterculturalists: http://tinyurl.com/2fvu78 ========================= Pagans: http://tinyurl.com/2t6ydq ========================= Foreign policy: http://tinyurl.com/yr4ecj ========================= Left-Libertarians: http://tinyurl.com/2l82gc ========================= ========================= the first Mr. Republican on the true principles of a Republican foreign policy: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/rp-mr-republican.html or http://tinyurl.com/yr4ecj ========================= http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/maccallum3.html or http://tinyurl.com/3xz4os ' A Note to Principled Anarchists ', by Spencer Heath MacCallum, December 20, 2007. "" Robert Higgs makes no bones about it: "The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised "" ... ... ... ... ... ... "" It is clear to me that the state is a social pathology. "" ... ... "" We suffer a deficiency disease – a deficiency of authentic social organization "" ... ... "" True, the United States government under Ron Paul will continue all of the things governments do. That is its nature. I see no chance of "returning to the Constitution" under Ron Paul or anyone else; for that is not government’s nature. But Ron Paul promises to stop the altogether unnecessary deaths in Iraq, and based on his demonstrated character, I believe he can and will. "" ========================= http://tinyurl.com/378xyq ' An Open Letter to Anarchists on Behalf of Ron Paul ', by Anthony Gregory ; LewRockwell.com , December 17, 2007 : ... ... "" If Ron Paul were to actually win, he would indeed fail to smash the state entirely. That is neither his intention nor his promise. However, he would clearly move American society far closer toward the anarchist ideal. He would put to rest the most tyrannical and hierarchical organization as it concerns international affairs – the US empire. He would close down the American bases on foreign soil, halt the murderous invasions and bombings, stop dictating terms to other nations, and end the horrifying US regime of torture and indefinite, unchecked detentions. He would end the war on terror, which the two parties intend to maintain for a lifetime. All this alone would make Paul a remarkably unique president. On the world scene, it would finally mean anarchy between nations: There would be no global policeman, the role currently executed by the US government. We would also see an end to the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on currency – the very mainspring from which the entire US corporate state emerges. We would see the federal drug war finally ended. We would see the greatest retrenchment of American state power since the end of World War I, if not ever. "" ... ... "" Since all social conditions, including political structures, are a reflection of public ideology, the Ron Paul Revolution has grand implications for the anarchist struggle, even should he not win the presidency. It has already woken many people up to the principles of liberty. It has exposed many of the contradictions of the state. It has encouraged the idea that the government is far too large and powerful – a conceptual first step for nearly anyone who comes around to adopt anarchism altogether. Most of us anarchists were not always such, and we owe much of our own understanding to intellectual movements over hundreds of years, especially the classical liberal tradition, which had a relationship of mutual influence with individualist anarchism in the nineteenth century. And today, Paul himself welcomes this long-established relationship, even pointing out at speaking engagements that the Ron Paul Revolution has its share of anarchists. What other politician would explicitly boast his anarchist support? Ron Paul's movement is one that puts liberty at the center, and can only be of great benefit to the anarchist cause in the future. This brings me to a word for the left-anarchists. Many of you have, with some justification, pointed out that rightwing libertarians and conservatives sometimes misunderstand the true essence of state power and have political priorities that are not just flawed but counterproductive to the cause of liberty. Minarchists and conservatives who embrace the government’s police power, its law-and-order functions and military wing, and save most of their animosity for the welfare state, just don’t get it. Although I consider the welfare state to be a truly stifling and reactionary organization – Noam Chomsky’s brand of anarchism notwithstanding – this left-anarchist critique of the right has some merit. Indeed, stealing money from taxpayers and giving it to welfare recipients is not as despicable or aggressive as stealing the same amount of money and using it to murder children abroad or lock up peaceful people at home. Well, for what it’s worth, Ron Paul is not a typical conservative, or even like all too many libertarians, in this respect. He is running mostly to dismantle the empire and national-security state; his first priority is not to kick anyone onto the street, and he has stressed this many times. He further understands that just because the military is a Constitutional function of government does not mean it should get a pass whereas the food stamp programs should not. He really does want to dramatically slash the state’s most egregious instruments – those of mass murder, mass destruction and totalitarian control of foreign and domestic subjects. When the issue of social entitlements comes up, he makes clear that his top priority is eliminating the entitlements to the military industrial complex, which he considers the most immoral and unjustified subsidies of all. No liberal Democrat of any stature goes nearly as far as Ron Paul does in opposing the warfare state. While he also opposes the welfare state, he knows that he’ll have his hands full with ending the war and will be somewhat restrained by Congressional prerogative. He also knows the most pressing moral mandate is to stop the killing. When asked about what he considered the most urgent ethical crisis of our time, he says it is the American culture’s adoption of aggressive war as acceptable policy. As for corporatism, taxation and economic issues, Ron Paul says what the phony limited-government Republicans never dare to utter: The most evil and destructive of taxes is the inflation tax, the printing of money that robs from the value of the poor man’s dollar and shovels profits into the coffers of Wall Street, the big energy and pharmaceutical firms, and especially the defense contractors. Every time the subject of spending comes up, he focuses on cutting the military. Every time the subject of taxes comes up, he focuses on the most regressive one of all: inflation. All too many leftist radicals ignore this clandestine and cruel robbery of the working and middle classes, and those on fixed incomes, to fund lavish corporate welfare. Ron Paul, in contrast, has for decades considered it a fundamental issue. Taking the federal government’s legal tender monopoly away would truly be the most revolutionary economic reform in a century, and it is near the top of Paul’s agenda. Anarchists should take notice that Paul is also nearly alone in opposing the state-corporate partnerships that emerge in American agricultural policy, phony international "free-trade" agreements, and the administration of health care subsidies to Big Pharma. When he champions free trade, he takes it seriously, condemning trade sanctions as tools of war and agitating to normalize relations with the Cuban people. He is opposed to the government having a monopoly on weapons, and so he rejects all federal gun control laws. He opposes censorship in all forms. "" ... ... "" Even on those particular issues where anarchists might most disagree with Paul, his position is far less tyrannical and nationalist than the likes of Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, and still offers a better approach than we can expect to get from US politics. And while we disagree, his movement is still a blessing for the public’s overall consciousness regarding liberty. Finally, to reiterate, he is running not so much on the few issues where he accepts a somewhat active role for the state, but mostly on his strongest issue – the most important issue of our time – the long-overdue dismantling of the American empire, after more than a century of international mayhem, financial fraudulence and relentless assaults on our liberty at home. It is from his priorities that we can tell Paul has no interest in power for its own sake. He does not promise to feed the masses from cradle to grave and protect them from every cave-dwelling extremist in the Middle East because he knows the limits of power and the superiority of liberty over false security. He knows the full danger of centralized power in particular, which is why he would not use the central state even to impose his agenda on local polities. This decentralist emphasis we see in his campaign – which parallels nicely with the spontaneous, voluntary, decentralized and anarchic nature of his grassroots support – is an important component in any meaningful program to actually reduce state power. The federal government, being the largest and most internationally belligerent in all the world, must be shrunk first, and as much as possible, for any of us to have a lasting chance at freedom. When it comes to understanding the true meaning of liberty and having the right priorities, Ron Paul is actually better than many mainstream libertarians and even self-described anarchists. He has awoken Americans to the key issues of foreign policy, civil liberties, and inflationary finance in a way no politician ever has. He might not excite those anarchists who, not engaged in the real world, do not care particularly much about what form or powers our government takes or how many people it kills and tortures and imprisons. On the other hand, for all anarchists who see US aggression abroad, the destruction of habeas corpus and privacy, the secret torture chambers, the economic fascism, the drug war gulags and the burgeoning domestic police state as crucial issues, constituting a colossal national emergency, Ron Paul’s movement is one to be cheered far and wide. "" ... ... ========================= ========================= http://tinyurl.com/2t6ydq ' An Open Letter to Pagans in Support of Ron Paul ', by Christopher Quick ; [ Reverend Jack Robin Winterset: a software engineer in Lincoln, Nebraska, who has been a practicing pagan for more than two and half decades. He follows an urban-shamanic path; reads and teaches Tarot; and does metaphysical counseling. ] LewRockwell.com ; December 15, 2007 : "" They might call it the Golden Rule but we know it as the Wiccan Rede. An' It Harm None, Do What Thou Wilt. As long as you're not hurting anyone, it's no one else's business what you do. Live and let live. That's the One Rule by which we live. It doesn't matter which particular path you follow, just that you are allowed to live your life as you see fit and let others do the same. It's because of this one simple philosophy that I think it's very important you consider your role in the future of this country. Some things have happened lately that some of you might not be aware of: the USA PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, several executive orders and signing statements... I'm not going to try to educate those who don't know about these things because I know you're all smart enough to learn for yourselves. It's what we do, right? And most of you have probably been keeping up on these things with a fear you've not known since you learned the monster under the bed was there to protect you. The last time people were rounded up and put into pens it was the Japanese Americans. That was when nationality was top of the list of "Things To Be Afraid Of". Now it's religion. So we have to ask ourselves: how long before they start to bring up the old lies about us? How far a leap is it from "Suicide Bomber" to "Human Sacrificer"? We've been persecuted for quite a while. Some of you are registered priests and priestesses. Have you ever thought how silly it is to have to "register" to be a priest or priestess? Okay, maybe "insulting" would be a better word than "silly", but you get my point. This is interference. But if you want to read Tarot in public, or do Chakra Readings or Aura Therapy or anything else that's part of our traditions, you either register or you keep the disclaimer we all know and loath: "For Entertainment Purposes Only". And now the WHO isn't just a pretty good band but an international organization that's trying to tell us we can't sell aromatherapy bath salts or incense or herbal teas as health goods. What are we supposed to do? "For Air-Freshening Purposes Only"? NAFTA, CAFTA, AU... And then came a man. A lot of us have learned to fear monotheists because the belief in "One above all others" when it comes to gods translates into a belief in "one above all others" when it comes to people, too. But there's a monotheist that actually understands the Wiccan Rede, even though he calls it the Golden Rule. "" ... ... "" Nearly all of us believe that war is tantamount to mass murder on the grandest of scales. He does too. He'd bring all our troops home from Iraq immediately (as immediately as would be safe; he says they'd all be home in no more than a year). But he wouldn't stop there: he wants all our troops home from all over the world. No more crusades. No more Saint George and the Dragon. No more death to the infidel. Just an extremely strong defense. How long has it been since the word "defense" actually meant "defense" and not "offence"? He wants to return it to the correct definition. "Oh sure, but what does he want in return?" He wants us to vote for him. Dr. Paul – he actually is a medical doctor, specifically an OB/GYN, who never accepted Medicare but instead took care of patients for free when they couldn't afford to pay – is a US Representative who wants to be President so he can return that office to its rightful place of service instead of rulership. Do me a favor, please. Do yourself a favor. If you don't already support him (as I expect most of us do), then please go to www.RonPaul2008.com and check out his stands on the issues. Find the records of his speeches before congress and the laws he's voted on (both yea and nay) and sponsored. Research him. And research, really research, the rest of the candidates. Most of us are Democrats (or were) or independents. Most of us despise Republicans. He's the exception to the rule of what Republicans are, though, so don't let yourself turn off when you hear his party. When they hear we're pagan, they write us off. We're better than that. Finally a man that the Three Fold Law holds up and bathes in light is running for President. Finally a person who will be President will actually carry a lantern instead of a rifle. Yours in faith, Reverend Jack Robin Winterset, a.k.a. Christopher Quick "" Posted by bbcweb at 10:42 PM 0 comments Links to this post Sunday, December 9, 2007 #62: FAPA. UN? or US-Taiwan: :Sino-Centric? & Taiwan. Korea. Down Chiang. 驚爆馬英九=Ma Yingjiu EXPOSED! 被遺忘的名字-葉武台 07.12.9=7 11pm -.08.2.24=7 11am Taiwanese in US: FAPA: http://tinyurl.com/2j4akg --------------------------------------- Taiwan's UN Membership's Huge Benefits: '別讓台灣知道入聯有多少好康' [2008-01-07 21:18:49]: http://tinyurl.com/34xzes ---------------------------------------- 'Is Taiwan Part of Any Other Country?' video: http://tinyurl.com/3y3ol7 'Appendix 17 -- Report on Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China, U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations (1955)', February 8, 1955: http://tinyurl.com/ynjt7s - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 親中派（Sino-Centric）? '與夏馨早餐', ■ 陳新輝 2/4/08: http://tinyurl.com/ypklx8 ======================================== China's Threats: 'China General Downplays Military Buildup', By HENRY SANDERSON ; The Associated Press ; Monday, January 14, 2008; 11:40 AM : http://tinyurl.com/2vdj7b - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '「台湾の声」【明日の集会】この決議文を採択します。ぜひ参加を！' 2/2/08: "" 明日都内で開催する「偽造地図を追放せよ！」緊急国民集会では、以下の決議文を採択し、日本政府に突きつけたいたいと思います。台湾が中国領ではないという一大事実の前で、外務省も文部科学省も法務省も、現在は何の抗弁もできない状況です。しかし彼らは自分たちの過ちを認めたくないがため、そして中国を怒らせたくないがため、私たちの抗議が収まるのをじっと待つ構えです。そこでこの集会を通じ、良識ある人々の声は小さくない、短期的なものではないということを教え、さらに全国の人々に問題の所在とその深刻さを知らせたいと思います。そのためにもぜひ大勢の方に参加していただけるようお願いいたします（集会案内は最後にあります）。 "": http://tinyurl.com/2z3jr6 ======================================== General Assembly: GA/10612: http://tinyurl.com/3582ml 'GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/2ojl7k ======================================== 'The UN Has Come to Be Seen As a Tool of the West', by Adrian Hamilton ; Published on Thursday, December 13, 2007 by The Independent/UK: http://tinyurl.com/yu5ubw ======================================== http://tinyurl.com/2ojnpg ' Democracy for all – except Taiwan ': Joseph Farah:"Between the Lines", WorldNetDaily. Posted: December 15, 2007; 1:00 a.m. Eastern: "" President Bush's administration has been characterized by its strong rhetoric about spreading democracy around the world as a virtual cure-all for regional and global problems. The White House has demonstrated it will go to war for this goal. It will spill the blood of young Americans. It will allow itself to get bogged down in unpopular wars that last too long and accomplish too little – all in the name of spreading democracy. But what happens when one of these fledgling democracies actually permits its people to shape the nation's destiny? And what happens when those expressions of popular will run counter to the all-knowing, all-seeing wisdom of the Bush administration? You can learn the answers to those questions by reading the astonishingly arrogant, presumptuous, finger-pointing, condescending lectures by Bush administration officials to the people of Taiwan for their audacity to hold a referendum on membership in the United Nations. "{ ... ... ======================================== ======================================== Dismantling Chiang: http://tinyurl.com/2jo56l ========================================= '驚爆馬英九＜中天電視台鎖定圍剿的」非常光碟」在這裡！＞馬英九痛批的」非常光碟」在這裡！': http://tinyurl.com/293ong "" 中國統媒中天電視台啊，又要開幹了嗎？勇敢的台灣人吃蒸飯等你們！來啊！你們中國統媒的最後希望馬英九的真面目，真理愈辯愈明，我們嚴正聲明：這不是貴國所污蔑的」非常光碟」，而是證據十足，有名有姓，當面嗆馬，以下的內容，全為公開檔案：」馬英九基因解碼--被遺忘的名字葉武台」，解剖馬英九的人格特徵，驗證他是否職業學生當抓耙子的過程！歹勢啦，我們台灣人比較不會講話，請您忍耐點啦，用看的啦．．．．馬英九是不是抓耙子，要問葉武台！葉武台是不是馬英九，要問馬英九，這段影片，許多人問馬英九，葉武台是誰？什麼都不知道的馬英九，葉武台是你的老朋友，你還認識他嗎？又要看報才知道？不要這樣啦，麻吉的呢！不正是您打小報告的筆名嗎？荼毒台灣人民的另外一個你嗎？承認吧！這回不用幕僚準備資料，他活在你心中，是你的夢魘，是你半夜醒來會嚇出一身冷汗的人，需不需要超渡葉武台？本台幫您找最好的道士！這段影片是本台諮詢政治心理治療師許醫師所建議最好的影片療程，得好好的看下去，才會回復正常的人生！馬英九冷血基因解碼：（完整版） "" ... .... "" 台灣玉山長昌台呼籲網友，盡力轉貼個人部落格,全力突破封鎖! 影片 blip 轉貼碼、 veoh 轉貼碼、 Yahoo 影片轉貼碼、 Youtube playlist 轉貼碼，影片FLV檔下載網址列表，影片MPG檔下載網址列表， ED分享感謝網友提供，觀迎轉貼。資料來源：我是顏聖冠　被遺忘的名字-葉武台製作人：許逢麟貓羅溪網路媒體工作室 DVD坊間售價一百元，請大力支援。馬英九對光碟的回應三立新聞 "" ============================== ============================== http://tinyurl.com/yu53mw Rick Chu's Perspectives on Korea and Media: '一個李明博，各自表述？', 作者：朱立熙 ; 日期：2007-12-24 "" 李明博當選南韓總統，台灣的藍綠陣營紛紛表態自況，往自己臉上貼金，幼稚之舉，讓人看了實在好笑。幾十年來，韓國人從來沒有把台灣與台灣人放在眼裡，曾幾何時韓國卻成為台灣人競相「膜拜」的對象，台灣人如此不長進，只會讓韓國人更看不起了。 "" ... ... Posted by bbcweb at 11:16 PM 0 comments Links to this post Older Posts Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Dr. Ron Paul or Senator Barak Obama? 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#67 陳總統#12::四要一沒有; 李登輝:國家形態必須正常化 // Ro:India // Lawsuit to:US // Mar '47~; 反省. 蕭惟仁 // 1st Civilization. BACK TO USA, 07.6.9=6- 08.5.31=6 10pm.

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Hi to Everyone! 總統陳水扁#12：「四要一沒有，台灣要獨立，台灣要正名，台灣要新憲，台灣要發展，台灣沒有所謂左右的問題，只有統獨的問題！」: http://tinyurl.com/ynopp6 : 台灣陳水扁總統再闡釋, 路透台北電 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/3b2eo2 : '拚開放還談什麼「台灣要發展」': http://tinyurl.com/29e28l Prehistory & 1st Civilization: http://tinyurl.com/yvr9f5 行動才會推動台灣建國CK Chen's Global Forum: http://tinyurl.com/2mwkl7 : '再論美國國務院的嚴重錯誤': http://tinyurl.com/yqxueh Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss ; 2007年2月16日摘要 ; -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯: http://tinyurl.com/ywcnnt > ###: '摘要漢譯：【台灣控訴美國政府】' 'Military Jurisdiction and the Taiwan status question' CK Chen: http://tinyurl.com/266t6n 'Our inquiry to the US government -- What are you doing?' by Dr. Roger C. S. Lin & Richard W. Hartzell: http://tinyurl.com/23wtj3 ------------------------- 李登輝: 台灣要台灣獨立: http://tinyurl.com/yl7yh9 '台灣的國家形態必須正常化': Mar.6 日本李登輝學校講演一沒有: Chiang"ROC", Save Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/ylzdbo 蕭惟仁綜合法理論述:如何掌握台灣的未來?: http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo '感謝共產黨支持台獨', 沈建德: http://tinyurl.com/2x68og : "除了孫文主張台獨（戴季陶承認孫文在一九二五年說過：「我們必須鼓吹台灣獨立，和高麗的獨立運動互相聯合」），一九三八年四月蔣介石演講「抗日戰爭與本黨前途」時引用：「總理以為我們必須使高麗、台灣恢復獨立自由，才能鞏固中華民國國防」" : "一九三六年七月一日，毛澤東答覆美國媒體記者史諾時說：「如果朝鮮人民希望掙脫日本帝國主義者的枷鎖，我們熱烈支持他們爭取獨立的戰鬥，這點同樣適用於台灣」。一九四一年一月五日，周恩來談「民族至上與國家至上」，強調：「我們同情民族國家的獨立解放運動，我們不只協助朝鮮與台灣，也同情印度與南亞諸國的民族解放運動」。" ---------------------------------- #74=US#585: 07.3.15=4: 1.26=#45/60 GO BACK TO TAIWAN TODAY. Crisis::Taiwan#133; ChiangKMT#118: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Crisis:: Chiang KMT Ma#31: http://tinyurl.com/3afoc8 Chiang KMT Nazi Party: http://www.twnazi.org/forum/ Chiang KMT Nazi Party: http://tinyurl.com/yqybtk 'Why shorter men were walking tall 4m years ago', Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter: http://tinyurl.com/2ejucb Direct democracy 'Vermont: The Land of Hope': http://tinyurl.com/3xtbmn '中正紀念堂威權痕跡深鑿'改名為「台灣民主公園」: http://tinyurl.com/324t8q ..銅像最多..到「神格化」..建議把它們外銷到北韓，跟金日成的..去膜拜, Rick 忍受政府派憲兵保護蔣中正與故總統蔣經國陵寢, 薛凌: http://tinyurl.com/2gy7q4 '228的歷史意義', Feb 23, 貞台松: http://tinyurl.com/yv5o56 "南方快報"二二八慘案專題: 永不消逝的二二八: http://tinyurl.com/263m4j : '二二八慘案專輯': http://tinyurl.com/yvcn7e FIC#111: http://fic.ic.org/ /// 5WC/MPR#108 國歌'台灣翠青' National Anthem: http://tinyurl.com/2tb4t5 《1947序曲》蕭泰然: http://tinyurl.com/ytjt4m ================ National Flag: 廖文毅 used blue symbol for Taiwanese flag. : shows sea, moon and sun, which means 國運日月同長. 日月潭 is a good symbol 世界台灣人大會會旗 similar to DPP flag? http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v Taiwan Independence, Answers: http://tinyurl.com/ypffsk Taiwan Independence, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/e38xo '控訴美國', 林志昇,台灣建國志工團隊, Jan 27: http://tinyurl.com/3x8guf :歷史上第一次控告:我們一定要釐清台灣主權終結ROC 正名/制憲和設計新旗幟, 陳辰光林志昇.何瑞元,「台灣平民行動黨」政治研究組, 2007/03/09清晨 > #2. 台灣人拜台灣神: http://tinyurl.com/y7oa3b : Video: http://tinyurl.com/34yuao Pagans back: Olympian Zeus Sanctuary: http://tinyurl.com/3386nt 台灣人拜台灣神，不作無根之民 : http://www.228.net.tw/ 下一步二二八平反運動該怎麼走: http://tinyurl.com/2okoyy ================ 記錄片"台灣的歷史:在光復初期二二八事件": http://tinyurl.com/2dmcov 公視 "228 二二八屠殺大屠殺": http://tinyurl.com/2d7qae =============== 'GMO Corn Causes Liver, Kidney Problems in Rats': http://tinyurl.com/24b25w =============== ===============

Ro:India: [Conflict] post-home-rule Quota system and Indian Caste system (for Tsai) I saw this piece in the (London) Times, and remembered Tsai's interest in how the Honourable Eeast India Company had set up the Indian Civil Service, which recruited by competative examination, in defiance of the traditional caste system.

