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NSA叛徒斯諾登背後的美國支持

Jun 26, 2013 3:12 AM

The U.S. Support Apparatus Behind NSA Traitor Snowden
NSA叛徒斯諾登背後的美國支持
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If the NSA or the FBI wants to find fugitive Edward Snowden, who is apparently in hiding in Chinese Hong Kong, its analysts and agents might want to examine a controversial non-profit group, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and its main financial sponsor, the San Francisco-based Foundation for National Progress.
如果國安或聯邦調查局希望找到顯然是在躲藏在中國香港的逃犯愛德華·斯諾登,其分析師和代理人可能要檢查一個有爭議的非營利組織,自由新聞基金會,其主要財務贊助商- 總部位於舊金山的國家進步基金會。

The Freedom of the Press Foundation [1], which includes Snowden’s media mouthpiece and handler Glenn Greenwald on its board, acknowledges [2] that the organization “is made possible by the fiscal sponsorship of the Foundation for National Progress.”
董事會成員包括斯諾登的媒體喉舌代理 - 衛報記者格倫·格林沃爾德自由新聞基金會[1], ,承認[2]該組織的財政由國家進步基金會資助。
The Foundation for National Progress is best known as the publisher of Mother Jones magazine, and is backed by several prominent liberal foundations, including the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros, according to its 2010/2011 annual report [3].
根據其2010/2011年度報告[3], 國家進步基金會, “瓊斯母親”雜誌的出版商, 由 幾個著名的自由主義基金會 - 包括億萬富翁喬治·索羅斯的開放社會研究所的支持。

Mother Jones journalists accepted an award [4] this year named in honor of I.F. Stone, who postured as an “independent” journalist but was exposed as a Soviet agent of influence. Greenwald had previously received [5] the award.
"母親瓊斯"記者今年接受一個領獎[4], 該獎項紀念I.F. Stone命名,I.F. Stone,擺出一個“獨立”記者的姿勢,但被揭露為蘇聯特工。格林沃爾德曾接受過[5]該獎項。


Snowden is their new hero. “At the heart of Edward Snowden’s decision to expose the NSA’s massive phone and Internet spying programs was a fundamental belief in the people’s right-to-know,” says [6] actor John Cusack on the website of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Cusack is also a member of its board.
斯諾登是他們新的英雄。 “在愛德華·斯諾登決定揭露國安的大量的電話和互聯網間諜程序的核心, 是一個人民有知情權根本的信念,”[6]演員約翰·庫薩克在自由出版社基金會的網站上說。庫薩克也是其董事會成員。
The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which openly funnels money to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, says it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and that the Foundation for National Progress “provides users a way to give tax-deductible donations.”
公開給錢資助維基解密和阿桑奇的自由新聞基金會說,這是一家501(c)(3)非營利組織,國家進步基金會“,為給捐款用戶提供了一種扣稅方式。“

“We are pleased to receive anonymous donations in the mail,” it says.
“我們樂於收到郵件中的匿名捐款,”它說。

One purpose of the arrangement is to make sure that WikiLeaks has a secure funding source, as “U.S. officials unofficially pressured payment processors to cut WikiLeaks off from funding in late 2010, despite the fact that the organization has never been charged with a crime,” the group claimed [7].
該項安排的目的之一是確保維基解密有一個安全的資金來源,“美國官員在2010年年底非正式對支付處理器施壓力, 切斷維基解密的資金,儘管事實上該組織從未被指控犯罪",該組織聲稱:“[7]

In fact, U.S. officials regarded WikiLeaks as hostile to the United States because it publicly released classified counter-terrorism information from Army analyst Bradley Manning, who is now on trial for espionage against the U.S. and aiding the enemy. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange went to work for Moscow-funded television.

事實上,美國官員認為維基解密對美國懷有敵意,因為它公開發布來自陸軍分析員布拉德利·曼寧的分類反恐信息, ,曼寧現在被判反美間諜和通敵罪。 維基解密創始人朱利安·阿桑奇(Julian Assange),去了莫斯科資助的電視台上班。

Prosecutors say that WikiLeaks material was found in the possession of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda after a U.S. raid killed the terrorist leader.
檢察官說,美國突襲擊斃恐怖分子頭目本·拉登和“基地”組織時, 發現拉登擁有維基解密的材料。

Assange has called Snowden a “hero,” but NSA Director General Keith Alexander said at a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that the leaks created “irreversible and significant damage” to national security. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a member of the committee, said Snowden was clearly a “traitor.”
阿桑奇稱斯諾登為“英雄”,但在星期二眾議院情報委員會舉行的聽證會上, 國家安全局局長基思·亞歷山大將軍說,洩漏給”國家安全造成“不可逆轉的重大損害。該委員會的成員, 明尼蘇達州共和黨眾議員米歇爾巴赫曼斯諾登說,斯諾登顯然是一個“叛徒”。“

The title of the hearing was, “How Disclosed NSA Programs Protect Americans, and Why Disclosure Aids Our Adversaries [8].”
聽證會的標題是,“披露NSA程序如何保護美國人,為什麼披露將有助於我們的敵人”[8]。

But the radical left, including members of Barack Obama’s “progressive” base, are rallying around Snowden, even as Obama himself gives lip service to what the NSA is doing.