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Jeremy Page in Delhi

Thousands of members of one of India’s lowest castes besieged the capital yesterday, blocking roads and railways to press their unorthodox demand — to be downgraded to an even lower social status.

The Gujjars, who are traditionally herders of cattle, goats and sheep, threatened to shut down Delhi as they broadened a protest movement that has left 39 people dead across northern India since it began last Friday.

Wielding sticks and shouting slogans, they burnt tyres and squatted in the main roads leading to the capital, blocking access to the satellite towns of Noida and Gurgaon, which are home to call centres and multinational firms. They also blocked railway lines to several towns outside Delhi, including popular tourist destinations.

It was the second time in less than a year that the Gujjars have brought much of northern India to a standstill in an attempt to gain greater access to government jobs and university places under the world’s largest affirmative action programme.

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The violence has thrown a spotlight on police brutality in India and the politics of the Hindu caste system, which enforces a strict social hierarchy with Brahmins at the top and Untouchables, or Dalits, at the bottom.

India outlawed caste discrimination after gaining independence in 1947, but to correct the injustices of the past it allocated quotas of government jobs and university places to those who suffered the most. It divided those who should benefit from the quotas into official categories called scheduled castes (SC), scheduled tribes (ST) and other backward classes (OBC).

SC includes Untouchables and others at the bottom of the caste system, ST consists of ethnic minorities and OBC comprises others who traditionally suffered discrimination.

The Gujjars, who mainly live in the northern state of Rajasthan, are classified as OBC, entitling them to access to 27 per cent of government jobs and university places. But they want to be downgraded to ST, on a par with another local tribe called the Meena, which they believe would increase their access by another 15 per cent.

They say that the Hindu nationalist Bharata Janata Party promised to downgrade them as part of its winning campaign in Rajasthan’s state election four years ago, but that it never fulfilled its commitment.

The latest protests began after a government panel recommended an aid package of £35 million for the Gujjars, but ruled out caste reclassification.

The demonstrations turned violent last week after Gujjar protesters lynched a policeman and police responded by opening fire on the demonstrators, killing 38 of them.

The government of Rajasthan has told the Gujjars to take the appeal to the federal Government in Delhi but the federal coalition Government, led by the Congress Party, says that the matter should be handled by the authorities in Rajasthan.

Opinion is divided among experts, with some saying that the Gujjars deserve to be compensated and others predicting a “race to the bottom” if their demands are met.

Cultural divide

— The Hindu social and cultural system in India is divided into castes that are inherited or married into and has been dated to 1,000BC

— There are thousands of castes and subcastes in India. Hinduism ascribes degrees of purity to different jobs

— Brahmins are traditionally the priestly caste, while Dalits are a “scheduled caste”. Dalits and tribal communities represent half of India’s poor population

— Caste discrimination was outlawed in 1950, and 22.5 per cent of university places and government jobs were reserved for Dalits and tribal people
Sources: www.britannica. com ; www.indianchild. com ; Times archives
---------------------- ---------------------- Re: [Conflict] EU civil service system? #1000 <>le Quota system and Indian Caste system (for Tsai)
As I understand it, history's a touchier subject in India than it is in most other places। It tends to get rewritten periodically, depending on who's in charge; while India was a client state of the USSR, history (as taught at the time in India) took on a heavily Marxist flavour. I'm not sure for example that the Brits ever DID "conquer India" as such. The HEIC was the precursor to today's "government outsourcing" corporations, like Halliburton. They'd hawk their services from Indian princedom to Indian princedom (there was at the time no such country as "India", much like there was no such country as "Germany" before 1871. They'd offer to re-organize civil services, retrain and re-arm armies, make tax collection more efficient... and also set up mutual defence agreements with other statelets. The example that springs to mind is that Burma had a long tradition of invading and looting their Indian (Bengali) neighbours. Under the new HEIC management, that neighbour reacted to invasion not by running away... but by fighting back - and roundly defeating the Burmese. You can't just defeat a county - by routing its army - and walk away. The fact that you HAVE defeated them creates internal instability. You wind up running THEIR country as well. Burma's just one example. Most of the Indian princedoms "signed on the dotted line" to buy the "modernize your government" package. Some of them regarded their neighbours doing so as an act of aggression and cassus belli (reason for going to war) The money spent by the newly re-organized princedoms proved to have been well-spent. Generally, they defeated the people who had attached them in short order, using mainly native troops and a minority "cadre" of Europeans. The Battle of Assaye for example: a "John Company" army fought the (much larger) army of a neighbouring state, and despite being heavily outnumbered (the other side also had very much more artillery, officered by French mercenaries) and soundly defeated it. With its army fled... the state imploded.... and wound up becoming another client of "John Company". Who ELSE was going to run it?

India and the EU are very different cases. If what evolved into British rule over India had been so terrible, then India was free to reject "the legacy of Imperialism" when they got home rule. Instead, they kept much of it, because it WORKED. The Indian Civil service uses huge books called "Manuals". When there's a flood, or a famine or some similar disaster they take down the appropriate manual which gives fairly detailed instructions on how to solve the problem. Those "manuals" date back not just to British rule, but to the 19th century! They're still in use, because "good government has no skin colour" It doesn't matter who gives a good answer to a problem - the quality lies in the solution not the person administering it. And back then, the Brits really did have things sewn up. We'd industrialised. .. others were only just starting to do so. Our (agent's) offer to" reorganize your economy and government" for you was the stuff of science fiction: a leap from ox carts to steam locomotives practically overnight - AND the upgrading of the infrastructure of government to cope with the HUGE changes. It enabled India to transform itself from a bunch of SMALL states into a huge one with a massive industrial potential. The circle in the centre of India's flag symbolizes Ghandi's romantic but misguided attempt to reverse the process: it's supposed to represent a spinning wheel, symbolizing a return to small-scale fabric production as the basis of the economy। (A policy that set India back DECADES on its road to its current prosperity।) "" ... =============== =============== 'Remembering is key to the future': http://tinyurl.com/2c3sm5 : By 李天福: Mar.8,'47, 10,000 troops to Keelung, 3000 Kaohsiung, : "then began a systematic massacre, shooting people on sight.": "" According to Allan Shackleton, a UN Relief and Rehabilitation officer witnessing the events: "Truckloads of troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles quickly sped from Keelung to Taipei. Not content to firing at people on the street, they fired indiscriminately into shops and houses. In one village between Taipei and Keelung, 20 youths were castrated, their ears were cut off and their noses slit before they were bayoneted." In Keelung, some prisoners were stripped naked, forced to kneel on the street and beaten to death with iron chains. Many were shot in the back of the head, had their ankles or palms pierced with wires and were thrown into the sea in groups of three or five. A policeman estimated that 2,000 people were disposed of in this way. In Taipei, a massive slaughter of residents took place, including some 200 high-school students who had been cornered near the zoo. Kaohsiung was unique in that a massacre of some 2,700 residents started on March 6, before the arrival of reinforcements from China. On that day, the mayor and four city councilors went to the Kaohsiung garrison headquarters to urge that troops disarm voluntarily. The garrison commander, Peng Meng-chi (彭孟緝), shot three delegation members on the spot before leading more than 300 soldiers into the city to start an indiscriminate slaughter of residents. The gunfire persisted past March 8. Peng was later commended by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) for his valor and promoted to major general in 1952. In 1957, he was made commander of the army, and later head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Academics generally agree that 28,000 Taiwanese were killed. [Editor's note: This is contestable.] What is noteworthy, however, is not only the number of deaths but also the brutality and wantonness with which the Chinese soldiers massacred people, molested women and robbed Taiwanese. On March 13, massive arrests began. The members of the Settlement Committee were the first to be arrested, many executed on the spot, followed by the systematic slaughter of Taiwan's elite in all major cities and towns, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businessmen and members of the Provincial Council.?A whole generation of Taiwanese leaders was thus eliminated through ruthless ethnic cleansing. "" "" Taiwan is also increasingly vulnerable to internal subversion due to China's united front tactics. Ever since the pilgrimage of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) to Beijing, the pan-blue opposition has done its utmost to belittle the Democratic Progressive Party government and scuttle Taiwan's democratic institutions in an effort to regain power and facilitate the annexation of Taiwan by China. Much of Taiwan's media is known for its pro-unification bias due to its KMT roots, a tendency exacerbated by the infiltration of such media by Hong Kong and presumably Chinese capital. Pan-blue politicians and media bared their fangs when they combined forces last fall to encourage the red shirt rebellion -- an attempt to destroy the democratically elected government through extralegal means. "" ----- '[BATA] Fw: Remembering is key to the future', by Sue Lin "" The author Lee Thian-Hok is the pen name of Jay Loo. He published "China Impasse, A Formosan View" in the prestigious periodical Foreign Affairs in 1958, advocating Taiwan Independence. Two years earlier he and his friends formed the Formosans' for Free Formosa, the earliest Taiwan Independence movement in the US. He studied medicine at the Medical College of NTU. Three months later he came to the US intended to pursue the career in medicine, but after reading "Formosa Under Chinese Nationalist Rule" by Fred Riggs and the article concerning 228 by George Kerr he became more dedicated to the independence movement and decided to study Political Science in stead of Medicine against the wishes of his father. His lifetime story is a deeply moving story of an intellectual working unselfishly for the love of Taiwan. "" Sam ===== ---------------------------- '美國228家屬籲設特別法庭審判蔣介石': http://tinyurl.com/2mwymp : 中央社今日晚報 2007.02.27: : "" 美國二二八受難者家屬返鄉團上午到總統府拜會總統陳水扁，提出五點訴求：第一、要求法務部成立「二二八事件特別調查小組」，對事件深入調查，促成「二二八事件特別法庭」的立法，對蔣介石、陳儀、柯遠芬、彭孟緝等及幫凶進行公開審判，即使這些人已經逝世，也應該缺席審判，伸張公平、正義。其次，教育部應將二二八事件的事實真相列入新編的高中歷史教科書，讓台灣人的未來世代，能從歷史學習教訓。第三、要求行政院將「中正紀念堂」更改為「台灣忠烈祠」紀念二二八事件及白色恐怖的犧牲者，並將全台的所有「中正路」更名。第四、要求國防部撤走在桃園大溪看管蔣介石屍棺的警衛兵，將屍棺交還蔣家私人處理。第五、要求行政院撤銷四月五日蔣介石死亡之日為清明節法定假日，改回傳統農曆清明節。返鄉團團長王文宏強調，二二八受難者家屬不是要血債血償，也不是要鞭屍，要的是事實真相與公平、正義的台灣社會。 "" ---------------------------- USA:======================= 台灣國人民忍到何時？/台灣要的是歷史公審 Taiwan History in Blood/Tears: http://tinyurl.com/2dmcg7 228 Video: http://tinyurl.com/2sfbb5 '228 2.0-追求正義、迎向未來，由你我發起': http://tinyurl.com/2fna3j : http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v "" 228滿六十週年了，繼去年成功的二二八全球共筆書寫活動後，今年二二八秀台灣網站再接再勵，要發起一個透過網路收集素材、製作228紀念影片的活動，活動的名稱為228 2.0。 "" 228 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuVuGK7QEk or http://tinyurl.com/yfgoln then http://tinyurl.com/33u7sy --------- --------- 'Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan', by 郭勝華blog ; Monday, February 19, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2w9cju Formosa Calling….for 60 long years since Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan (by: 郭勝華): Appendix I: 紀念二二八事件暨三月大屠殺六十週年並反對中華人民共和國共產政權之所謂反分裂法之聲明 Appendix II: 朱正宗宜蘭市長(1947),連震東,陳誠,蔣介石,蔣經國與國民黨 -------- '郭勝華籲台公開228檔案以受難者家屬身分演講': http://tinyurl.com/2ltkgw 【本報記者黃美惠史丹福報導】來自芝加哥的僑務委員郭勝華醫師（Victoria Kuo）25日在史丹福大學參加灣區「二二八」紀念演講會。「二二八」今年60周年，郭勝華也即將60歲，父親郭章垣醫師是二二八事件的死難者，她是遺腹女，父親死時，母親懷胎三個月。郭勝華一出娘胎就沒有父親，60年後的現在，她仍認為這個歷史「政治謀殺事件」並未了結。 -------- -------- Taiwan is changing to Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/yv6r6y :'What's in a Name? Ask Taiwan', Gary J. Schmitt, John Tkacik ================================================= #0: LewRockwell.com:----------------------------- 'The Noblest Cause of All', by Murray N. Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2as Keynote Address to the Libertarian Party Convention, 1977: "" We are a serious movement. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. "" The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure : by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/2tp7c5 --------------------------------------------------- =================================================== ###: '[BATA] 摘要漢譯：【台灣控訴美國政府】2007/02/16進展', 海翁 (Whale) "" "" Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss 台灣控訴美國政府 2007年2月16日摘要 -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯 http://www.taiwanke y.net/dc/ taiwan/suitreply .htm Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss 2007年2月16日摘要 -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯 United States District Court, Washington D.C. 美國首都華府，聯邦法院 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 本法院有此件訴訟事件的管轄權。此案並非為司法不予審理的政治問題，而是需要採用一般解釋的方式來說明條約、成文法與美國憲法。 This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this action. The case does not present a nonjusticiable political question, but rather requires interpretation of treaties, statutes, and the United States Constitution using regular means of interpretation. 原告提出本件訴訟的論據，在於被告具體行為造成原告的事實損害，於是要求本法院宣告以補救原告權利。成文法具體賦予本法院事件管轄權。被告於此件訴訟中，依法已經放棄國家賦予的主權豁免權。 Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action as they have suffered an injury-in-fact caused by Defendant's conduct and redressable by this Court's declaration of Plaintiffs' rights. This Court's subject matter jurisdiction is specifically authorized by statutes. Defendant waived sovereign immunity from this action by statute. 政治問題原則是具有狹隘性質，限制法院對「政治問題」的判定，而非「政治案件」。請參照Baker v. Carr一案[369 U.S. 186, 217, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663, 82 S. Ct. 691 (1962)]，請一併參照Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic一案[233 U.S. App. D.C. 384, 726 F.2d 774, 796-799 (1984)] (「基於『政治問題』而來的不予審理之動作，充其量只不過是限制原則……顯然……可見，政治問題僅是司法不予審理之有限的依據。」) The political question doctrine is a narrow doctrine that restrains the courts from deciding "political questions," not "political cases." Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 217, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663, 82 S. Ct. 691 (1962); see also Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic, 233 U.S. App. D.C. 384, 726 F.2d 774, 796-799 (1984) ("Nonjusticiability based upon "political question" is at best a limited doctrine. . . . . It is . . . clear that the political question is a very limited basis for nonjusticiability. ") 並非涉及對外交關係的所有案件都會出現「政治問題」。關於涉及對外交關係的事件，最高法院在Baker一案提出警語：「假設觸及對外交關係的每件事件，都會超出司法認定的範圍，實為錯誤之認知。」與其偏向純以案件涉及對外關係而不給予行使審判權，法院應該從事「所提特定問題的徹底分析」。 Not all cases involving foreign relations present "political questions." With respect to the cases involving foreign relations, the Supreme Court cautioned in Baker that "it is error to suppose that every case or controversy which touches foreign relations lies beyond judicial cognizance." Rather then declining to exercise jurisdiction purely because a case involves foreign relations, the courts must engage in a "discriminating analysis of the particular question posed." 就被告爭議的範圍而言，其主張政治問題原則，阻礙了本法院解釋確認原告權利的舊金山和約1(SFPT)、台灣關係法2(TRA)、移民暨歸化法3(INA)及美國憲法，被告的立場截然不同於許多司法判例。司法判例顯示本法院具有憲法賦予之權與職責，得以解釋舊金山和約、台灣關係法、移民暨歸化法和美國憲法，進而決定其條款是否能保障原告的被執行權利。 To the extent Defendant argues that the political question doctrine bars this Court from interpreting the San Francisco Peace Treaty 1 ("SFPT"), the Taiwan Relations Act 2 ("TRA"), the Immigration and Nationality Act 3 ("INA"), and the Constitution to ascertain Plaintiff's rights, Defendant's position is contrary to judicial precedents. Judicial precedents show that this Court has the constitutional power and duty to interpret the SFPT, the TRA, the INA, and the Constitution to determine whether their provisions guarantee enforceable rights to Plaintiffs. 本法院有權考慮日本於1952年移轉台灣主權的歷史、執行此項移轉的舊金山和約、台灣關係法所體現的與台灣相關立法與行政政策宣言、行政命令第13014號、相關公報、備忘錄與其他文件。 [T]his Court has the power to consider the history of the transfer of sovereignty over Taiwan from Japan in 1952, the SFPT implementing the transfer, and the legislative and executive policy statements regarding Taiwan embodied in the TRA, Executive Order No. 13014, communiques, memoranda, and other documents. 根據Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers一案[177 F. Supp. 281 (D.D.C. 1959)]，即使領土地位處於懸空狀態，法院仍可檢視領土地位，並決定是否適用成文法。在Cheng Fu Sheng一案中，法院基於驅逐出境法之用，而決定台灣是否為「國家」，以及台灣是否為中國之一部分。Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers (177 F. Supp. 282處)。為了在不干擾對外交關係行為之下裁定此案，法院認為其「必須……確認並依循國務院在[台灣]是否視為中國之一部分的問題上採取的態度。」為此，法院檢視的文件中，包括了國務院公報，該公報由美國政府對台灣外交政策的發言匯集而成。國務院公報討論了讓中國割讓台灣給日本的馬關條約、開羅宣言、波茨坦宣言、1945年投降書、麥克阿瑟將軍一般命令第1號及「日本放棄對台灣一切權利、所有權與請求權」的舊金山和平條約。來源同上，283-284處引述自美國國務院公報第XXXIX冊第1017號，1958年12月22日公布，第1005-1009處。國務院公報進一步指出：「[舊金山和約]及往後的其他協議，都沒有主張將[台灣]主權移轉給中國。」法院認為：「[台灣]主權沒有移轉給中國；[台灣]不屬於中國國土的一部分；至少就目前為止仍非如此，除非往後另外簽署適當之條約方能改變此一事實。」據此，法院認為根據驅逐出境法，應驅逐出境並遣返至中國的原告，不得遣返至台灣，因為台灣不屬於中國的一部分，而且台灣並非一個「國家」。 According to Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers, 177 F. Supp. 281 (D.D.C. 1959), the courts may examine the status of a territory and decide whether a statute applies to it even if the status of the territory is still in limbo. In Cheng Fu Sheng, the court decided the issue whether Taiwan is a "country" for the purpose of the deportation statute, and whether Taiwan is a part of China. Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers, 177 F. Supp. at 282. To decide the case without interfering with the conduct of foreign relations, the court felt it was "necessary . . . to ascertain and be guided by the attitude of the Department of State on the question whether [Taiwan] is to be regarded as a part of China." To that end, the court examined, inter alia, a Department of State Bulletin, which constituted an official expression of foreign policy regarding Taiwan. The Bulletin discussed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, whereby China ceded Taiwan to Japan; the Cairo Declaration; the Potsdam Declaration; the 1945 Instrument of Surrender; General MacArthur's General Order No. 1; and the SFPT, whereby Japan renounced all "right, title and claim" to Taiwan. Id. at 283-284, citing Dep't State Bulletin, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1017, Dec. 22, 1958, at 1005-1009. The Department of State Bulletin further stated that "neither [the SFPT] nor any other agreement thereafter has purported to transfer the sovereignty of [Taiwan] to China." The court held that "the sovereignty of [Taiwan] has not been transferred to China; and that [Taiwan] is not a part of China as a country, at least not as yet, and not until and unless appropriate treaties are hereafter entered into." Accordingly, the court held that under the deportation statute, the plaintiffs deportable to China could not be deported to Taiwan because Taiwan was not a part of China and Taiwan was not a "country." 對該案，華盛頓特區巡迴法院則改變了判決，其不涉及在驅逐出境法之下，法院檢視台灣地位之權，此部分該法院不提出異議。華盛頓特區巡迴法院改變的依據是，用於驅逐出境法的「國家」一字，是指超過「國家主權」的廣泛定義，這是考量到該法宗旨為「透過增加裁定外籍人士驅逐出境的最終命令能遣返之地點，進而減少『無法遣返者』的人數。」Rogers v. Cheng Fu Sheng[108 U.S. App. D.C. 115, 280 F.2d 663 (D.C. Cir. 1960)]。有趣的是，華盛頓特區巡迴法院含蓄地承認，「[台灣]本身既非國家，亦非任何國家之一部分，其身份仍處於懸空狀態(limbo)，」不過，此情形無礙法院裁決該案。所以，審慎考量的舉動，無礙本法院裁決原告所提問題。 The D.C. Circuit reversed on the ground which had nothing to do with the court's power to examine the status of Taiwan for the purpose of the deportation statute, leaving this part of the holding intact. The D.C. Circuit reversed on the ground that the word "country" as used in the deportation statute had a broader meaning than "national sovereignties, " considering that the purpose of the statute was "to reduce the number of ‘undeportables' by increasing the number of places to which an alien under a final order of deportation may be sent." Rogers v. Cheng Fu Sheng, 108 U.S. App. D.C. 115, 280 F.2d 663 (D.C. Cir. 1960). Interestingly, the D.C. Circuit implicitly acknowledged that "[Taiwan] is neither a country itself nor part of any country, its status being in limbo," but it did not restrain the court from adjudicating the case. Thus, prudential considerations do not restrain this Court from adjudicating the question presented by Plaintiffs. 原告已遭受事實損害。原告提出此件訴訟的論據，為台灣地位在舊金山和約以後的法律懸空狀態，導致其遭受事實損害，其認定之公民權與國籍遭到剝奪。美國在台協會(AIT)否定原告身為美國國民4(相對於公民)5之權利與特權，更是讓原告遭受具體傷害。2006年3月29日，原告(個別原告曾經到過美國本土一次以上)秉於善意，試圖向美國在台協會提交依法準備妥當的護照申請書6。然而，美國在台協會卻拒收護照申請書，亦未針對拒收原因提出說明。美國在台協會拒收原告之護照申請書的舉動，依法代表其否認原告為美國國民的身份，以及原告身為美國國民的權利及特權。7 Plaintiffs suffered an injury-in-fact. Individual Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action because they suffered an injury-in-fact as a result of being in a legal limbo following the SFPT and being deprived of a recognized citizenship and nationality. In particular, they suffered a concrete injury as a result of the American Institute of Taiwan ("AIT")'s denial of their rights and privileges as United States nationals4 (as opposed to citizens).5 On March 29, 2006, Plaintiffs (all of whom at some time have been physically present in the continental United States) in good faith attempted to submit duly prepared passport applications to the AIT.6 The AIT, however, refused to accept the passport applications and failed to provide an explanation setting forth the reasons for the refusal. The AIT's refusal to accept Plaintiffs' passport applications constituted a denial of their status as United States nationals, and of their rights and privileges as United States nationals.7 否定公認國籍，如同否定公認公民權，於是構成興訟論據的法定事實損害。 The denial of a recognized nationality, just as the denial of a recognized citizenship, constitutes a legally cognizable injury-in-fact for the purpose of standing. 本法院宣告原告權利之舉，不一定能從各方面補救原告所受損害，亦不阻礙原告日後訴諸救濟之權。請參照美國法典28 U.S.C. § 2201(法院「可基於利害關係人的意願下，宣告其所具權利及其他法律關係，無論日後是否能訴諸救濟亦然。」) This Court's declaration of Plaintiffs' rights does not need to redress every aspect of Plaintiff's injury and does not preclude further relief. See 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (the court "may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought"). 台灣建國黨以一組織身分，代表其黨員提出此件訴訟，在於其黨員遭受事實損害，因此賦予其代表自身興訟之權；該事實損害與台灣建國黨之宗旨密切相關；該黨主張或其要求的救濟方法，均未要求全體個別黨員參與。請參照Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs.一案，528 U.S. 167, 120 S. Ct. 693, 145 L. Ed. 2d 610 (2000)。 The Taiwan Nation Party, an organization, has standing to bring this action on behalf of its members because the members suffered an injury-in-fact, which gives them the right to sue on their own behalf; the injury is germane to the organization' s purpose; and neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires individual member participation. See generally Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs., 528 U.S. 167, 120 S. Ct. 693, 145 L. Ed. 2d 610 (2000). 台灣建國黨旨在提倡台灣人民權益，尤其致力於(a)建立台灣人民的國家認同；以及(b)推動國際調查與程序，以求國際認同台灣人民確實的國籍。此件訴訟所主張的損害 -- 不承認原告於美國憲法及法律下所具權利與特權 -- 與該黨宗旨密切相關。 The purpose of the Taiwan Nation Party is to advocate the rights and privileges of the Taiwanese people, in particular (a) to establish a national identity for the Taiwanese people; and (b) to facilitate international investigations and procedures to obtain an internationally recognized nationality determination for Taiwanese people. The injury asserted in this action -- denial of Plaintiffs' rights and privileges under the United States Constitution and laws -- is germane to the organization' s purpose. 台灣建國黨身為其黨員的適任代表，主張隸屬美國政府機關的美國在台協會不當拒收護照申請書。該黨要求的救濟方法 -- 宣告美國在台協會不當拒收護照申請書 -- 得以補救台灣建國黨全體黨員的不平。 The Taiwan Nation Party is an adequate representative of its members in asserting the claim that the AIT, an agency of the United States, wrongfully refused to accept the passport applications. The relief requested -- a declaration that the AIT wrongfully refused to accept the passport applications -- would redress the grievances of all members of the Taiwan Nation Party. 本法院根據美國法典28 U.S.C. § 1331，對於「美國憲法、法律或條約所引發的一切民事訴訟」，具有聯邦問題管轄權。 This Court has federal question jurisdiction of "all civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States" pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331. 移民暨歸化法§ 360與美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503，具體授予私人法院上的權利（可稱為「訴因」）來處理「宣告美國國籍」事宜。根據移民暨歸化法§ 360(a)-(b)與美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503(a)-(b)：「遭到任何政府部門、獨立機關或其中任職的官員，以並非美國國民的理由」，「否認」其「身為美國國民之權利或特權」的「任何人」，具有宣告國籍之私人訴因。8 The INA § 360, 8 U.S.C. § 1503 specifically authorizes a private cause of action for "declaration of United States nationality. " According to the INA § 360 (a)-(b), 8 U.S.C. § 1503(a)-(b), "any person" who is "denied" a "right or privilege" "as a national of the United States" "by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States," has a private cause of action for declaration of nationality.8 舊金山和約第2條(b)9與第23條(a)10為自動執行性質，無須進行立法就能建立私人在法院上的權利（訴因）。此外，美國其他法院已將舊金山和約中有關領土的規範條款，視為自動執行性質，進而確保個人權利11。 Because Article 2(b)9 and Article 23(a)10 of the SFPT are self-executing, they create a private cause of action without any need for implementing legislation. Furthermore, other U.S. Courts have treated territorial provisions of the SFPT as self-executing and guaranteeing individual rights.11 美國條約認定為自動執行性質，美國法院「有義務讓此類條約生效」。請參照第三次對外關係重述法§ 113(3)，並一併參照Richard B. Lillich所著《在國內法院訴諸國際人權法》一文，54 U. Chi. L. Rev. 367, 384 (1985)。美國法院賦予條約完整效力之舉，符合美國憲法的最高原則。根據美國憲法的最高原則：「美國政府簽署或理應簽署的所有條約，應為美國的最高法律。」美國憲法VI條 § 2。 United States treaties are presumed self-executing, and the United States courts are "bound to give effect" to them. RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF FOREIGN RELATIONS § 111(3), see also Richard B. Lillich, Invoking International Human Rights Law in Domestic Courts, 54 U. Cin. L. Rev. 367, 384 (1985). Giving full effect to treaties in the United States courts is consistent with the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, "all Treaties made, or shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the land." U.S. CONST. art. VI, § 2. 法院在決定一份條約是否自動執行時，會檢視該份文件的語言所彰顯的當事人意圖。Diggs v. Richardson, 555 F.2d 848, 851, 180 U.S. App. D.C. 376 (1976年華盛頓特區巡迴法院)。舊金山和約第2條(b)與第23條(a)，說明了在法院對抗美國之私人訴因的依據。舊金山和約在第23條(a)之中，將美國指為主要佔領權，並在第4條(b)進一步確認美國軍事政府的對台管轄權，就能讓美國負有義務，確保依照舊金山和約看似佔領之領土居民的基本權利。對於美國承擔義務的推論結果，即是這些人在美國法院提出行使其基本權利的私人訴因。 In determining whether a treaty is self-executing, courts look at the intent of the parties as manifested by the language of the instrument. Diggs v. Richardson, 555 F.2d 848, 851, 180 U.S. App. D.C. 376 (D.C. Cir. 1976). Article 2(b) and Article 23(a) of the SFPT demonstrate intent to create a private cause of action against the United States. By designating the United States as a principal occupying Power in Article 23(a), and by further confirming the jurisdiction of the United States Military Government over Taiwan in Article 4(b), the SFPT created the United States' obligation to guarantee fundamental rights to the persons living in the territory deemed occupied by the United States under the SFPT. The corollary to the United States' obligation is these persons' private right of action to enforce their fundamental rights in the United States courts. 現有司法判例顯示，自動執行條約為個人法權得以在法院執行的來源之一。請參照Guerrero v. United States一案，502 F.2d 90, 99(1974年第九巡迴法院)。 Judicial precedents show that self-executing treaties are a source of individual legal rights enforceable in courts. See, e,g, Guerrero v. United States, 502 F.2d 90, 99 (9th Cir. 1974) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footnotes 註解: 1. 1951年9月8日與日本簽署的和約，同盟國-日本，美國法典3 U.S.C. 3169。 Treaty of Peace with Japan, Sept. 8, 1951, Allied Powers-Japan, 3 U.S.C. 3169. 2. 台灣關係法，Taiwan Relations Act，美國法典22 U.S.C. § 3301-3316。 3. 移民暨歸化法，Immigration and Nationality Act，美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101-1178。 4. 移民暨歸化法將「國民」定義為「對國家永久效忠者」、身為「美國公民或……雖非美國公民，卻對美國永久效忠」的「美國國民」。美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(21)- (22)。根據移民暨歸化法的宗旨，「永久」一詞意指「具延續或持久性質的關係，不同於暫時性質，而是即使美國或個人最後要求依法解除，仍可永久持續的關係。」美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(31)。 The INA defines a "national" as a "a person owing permanent allegiance to a state," and a "national of the United States" as a "a citizen of the United States, or . . . a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(21)- (22). For the purpose of the INA, "permanent" means "a relationship of continuing or lasting nature, as distinguished from temporary, but a relationship may be permanent even though it is one that may be dissolved eventually at the instance either of the United States or of the individual, in accordance with law." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(31). 就協助本法院釐清的範圍而言，美國國務院外交手冊(FAM)將「國民」定義為：「已賦予美國國籍且對美國永久效忠，卻非美國公民的人」。全體美國公民均是美國國民，但美國國民並非一定是美國公民……」美國國務院外交手冊7 FAM 1113(i)。 To the extent it is helpful to the Court, the Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual ("FAM") defines a "national," as a "person on whom U.S. nationality has been conferred and who owes permanent allegiance to the United States but who is not a citizen." All U.S. citizens are nationals, but U.S. nationals are not necessarily U.S. citizens. . . ." Dept. State 7 FAM 1113(i). 5. 就協助法院釐清的範圍而言，美國國務院外交手冊定義的「公民」，意指「基於出生或依法歸化而取得美國公民權的人。全體美國公民均為美國國民。」美國國務院外交手冊7 FAM 1113(c)。 The FAM, to the extent it is helpful to the court, defines a "citizen," as a "person who acquired U.S. citizenship at birth or upon naturalization as provided by law. All U.S. citizens are nationals of the United States." Dept. State 7 FAM 1113(c). 6. 美國國民還有申請護照之權。請參照美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(22) (2007) (「美國國民」為「美國公民或……雖非美國公民，卻對美國永久效忠的人」)；美國法典22 U.S.C. § 212 (2007)(「人民有權申請護照。唯有效忠美國者，才授予、核發或驗證護照，無論其是否為公民亦然。」) U.S. nationals also have the right to apply for passports. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(22) (2007) (a "national of the United States" is a "a citizen of the United States, or . . . a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States"); 22 U.S.C. § 212 (2007) ("Persons entitled to passport. No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons that those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States."). 7. 拒收公民權或國籍權益申請書的舉動，實質上等同拒絕此類申請。請參照Agcaoili v. Gustafson一案，844 F.2d 620, 626 (1988年第九巡迴法院)(原告控告移民歸化局(INS)的理由，在於該局基於原告住在國外而拒收歸化申請書；法院命令移民歸化局受理申請，並附註道：「移民歸化局藉由拒絕受理菲律賓退伍軍人的申請書，就能有效防止申請案引起法院注意」，該案基於其他理由而遭到駁回，870 F.2d 462 (1988年第九巡迴法院)。 Refusal to accept an application for a citizenship or nationality benefit amounts to the denial of such application. See Agcaoili v. Gustafson, 844 F.2d 620, 626 (9th Cir. 1988) (the plaintiffs brought a claim against the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") for refusal to accept their applications for naturalization because they resided abroad; the court ordered the INS to process the applications and noted, "[b]y refusing to process the applications of the Filipino veterans, the INS effectively is preventing the applications from receiving the attention of the court"), case dismissed on other grounds, 870 F.2d 462 (9th Cir. 1988). 8. 第(b)款一般適用於「不住在美國」的人： Subsection (b) generally applies if a person is "not within the United States": 如果不住在美國者，要求獲得美國國民權利或特權，然而美國政府部門或獨立機關、亦或是其中的任職官員，基於此人並非美國國民之故而否決其權利或特權時，此人可向居住國家的美國駐外外交官員或領事館人員申請身份證明，以利前往美國入境口岸申請入境。外交官員或領事館人員若有證據，證實該申請乃是基於善意而提出，並且有實質依據之時，應予以核發身份證明。申請人申請此類證明若遭拒，有權向國務卿申訴，國務卿若同意不受理，應採書面方式陳述其決定的理由……美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503(b) If a person who is not within the United States claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right and privilege by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the grounds that he is not a national of the United States, such person may make application to a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in the foreign country in which he is residing for a certificate of identity for the purpose of traveling to a port of entry in the United States and applying for admission. Upon proof to the satisfaction of such diplomatic or consular officer than such application is made in good faith and has a substantial basis, he shall issue a certificate of identity. From any denial of an application for such certificate the applicant shall be entitled to an appeal to the Secretary of State, who, if he approves the denial, shall state in writing his reasons for his decision. . . . 8 U.S.C. § 1503(b) 9. 舊金山和約第2條(b)之中，日本從1952年4月28日起，放棄對台一切主權。中華民國(ROC)未獲指派擔任此塊割讓領土的收受國。 In SFPT Article 2(b), Japan renounced all claims of sovereignty over Taiwan effective April 28, 1952. The Republic of China (ROC) was not designated as the receiving country for this territorial cession. 10. 舊金山和約第23條(a)之中，為了舊金山和約之地域範圍所涵蓋的領土，指定美國擔任「主要佔領權」。根據割讓波多黎各、關島、菲律賓和古巴的西班牙-美國戰爭而建立的判例，顯然可見「主要佔領權的軍事政府，持續到實施具法律效力之替代方案為止」。從1952年至今，台灣尚未成立經主要佔領權「美國」所承認的「平民政府」，以取代美國軍事政府(USMG)對台灣及澎湖的管轄權。因此，美國軍事政府對台灣的管轄權至今仍然健在。 In SFPT Article 23(a), the United States is designated as "the principal occupying Power" for the purpose of the territories covered within the geographic scope of the SFPT. According to the precedent established in the Spanish-American War cessions of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba, it is clear that the "Military government of the principal occupying power continues until legally supplanted." In the period of 1952 to the present, no "civil government" recognized by the principal occupying power (the United States) has been established in Taiwan to supplant USMG jurisdiction over Formosa and the Pescadores. Hence, in the present day, USMG jurisdiction over Taiwan is still active. 11. 如原告於2006年10月24日提出的訴狀所概述，對於二次世界大戰後的台灣地位，舊金山和約乃是層級最高的國際法律文件。重要的是，舊金山和約缺乏認定台灣人民「效忠於中華民國」或台灣人民能正確歸類為「中華民國公民」的依據。 As summarized in the Plaintiff's Complaint of Oct. 24, 2006, the SFPT is the highest ranking document of international law regarding the status of Taiwan in the post WWII era. Importantly, there is no basis under the SFPT to hold that the Taiwanese people "owe allegiance to the ROC," or that the Taiwanese people are correctly classified as "ROC citizens." ============ ========= ========= === 【附註】： (1). 本信件(覆函除外)資訊以"密件副本"同步傳送200份到海內外(台美澳)，部份"收件人" 會各再轉寄200~400份。這不是「一傳十、十傳百」，而是「一傳數百，數百傳數萬、數十、百萬」。 (2). 主流媒體版面、篇幅有限，「新時代台灣人」須善用 E-mail 網狀聯繫，傳播基層民意、彩繪人間樂土藍圖。 (3). 如果不願再收到信件，請回函告知。我們會立即從「郵寄名單」刪除"郵址"。 ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ ___ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger. yahoo.com. tw/ "" ""