但激進的左派,包括奧巴馬的“進步”基地,在為斯諾登振臂,甚至奧巴馬本人對國安所做的給予口惠。


One of the prominent directors of the Foundation for National Progress that is backing Snowden is Susan S. Pritzker, a member of one of the richest families in the United States, the Pritzker family, which is very close to Obama. The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt Hotel chain.
國家進步基金會支持斯諾登的董事之一是蘇珊·普利茲克, 在美國最富有的家族之一的成員,普利茲克家族坐擁凱悅酒店連鎖集團, 跟奧巴馬非常接近。

Another member of the family, Penny Pritzker, is a Chicago billionaire nominated by President Obama to lead the Commerce Department. Her nomination has been held up because of questions [9] from Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) about income generated from an offshore account. 
另一名家族成員,佩尼.普利茲克, 芝加哥億萬富翁, 由美國總統奧巴馬提名引領商務部。她的提名, 因為愛荷華州共和黨參議員查爾斯·格拉斯利(R-IA)質疑她關於從離岸帳戶產生的收入而受阻[9]。
The Freedom of the Press Foundation board [10] includes not only Glenn Greenwald of the British Guardian, but Laura Poitras, described [11] by Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon as a “long-time activist filmmaker who has railed against U.S. counterterrorism policies put into place after the Sept. 11 attacks.” 
新聞自由基金會董事會[10]不僅包括英國的“衛報格倫·格林沃爾德,還有Laura Poitras,[11], 一個被華盛頓自由燈塔 的阿拉納古德曼描述為911恐怖襲擊後 ”長期的積極分子抨擊美國反恐政策的電影製片人。“
Poitras and Greenwald arranged [12] the secret interview with Snowden in Hong Kong and authored the Guardian’s story about him. Poitras also shared the lead byline with former Post journalist Barton Gellman on the front-page NSA story in The Washington Post [13].
Poitras和格林沃爾德安排[12]斯諾登在香港的秘密採訪,並在“衛報”撰寫了關於他的故事。 Poitras也與前“衛報”記者巴頓格爾曼分享了領頭署名, 讓他在“華盛頓郵報”頭版發表NSA故事[13]。

Poitras, who is emerging as perhaps the central figure in the NSA leaks controversy, even more important than Greenwald, says she “has been detained and interrogated about her work at the U.S. border over 40 times.” Greenwald himself has written [14] that the Department of Homeland Security has been behind her detentions and interrogations.

Poitras,出現為或許是NSA洩漏的爭論比格林沃爾德更重要的核心人物,說,她“在美國邊境已經被拘留和審訊她的工作40次以上。”格林沃爾德自己寫道: [14]國土安全部一直在背後支持她的拘留和審訊。

In a New York Times interview [15], she said she had been placed on a “Watch List” by the U.S. Government since 2006, and claims she has been trying to find out why, with the assistance of the ACLU.
在紐約時報一次採訪[15],她說自2006年以來她已被美國政府放置在一個“觀察名單”,並聲稱,她在美國公民自由聯盟的協助下, 一直試圖找出原因。

John McCormack, a staff writer for The Weekly Standard, may have the answer. He reports [16] evidence that Poitras, who has been covering the wars in the Middle East, “had foreknowledge of a November 20, 2004 ambush of U.S. troops [in Iraq] but did nothing to warn them.” He says a Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation was launched about the attack, but that no charges were filed against Poitras, and she did not respond to requests for comment.
一 名標準周刊記者約翰·麥科馬克可能有答案。他報導[16]證據顯示 : Poitras,曾經負責覆蓋中東戰爭報導,“一早知道 二零零四年十一月二十日在伊拉克有伏擊美軍的行動,但沒有警告他們。”他說,一個聯合反恐專案組調查發起的攻擊,但沒有對Poitras提出指控 ,她沒有回應置評請求。

Nevertheless, the Soros-funded blog Think Progress hailed [17] Poitras for making “a series of powerful documentaries about the impact of the War on Terror.” Think Progress is part of the Center for American Progress, one of the major Soros-funded groups in Washington, D.C.
然而,索羅斯資助的博客 - 進步思考- 對 Poitras 為 反恐戰爭的影響製作了一系列強有力的紀錄片作出敬禮。