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總統陳水扁#11：「四要一沒有，台灣要獨立，台灣要正名，台灣要新憲，台灣要發展，台灣沒有所謂左右的問題，只有統獨的問題！」: http://tinyurl.com/ynopp6 : 台灣陳水扁總統再闡釋, 路透台北電 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/3b2eo2 : '拚開放還談什麼「台灣要發展」': http://tinyurl.com/29e28l 行動才會推動台灣建國CK Chen's Global Forum: http://tinyurl.com/2mwkl7 : '再論美國國務院的嚴重錯誤': http://tinyurl.com/yqxueh Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss ; 2007年2月16日摘要 ; -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯: http://tinyurl.com/ywcnnt > ###: '摘要漢譯：【台灣控訴美國政府】' 'Military Jurisdiction and the Taiwan status question' CK Chen: http://tinyurl.com/266t6n 'Our inquiry to the US government -- What are you doing?' by Dr. Roger C. S. Lin & Richard W. Hartzell: http://tinyurl.com/23wtj3 ------------------------- 李登輝: 台灣要台灣獨立: http://tinyurl.com/yl7yh9 '台灣的國家形態必須正常化': Mar.6 日本李登輝學校講演一沒有: Chiang"ROC", Save Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/ylzdbo 蕭惟仁綜合法理論述:如何掌握台灣的未來?: http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo '感謝共產黨支持台獨', 沈建德: http://tinyurl.com/2x68og : "除了孫文主張台獨（戴季陶承認孫文在一九二五年說過：「我們必須鼓吹台灣獨立，和高麗的獨立運動互相聯合」），一九三八年四月蔣介石演講「抗日戰爭與本黨前途」時引用：「總理以為我們必須使高麗、台灣恢復獨立自由，才能鞏固中華民國國防」" : "一九三六年七月一日，毛澤東答覆美國媒體記者史諾時說：「如果朝鮮人民希望掙脫日本帝國主義者的枷鎖，我們熱烈支持他們爭取獨立的戰鬥，這點同樣適用於台灣」。一九四一年一月五日，周恩來談「民族至上與國家至上」，強調：「我們同情民族國家的獨立解放運動，我們不只協助朝鮮與台灣，也同情印度與南亞諸國的民族解放運動」。" ---------------------------------- #73=US#584: 07.3.14=3: 1.25=#44/60 Crisis::Taiwan#132; ChiangKMT#117: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Crisis:: Chiang KMT Ma#30: http://tinyurl.com/3afoc8 Chiang KMT Nazi Party: http://www.twnazi.org/forum/ Chiang KMT Nazi Party: http://tinyurl.com/yqybtk 'Why shorter men were walking tall 4m years ago', Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter: http://tinyurl.com/2ejucb Direct democracy 'Vermont: The Land of Hope': http://tinyurl.com/3xtbmn '中正紀念堂威權痕跡深鑿'改名為「台灣民主公園」: http://tinyurl.com/324t8q ..銅像最多..到「神格化」..建議把它們外銷到北韓，跟金日成的..去膜拜, Rick 忍受政府派憲兵保護蔣中正與故總統蔣經國陵寢, 薛凌: http://tinyurl.com/2gy7q4 '228的歷史意義', Feb 23, 貞台松: http://tinyurl.com/yv5o56 "南方快報"二二八慘案專題: 永不消逝的二二八: http://tinyurl.com/263m4j : '二二八慘案專輯': http://tinyurl.com/yvcn7e FIC#110: http://fic.ic.org/ /// 5WC/MPR#107 國歌'台灣翠青' National Anthem: http://tinyurl.com/2tb4t5 《1947序曲》蕭泰然: http://tinyurl.com/ytjt4m ================ National Flag: 廖文毅 used blue symbol for Taiwanese flag. : shows sea, moon and sun, which means 國運日月同長. 日月潭 is a good symbol 世界台灣人大會會旗 similar to DPP flag? http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v Taiwan Independence, Answers: http://tinyurl.com/ypffsk Taiwan Independence, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/e38xo '控訴美國', 林志昇,台灣建國志工團隊, Jan 27: http://tinyurl.com/3x8guf :歷史上第一次控告:我們一定要釐清台灣主權終結ROC 正名/制憲和設計新旗幟, 陳辰光林志昇.何瑞元,「台灣平民行動黨」政治研究組, 2007/03/09清晨 > #2. 台灣人拜台灣神: http://tinyurl.com/y7oa3b : Video: http://tinyurl.com/34yuao Pagans back: Olympian Zeus Sanctuary: http://tinyurl.com/3386nt 台灣人拜台灣神，不作無根之民 : http://www.228.net.tw/ 下一步二二八平反運動該怎麼走: http://tinyurl.com/2okoyy ================ 記錄片"台灣的歷史:在光復初期二二八事件": http://tinyurl.com/2dmcov 公視 "228 二二八屠殺大屠殺": http://tinyurl.com/2d7qae =============== 'GMO Corn Causes Liver, Kidney Problems in Rats': http://tinyurl.com/24b25w ===== 'Remembering is key to the future': http://tinyurl.com/2c3sm5 : By 李天福: Mar.8,'47, 10,000 troops to Keelung, 3000 Kaohsiung, : "then began a systematic massacre, shooting people on sight.": "" According to Allan Shackleton, a UN Relief and Rehabilitation officer witnessing the events: "Truckloads of troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles quickly sped from Keelung to Taipei. Not content to firing at people on the street, they fired indiscriminately into shops and houses. In one village between Taipei and Keelung, 20 youths were castrated, their ears were cut off and their noses slit before they were bayoneted." In Keelung, some prisoners were stripped naked, forced to kneel on the street and beaten to death with iron chains. Many were shot in the back of the head, had their ankles or palms pierced with wires and were thrown into the sea in groups of three or five. A policeman estimated that 2,000 people were disposed of in this way. In Taipei, a massive slaughter of residents took place, including some 200 high-school students who had been cornered near the zoo. Kaohsiung was unique in that a massacre of some 2,700 residents started on March 6, before the arrival of reinforcements from China. On that day, the mayor and four city councilors went to the Kaohsiung garrison headquarters to urge that troops disarm voluntarily. The garrison commander, Peng Meng-chi (彭孟緝), shot three delegation members on the spot before leading more than 300 soldiers into the city to start an indiscriminate slaughter of residents. The gunfire persisted past March 8. Peng was later commended by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) for his valor and promoted to major general in 1952. In 1957, he was made commander of the army, and later head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Academics generally agree that 28,000 Taiwanese were killed. [Editor's note: This is contestable.] What is noteworthy, however, is not only the number of deaths but also the brutality and wantonness with which the Chinese soldiers massacred people, molested women and robbed Taiwanese. On March 13, massive arrests began. The members of the Settlement Committee were the first to be arrested, many executed on the spot, followed by the systematic slaughter of Taiwan's elite in all major cities and towns, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businessmen and members of the Provincial Council.?A whole generation of Taiwanese leaders was thus eliminated through ruthless ethnic cleansing. "" "" Taiwan is also increasingly vulnerable to internal subversion due to China's united front tactics. Ever since the pilgrimage of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) to Beijing, the pan-blue opposition has done its utmost to belittle the Democratic Progressive Party government and scuttle Taiwan's democratic institutions in an effort to regain power and facilitate the annexation of Taiwan by China. Much of Taiwan's media is known for its pro-unification bias due to its KMT roots, a tendency exacerbated by the infiltration of such media by Hong Kong and presumably Chinese capital. Pan-blue politicians and media bared their fangs when they combined forces last fall to encourage the red shirt rebellion -- an attempt to destroy the democratically elected government through extralegal means. "" ----- '[BATA] Fw: Remembering is key to the future', by Sue Lin "" The author Lee Thian-Hok is the pen name of Jay Loo. He published "China Impasse, A Formosan View" in the prestigious periodical Foreign Affairs in 1958, advocating Taiwan Independence. Two years earlier he and his friends formed the Formosans' for Free Formosa, the earliest Taiwan Independence movement in the US. He studied medicine at the Medical College of NTU. Three months later he came to the US intended to pursue the career in medicine, but after reading "Formosa Under Chinese Nationalist Rule" by Fred Riggs and the article concerning 228 by George Kerr he became more dedicated to the independence movement and decided to study Political Science in stead of Medicine against the wishes of his father. His lifetime story is a deeply moving story of an intellectual working unselfishly for the love of Taiwan. "" Sam ===== ---------------------------- '美國228家屬籲設特別法庭審判蔣介石': http://tinyurl.com/2mwymp : 中央社今日晚報 2007.02.27: : "" 美國二二八受難者家屬返鄉團上午到總統府拜會總統陳水扁，提出五點訴求：第一、要求法務部成立「二二八事件特別調查小組」，對事件深入調查，促成「二二八事件特別法庭」的立法，對蔣介石、陳儀、柯遠芬、彭孟緝等及幫凶進行公開審判，即使這些人已經逝世，也應該缺席審判，伸張公平、正義。其次，教育部應將二二八事件的事實真相列入新編的高中歷史教科書，讓台灣人的未來世代，能從歷史學習教訓。第三、要求行政院將「中正紀念堂」更改為「台灣忠烈祠」紀念二二八事件及白色恐怖的犧牲者，並將全台的所有「中正路」更名。第四、要求國防部撤走在桃園大溪看管蔣介石屍棺的警衛兵，將屍棺交還蔣家私人處理。第五、要求行政院撤銷四月五日蔣介石死亡之日為清明節法定假日，改回傳統農曆清明節。返鄉團團長王文宏強調，二二八受難者家屬不是要血債血償，也不是要鞭屍，要的是事實真相與公平、正義的台灣社會。 "" ---------------------------- USA:======================= 台灣國人民忍到何時？/台灣要的是歷史公審 Taiwan History in Blood/Tears: http://tinyurl.com/2dmcg7 228 Video: http://tinyurl.com/2sfbb5 '228 2.0-追求正義、迎向未來，由你我發起': http://tinyurl.com/2fna3j : http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v "" 228滿六十週年了，繼去年成功的二二八全球共筆書寫活動後，今年二二八秀台灣網站再接再勵，要發起一個透過網路收集素材、製作228紀念影片的活動，活動的名稱為228 2.0。 "" 228 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuVuGK7QEk or http://tinyurl.com/yfgoln then http://tinyurl.com/33u7sy --------- --------- 'Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan', by 郭勝華blog ; Monday, February 19, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2w9cju Formosa Calling….for 60 long years since Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan (by: 郭勝華): Appendix I: 紀念二二八事件暨三月大屠殺六十週年並反對中華人民共和國共產政權之所謂反分裂法之聲明 Appendix II: 朱正宗宜蘭市長(1947),連震東,陳誠,蔣介石,蔣經國與國民黨 -------- '郭勝華籲台公開228檔案以受難者家屬身分演講': http://tinyurl.com/2ltkgw 【本報記者黃美惠史丹福報導】來自芝加哥的僑務委員郭勝華醫師（Victoria Kuo）25日在史丹福大學參加灣區「二二八」紀念演講會。「二二八」今年60周年，郭勝華也即將60歲，父親郭章垣醫師是二二八事件的死難者，她是遺腹女，父親死時，母親懷胎三個月。郭勝華一出娘胎就沒有父親，60年後的現在，她仍認為這個歷史「政治謀殺事件」並未了結。 -------- -------- Taiwan is changing to Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/yv6r6y :'What's in a Name? Ask Taiwan', Gary J. Schmitt, John Tkacik ================================================= #0: LewRockwell.com:----------------------------- 'The Noblest Cause of All', by Murray N. Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2as Keynote Address to the Libertarian Party Convention, 1977: "" We are a serious movement. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. "" The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure : by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/2tp7c5 --------------------------------------------------- =================================================== ###: '[BATA] 摘要漢譯：【台灣控訴美國政府】2007/02/16進展', 海翁 (Whale) "" "" Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss 台灣控訴美國政府 2007年2月16日摘要 -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯 http://www.taiwanke y.net/dc/ taiwan/suitreply .htm Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss 2007年2月16日摘要 -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯 United States District Court, Washington D.C. 美國首都華府，聯邦法院 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 本法院有此件訴訟事件的管轄權。此案並非為司法不予審理的政治問題，而是需要採用一般解釋的方式來說明條約、成文法與美國憲法。 This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this action. The case does not present a nonjusticiable political question, but rather requires interpretation of treaties, statutes, and the United States Constitution using regular means of interpretation. 原告提出本件訴訟的論據，在於被告具體行為造成原告的事實損害，於是要求本法院宣告以補救原告權利。成文法具體賦予本法院事件管轄權。被告於此件訴訟中，依法已經放棄國家賦予的主權豁免權。 Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action as they have suffered an injury-in-fact caused by Defendant's conduct and redressable by this Court's declaration of Plaintiffs' rights. This Court's subject matter jurisdiction is specifically authorized by statutes. Defendant waived sovereign immunity from this action by statute. 政治問題原則是具有狹隘性質，限制法院對「政治問題」的判定，而非「政治案件」。請參照Baker v. Carr一案[369 U.S. 186, 217, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663, 82 S. Ct. 691 (1962)]，請一併參照Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic一案[233 U.S. App. D.C. 384, 726 F.2d 774, 796-799 (1984)] (「基於『政治問題』而來的不予審理之動作，充其量只不過是限制原則……顯然……可見，政治問題僅是司法不予審理之有限的依據。」) The political question doctrine is a narrow doctrine that restrains the courts from deciding "political questions," not "political cases." Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 217, 7 L. Ed. 2d 663, 82 S. Ct. 691 (1962); see also Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic, 233 U.S. App. D.C. 384, 726 F.2d 774, 796-799 (1984) ("Nonjusticiability based upon "political question" is at best a limited doctrine. . . . . It is . . . clear that the political question is a very limited basis for nonjusticiability. ") 並非涉及對外交關係的所有案件都會出現「政治問題」。關於涉及對外交關係的事件，最高法院在Baker一案提出警語：「假設觸及對外交關係的每件事件，都會超出司法認定的範圍，實為錯誤之認知。」與其偏向純以案件涉及對外關係而不給予行使審判權，法院應該從事「所提特定問題的徹底分析」。 Not all cases involving foreign relations present "political questions." With respect to the cases involving foreign relations, the Supreme Court cautioned in Baker that "it is error to suppose that every case or controversy which touches foreign relations lies beyond judicial cognizance." Rather then declining to exercise jurisdiction purely because a case involves foreign relations, the courts must engage in a "discriminating analysis of the particular question posed." 就被告爭議的範圍而言，其主張政治問題原則，阻礙了本法院解釋確認原告權利的舊金山和約1(SFPT)、台灣關係法2(TRA)、移民暨歸化法3(INA)及美國憲法，被告的立場截然不同於許多司法判例。司法判例顯示本法院具有憲法賦予之權與職責，得以解釋舊金山和約、台灣關係法、移民暨歸化法和美國憲法，進而決定其條款是否能保障原告的被執行權利。 To the extent Defendant argues that the political question doctrine bars this Court from interpreting the San Francisco Peace Treaty 1 ("SFPT"), the Taiwan Relations Act 2 ("TRA"), the Immigration and Nationality Act 3 ("INA"), and the Constitution to ascertain Plaintiff's rights, Defendant's position is contrary to judicial precedents. Judicial precedents show that this Court has the constitutional power and duty to interpret the SFPT, the TRA, the INA, and the Constitution to determine whether their provisions guarantee enforceable rights to Plaintiffs. 本法院有權考慮日本於1952年移轉台灣主權的歷史、執行此項移轉的舊金山和約、台灣關係法所體現的與台灣相關立法與行政政策宣言、行政命令第13014號、相關公報、備忘錄與其他文件。 [T]his Court has the power to consider the history of the transfer of sovereignty over Taiwan from Japan in 1952, the SFPT implementing the transfer, and the legislative and executive policy statements regarding Taiwan embodied in the TRA, Executive Order No. 13014, communiques, memoranda, and other documents. 根據Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers一案[177 F. Supp. 281 (D.D.C. 1959)]，即使領土地位處於懸空狀態，法院仍可檢視領土地位，並決定是否適用成文法。在Cheng Fu Sheng一案中，法院基於驅逐出境法之用，而決定台灣是否為「國家」，以及台灣是否為中國之一部分。Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers (177 F. Supp. 282處)。為了在不干擾對外交關係行為之下裁定此案，法院認為其「必須……確認並依循國務院在[台灣]是否視為中國之一部分的問題上採取的態度。」為此，法院檢視的文件中，包括了國務院公報，該公報由美國政府對台灣外交政策的發言匯集而成。國務院公報討論了讓中國割讓台灣給日本的馬關條約、開羅宣言、波茨坦宣言、1945年投降書、麥克阿瑟將軍一般命令第1號及「日本放棄對台灣一切權利、所有權與請求權」的舊金山和平條約。來源同上，283-284處引述自美國國務院公報第XXXIX冊第1017號，1958年12月22日公布，第1005-1009處。國務院公報進一步指出：「[舊金山和約]及往後的其他協議，都沒有主張將[台灣]主權移轉給中國。」法院認為：「[台灣]主權沒有移轉給中國；[台灣]不屬於中國國土的一部分；至少就目前為止仍非如此，除非往後另外簽署適當之條約方能改變此一事實。」據此，法院認為根據驅逐出境法，應驅逐出境並遣返至中國的原告，不得遣返至台灣，因為台灣不屬於中國的一部分，而且台灣並非一個「國家」。 According to Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers, 177 F. Supp. 281 (D.D.C. 1959), the courts may examine the status of a territory and decide whether a statute applies to it even if the status of the territory is still in limbo. In Cheng Fu Sheng, the court decided the issue whether Taiwan is a "country" for the purpose of the deportation statute, and whether Taiwan is a part of China. Cheng Fu Sheng v. Rogers, 177 F. Supp. at 282. To decide the case without interfering with the conduct of foreign relations, the court felt it was "necessary . . . to ascertain and be guided by the attitude of the Department of State on the question whether [Taiwan] is to be regarded as a part of China." To that end, the court examined, inter alia, a Department of State Bulletin, which constituted an official expression of foreign policy regarding Taiwan. The Bulletin discussed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, whereby China ceded Taiwan to Japan; the Cairo Declaration; the Potsdam Declaration; the 1945 Instrument of Surrender; General MacArthur's General Order No. 1; and the SFPT, whereby Japan renounced all "right, title and claim" to Taiwan. Id. at 283-284, citing Dep't State Bulletin, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1017, Dec. 22, 1958, at 1005-1009. The Department of State Bulletin further stated that "neither [the SFPT] nor any other agreement thereafter has purported to transfer the sovereignty of [Taiwan] to China." The court held that "the sovereignty of [Taiwan] has not been transferred to China; and that [Taiwan] is not a part of China as a country, at least not as yet, and not until and unless appropriate treaties are hereafter entered into." Accordingly, the court held that under the deportation statute, the plaintiffs deportable to China could not be deported to Taiwan because Taiwan was not a part of China and Taiwan was not a "country." 對該案，華盛頓特區巡迴法院則改變了判決，其不涉及在驅逐出境法之下，法院檢視台灣地位之權，此部分該法院不提出異議。華盛頓特區巡迴法院改變的依據是，用於驅逐出境法的「國家」一字，是指超過「國家主權」的廣泛定義，這是考量到該法宗旨為「透過增加裁定外籍人士驅逐出境的最終命令能遣返之地點，進而減少『無法遣返者』的人數。」Rogers v. Cheng Fu Sheng[108 U.S. App. D.C. 115, 280 F.2d 663 (D.C. Cir. 1960)]。有趣的是，華盛頓特區巡迴法院含蓄地承認，「[台灣]本身既非國家，亦非任何國家之一部分，其身份仍處於懸空狀態(limbo)，」不過，此情形無礙法院裁決該案。所以，審慎考量的舉動，無礙本法院裁決原告所提問題。 The D.C. Circuit reversed on the ground which had nothing to do with the court's power to examine the status of Taiwan for the purpose of the deportation statute, leaving this part of the holding intact. The D.C. Circuit reversed on the ground that the word "country" as used in the deportation statute had a broader meaning than "national sovereignties, " considering that the purpose of the statute was "to reduce the number of ‘undeportables' by increasing the number of places to which an alien under a final order of deportation may be sent." Rogers v. Cheng Fu Sheng, 108 U.S. App. D.C. 115, 280 F.2d 663 (D.C. Cir. 1960). Interestingly, the D.C. Circuit implicitly acknowledged that "[Taiwan] is neither a country itself nor part of any country, its status being in limbo," but it did not restrain the court from adjudicating the case. Thus, prudential considerations do not restrain this Court from adjudicating the question presented by Plaintiffs. 原告已遭受事實損害。原告提出此件訴訟的論據，為台灣地位在舊金山和約以後的法律懸空狀態，導致其遭受事實損害，其認定之公民權與國籍遭到剝奪。美國在台協會(AIT)否定原告身為美國國民4(相對於公民)5之權利與特權，更是讓原告遭受具體傷害。2006年3月29日，原告(個別原告曾經到過美國本土一次以上)秉於善意，試圖向美國在台協會提交依法準備妥當的護照申請書6。然而，美國在台協會卻拒收護照申請書，亦未針對拒收原因提出說明。美國在台協會拒收原告之護照申請書的舉動，依法代表其否認原告為美國國民的身份，以及原告身為美國國民的權利及特權。7 Plaintiffs suffered an injury-in-fact. Individual Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action because they suffered an injury-in-fact as a result of being in a legal limbo following the SFPT and being deprived of a recognized citizenship and nationality. In particular, they suffered a concrete injury as a result of the American Institute of Taiwan ("AIT")'s denial of their rights and privileges as United States nationals4 (as opposed to citizens).5 On March 29, 2006, Plaintiffs (all of whom at some time have been physically present in the continental United States) in good faith attempted to submit duly prepared passport applications to the AIT.6 The AIT, however, refused to accept the passport applications and failed to provide an explanation setting forth the reasons for the refusal. The AIT's refusal to accept Plaintiffs' passport applications constituted a denial of their status as United States nationals, and of their rights and privileges as United States nationals.7 否定公認國籍，如同否定公認公民權，於是構成興訟論據的法定事實損害。 The denial of a recognized nationality, just as the denial of a recognized citizenship, constitutes a legally cognizable injury-in-fact for the purpose of standing. 本法院宣告原告權利之舉，不一定能從各方面補救原告所受損害，亦不阻礙原告日後訴諸救濟之權。請參照美國法典28 U.S.C. § 2201(法院「可基於利害關係人的意願下，宣告其所具權利及其他法律關係，無論日後是否能訴諸救濟亦然。」) This Court's declaration of Plaintiffs' rights does not need to redress every aspect of Plaintiff's injury and does not preclude further relief. See 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (the court "may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought"). 台灣建國黨以一組織身分，代表其黨員提出此件訴訟，在於其黨員遭受事實損害，因此賦予其代表自身興訟之權；該事實損害與台灣建國黨之宗旨密切相關；該黨主張或其要求的救濟方法，均未要求全體個別黨員參與。請參照Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs.一案，528 U.S. 167, 120 S. Ct. 693, 145 L. Ed. 2d 610 (2000)。 The Taiwan Nation Party, an organization, has standing to bring this action on behalf of its members because the members suffered an injury-in-fact, which gives them the right to sue on their own behalf; the injury is germane to the organization' s purpose; and neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires individual member participation. See generally Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs., 528 U.S. 167, 120 S. Ct. 693, 145 L. Ed. 2d 610 (2000). 台灣建國黨旨在提倡台灣人民權益，尤其致力於(a)建立台灣人民的國家認同；以及(b)推動國際調查與程序，以求國際認同台灣人民確實的國籍。此件訴訟所主張的損害 -- 不承認原告於美國憲法及法律下所具權利與特權 -- 與該黨宗旨密切相關。 The purpose of the Taiwan Nation Party is to advocate the rights and privileges of the Taiwanese people, in particular (a) to establish a national identity for the Taiwanese people; and (b) to facilitate international investigations and procedures to obtain an internationally recognized nationality determination for Taiwanese people. The injury asserted in this action -- denial of Plaintiffs' rights and privileges under the United States Constitution and laws -- is germane to the organization' s purpose. 台灣建國黨身為其黨員的適任代表，主張隸屬美國政府機關的美國在台協會不當拒收護照申請書。該黨要求的救濟方法 -- 宣告美國在台協會不當拒收護照申請書 -- 得以補救台灣建國黨全體黨員的不平。 The Taiwan Nation Party is an adequate representative of its members in asserting the claim that the AIT, an agency of the United States, wrongfully refused to accept the passport applications. The relief requested -- a declaration that the AIT wrongfully refused to accept the passport applications -- would redress the grievances of all members of the Taiwan Nation Party. 本法院根據美國法典28 U.S.C. § 1331，對於「美國憲法、法律或條約所引發的一切民事訴訟」，具有聯邦問題管轄權。 This Court has federal question jurisdiction of "all civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States" pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331. 移民暨歸化法§ 360與美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503，具體授予私人法院上的權利（可稱為「訴因」）來處理「宣告美國國籍」事宜。根據移民暨歸化法§ 360(a)-(b)與美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503(a)-(b)：「遭到任何政府部門、獨立機關或其中任職的官員，以並非美國國民的理由」，「否認」其「身為美國國民之權利或特權」的「任何人」，具有宣告國籍之私人訴因。8 The INA § 360, 8 U.S.C. § 1503 specifically authorizes a private cause of action for "declaration of United States nationality. " According to the INA § 360 (a)-(b), 8 U.S.C. § 1503(a)-(b), "any person" who is "denied" a "right or privilege" "as a national of the United States" "by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States," has a private cause of action for declaration of nationality.8 舊金山和約第2條(b)9與第23條(a)10為自動執行性質，無須進行立法就能建立私人在法院上的權利（訴因）。此外，美國其他法院已將舊金山和約中有關領土的規範條款，視為自動執行性質，進而確保個人權利11。 Because Article 2(b)9 and Article 23(a)10 of the SFPT are self-executing, they create a private cause of action without any need for implementing legislation. Furthermore, other U.S. Courts have treated territorial provisions of the SFPT as self-executing and guaranteeing individual rights.11 美國條約認定為自動執行性質，美國法院「有義務讓此類條約生效」。請參照第三次對外關係重述法§ 113(3)，並一併參照Richard B. Lillich所著《在國內法院訴諸國際人權法》一文，54 U. Chi. L. Rev. 367, 384 (1985)。美國法院賦予條約完整效力之舉，符合美國憲法的最高原則。根據美國憲法的最高原則：「美國政府簽署或理應簽署的所有條約，應為美國的最高法律。」美國憲法VI條 § 2。 United States treaties are presumed self-executing, and the United States courts are "bound to give effect" to them. RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF FOREIGN RELATIONS § 111(3), see also Richard B. Lillich, Invoking International Human Rights Law in Domestic Courts, 54 U. Cin. L. Rev. 367, 384 (1985). Giving full effect to treaties in the United States courts is consistent with the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, "all Treaties made, or shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the land." U.S. CONST. art. VI, § 2. 法院在決定一份條約是否自動執行時，會檢視該份文件的語言所彰顯的當事人意圖。Diggs v. Richardson, 555 F.2d 848, 851, 180 U.S. App. D.C. 376 (1976年華盛頓特區巡迴法院)。舊金山和約第2條(b)與第23條(a)，說明了在法院對抗美國之私人訴因的依據。舊金山和約在第23條(a)之中，將美國指為主要佔領權，並在第4條(b)進一步確認美國軍事政府的對台管轄權，就能讓美國負有義務，確保依照舊金山和約看似佔領之領土居民的基本權利。對於美國承擔義務的推論結果，即是這些人在美國法院提出行使其基本權利的私人訴因。 In determining whether a treaty is self-executing, courts look at the intent of the parties as manifested by the language of the instrument. Diggs v. Richardson, 555 F.2d 848, 851, 180 U.S. App. D.C. 376 (D.C. Cir. 1976). Article 2(b) and Article 23(a) of the SFPT demonstrate intent to create a private cause of action against the United States. By designating the United States as a principal occupying Power in Article 23(a), and by further confirming the jurisdiction of the United States Military Government over Taiwan in Article 4(b), the SFPT created the United States' obligation to guarantee fundamental rights to the persons living in the territory deemed occupied by the United States under the SFPT. The corollary to the United States' obligation is these persons' private right of action to enforce their fundamental rights in the United States courts. 現有司法判例顯示，自動執行條約為個人法權得以在法院執行的來源之一。請參照Guerrero v. United States一案，502 F.2d 90, 99(1974年第九巡迴法院)。 Judicial precedents show that self-executing treaties are a source of individual legal rights enforceable in courts. See, e,g, Guerrero v. United States, 502 F.2d 90, 99 (9th Cir. 1974) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footnotes 註解: 1. 1951年9月8日與日本簽署的和約，同盟國-日本，美國法典3 U.S.C. 3169。 Treaty of Peace with Japan, Sept. 8, 1951, Allied Powers-Japan, 3 U.S.C. 3169. 2. 台灣關係法，Taiwan Relations Act，美國法典22 U.S.C. § 3301-3316。 3. 移民暨歸化法，Immigration and Nationality Act，美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101-1178。 4. 移民暨歸化法將「國民」定義為「對國家永久效忠者」、身為「美國公民或……雖非美國公民，卻對美國永久效忠」的「美國國民」。美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(21)- (22)。根據移民暨歸化法的宗旨，「永久」一詞意指「具延續或持久性質的關係，不同於暫時性質，而是即使美國或個人最後要求依法解除，仍可永久持續的關係。」美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(31)。 The INA defines a "national" as a "a person owing permanent allegiance to a state," and a "national of the United States" as a "a citizen of the United States, or . . . a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(21)- (22). For the purpose of the INA, "permanent" means "a relationship of continuing or lasting nature, as distinguished from temporary, but a relationship may be permanent even though it is one that may be dissolved eventually at the instance either of the United States or of the individual, in accordance with law." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(31). 就協助本法院釐清的範圍而言，美國國務院外交手冊(FAM)將「國民」定義為：「已賦予美國國籍且對美國永久效忠，卻非美國公民的人」。全體美國公民均是美國國民，但美國國民並非一定是美國公民……」美國國務院外交手冊7 FAM 1113(i)。 To the extent it is helpful to the Court, the Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual ("FAM") defines a "national," as a "person on whom U.S. nationality has been conferred and who owes permanent allegiance to the United States but who is not a citizen." All U.S. citizens are nationals, but U.S. nationals are not necessarily U.S. citizens. . . ." Dept. State 7 FAM 1113(i). 5. 就協助法院釐清的範圍而言，美國國務院外交手冊定義的「公民」，意指「基於出生或依法歸化而取得美國公民權的人。全體美國公民均為美國國民。」美國國務院外交手冊7 FAM 1113(c)。 The FAM, to the extent it is helpful to the court, defines a "citizen," as a "person who acquired U.S. citizenship at birth or upon naturalization as provided by law. All U.S. citizens are nationals of the United States." Dept. State 7 FAM 1113(c). 6. 美國國民還有申請護照之權。請參照美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(22) (2007) (「美國國民」為「美國公民或……雖非美國公民，卻對美國永久效忠的人」)；美國法典22 U.S.C. § 212 (2007)(「人民有權申請護照。唯有效忠美國者，才授予、核發或驗證護照，無論其是否為公民亦然。」) U.S. nationals also have the right to apply for passports. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(22) (2007) (a "national of the United States" is a "a citizen of the United States, or . . . a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States"); 22 U.S.C. § 212 (2007) ("Persons entitled to passport. No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons that those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States."). 7. 拒收公民權或國籍權益申請書的舉動，實質上等同拒絕此類申請。請參照Agcaoili v. Gustafson一案，844 F.2d 620, 626 (1988年第九巡迴法院)(原告控告移民歸化局(INS)的理由，在於該局基於原告住在國外而拒收歸化申請書；法院命令移民歸化局受理申請，並附註道：「移民歸化局藉由拒絕受理菲律賓退伍軍人的申請書，就能有效防止申請案引起法院注意」，該案基於其他理由而遭到駁回，870 F.2d 462 (1988年第九巡迴法院)。 Refusal to accept an application for a citizenship or nationality benefit amounts to the denial of such application. See Agcaoili v. Gustafson, 844 F.2d 620, 626 (9th Cir. 1988) (the plaintiffs brought a claim against the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS") for refusal to accept their applications for naturalization because they resided abroad; the court ordered the INS to process the applications and noted, "[b]y refusing to process the applications of the Filipino veterans, the INS effectively is preventing the applications from receiving the attention of the court"), case dismissed on other grounds, 870 F.2d 462 (9th Cir. 1988). 8. 第(b)款一般適用於「不住在美國」的人： Subsection (b) generally applies if a person is "not within the United States": 如果不住在美國者，要求獲得美國國民權利或特權，然而美國政府部門或獨立機關、亦或是其中的任職官員，基於此人並非美國國民之故而否決其權利或特權時，此人可向居住國家的美國駐外外交官員或領事館人員申請身份證明，以利前往美國入境口岸申請入境。外交官員或領事館人員若有證據，證實該申請乃是基於善意而提出，並且有實質依據之時，應予以核發身份證明。申請人申請此類證明若遭拒，有權向國務卿申訴，國務卿若同意不受理，應採書面方式陳述其決定的理由……美國法典8 U.S.C. § 1503(b) If a person who is not within the United States claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right and privilege by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the grounds that he is not a national of the United States, such person may make application to a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in the foreign country in which he is residing for a certificate of identity for the purpose of traveling to a port of entry in the United States and applying for admission. Upon proof to the satisfaction of such diplomatic or consular officer than such application is made in good faith and has a substantial basis, he shall issue a certificate of identity. From any denial of an application for such certificate the applicant shall be entitled to an appeal to the Secretary of State, who, if he approves the denial, shall state in writing his reasons for his decision. . . . 8 U.S.C. § 1503(b) 9. 舊金山和約第2條(b)之中，日本從1952年4月28日起，放棄對台一切主權。中華民國(ROC)未獲指派擔任此塊割讓領土的收受國。 In SFPT Article 2(b), Japan renounced all claims of sovereignty over Taiwan effective April 28, 1952. The Republic of China (ROC) was not designated as the receiving country for this territorial cession. 10. 舊金山和約第23條(a)之中，為了舊金山和約之地域範圍所涵蓋的領土，指定美國擔任「主要佔領權」。根據割讓波多黎各、關島、菲律賓和古巴的西班牙-美國戰爭而建立的判例，顯然可見「主要佔領權的軍事政府，持續到實施具法律效力之替代方案為止」。從1952年至今，台灣尚未成立經主要佔領權「美國」所承認的「平民政府」，以取代美國軍事政府(USMG)對台灣及澎湖的管轄權。因此，美國軍事政府對台灣的管轄權至今仍然健在。 In SFPT Article 23(a), the United States is designated as "the principal occupying Power" for the purpose of the territories covered within the geographic scope of the SFPT. According to the precedent established in the Spanish-American War cessions of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba, it is clear that the "Military government of the principal occupying power continues until legally supplanted." In the period of 1952 to the present, no "civil government" recognized by the principal occupying power (the United States) has been established in Taiwan to supplant USMG jurisdiction over Formosa and the Pescadores. Hence, in the present day, USMG jurisdiction over Taiwan is still active. 11. 如原告於2006年10月24日提出的訴狀所概述，對於二次世界大戰後的台灣地位，舊金山和約乃是層級最高的國際法律文件。重要的是，舊金山和約缺乏認定台灣人民「效忠於中華民國」或台灣人民能正確歸類為「中華民國公民」的依據。 As summarized in the Plaintiff's Complaint of Oct. 24, 2006, the SFPT is the highest ranking document of international law regarding the status of Taiwan in the post WWII era. Importantly, there is no basis under the SFPT to hold that the Taiwanese people "owe allegiance to the ROC," or that the Taiwanese people are correctly classified as "ROC citizens." ============ ========= ========= === 【附註】： (1). 本信件(覆函除外)資訊以"密件副本"同步傳送200份到海內外(台美澳)，部份"收件人" 會各再轉寄200~400份。這不是「一傳十、十傳百」，而是「一傳數百，數百傳數萬、數十、百萬」。 (2). 主流媒體版面、篇幅有限，「新時代台灣人」須善用 E-mail 網狀聯繫，傳播基層民意、彩繪人間樂土藍圖。 (3). 如果不願再收到信件，請回函告知。我們會立即從「郵寄名單」刪除"郵址"。 ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ ___ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger. yahoo.com. tw/ "" ""

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總統陳水扁#10：「四要一沒有，台灣要獨立，台灣要正名，台灣要新憲，台灣要發展，台灣沒有所謂左右的問題，只有統獨的問題！」: http://tinyurl.com/ynopp6 : 台灣陳水扁總統再闡釋, 路透台北電 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/3b2eo2 Summary of Feb. 16, 2007, Rebuttal by Plaintiffs and Opposition to US government's Motion to Dismiss ; 2007年2月16日摘要 ; -- 原告的反駁與答覆美國政府的答辯: http://tinyurl.com/ywcnnt ------------------------- "Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building": http://tinyurl.com/2rbfzf : Info by Rand Corporation: http://tinyurl.com/3dferg "From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East", by Bernard Lewis: http://tinyurl.com/2v5ulv "The Arabs in History", by Lewis: http://tinyurl.com/2vgdn3 ----- 李登輝: 台灣要台灣獨立: http://tinyurl.com/yl7yh9 '台灣的國家形態必須正常化': Mar.6 日本李登輝學校講演一沒有: "ROC", Save Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/ylzdbo 蕭惟仁綜合法理論述:如何掌握台灣的未來?: http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo ＜曹長青專欄＞: '反分裂法的四不一沒有': http://tinyurl.com/2sunpc US-China very serious relations: http://tinyurl.com/3e55tx > ###. ---------------------------------- #72=US#583: 07.3.13=2: 1.24=#43/60 Crisis::Taiwan#131; ChiangKMT#116: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Crisis:: Chiang KMT Ma#29: http://tinyurl.com/3afoc8 Direct democracy 'Vermont: The Land of Hope': http://tinyurl.com/3xtbmn '中正紀念堂威權痕跡深鑿'改名為「台灣民主公園」: http://tinyurl.com/324t8q '世界文化遺產不如中正廟圍牆', 胡耿維: http://tinyurl.com/3yr2ym ..銅像最多..到「神格化」..建議把它們外銷到北韓，跟金日成的..去膜拜, Rick 忍受政府派憲兵保護蔣中正與故總統蔣經國陵寢, 薛凌: http://tinyurl.com/2gy7q4 蔣介石才是民族敗類,當然不必向此民族罪人致敬! 郭勝華 '228的歷史意義', Feb 23, 貞台松: http://tinyurl.com/yv5o56 '[BATA] 【論?】「二二八事件」反省' > ###2. "南方快報"二二八慘案專題: 永不消逝的二二八: http://tinyurl.com/263m4j : '二二八慘案專輯': http://tinyurl.com/yvcn7e FIC#109: http://fic.ic.org/ /// 5WC/MPR#106 國歌'台灣翠青' National Anthem: http://tinyurl.com/2tb4t5 《1947序曲》蕭泰然: http://tinyurl.com/ytjt4m 台灣焦點(九)綠島人權音樂祭: http://tinyurl.com/3ypkat ================ National Flag: 廖文毅 used blue symbol for Taiwanese flag. : shows sea, moon and sun, which means 國運日月同長. 日月潭 is a good symbol 世界台灣人大會會旗 similar to DPP flag? http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v Taiwan Independence, Answers: http://tinyurl.com/ypffsk Taiwan Independence, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/e38xo '控訴美國', 林志昇,台灣建國志工團隊, Jan 27: http://tinyurl.com/3x8guf :歷史上第一次控告:我們一定要釐清台灣主權終結ROC 正名/制憲和設計新旗幟, 陳辰光 :supporting..our legal team, Cheng Kuang Chen: http://tinyurl.com/yjf6hq :學習以色列人追追追德國納粹黨的仇恨,怨仇,天誅殺人者的中國人打倒中國國民党有困難嗎?? 林志昇.何瑞元,「台灣平民行動黨」政治研究組, 2007/03/09清晨 > #2. '從美國國務院網頁看台獨' 奇河: http://tinyurl.com/3xdjlx 'Background Note: Taiwan', US State Dept: http://tinyurl.com/y8nboh 台灣人拜台灣神: http://tinyurl.com/y7oa3b : Video: http://tinyurl.com/34yuao Pagans back: Olympian Zeus Sanctuary: http://tinyurl.com/3386nt 台灣人拜台灣神，不作無根之民 : http://www.228.net.tw/ 下一步二二八平反運動該怎麼走: http://tinyurl.com/2okoyy ================ 228 & Jews massacre song: http://tinyurl.com/32jk3p TVvideo:三立新聞:二二八走過ㄧ甲子..: http://tinyurl.com/yocrrd SET Studio 228 & Murder Mystery of former DPP Chairman's family: http://tinyurl.com/ytjhgm http://tinyurl.com/26jk2n http://tinyurl.com/yog9tp http://tinyurl.com/ynrdog http://tinyurl.com/24c6rl http://tinyurl.com/25cy2z :The last one, 1980.2.28, Mr. Lin Yi=hsiung's family. 記錄片"台灣的歷史:在光復初期二二八事件": http://tinyurl.com/2dmcov 公視 "228 二二八屠殺大屠殺": http://tinyurl.com/2d7qae ===== #1. 'Remembering is key to the future': http://tinyurl.com/2c3sm5 : By 李天福: Mar.8,'47, 10,000 troops to Keelung, 3000 Kaohsiung, : "then began a systematic massacre, shooting people on sight.": "" According to Allan Shackleton, a UN Relief and Rehabilitation officer witnessing the events: "Truckloads of troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles quickly sped from Keelung to Taipei. Not content to firing at people on the street, they fired indiscriminately into shops and houses. In one village between Taipei and Keelung, 20 youths were castrated, their ears were cut off and their noses slit before they were bayoneted." In Keelung, some prisoners were stripped naked, forced to kneel on the street and beaten to death with iron chains. Many were shot in the back of the head, had their ankles or palms pierced with wires and were thrown into the sea in groups of three or five. A policeman estimated that 2,000 people were disposed of in this way. In Taipei, a massive slaughter of residents took place, including some 200 high-school students who had been cornered near the zoo. Kaohsiung was unique in that a massacre of some 2,700 residents started on March 6, before the arrival of reinforcements from China. On that day, the mayor and four city councilors went to the Kaohsiung garrison headquarters to urge that troops disarm voluntarily. The garrison commander, Peng Meng-chi (彭孟緝), shot three delegation members on the spot before leading more than 300 soldiers into the city to start an indiscriminate slaughter of residents. The gunfire persisted past March 8. Peng was later commended by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) for his valor and promoted to major general in 1952. In 1957, he was made commander of the army, and later head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Academics generally agree that 28,000 Taiwanese were killed. [Editor's note: This is contestable.] What is noteworthy, however, is not only the number of deaths but also the brutality and wantonness with which the Chinese soldiers massacred people, molested women and robbed Taiwanese. On March 13, massive arrests began. The members of the Settlement Committee were the first to be arrested, many executed on the spot, followed by the systematic slaughter of Taiwan's elite in all major cities and towns, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businessmen and members of the Provincial Council.?A whole generation of Taiwanese leaders was thus eliminated through ruthless ethnic cleansing. "" "" Taiwan is also increasingly vulnerable to internal subversion due to China's united front tactics. Ever since the pilgrimage of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) to Beijing, the pan-blue opposition has done its utmost to belittle the Democratic Progressive Party government and scuttle Taiwan's democratic institutions in an effort to regain power and facilitate the annexation of Taiwan by China. Much of Taiwan's media is known for its pro-unification bias due to its KMT roots, a tendency exacerbated by the infiltration of such media by Hong Kong and presumably Chinese capital. Pan-blue politicians and media bared their fangs when they combined forces last fall to encourage the red shirt rebellion -- an attempt to destroy the democratically elected government through extralegal means. "" ----- '[BATA] Fw: Remembering is key to the future', by Sue Lin "" The author Lee Thian-Hok is the pen name of Jay Loo. He published "China Impasse, A Formosan View" in the prestigious periodical Foreign Affairs in 1958, advocating Taiwan Independence. Two years earlier he and his friends formed the Formosans' for Free Formosa, the earliest Taiwan Independence movement in the US. He studied medicine at the Medical College of NTU. Three months later he came to the US intended to pursue the career in medicine, but after reading "Formosa Under Chinese Nationalist Rule" by Fred Riggs and the article concerning 228 by George Kerr he became more dedicated to the independence movement and decided to study Political Science in stead of Medicine against the wishes of his father. His lifetime story is a deeply moving story of an intellectual working unselfishly for the love of Taiwan. "" Sam ===== #2. '【論説】「二二八事件」反省しない中国人', アンディ　チャン "" "" 昨日（２月２８日）は二二八事件の60周年記念日で、いろいろな行事も発言もあった。新聞の報道をみると外省人、中国人には謝罪も反省の心が少しもないのがわかる。三日前に私が書いた「最もよい二二八事件の賠償請求方法」の漢文の記事がすぐ新聞に掲載され、読者の賛同が相次いでいる。私の提案とは（１）国民党と蒋介石など、二二八事件の加害者を民事法廷に告訴して損害賠償を要求する、（２）同時に被告の「財産仮差押」を請求する。（３）全人民が告訴に参加して原告の数を増やし、続いて「台湾軍」抗議運動を開始する。これで国民党の財産は凍結され、資産の違法売却や選挙賄賂に使うことが出来なくなる。これで国民党は完全に解体される。 ●原罪説と日本の戦争責任今回の二二八事件記念に際し、最も憤慨したのは中国人の言いがかり、詭弁、問題のすり替えなどである。つまり中国人は二二八事件について謝罪はもちろん、悔恨の情などは微塵も見られないことが明白で、台湾社会でいくら事件を討議しても事件の解明、責任追及、賠償などに殆ど進展が見られないことである。特に憤慨したのは、馬英九の発言だった。彼は「現在の外省人は事件に直接関与したわけではない。［二二八の原罪］を背負う必要はない」と言ったのである。それならなぜ中国人は日本人に対して戦争責任の［原罪］追求をやめないのか？馬英九の発言は中国人の気持ちを代表するもの、傲慢で卑怯である。こんな卑劣な言い逃れに対し、台湾人は馬英九の住所で抗議デモ、撤回ﾆ謝罪を要求すべきである。 ●靖国と蒋介石の墓次に憤慨したのは、「二二八事件の責任追及は人工的に悲憤を製造して、民族融和を破壊している」と言う発言である。台湾人60年来の怒りが収まっていないのに、人工的に悲憤を製造したと言い、事件の責任を「煽動した人間」に転嫁する手口は許せない。台湾人は事件が解明できない、外省人が謝罪しないことに憤慨している、それなのに中国人は謝罪せず却って台湾人を糾弾する、こんな傲慢な態度を台湾人が許容できると思っているのか。陳水扁が「二二八の元凶は蒋介石」と言明したので外省人はすぐに反対した。蒋介石がシャンハイから援軍を送り、陳儀に命じて大虐殺、粛清を行った証拠は挙がっている。蒋介石の責任を追及されるとすぐ強硬に抗議する外省人は、「台湾人と中国人は違う民族」と心から思っている、だから虐殺も反省もしない。中国人は日本人が靖国神社に参拝することにも干渉する。ことに首相が靖国参拝をすると外交問題、両国の友誼などを取り上げて反対する。中国人が靖国神社の存在に反対するなら、同じように台湾人は蒋介石の墓「慈湖」の存在にも反対すべきで、慈湖は早急に取り壊すべきである。二二八事件で数多の青年が手の平を針金で数珠繋ぎにされて淡水河に投げ込まれた。蒋介石の死体はまだ保存されているから、責任を追及するなら死体を淡水河に捨てるか、総統府前の広場で罪状追求と鞭屍をやればよい。 ●二二八被害者と南京事件李敖という男はいつも大逸れた発言をすることで知られているが、今回の発言は特にひどかった。「二二八事件の被害者は数万ではなく、一千人にも満たなかった」と言ったのである。89年に李登輝総統が被害者に補償を行ったが、補償を申請した人のうち死亡した者は 681人、失踪者が177人で、総計858人だから、民間の統計にある数万人、または数十万人ではない」と言ったのだ。事件から40年経って、政府がようやく補償を言い出した際に858 人しか補償申請をしなかった、だから被害者はこれだけしかいない、というのは暴論である。彼の理論でいけば、南京事件で日本に賠償を申請した被害者はゼロ、つまり南京事件の被害者はゼロ、事件はなかったのである。中国政府が補償したのではないし調査したわけでもない、アイリスチャンの本とか、新聞のウソ報道をつかって数万人から30万人と言うが、正確な数字はない。中国人が加害者である場合は被害者が少なく、日本人が加害者であれば被害者は何十倍になる。私が言いたいのは二二八事件が60年経っても外省人には罪悪感もない、謝罪するつもりもまったくないと言うことである。中国人は決して自己の過ちを認めない、しかも勝手な言いがかりをつけて罪を転嫁する民族である。我々はこのことをシッカリ認識しなければならない。中国人の卑怯な民族性を認識するだけでなく世界に暴露して教導すべきである。朱浤源という男は、二二八事件の元凶は日本人だと言う暴論まで発表したのである。言語道断だ。 ●台湾人無視と外省人「統治者思想」また、外省人は「責任を追及すれば族群融和が破壊される」という。加害者の責任を追及すれば民族融和が崩れると脅迫しているのだ。これはつまり、外省人は台湾人と違った民族である、外省人とは中国人で、台湾のアイデンティティを認めないと宣言したようなものである。台湾に60年も住み、台湾に生まれ育った人間が、「外国人宣言」をして、台湾人が外国人と融和を図る必要がどこにあるのか。むしろ「外国人は出て行け」と言いたい。台湾人にも責任がある。なぜ85%の人口を持つ台湾人が15%の外国人に統治されて大人しく彼らと融和する必要があるのか。外省人は統治者思想を捨てない限り台湾は安定した国を作ることが出来ない。為政者が融和、和解を政治目標とするのは間違いである。彼らは外国人であり、台湾に同化する気持ちはない。それなら彼らは被統治者となるべきで、少数の外省人が被統治者になってこそ台湾人が彼らを受け入れ和解が生じるのである。 ●中国人は反省しない民族中国人に対して最も注意すべき点は彼らの中華思想、自大思想である。中国人は自分（漢民族）が一番偉いと思っている。世界で最も優秀な民族でいつかは必ず世界を制覇すると思い込んでいる。台湾に逃亡した民族が台湾で幅を利かせているのは中華思想の現れであり、台湾に生まれても台湾人を名乗らず中国人を名乗るのは中華傲慢思想、台湾人は劣等民族と思っているからだ。中国人は台湾人に謝ることはしない。謝れば統治階級でなくなると恐れているのだ。過ちを認めればこれまで悪いことをしてきた奴らは台湾から追い出されると懸念している。台湾には外省人と和解し、中国と共生しなければ「メイワンメイリャウ（没完没了）」、安定は得られないと主張する謝長廷のよう政治家がいる。だが中国人は和解など考えない。和解とは台湾人と対等になることで、対等になれば少数派の彼らに勝ち目はない。中国は台湾を併呑したい、はじめから対等思想など持っていない。共生などありえない。謝長廷の主張は台湾人の「負け思想」の最たるもの、我々は支持できない。施明徳も同様である。この男は変節漢で知られている。二十数年も国民党の監獄にいれられ、反骨のある男と自称して政界に乗り出した。ところが人気が落ちると忽ち変節して許信良と一緒に「国民党と和解珈琲」を提言して人民が失望した。民進党を追い出された逆恨みで陳水扁の「汚職追放」を叫んで紅衛兵運動を始めた。紅衛兵運動に国民党と中国の後押しがあったことは間違いない。その証拠に馬英九の汚職が明白になっても汚職追放を叫ばないでアメリカに逃げ出したのである。紅衛兵運動は中国人の策謀であり、手先となった施明徳は台湾を�堣�った男である。 ●国民党を退治する方法は「金」である中国人は優勢を誇るときは残忍性をあらわにする民族だが、劣勢になれば卑屈な態度を取ることで知られている。国民党が台湾で強勢なのは、終戦後の台湾接収で日本人の財産を横領したからだ。金があるから拝金思想が強い台湾人は国民党を支持する、金があるから国民党は優勢を誇れるのだ。万事が金である。国民党を潰すには国民党の金を封鎖することだ。陳政権は国民党財産を人民に返せと主張してきたが、毎度の政府提案は国会で多数を占めるブルー陣営に否決され続けてきた。これではダメである。私の提案は、政府がやるのでなく、民間が二二八事件の責任追及を告訴して賠償を要求し、「判決が出るまで国民党資産を差押える」ことである。差押えとは判決が出る以前に国民党が資産を隠匿してしまうのを防ぐことだ。蒋介石の財産も告訴によって差し押さえ、外国に移すことを防ぐ。差押えてしまえば法院が判決しない限り金は動かせない。金がなくなれば国民党は賄賂選挙は出来ない、金がなくなれば台湾の里町村を買収していた国民党は潰れる。政府より民間、二二八被害者組織が率先してやるのが最良の方法である。 ●「紅衛兵」と「台湾軍」二二八事件とそのあとの白色恐怖政治によって台湾人民は恐怖心を植えつけられ、組織力がなくなった。この欠点を補う方法は「施明徳の紅衛兵運動」を真似ればよい。二二八事件の被害者組織は既に存在するから、被害者団体が告訴の原告となって、更に一般民衆にも参加を呼びかけることができる。施明徳がやった手法を使って、台湾の公民が国民党と蒋介石の責任を告訴する運動に署名して参加すれば十万人ぐらいは簡単に組織できる。これを「台湾軍」と名付けて国民党の本部、蒋介石の墓、中正記念広場、法廷を包囲し、抗議を続けることができる。施明徳がやったことをそのまま踏襲するのだから誰も反対できない。大義名分があり、証拠充分だから、二二八事件の責任追及を民衆に呼びかけるのは簡単だ。告訴で国民党を潰すこと、資産凍結すること、台湾軍を組織することが台湾を救う最良の道である。 "" "" ===== ---------------------------- '美國228家屬籲設特別法庭審判蔣介石': http://tinyurl.com/2mwymp : 中央社今日晚報 2007.02.27: : "" 美國二二八受難者家屬返鄉團上午到總統府拜會總統陳水扁，提出五點訴求：第一、要求法務部成立「二二八事件特別調查小組」，對事件深入調查，促成「二二八事件特別法庭」的立法，對蔣介石、陳儀、柯遠芬、彭孟緝等及幫凶進行公開審判，即使這些人已經逝世，也應該缺席審判，伸張公平、正義。其次，教育部應將二二八事件的事實真相列入新編的高中歷史教科書，讓台灣人的未來世代，能從歷史學習教訓。第三、要求行政院將「中正紀念堂」更改為「台灣忠烈祠」紀念二二八事件及白色恐怖的犧牲者，並將全台的所有「中正路」更名。第四、要求國防部撤走在桃園大溪看管蔣介石屍棺的警衛兵，將屍棺交還蔣家私人處理。第五、要求行政院撤銷四月五日蔣介石死亡之日為清明節法定假日，改回傳統農曆清明節。返鄉團團長王文宏強調，二二八受難者家屬不是要血債血償，也不是要鞭屍，要的是事實真相與公平、正義的台灣社會。 "" ---------------------------- USA:======================= '旅美台僑紀念228 美議員出席', 曹郁芬／華府二十八日報導: http://tinyurl.com/2n3jva 台灣國人民忍到何時？/台灣要的是歷史公審 Taiwan History in Blood/Tears: http://tinyurl.com/2dmcg7 228 Video: http://tinyurl.com/2sfbb5 '228 2.0-追求正義、迎向未來，由你我發起': http://tinyurl.com/2fna3j : http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v "" 228滿六十週年了，繼去年成功的二二八全球共筆書寫活動後，今年二二八秀台灣網站再接再勵，要發起一個透過網路收集素材、製作228紀念影片的活動，活動的名稱為228 2.0。 "" 228 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuVuGK7QEk or http://tinyurl.com/yfgoln then http://tinyurl.com/33u7sy --------- 責任部落格（以筆劃排序） BlahBlah（八拉八拉的BLOG）http://blog.roodo.com/schonrosemary/ Enghui(台灣青年) - http://TOCL.hopto.org/ Freeman（方齋夜話） - http://blog.roodo.com/freemanspot/ TAI（TAI的胡言亂語） - http://www.wretch.cc/blog/taijan/ 妙子(妙子的故鄉翦影) - http://blog.roodo.com/lifeshot/ 阿茵（尋找夢想的天空） - http://blog.roodo.com/fairy220/ 酥餅（酥餅的BLOG）- http://blog.roodo.com/subing/ 慕容理深（Passion:慕容理深のblog）http://blog.roodo.com/elysii/ --------- --------- 'Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan', by 郭勝華blog ; Monday, February 19, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2w9cju Formosa Calling….for 60 long years since Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan (by: 郭勝華): Appendix I: 紀念二二八事件暨三月大屠殺六十週年並反對中華人民共和國共產政權之所謂反分裂法之聲明 Appendix II: 朱正宗宜蘭市長(1947),連震東,陳誠,蔣介石,蔣經國與國民黨 -------- '郭勝華籲台公開228檔案以受難者家屬身分演講': http://tinyurl.com/2ltkgw 【本報記者黃美惠史丹福報導】來自芝加哥的僑務委員郭勝華醫師（Victoria Kuo）25日在史丹福大學參加灣區「二二八」紀念演講會。「二二八」今年60周年，郭勝華也即將60歲，父親郭章垣醫師是二二八事件的死難者，她是遺腹女，父親死時，母親懷胎三個月。郭勝華一出娘胎就沒有父親，60年後的現在，她仍認為這個歷史「政治謀殺事件」並未了結。 -------- 郭勝華: I have a dream………. I have a dream that one day, if I could convert the “Chiang Kai-shek’s Memorial Hall” (中正紀念堂, I call it “Chiang Kai-shek Temple 蔣廟) into a park and put a “February 28 Incident 1947 Memorial Monument ” there; and if I could write the words on it, the following is what I had written in 1992. 試為二二八碑文擬稿: 一八九五年,清廷甲午戰爭失敗, 將台灣割讓給日本. 一九四五年,日本戰敗, 無條件投降, 台灣依 “開羅宣言” 歸還中國. 蔣介石派遣陳儀為行政長官, 其手下葛敬恩,陸桂祥等貪污腐敗, 致社會經濟崩潰, 民心不滿. 陳氏等之政學系更與C.C. 派及省黨部蔣渭川, 王添燈等因派系糾紛及利害衝突而水火不容, 締下 “二二八”事件遠因. 一九四七年二月二十七日,台北大稻埕發生緝煙傷人事件, 引發二月二十八日以後之全島民憤. 其間, 因語言, 文化隔閡, 省籍衝突, 同胞相殘之事迭起. 或有少數共產黨員介入, 殊非主導. 陳儀出爾反爾, 表面答應以省黨部, 民意代表, 地方仕紳為主幹之台籍菁英成立各地處理委員會, 因應人民自治改革之要求, 然暗中馳電蔣介石, 偽稱台民暴動, 要求派兵鎮壓. 軍統派之柯遠芬及手下, 則以爪牙滲入處委會, 在其三十二條要求之外, 添加陳儀解除武裝等之十條強烈要求, 將原以”打倒陳儀貪污政府, 擁護蔣主席” 為訴求之處委會成員及省民菁英, 冠以暴徒, 奸逆之稱, 與彭孟緝, 史宏熹, 張慕陶, 配合來援之二十一師劉雨卿等, 展開全島性之浴血屠殺. 繼之以清鄉為由, 將台籍菁英 “格殺勿論” 殆盡, 其無審, 無判, 綁架, 謀殺, 滅屍之殘忍手段, 人神共憤. 蔣氏任用陳儀, 錯棋在先, 事件既起, 失察失判, 繼之縱容柯彭等血腥屠殺, 其咎難辭. 嗚呼, 昔我先民賢, 多胸懷故國鄉土, 更不乏抗日志士, 綜觀其改革要求, 無非以和平手段, 渴求自由, 民主, 自治, 人權. 彼等壯志未酬, 橫遭不測, 甚則世紀蒙冤,浩天長嘆, 仍難以一舒其怨. 吾人今建碑於此, 盼歷史昭昭, 記之史冊; 仇恨綿綿, 還諸天地; 公義彰彰, 永植吾心; 更願吾島吾民, 引為殷鑑, 勿蹈覆轍; 則戾氣當可化為祥和; 同胞手足, 唯愛唯諒,永世協力和平. -------- -------- Taiwan is changing to Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/yv6r6y :'What's in a Name? Ask Taiwan', Gary J. Schmitt, John Tkacik ================================================= #0: LewRockwell.com:----------------------------- 'The Noblest Cause of All', by Murray N. Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2as Keynote Address to the Libertarian Party Convention, 1977: "" We are a serious movement. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. "" The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure : by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/2tp7c5 --------------------------------------------------- ===================================================

3.12=1: 228 Massacre:Chiang Kai-shek 大屠殺:蔣介石; 總統 #9:四要一沒有:Tancredo; 李登輝:國家形態必須正常化.// 曹長青:反分裂法; IRC:US-China // Mar '47~; 反省. 蕭惟仁

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總統陳水扁#9：「四要一沒有，台灣要獨立，台灣要正名，台灣要新憲，台灣要發展，台灣沒有所謂左右的問題，只有統獨的問題！」: http://tinyurl.com/ynopp6 : 台灣陳水扁總統再闡釋, 路透台北電 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/3b2eo2 '台灣要正名': 'Tom Tancredo's letter to the State Department':----- : [FifthWorld] Tancredo's humorous letter: http://tinyurl.com/2vtmzz ----- 李登輝: 台灣要台灣獨立: http://tinyurl.com/yl7yh9 '台灣的國家形態必須正常化': Mar.6 日本李登輝學校講演一沒有: "ROC", Save Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/ylzdbo 蕭惟仁綜合法理論述:如何掌握台灣的未來?: http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo ＜曹長青專欄＞: '反分裂法的四不一沒有': http://tinyurl.com/2sunpc 文匯報, 2007-03-12, 頭條:-------------------------- 冀三通構建和平盼尋根慎終追遠王金平：心切訪大陸期在四五月 : 本報獨家專訪【本報特派記者王善勇台北專電】 US-China very serious relations: http://tinyurl.com/3e55tx > ###. ---------------------------------- #71=US#582: 07.3.12=1: 1.23=#42/60 Crisis::Taiwan#130; ChiangKMT#115: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Crisis:: Chiang KMT Ma#28: http://tinyurl.com/3afoc8 Direct democracy 'Vermont: The Land of Hope': http://tinyurl.com/3xtbmn '中正紀念堂威權痕跡深鑿'改名為「台灣民主公園」: http://tinyurl.com/324t8q '世界文化遺產不如中正廟圍牆', 胡耿維: http://tinyurl.com/3yr2ym ..銅像最多..到「神格化」..建議把它們外銷到北韓，跟金日成的..去膜拜, Rick 忍受政府派憲兵保護蔣中正與故總統蔣經國陵寢, 薛凌: http://tinyurl.com/2gy7q4 蔣介石才是民族敗類,當然不必向此民族罪人致敬! 郭勝華 '228的歷史意義', Feb 23, 貞台松: http://tinyurl.com/yv5o56 '[BATA] 【論?】「二二八事件」反省' > ###2. "南方快報"二二八慘案專題: 永不消逝的二二八: http://tinyurl.com/263m4j : '二二八慘案專輯': http://tinyurl.com/yvcn7e FIC#108: http://fic.ic.org/ /// 5WC/MPR#105 國歌'台灣翠青' National Anthem: http://tinyurl.com/2tb4t5 《1947序曲》蕭泰然: http://tinyurl.com/ytjt4m 台灣焦點(九)綠島人權音樂祭: http://tinyurl.com/3ypkat ================ National Flag: 廖文毅 used blue symbol for Taiwanese flag. : shows sea, moon and sun, which means 國運日月同長. 日月潭 is a good symbol 世界台灣人大會會旗 similar to DPP flag? http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v Taiwan Independence, Answers: http://tinyurl.com/ypffsk Taiwan Independence, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/e38xo '控訴美國', 林志昇,台灣建國志工團隊, Jan 27: http://tinyurl.com/3x8guf :歷史上第一次控告:我們一定要釐清台灣主權終結ROC 正名/制憲和設計新旗幟, 陳辰光 :supporting..our legal team, Cheng Kuang Chen: http://tinyurl.com/yjf6hq :學習以色列人追追追德國納粹黨的仇恨,怨仇,天誅殺人者的中國人打倒中國國民党有困難嗎?? 林志昇.何瑞元,「台灣平民行動黨」政治研究組, 2007/03/09清晨 > #2. '從美國國務院網頁看台獨' 奇河: http://tinyurl.com/3xdjlx 'Background Note: Taiwan', US State Dept: http://tinyurl.com/y8nboh 台灣人拜台灣神: http://tinyurl.com/y7oa3b : Video: http://tinyurl.com/34yuao Pagans back: Olympian Zeus Sanctuary: http://tinyurl.com/3386nt 台灣人拜台灣神，不作無根之民 : http://www.228.net.tw/ 下一步二二八平反運動該怎麼走: http://tinyurl.com/2okoyy ================ 228 & Jews massacre song: http://tinyurl.com/32jk3p TVvideo:三立新聞:二二八走過ㄧ甲子..: http://tinyurl.com/yocrrd SET Studio 228 & Murder Mystery of former DPP Chairman's family: http://tinyurl.com/ytjhgm http://tinyurl.com/26jk2n http://tinyurl.com/yog9tp http://tinyurl.com/ynrdog http://tinyurl.com/24c6rl http://tinyurl.com/25cy2z :The last one, 1980.2.28, Mr. Lin Yi=hsiung's family. 記錄片"台灣的歷史:在光復初期二二八事件": http://tinyurl.com/2dmcov 公視 "228 二二八屠殺大屠殺": http://tinyurl.com/2d7qae ===== #1. 'Remembering is key to the future': http://tinyurl.com/2c3sm5 : By 李天福: Mar.8,'47, 10,000 troops to Keelung, 3000 Kaohsiung, : "then began a systematic massacre, shooting people on sight.": "" According to Allan Shackleton, a UN Relief and Rehabilitation officer witnessing the events: "Truckloads of troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles quickly sped from Keelung to Taipei. Not content to firing at people on the street, they fired indiscriminately into shops and houses. In one village between Taipei and Keelung, 20 youths were castrated, their ears were cut off and their noses slit before they were bayoneted." In Keelung, some prisoners were stripped naked, forced to kneel on the street and beaten to death with iron chains. Many were shot in the back of the head, had their ankles or palms pierced with wires and were thrown into the sea in groups of three or five. A policeman estimated that 2,000 people were disposed of in this way. In Taipei, a massive slaughter of residents took place, including some 200 high-school students who had been cornered near the zoo. Kaohsiung was unique in that a massacre of some 2,700 residents started on March 6, before the arrival of reinforcements from China. On that day, the mayor and four city councilors went to the Kaohsiung garrison headquarters to urge that troops disarm voluntarily. The garrison commander, Peng Meng-chi (彭孟緝), shot three delegation members on the spot before leading more than 300 soldiers into the city to start an indiscriminate slaughter of residents. The gunfire persisted past March 8. Peng was later commended by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) for his valor and promoted to major general in 1952. In 1957, he was made commander of the army, and later head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Academics generally agree that 28,000 Taiwanese were killed. [Editor's note: This is contestable.] What is noteworthy, however, is not only the number of deaths but also the brutality and wantonness with which the Chinese soldiers massacred people, molested women and robbed Taiwanese. On March 13, massive arrests began. The members of the Settlement Committee were the first to be arrested, many executed on the spot, followed by the systematic slaughter of Taiwan's elite in all major cities and towns, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businessmen and members of the Provincial Council.?A whole generation of Taiwanese leaders was thus eliminated through ruthless ethnic cleansing. "" "" Taiwan is also increasingly vulnerable to internal subversion due to China's united front tactics. Ever since the pilgrimage of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) to Beijing, the pan-blue opposition has done its utmost to belittle the Democratic Progressive Party government and scuttle Taiwan's democratic institutions in an effort to regain power and facilitate the annexation of Taiwan by China. Much of Taiwan's media is known for its pro-unification bias due to its KMT roots, a tendency exacerbated by the infiltration of such media by Hong Kong and presumably Chinese capital. Pan-blue politicians and media bared their fangs when they combined forces last fall to encourage the red shirt rebellion -- an attempt to destroy the democratically elected government through extralegal means. "" ----- '[BATA] Fw: Remembering is key to the future', by Sue Lin "" The author Lee Thian-Hok is the pen name of Jay Loo. He published "China Impasse, A Formosan View" in the prestigious periodical Foreign Affairs in 1958, advocating Taiwan Independence. Two years earlier he and his friends formed the Formosans' for Free Formosa, the earliest Taiwan Independence movement in the US. He studied medicine at the Medical College of NTU. Three months later he came to the US intended to pursue the career in medicine, but after reading "Formosa Under Chinese Nationalist Rule" by Fred Riggs and the article concerning 228 by George Kerr he became more dedicated to the independence movement and decided to study Political Science in stead of Medicine against the wishes of his father. His lifetime story is a deeply moving story of an intellectual working unselfishly for the love of Taiwan. "" Sam ===== #2. '【論説】「二二八事件」反省しない中国人', アンディ　チャン "" "" 昨日（２月２８日）は二二八事件の60周年記念日で、いろいろな行事も発言もあった。新聞の報道をみると外省人、中国人には謝罪も反省の心が少しもないのがわかる。三日前に私が書いた「最もよい二二八事件の賠償請求方法」の漢文の記事がすぐ新聞に掲載され、読者の賛同が相次いでいる。私の提案とは（１）国民党と蒋介石など、二二八事件の加害者を民事法廷に告訴して損害賠償を要求する、（２）同時に被告の「財産仮差押」を請求する。（３）全人民が告訴に参加して原告の数を増やし、続いて「台湾軍」抗議運動を開始する。これで国民党の財産は凍結され、資産の違法売却や選挙賄賂に使うことが出来なくなる。これで国民党は完全に解体される。 ●原罪説と日本の戦争責任今回の二二八事件記念に際し、最も憤慨したのは中国人の言いがかり、詭弁、問題のすり替えなどである。つまり中国人は二二八事件について謝罪はもちろん、悔恨の情などは微塵も見られないことが明白で、台湾社会でいくら事件を討議しても事件の解明、責任追及、賠償などに殆ど進展が見られないことである。特に憤慨したのは、馬英九の発言だった。彼は「現在の外省人は事件に直接関与したわけではない。［二二八の原罪］を背負う必要はない」と言ったのである。それならなぜ中国人は日本人に対して戦争責任の［原罪］追求をやめないのか？馬英九の発言は中国人の気持ちを代表するもの、傲慢で卑怯である。こんな卑劣な言い逃れに対し、台湾人は馬英九の住所で抗議デモ、撤回ﾆ謝罪を要求すべきである。 ●靖国と蒋介石の墓次に憤慨したのは、「二二八事件の責任追及は人工的に悲憤を製造して、民族融和を破壊している」と言う発言である。台湾人60年来の怒りが収まっていないのに、人工的に悲憤を製造したと言い、事件の責任を「煽動した人間」に転嫁する手口は許せない。台湾人は事件が解明できない、外省人が謝罪しないことに憤慨している、それなのに中国人は謝罪せず却って台湾人を糾弾する、こんな傲慢な態度を台湾人が許容できると思っているのか。陳水扁が「二二八の元凶は蒋介石」と言明したので外省人はすぐに反対した。蒋介石がシャンハイから援軍を送り、陳儀に命じて大虐殺、粛清を行った証拠は挙がっている。蒋介石の責任を追及されるとすぐ強硬に抗議する外省人は、「台湾人と中国人は違う民族」と心から思っている、だから虐殺も反省もしない。中国人は日本人が靖国神社に参拝することにも干渉する。ことに首相が靖国参拝をすると外交問題、両国の友誼などを取り上げて反対する。中国人が靖国神社の存在に反対するなら、同じように台湾人は蒋介石の墓「慈湖」の存在にも反対すべきで、慈湖は早急に取り壊すべきである。二二八事件で数多の青年が手の平を針金で数珠繋ぎにされて淡水河に投げ込まれた。蒋介石の死体はまだ保存されているから、責任を追及するなら死体を淡水河に捨てるか、総統府前の広場で罪状追求と鞭屍をやればよい。 ●二二八被害者と南京事件李敖という男はいつも大逸れた発言をすることで知られているが、今回の発言は特にひどかった。「二二八事件の被害者は数万ではなく、一千人にも満たなかった」と言ったのである。89年に李登輝総統が被害者に補償を行ったが、補償を申請した人のうち死亡した者は 681人、失踪者が177人で、総計858人だから、民間の統計にある数万人、または数十万人ではない」と言ったのだ。事件から40年経って、政府がようやく補償を言い出した際に858 人しか補償申請をしなかった、だから被害者はこれだけしかいない、というのは暴論である。彼の理論でいけば、南京事件で日本に賠償を申請した被害者はゼロ、つまり南京事件の被害者はゼロ、事件はなかったのである。中国政府が補償したのではないし調査したわけでもない、アイリスチャンの本とか、新聞のウソ報道をつかって数万人から30万人と言うが、正確な数字はない。中国人が加害者である場合は被害者が少なく、日本人が加害者であれば被害者は何十倍になる。私が言いたいのは二二八事件が60年経っても外省人には罪悪感もない、謝罪するつもりもまったくないと言うことである。中国人は決して自己の過ちを認めない、しかも勝手な言いがかりをつけて罪を転嫁する民族である。我々はこのことをシッカリ認識しなければならない。中国人の卑怯な民族性を認識するだけでなく世界に暴露して教導すべきである。朱浤源という男は、二二八事件の元凶は日本人だと言う暴論まで発表したのである。言語道断だ。 ●台湾人無視と外省人「統治者思想」また、外省人は「責任を追及すれば族群融和が破壊される」という。加害者の責任を追及すれば民族融和が崩れると脅迫しているのだ。これはつまり、外省人は台湾人と違った民族である、外省人とは中国人で、台湾のアイデンティティを認めないと宣言したようなものである。台湾に60年も住み、台湾に生まれ育った人間が、「外国人宣言」をして、台湾人が外国人と融和を図る必要がどこにあるのか。むしろ「外国人は出て行け」と言いたい。台湾人にも責任がある。なぜ85%の人口を持つ台湾人が15%の外国人に統治されて大人しく彼らと融和する必要があるのか。外省人は統治者思想を捨てない限り台湾は安定した国を作ることが出来ない。為政者が融和、和解を政治目標とするのは間違いである。彼らは外国人であり、台湾に同化する気持ちはない。それなら彼らは被統治者となるべきで、少数の外省人が被統治者になってこそ台湾人が彼らを受け入れ和解が生じるのである。 ●中国人は反省しない民族中国人に対して最も注意すべき点は彼らの中華思想、自大思想である。中国人は自分（漢民族）が一番偉いと思っている。世界で最も優秀な民族でいつかは必ず世界を制覇すると思い込んでいる。台湾に逃亡した民族が台湾で幅を利かせているのは中華思想の現れであり、台湾に生まれても台湾人を名乗らず中国人を名乗るのは中華傲慢思想、台湾人は劣等民族と思っているからだ。中国人は台湾人に謝ることはしない。謝れば統治階級でなくなると恐れているのだ。過ちを認めればこれまで悪いことをしてきた奴らは台湾から追い出されると懸念している。台湾には外省人と和解し、中国と共生しなければ「メイワンメイリャウ（没完没了）」、安定は得られないと主張する謝長廷のよう政治家がいる。だが中国人は和解など考えない。和解とは台湾人と対等になることで、対等になれば少数派の彼らに勝ち目はない。中国は台湾を併呑したい、はじめから対等思想など持っていない。共生などありえない。謝長廷の主張は台湾人の「負け思想」の最たるもの、我々は支持できない。施明徳も同様である。この男は変節漢で知られている。二十数年も国民党の監獄にいれられ、反骨のある男と自称して政界に乗り出した。ところが人気が落ちると忽ち変節して許信良と一緒に「国民党と和解珈琲」を提言して人民が失望した。民進党を追い出された逆恨みで陳水扁の「汚職追放」を叫んで紅衛兵運動を始めた。紅衛兵運動に国民党と中国の後押しがあったことは間違いない。その証拠に馬英九の汚職が明白になっても汚職追放を叫ばないでアメリカに逃げ出したのである。紅衛兵運動は中国人の策謀であり、手先となった施明徳は台湾を�堣�った男である。 ●国民党を退治する方法は「金」である中国人は優勢を誇るときは残忍性をあらわにする民族だが、劣勢になれば卑屈な態度を取ることで知られている。国民党が台湾で強勢なのは、終戦後の台湾接収で日本人の財産を横領したからだ。金があるから拝金思想が強い台湾人は国民党を支持する、金があるから国民党は優勢を誇れるのだ。万事が金である。国民党を潰すには国民党の金を封鎖することだ。陳政権は国民党財産を人民に返せと主張してきたが、毎度の政府提案は国会で多数を占めるブルー陣営に否決され続けてきた。これではダメである。私の提案は、政府がやるのでなく、民間が二二八事件の責任追及を告訴して賠償を要求し、「判決が出るまで国民党資産を差押える」ことである。差押えとは判決が出る以前に国民党が資産を隠匿してしまうのを防ぐことだ。蒋介石の財産も告訴によって差し押さえ、外国に移すことを防ぐ。差押えてしまえば法院が判決しない限り金は動かせない。金がなくなれば国民党は賄賂選挙は出来ない、金がなくなれば台湾の里町村を買収していた国民党は潰れる。政府より民間、二二八被害者組織が率先してやるのが最良の方法である。 ●「紅衛兵」と「台湾軍」二二八事件とそのあとの白色恐怖政治によって台湾人民は恐怖心を植えつけられ、組織力がなくなった。この欠点を補う方法は「施明徳の紅衛兵運動」を真似ればよい。二二八事件の被害者組織は既に存在するから、被害者団体が告訴の原告となって、更に一般民衆にも参加を呼びかけることができる。施明徳がやった手法を使って、台湾の公民が国民党と蒋介石の責任を告訴する運動に署名して参加すれば十万人ぐらいは簡単に組織できる。これを「台湾軍」と名付けて国民党の本部、蒋介石の墓、中正記念広場、法廷を包囲し、抗議を続けることができる。施明徳がやったことをそのまま踏襲するのだから誰も反対できない。大義名分があり、証拠充分だから、二二八事件の責任追及を民衆に呼びかけるのは簡単だ。告訴で国民党を潰すこと、資産凍結すること、台湾軍を組織することが台湾を救う最良の道である。 "" "" ===== ---------------------------- '美國228家屬籲設特別法庭審判蔣介石': http://tinyurl.com/2mwymp : 中央社今日晚報 2007.02.27: : "" 美國二二八受難者家屬返鄉團上午到總統府拜會總統陳水扁，提出五點訴求：第一、要求法務部成立「二二八事件特別調查小組」，對事件深入調查，促成「二二八事件特別法庭」的立法，對蔣介石、陳儀、柯遠芬、彭孟緝等及幫凶進行公開審判，即使這些人已經逝世，也應該缺席審判，伸張公平、正義。其次，教育部應將二二八事件的事實真相列入新編的高中歷史教科書，讓台灣人的未來世代，能從歷史學習教訓。第三、要求行政院將「中正紀念堂」更改為「台灣忠烈祠」紀念二二八事件及白色恐怖的犧牲者，並將全台的所有「中正路」更名。第四、要求國防部撤走在桃園大溪看管蔣介石屍棺的警衛兵，將屍棺交還蔣家私人處理。第五、要求行政院撤銷四月五日蔣介石死亡之日為清明節法定假日，改回傳統農曆清明節。返鄉團團長王文宏強調，二二八受難者家屬不是要血債血償，也不是要鞭屍，要的是事實真相與公平、正義的台灣社會。 "" ---------------------------- USA:======================= '旅美台僑紀念228 美議員出席', 曹郁芬／華府二十八日報導: http://tinyurl.com/2n3jva 台灣國人民忍到何時？/台灣要的是歷史公審 Taiwan History in Blood/Tears: http://tinyurl.com/2dmcg7 228 Video: http://tinyurl.com/2sfbb5 '228 2.0-追求正義、迎向未來，由你我發起': http://tinyurl.com/2fna3j : http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v "" 228滿六十週年了，繼去年成功的二二八全球共筆書寫活動後，今年二二八秀台灣網站再接再勵，要發起一個透過網路收集素材、製作228紀念影片的活動，活動的名稱為228 2.0。 "" 228 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuVuGK7QEk or http://tinyurl.com/yfgoln then http://tinyurl.com/33u7sy --------- 責任部落格（以筆劃排序） BlahBlah（八拉八拉的BLOG）http://blog.roodo.com/schonrosemary/ Enghui(台灣青年) - http://TOCL.hopto.org/ Freeman（方齋夜話） - http://blog.roodo.com/freemanspot/ TAI（TAI的胡言亂語） - http://www.wretch.cc/blog/taijan/ 妙子(妙子的故鄉翦影) - http://blog.roodo.com/lifeshot/ 阿茵（尋找夢想的天空） - http://blog.roodo.com/fairy220/ 酥餅（酥餅的BLOG）- http://blog.roodo.com/subing/ 慕容理深（Passion:慕容理深のblog）http://blog.roodo.com/elysii/ --------- --------- 'Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan', by 郭勝華blog ; Monday, February 19, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2w9cju Formosa Calling….for 60 long years since Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan (by: 郭勝華): Appendix I: 紀念二二八事件暨三月大屠殺六十週年並反對中華人民共和國共產政權之所謂反分裂法之聲明 Appendix II: 朱正宗宜蘭市長(1947),連震東,陳誠,蔣介石,蔣經國與國民黨 -------- '郭勝華籲台公開228檔案以受難者家屬身分演講': http://tinyurl.com/2ltkgw 【本報記者黃美惠史丹福報導】來自芝加哥的僑務委員郭勝華醫師（Victoria Kuo）25日在史丹福大學參加灣區「二二八」紀念演講會。「二二八」今年60周年，郭勝華也即將60歲，父親郭章垣醫師是二二八事件的死難者，她是遺腹女，父親死時，母親懷胎三個月。郭勝華一出娘胎就沒有父親，60年後的現在，她仍認為這個歷史「政治謀殺事件」並未了結。 -------- 郭勝華: I have a dream………. I have a dream that one day, if I could convert the “Chiang Kai-shek’s Memorial Hall” (中正紀念堂, I call it “Chiang Kai-shek Temple 蔣廟) into a park and put a “February 28 Incident 1947 Memorial Monument ” there; and if I could write the words on it, the following is what I had written in 1992. 試為二二八碑文擬稿: 一八九五年,清廷甲午戰爭失敗, 將台灣割讓給日本. 一九四五年,日本戰敗, 無條件投降, 台灣依 “開羅宣言” 歸還中國. 蔣介石派遣陳儀為行政長官, 其手下葛敬恩,陸桂祥等貪污腐敗, 致社會經濟崩潰, 民心不滿. 陳氏等之政學系更與C.C. 派及省黨部蔣渭川, 王添燈等因派系糾紛及利害衝突而水火不容, 締下 “二二八”事件遠因. 一九四七年二月二十七日,台北大稻埕發生緝煙傷人事件, 引發二月二十八日以後之全島民憤. 其間, 因語言, 文化隔閡, 省籍衝突, 同胞相殘之事迭起. 或有少數共產黨員介入, 殊非主導. 陳儀出爾反爾, 表面答應以省黨部, 民意代表, 地方仕紳為主幹之台籍菁英成立各地處理委員會, 因應人民自治改革之要求, 然暗中馳電蔣介石, 偽稱台民暴動, 要求派兵鎮壓. 軍統派之柯遠芬及手下, 則以爪牙滲入處委會, 在其三十二條要求之外, 添加陳儀解除武裝等之十條強烈要求, 將原以”打倒陳儀貪污政府, 擁護蔣主席” 為訴求之處委會成員及省民菁英, 冠以暴徒, 奸逆之稱, 與彭孟緝, 史宏熹, 張慕陶, 配合來援之二十一師劉雨卿等, 展開全島性之浴血屠殺. 繼之以清鄉為由, 將台籍菁英 “格殺勿論” 殆盡, 其無審, 無判, 綁架, 謀殺, 滅屍之殘忍手段, 人神共憤. 蔣氏任用陳儀, 錯棋在先, 事件既起, 失察失判, 繼之縱容柯彭等血腥屠殺, 其咎難辭. 嗚呼, 昔我先民賢, 多胸懷故國鄉土, 更不乏抗日志士, 綜觀其改革要求, 無非以和平手段, 渴求自由, 民主, 自治, 人權. 彼等壯志未酬, 橫遭不測, 甚則世紀蒙冤,浩天長嘆, 仍難以一舒其怨. 吾人今建碑於此, 盼歷史昭昭, 記之史冊; 仇恨綿綿, 還諸天地; 公義彰彰, 永植吾心; 更願吾島吾民, 引為殷鑑, 勿蹈覆轍; 則戾氣當可化為祥和; 同胞手足, 唯愛唯諒,永世協力和平. -------- -------- Taiwan is changing to Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/yv6r6y :'What's in a Name? Ask Taiwan', Gary J. Schmitt, John Tkacik ================================================= #0: LewRockwell.com:----------------------------- 'The Noblest Cause of All', by Murray N. Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2as Keynote Address to the Libertarian Party Convention, 1977: "" We are a serious movement. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. "" The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure : by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/2tp7c5 --------------------------------------------------- =================================================== ###: US-China: 'The Frankenstein Alliance', Emanuel Pastreich | March 9, 2007 ; Editor: John Feffer, IRC [Int'l Relations Center]: http://tinyurl.com/3e55tx "" "" If you read U.S. newspapers through a security lens, you might get the impression that Washington is well on its way to containing China economically, politically and militarily. China is portrayed in the media as America’s enemy of choice: the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Report states explicitly that “of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages absent U.S. counter-strategies.” In response the United States is working closely with Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Indonesia to develop closer bilateral military relationships. It has concluded a nuclear deal with India, remains close to Pakistan, and has cultivated strategic alliances in Central Asia with China’s neighbors. When former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld held a meeting in June 2006 with Mongolian Defense Minister Mishigiyn Sonompil one might have thought the United States had just about surrounded China. More recently, in October, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency touted a successful integrated ground test as the first step in a system that will counter the supposed military modernization of China that so threatens American security. And China tested an anti-satellite missile in response that caused great concern all around. In the political section of the newspaper, however, the United States is practically begging China to intercede and defuse the conflict with North Korea. Washington policymakers repeat ad nauseum that the Chinese must use its influence over Pyongyang to solve the nuclear standoff. More recently, American policy makers have slipped so deeply into the Middle East imbroglio that they can barely come up for air, let alone articulate a long-term Asia policy. Consequently, despite the invocation of a looming Chinese threat, the United States finds itself hoping for Chinese support, or at the least Chinese neutrality, in just about every important diplomatic issue from the Middle East to Africa. Finally, the culture and style sections of U.S. publications aimed at the upper middle class are filled with appealing images of a sleek China pulsing with vitality. Americans are gently drawn to Shanghai’s post-modern landscape; a stable China where healthy green tea is consumed and ancient culture endures. As far as the next generation of Americans is concerned, China is benign and close-at-hand. Chinese ideograms are sprinkled throughout the Saturday morning cartoons, and the study of Chinese is taking off, even in American elementary schools. Clearly the United States is having trouble deciding what to think about its rival. China is simultaneously an adversary and an ally, an attraction and a threat. The prevalent explanation for this schizophrenic U.S. view of China is that, although the two nations have common interests around the globe, strategic concerns and cultural differences lead to divergent approaches. A more compelling explanation is that China and the United States have fashioned an economic alliance that both pulls the two countries together and, because of the logic of competition, pushes them apart. The resulting beast, a Frankenstein monster of composite parts, lurches forward without regard to the destruction it leaves in its wake. The Frankenstein Alliance Parallel Developments Taming the Monster? Emanuel Pastreich is the dean of academic affairs and associate professor of international relations at SolBridge International College, Woosong University in Daejeon, Korea. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org). "" ""

3.11=7: 228 Massacre:Chiang Kai-shek 大屠殺:蔣介石; 總統 #8:四要一沒有; 李登輝:國家形態必須正常化. 宗像隆幸; Chen's Global Forum. 金牌女將李秋霞. Mar '47~; 反省. 蕭惟仁

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總統陳水扁#8：「四要一沒有，台灣要獨立，台灣要正名，台灣要新憲，台灣要發展，台灣沒有所謂左右的問題，只有統獨的問題！」: http://tinyurl.com/ynopp6 : 台灣陳水扁總統再闡釋, 路透台北電 3.6: http://tinyurl.com/3b2eo2 'なぜ、台湾の指導者たちは、台湾独立の意味を説明しないのか' :アジア安保フォーラム幹事宗像隆幸: http://tinyurl.com/2deskb : 台湾の独立とは、台湾憲法を制定して中華民国憲法を廃棄することであり、台湾の法的民主化と同義語なのである。このことが理解されたら、民主主義を支持する世界の人びとが台湾の独立を支持するはずだ。このような理解を促進するために、台湾の指導者たちは全力を尽くすべきであろう。（２００７年３月８日） '行動才會推動台灣建國': http://tinyurl.com/2mwkl7 ; CK Chen's Global Forum 李登輝: 台灣要台灣獨立: http://tinyurl.com/yl7yh9 '台灣的國家形態必須正常化': Mar.6 日本李登輝學校講演一沒有: "ROC", Save Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/ylzdbo 蕭惟仁綜合法理論述:如何掌握台灣的未來?: http://tinyurl.com/2rnybo #70=US#581: 07.3.11=7: 1.22=#41/60 Crisis::Taiwan#129; ChiangKMT#114: http://tinyurl.com/sbsmf Crisis:: Chiang KMT Ma#27: http://tinyurl.com/3afoc8 Direct democracy 'Vermont: The Land of Hope': http://tinyurl.com/3xtbmn '中正紀念堂威權痕跡深鑿'改名為「台灣民主公園」: http://tinyurl.com/324t8q '世界文化遺產不如中正廟圍牆', 胡耿維: http://tinyurl.com/3yr2ym ..銅像最多..到「神格化」..建議把它們外銷到北韓，跟金日成的..去膜拜, Rick 忍受政府派憲兵保護蔣中正與故總統蔣經國陵寢, 薛凌: http://tinyurl.com/2gy7q4 蔣介石才是民族敗類,當然不必向此民族罪人致敬! 郭勝華 ''300 Greeks sent two words back to the 600,000 who requested their weapons. "Molon labe." Translation: Come and take them'': http://tinyurl.com/2ygqet '228的歷史意義', Feb 23, 貞台松: http://tinyurl.com/yv5o56 '[BATA] 【論?】「二二八事件」反省' > ###2. "南方快報"二二八慘案專題: 永不消逝的二二八: http://tinyurl.com/263m4j : '二二八慘案專輯': http://tinyurl.com/yvcn7e FIC#107: http://fic.ic.org/ /// 5WC/MPR#104 國歌'台灣翠青' National Anthem: http://tinyurl.com/2tb4t5 《1947序曲》蕭泰然: http://tinyurl.com/ytjt4m 台灣焦點(九)綠島人權音樂祭: http://tinyurl.com/3ypkat ================ National Flag: 廖文毅 used blue symbol for Taiwanese flag. : shows sea, moon and sun, which means 國運日月同長. 日月潭 is a good symbol 世界台灣人大會會旗 similar to DPP flag? http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v Taiwan Independence, Answers: http://tinyurl.com/ypffsk Taiwan Independence, Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/e38xo '控訴美國', 林志昇,台灣建國志工團隊, Jan 27: http://tinyurl.com/3x8guf :歷史上第一次控告:我們一定要釐清台灣主權終結ROC 正名/制憲和設計新旗幟, 陳辰光 :supporting..our legal team, Cheng Kuang Chen: http://tinyurl.com/yjf6hq :學習以色列人追追追德國納粹黨的仇恨,怨仇,天誅殺人者的中國人打倒中國國民党有困難嗎?? 林志昇.何瑞元,「台灣平民行動黨」政治研究組, 2007/03/09清晨 > #2. '從美國國務院網頁看台獨' 奇河: http://tinyurl.com/3xdjlx 'Background Note: Taiwan', US State Dept: http://tinyurl.com/y8nboh 台灣人拜台灣神: http://tinyurl.com/y7oa3b : Video: http://tinyurl.com/34yuao Pagans back: Olympian Zeus Sanctuary: http://tinyurl.com/3386nt 台灣人拜台灣神，不作無根之民 : http://www.228.net.tw/ 下一步二二八平反運動該怎麼走: http://tinyurl.com/2okoyy '金牌女將240公里控訴', 李秋霞: http://tinyurl.com/2lkr4e "" "" 我於一九七五年獲得亞洲田徑錦標賽女子八百、一千五百及三千公尺金牌後，就全心全力投入隔年（一九七六年）的世運訓練。可是，當年奧林匹克委員會決定我們不能以「中華民國」之名而必須以「台灣」之名參加。誰知當時的國民黨政府竟然拒絕「台灣」之名而退出世運會，讓我們選手好幾年的訓練與準備付諸流水。也因為這次國民黨政權拒絕「台灣」之名，台灣以後只好用可笑的「中華台北」之名參加國際賽事。這難道不是外來的國民黨為了保住自己的政權，不顧台灣人民利益的典型例子？ "" ================ 228 & Jews massacre song: http://tinyurl.com/32jk3p TVvideo:三立新聞:二二八走過ㄧ甲子..: http://tinyurl.com/yocrrd SET Studio 228 & Murder Mystery of former DPP Chairman's family: http://tinyurl.com/ytjhgm http://tinyurl.com/26jk2n http://tinyurl.com/yog9tp http://tinyurl.com/ynrdog http://tinyurl.com/24c6rl http://tinyurl.com/25cy2z :The last one, 1980.2.28, Mr. Lin Yi=hsiung's family. 記錄片"台灣的歷史:在光復初期二二八事件": http://tinyurl.com/2dmcov 公視 "228 二二八屠殺大屠殺": http://tinyurl.com/2d7qae ===== ###1. 'Remembering is key to the future': http://tinyurl.com/2c3sm5 : By 李天福: Mar.8,'47, 10,000 troops to Keelung, 3000 Kaohsiung, : "then began a systematic massacre, shooting people on sight.": "" According to Allan Shackleton, a UN Relief and Rehabilitation officer witnessing the events: "Truckloads of troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles quickly sped from Keelung to Taipei. Not content to firing at people on the street, they fired indiscriminately into shops and houses. In one village between Taipei and Keelung, 20 youths were castrated, their ears were cut off and their noses slit before they were bayoneted." In Keelung, some prisoners were stripped naked, forced to kneel on the street and beaten to death with iron chains. Many were shot in the back of the head, had their ankles or palms pierced with wires and were thrown into the sea in groups of three or five. A policeman estimated that 2,000 people were disposed of in this way. In Taipei, a massive slaughter of residents took place, including some 200 high-school students who had been cornered near the zoo. Kaohsiung was unique in that a massacre of some 2,700 residents started on March 6, before the arrival of reinforcements from China. On that day, the mayor and four city councilors went to the Kaohsiung garrison headquarters to urge that troops disarm voluntarily. The garrison commander, Peng Meng-chi (彭孟緝), shot three delegation members on the spot before leading more than 300 soldiers into the city to start an indiscriminate slaughter of residents. The gunfire persisted past March 8. Peng was later commended by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) for his valor and promoted to major general in 1952. In 1957, he was made commander of the army, and later head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Academics generally agree that 28,000 Taiwanese were killed. [Editor's note: This is contestable.] What is noteworthy, however, is not only the number of deaths but also the brutality and wantonness with which the Chinese soldiers massacred people, molested women and robbed Taiwanese. On March 13, massive arrests began. The members of the Settlement Committee were the first to be arrested, many executed on the spot, followed by the systematic slaughter of Taiwan's elite in all major cities and towns, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, businessmen and members of the Provincial Council.?A whole generation of Taiwanese leaders was thus eliminated through ruthless ethnic cleansing. "" "" Taiwan is also increasingly vulnerable to internal subversion due to China's united front tactics. Ever since the pilgrimage of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party (PFP) Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) to Beijing, the pan-blue opposition has done its utmost to belittle the Democratic Progressive Party government and scuttle Taiwan's democratic institutions in an effort to regain power and facilitate the annexation of Taiwan by China. Much of Taiwan's media is known for its pro-unification bias due to its KMT roots, a tendency exacerbated by the infiltration of such media by Hong Kong and presumably Chinese capital. Pan-blue politicians and media bared their fangs when they combined forces last fall to encourage the red shirt rebellion -- an attempt to destroy the democratically elected government through extralegal means. "" ----- '[BATA] Fw: Remembering is key to the future', by Sue Lin "" The author Lee Thian-Hok is the pen name of Jay Loo. He published "China Impasse, A Formosan View" in the prestigious periodical Foreign Affairs in 1958, advocating Taiwan Independence. Two years earlier he and his friends formed the Formosans' for Free Formosa, the earliest Taiwan Independence movement in the US. He studied medicine at the Medical College of NTU. Three months later he came to the US intended to pursue the career in medicine, but after reading "Formosa Under Chinese Nationalist Rule" by Fred Riggs and the article concerning 228 by George Kerr he became more dedicated to the independence movement and decided to study Political Science in stead of Medicine against the wishes of his father. His lifetime story is a deeply moving story of an intellectual working unselfishly for the love of Taiwan. "" Sam ===== ###2. '【論説】「二二八事件」反省しない中国人', アンディ　チャン "" "" 昨日（２月２８日）は二二八事件の60周年記念日で、いろいろな行事も発言もあった。新聞の報道をみると外省人、中国人には謝罪も反省の心が少しもないのがわかる。三日前に私が書いた「最もよい二二八事件の賠償請求方法」の漢文の記事がすぐ新聞に掲載され、読者の賛同が相次いでいる。私の提案とは（１）国民党と蒋介石など、二二八事件の加害者を民事法廷に告訴して損害賠償を要求する、（２）同時に被告の「財産仮差押」を請求する。（３）全人民が告訴に参加して原告の数を増やし、続いて「台湾軍」抗議運動を開始する。これで国民党の財産は凍結され、資産の違法売却や選挙賄賂に使うことが出来なくなる。これで国民党は完全に解体される。 ●原罪説と日本の戦争責任今回の二二八事件記念に際し、最も憤慨したのは中国人の言いがかり、詭弁、問題のすり替えなどである。つまり中国人は二二八事件について謝罪はもちろん、悔恨の情などは微塵も見られないことが明白で、台湾社会でいくら事件を討議しても事件の解明、責任追及、賠償などに殆ど進展が見られないことである。特に憤慨したのは、馬英九の発言だった。彼は「現在の外省人は事件に直接関与したわけではない。［二二八の原罪］を背負う必要はない」と言ったのである。それならなぜ中国人は日本人に対して戦争責任の［原罪］追求をやめないのか？馬英九の発言は中国人の気持ちを代表するもの、傲慢で卑怯である。こんな卑劣な言い逃れに対し、台湾人は馬英九の住所で抗議デモ、撤回ﾆ謝罪を要求すべきである。 ●靖国と蒋介石の墓次に憤慨したのは、「二二八事件の責任追及は人工的に悲憤を製造して、民族融和を破壊している」と言う発言である。台湾人60年来の怒りが収まっていないのに、人工的に悲憤を製造したと言い、事件の責任を「煽動した人間」に転嫁する手口は許せない。台湾人は事件が解明できない、外省人が謝罪しないことに憤慨している、それなのに中国人は謝罪せず却って台湾人を糾弾する、こんな傲慢な態度を台湾人が許容できると思っているのか。陳水扁が「二二八の元凶は蒋介石」と言明したので外省人はすぐに反対した。蒋介石がシャンハイから援軍を送り、陳儀に命じて大虐殺、粛清を行った証拠は挙がっている。蒋介石の責任を追及されるとすぐ強硬に抗議する外省人は、「台湾人と中国人は違う民族」と心から思っている、だから虐殺も反省もしない。中国人は日本人が靖国神社に参拝することにも干渉する。ことに首相が靖国参拝をすると外交問題、両国の友誼などを取り上げて反対する。中国人が靖国神社の存在に反対するなら、同じように台湾人は蒋介石の墓「慈湖」の存在にも反対すべきで、慈湖は早急に取り壊すべきである。二二八事件で数多の青年が手の平を針金で数珠繋ぎにされて淡水河に投げ込まれた。蒋介石の死体はまだ保存されているから、責任を追及するなら死体を淡水河に捨てるか、総統府前の広場で罪状追求と鞭屍をやればよい。 ●二二八被害者と南京事件李敖という男はいつも大逸れた発言をすることで知られているが、今回の発言は特にひどかった。「二二八事件の被害者は数万ではなく、一千人にも満たなかった」と言ったのである。89年に李登輝総統が被害者に補償を行ったが、補償を申請した人のうち死亡した者は 681人、失踪者が177人で、総計858人だから、民間の統計にある数万人、または数十万人ではない」と言ったのだ。事件から40年経って、政府がようやく補償を言い出した際に858 人しか補償申請をしなかった、だから被害者はこれだけしかいない、というのは暴論である。彼の理論でいけば、南京事件で日本に賠償を申請した被害者はゼロ、つまり南京事件の被害者はゼロ、事件はなかったのである。中国政府が補償したのではないし調査したわけでもない、アイリスチャンの本とか、新聞のウソ報道をつかって数万人から30万人と言うが、正確な数字はない。中国人が加害者である場合は被害者が少なく、日本人が加害者であれば被害者は何十倍になる。私が言いたいのは二二八事件が60年経っても外省人には罪悪感もない、謝罪するつもりもまったくないと言うことである。中国人は決して自己の過ちを認めない、しかも勝手な言いがかりをつけて罪を転嫁する民族である。我々はこのことをシッカリ認識しなければならない。中国人の卑怯な民族性を認識するだけでなく世界に暴露して教導すべきである。朱浤源という男は、二二八事件の元凶は日本人だと言う暴論まで発表したのである。言語道断だ。 ●台湾人無視と外省人「統治者思想」また、外省人は「責任を追及すれば族群融和が破壊される」という。加害者の責任を追及すれば民族融和が崩れると脅迫しているのだ。これはつまり、外省人は台湾人と違った民族である、外省人とは中国人で、台湾のアイデンティティを認めないと宣言したようなものである。台湾に60年も住み、台湾に生まれ育った人間が、「外国人宣言」をして、台湾人が外国人と融和を図る必要がどこにあるのか。むしろ「外国人は出て行け」と言いたい。台湾人にも責任がある。なぜ85%の人口を持つ台湾人が15%の外国人に統治されて大人しく彼らと融和する必要があるのか。外省人は統治者思想を捨てない限り台湾は安定した国を作ることが出来ない。為政者が融和、和解を政治目標とするのは間違いである。彼らは外国人であり、台湾に同化する気持ちはない。それなら彼らは被統治者となるべきで、少数の外省人が被統治者になってこそ台湾人が彼らを受け入れ和解が生じるのである。 ●中国人は反省しない民族中国人に対して最も注意すべき点は彼らの中華思想、自大思想である。中国人は自分（漢民族）が一番偉いと思っている。世界で最も優秀な民族でいつかは必ず世界を制覇すると思い込んでいる。台湾に逃亡した民族が台湾で幅を利かせているのは中華思想の現れであり、台湾に生まれても台湾人を名乗らず中国人を名乗るのは中華傲慢思想、台湾人は劣等民族と思っているからだ。中国人は台湾人に謝ることはしない。謝れば統治階級でなくなると恐れているのだ。過ちを認めればこれまで悪いことをしてきた奴らは台湾から追い出されると懸念している。台湾には外省人と和解し、中国と共生しなければ「メイワンメイリャウ（没完没了）」、安定は得られないと主張する謝長廷のよう政治家がいる。だが中国人は和解など考えない。和解とは台湾人と対等になることで、対等になれば少数派の彼らに勝ち目はない。中国は台湾を併呑したい、はじめから対等思想など持っていない。共生などありえない。謝長廷の主張は台湾人の「負け思想」の最たるもの、我々は支持できない。施明徳も同様である。この男は変節漢で知られている。二十数年も国民党の監獄にいれられ、反骨のある男と自称して政界に乗り出した。ところが人気が落ちると忽ち変節して許信良と一緒に「国民党と和解珈琲」を提言して人民が失望した。民進党を追い出された逆恨みで陳水扁の「汚職追放」を叫んで紅衛兵運動を始めた。紅衛兵運動に国民党と中国の後押しがあったことは間違いない。その証拠に馬英九の汚職が明白になっても汚職追放を叫ばないでアメリカに逃げ出したのである。紅衛兵運動は中国人の策謀であり、手先となった施明徳は台湾を�堣�った男である。 ●国民党を退治する方法は「金」である中国人は優勢を誇るときは残忍性をあらわにする民族だが、劣勢になれば卑屈な態度を取ることで知られている。国民党が台湾で強勢なのは、終戦後の台湾接収で日本人の財産を横領したからだ。金があるから拝金思想が強い台湾人は国民党を支持する、金があるから国民党は優勢を誇れるのだ。万事が金である。国民党を潰すには国民党の金を封鎖することだ。陳政権は国民党財産を人民に返せと主張してきたが、毎度の政府提案は国会で多数を占めるブルー陣営に否決され続けてきた。これではダメである。私の提案は、政府がやるのでなく、民間が二二八事件の責任追及を告訴して賠償を要求し、「判決が出るまで国民党資産を差押える」ことである。差押えとは判決が出る以前に国民党が資産を隠匿してしまうのを防ぐことだ。蒋介石の財産も告訴によって差し押さえ、外国に移すことを防ぐ。差押えてしまえば法院が判決しない限り金は動かせない。金がなくなれば国民党は賄賂選挙は出来ない、金がなくなれば台湾の里町村を買収していた国民党は潰れる。政府より民間、二二八被害者組織が率先してやるのが最良の方法である。 ●「紅衛兵」と「台湾軍」二二八事件とそのあとの白色恐怖政治によって台湾人民は恐怖心を植えつけられ、組織力がなくなった。この欠点を補う方法は「施明徳の紅衛兵運動」を真似ればよい。二二八事件の被害者組織は既に存在するから、被害者団体が告訴の原告となって、更に一般民衆にも参加を呼びかけることができる。施明徳がやった手法を使って、台湾の公民が国民党と蒋介石の責任を告訴する運動に署名して参加すれば十万人ぐらいは簡単に組織できる。これを「台湾軍」と名付けて国民党の本部、蒋介石の墓、中正記念広場、法廷を包囲し、抗議を続けることができる。施明徳がやったことをそのまま踏襲するのだから誰も反対できない。大義名分があり、証拠充分だから、二二八事件の責任追及を民衆に呼びかけるのは簡単だ。告訴で国民党を潰すこと、資産凍結すること、台湾軍を組織することが台湾を救う最良の道である。 "" "" ===== ---------------------------- '美國228家屬籲設特別法庭審判蔣介石': http://tinyurl.com/2mwymp : 中央社今日晚報 2007.02.27: : "" 美國二二八受難者家屬返鄉團上午到總統府拜會總統陳水扁，提出五點訴求：第一、要求法務部成立「二二八事件特別調查小組」，對事件深入調查，促成「二二八事件特別法庭」的立法，對蔣介石、陳儀、柯遠芬、彭孟緝等及幫凶進行公開審判，即使這些人已經逝世，也應該缺席審判，伸張公平、正義。其次，教育部應將二二八事件的事實真相列入新編的高中歷史教科書，讓台灣人的未來世代，能從歷史學習教訓。第三、要求行政院將「中正紀念堂」更改為「台灣忠烈祠」紀念二二八事件及白色恐怖的犧牲者，並將全台的所有「中正路」更名。第四、要求國防部撤走在桃園大溪看管蔣介石屍棺的警衛兵，將屍棺交還蔣家私人處理。第五、要求行政院撤銷四月五日蔣介石死亡之日為清明節法定假日，改回傳統農曆清明節。返鄉團團長王文宏強調，二二八受難者家屬不是要血債血償，也不是要鞭屍，要的是事實真相與公平、正義的台灣社會。 "" ---------------------------- USA:======================= '旅美台僑紀念228 美議員出席', 曹郁芬／華府二十八日報導: http://tinyurl.com/2n3jva 台灣國人民忍到何時？/台灣要的是歷史公審 Taiwan History in Blood/Tears: http://tinyurl.com/2dmcg7 228 Video: http://tinyurl.com/2sfbb5 '228 2.0-追求正義、迎向未來，由你我發起': http://tinyurl.com/2fna3j : http://tinyurl.com/3yw32v "" 228滿六十週年了，繼去年成功的二二八全球共筆書寫活動後，今年二二八秀台灣網站再接再勵，要發起一個透過網路收集素材、製作228紀念影片的活動，活動的名稱為228 2.0。 "" 228 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuVuGK7QEk or http://tinyurl.com/yfgoln then http://tinyurl.com/33u7sy --------- 責任部落格（以筆劃排序） BlahBlah（八拉八拉的BLOG）http://blog.roodo.com/schonrosemary/ Enghui(台灣青年) - http://TOCL.hopto.org/ Freeman（方齋夜話） - http://blog.roodo.com/freemanspot/ TAI（TAI的胡言亂語） - http://www.wretch.cc/blog/taijan/ 妙子(妙子的故鄉翦影) - http://blog.roodo.com/lifeshot/ 阿茵（尋找夢想的天空） - http://blog.roodo.com/fairy220/ 酥餅（酥餅的BLOG）- http://blog.roodo.com/subing/ 慕容理深（Passion:慕容理深のblog）http://blog.roodo.com/elysii/ --------- --------- 'Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan', by 郭勝華blog ; Monday, February 19, 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2w9cju Formosa Calling….for 60 long years since Massacre in March 1947 Taiwan (by: 郭勝華): Appendix I: 紀念二二八事件暨三月大屠殺六十週年並反對中華人民共和國共產政權之所謂反分裂法之聲明 Appendix II: 朱正宗宜蘭市長(1947),連震東,陳誠,蔣介石,蔣經國與國民黨 -------- '郭勝華籲台公開228檔案以受難者家屬身分演講': http://tinyurl.com/2ltkgw 【本報記者黃美惠史丹福報導】來自芝加哥的僑務委員郭勝華醫師（Victoria Kuo）25日在史丹福大學參加灣區「二二八」紀念演講會。「二二八」今年60周年，郭勝華也即將60歲，父親郭章垣醫師是二二八事件的死難者，她是遺腹女，父親死時，母親懷胎三個月。郭勝華一出娘胎就沒有父親，60年後的現在，她仍認為這個歷史「政治謀殺事件」並未了結。 -------- 郭勝華: I have a dream………. I have a dream that one day, if I could convert the “Chiang Kai-shek’s Memorial Hall” (中正紀念堂, I call it “Chiang Kai-shek Temple 蔣廟) into a park and put a “February 28 Incident 1947 Memorial Monument ” there; and if I could write the words on it, the following is what I had written in 1992. 試為二二八碑文擬稿: 一八九五年,清廷甲午戰爭失敗, 將台灣割讓給日本. 一九四五年,日本戰敗, 無條件投降, 台灣依 “開羅宣言” 歸還中國. 蔣介石派遣陳儀為行政長官, 其手下葛敬恩,陸桂祥等貪污腐敗, 致社會經濟崩潰, 民心不滿. 陳氏等之政學系更與C.C. 派及省黨部蔣渭川, 王添燈等因派系糾紛及利害衝突而水火不容, 締下 “二二八”事件遠因. 一九四七年二月二十七日,台北大稻埕發生緝煙傷人事件, 引發二月二十八日以後之全島民憤. 其間, 因語言, 文化隔閡, 省籍衝突, 同胞相殘之事迭起. 或有少數共產黨員介入, 殊非主導. 陳儀出爾反爾, 表面答應以省黨部, 民意代表, 地方仕紳為主幹之台籍菁英成立各地處理委員會, 因應人民自治改革之要求, 然暗中馳電蔣介石, 偽稱台民暴動, 要求派兵鎮壓. 軍統派之柯遠芬及手下, 則以爪牙滲入處委會, 在其三十二條要求之外, 添加陳儀解除武裝等之十條強烈要求, 將原以”打倒陳儀貪污政府, 擁護蔣主席” 為訴求之處委會成員及省民菁英, 冠以暴徒, 奸逆之稱, 與彭孟緝, 史宏熹, 張慕陶, 配合來援之二十一師劉雨卿等, 展開全島性之浴血屠殺. 繼之以清鄉為由, 將台籍菁英 “格殺勿論” 殆盡, 其無審, 無判, 綁架, 謀殺, 滅屍之殘忍手段, 人神共憤. 蔣氏任用陳儀, 錯棋在先, 事件既起, 失察失判, 繼之縱容柯彭等血腥屠殺, 其咎難辭. 嗚呼, 昔我先民賢, 多胸懷故國鄉土, 更不乏抗日志士, 綜觀其改革要求, 無非以和平手段, 渴求自由, 民主, 自治, 人權. 彼等壯志未酬, 橫遭不測, 甚則世紀蒙冤,浩天長嘆, 仍難以一舒其怨. 吾人今建碑於此, 盼歷史昭昭, 記之史冊; 仇恨綿綿, 還諸天地; 公義彰彰, 永植吾心; 更願吾島吾民, 引為殷鑑, 勿蹈覆轍; 則戾氣當可化為祥和; 同胞手足, 唯愛唯諒,永世協力和平. -------- -------- Taiwan is changing to Taiwan: http://tinyurl.com/yv6r6y :'What's in a Name? Ask Taiwan', Gary J. Schmitt, John Tkacik ================================================= #0: LewRockwell.com:----------------------------- 'The Noblest Cause of All', by Murray N. Rothbard: http://tinyurl.com/2vv2as Keynote Address to the Libertarian Party Convention, 1977: "" We are a serious movement. Our goal is nothing less than the victory of liberty over the Leviathan state, and we shall not be deflected, we shall not be diverted, we shall not be suborned, from achieving that goal. "" The state steals and kills as part of its operating procedure : by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/2tp7c5 --------------------------------------------------- ===================================================

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