The Freedom of the Press Foundation promotes Snowden as a whistleblower, rather than a traitor, as do “journalism and transparency organizations” such as WikiLeaks, the Center for Public Integrity, and the National Security Archive, the latter two of which are funded by Soros.
自由新聞基金會宣傳斯諾登為告密者,而不是一個叛徒,一如促進“新聞和透明度組織 -維基解​​密,公共誠信中心,以及國家安全檔案,”, 後兩者 ( 公共誠信中心和國家安全檔案 ) 都是被索羅斯資助。

Another member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s board is Josh Stearns, the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director at Free Press, a Soros-funded group started by Marxist Professor Robert. W. McChesney.
另一個自由新聞基金會董事會成員喬希貝爾斯登,自由出版社的新聞及公共媒體運動主任,一個由馬克思主義教授羅伯特.W.麥克切斯尼領導組成的, 接受索羅斯資助的小組。

Free Press has launched a petition campaign demanding that Congress investigate the National Security Agency’s terrorist surveillance activities, labeled “spying programs.”

自由出版社已經發動了請願運動要求國會調查美國國家安全標籤間諜項目恐怖分子監視活動


“Stand up for privacy and push Congress to dig up the truth about the NSA’s surveillance schemes,” the left-wing group says. “Millions of Americans have woken to the threat the NSA’s programs pose to our civil liberties.”
“為隱私站起來和推動國會挖國家安全局的監控計劃的真相” 左翼團體說。 “數以百萬計的美國人已經意識到國安局的項目構成我們的公民自由的威脅。”

Similar claims have been echoed on the right [18] by some personalities in the conservative media, such as radio host Michael Savage.
類似的聲稱已在右邊保守媒體的一些人物,如電台節目主持人邁克爾·薩維奇, 發生呼應[18],

A “Stop Spying on Us” website [19] has been launched, featuring “A Network of Groups Across the Political Spectrum, Organizing against Surveillance Abuse, Government Repression, and Political Witch Hunts; and Working to Expand Civil Liberties, Free Speech, and the Right to Dissent for All.”

一個 名為“停止刺探我們”的網站[19]已經啟動,特點在於網絡不同的政治派別, 為反對濫用監控,政府鎮壓,政治迫害, 為擴大所有人的公民自由, 言論自由和 異議權組織工作
The National Lawyers Guild, once identified as a Communist front, is playing a key role in the effort.
全國律師協會, 一個曾被確定有共產主義背景的組織, ,在這些努力中發揮了關鍵作用。
Another coalition, “Stop Watching Us [20],” includes conservative groups such as Freedom Works and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in addition to MoveOn.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Greenwald’s Freedom of the Press Foundation.
另一個聯盟,“停止監督視我們[20]”,除了MoveOn.org,電子前沿基金會,格林沃爾德的自由新聞基金會, 還包括保守團體 - 自由作品和競爭企業研究所
Coming to the defense of Greenwald, the Soros-funded Free Press has attacked Rep. Peter King of New York for saying that “journalists who report NSA surveillance leaks should be arrested.”
為了為格林沃爾德辯護,索羅斯資助的自由出版社攻擊紐約眾議員彼得·金, 指控彼得·金說:“報導洩漏國家安全局的監控的記者誰應該被逮捕。”

This is not what King said, however. Appearing on Fox News, King had said [21], “Greenwald, not only did he disclose this information, he has said that he has names of CIA agents and assets around the world, and they’re threatening to disclose that. The last time that was done in this country, we saw a CIA station chief murdered in Greece… I think it should be very targeted, very selective and certainly a very rare exception. But, in this case, when you have someone who discloses secrets like this and threatens to release more, yes, there has to be—legal action taken against him.”
然 而這不是King 所說的。Kin在福克斯新聞曾表示[21],“格林沃爾德,他不僅透露這一信息,他說,他有中情局特工和在世界各地資產的名單,他們威脅要披露名單。在這 個國家做的最近一次,我們看到了美國中央情報局在希臘的站長被謀殺...我覺得應該是非常有針對性,非常有選擇性的,肯定是一個非常罕見的例外。但是,在 這種情況下,當有人這樣的公開秘密,並威脅要披露更多的秘密,是的,有必要對他採取法律行動。“


King was referring to Snowden’s comments, in the interview arranged by Greenwald and Poitras, that he possessed the “full rosters of everyone working at the NSA, the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world, the locations of every station we have, what their missions are and so forth.”
King 是指斯諾登在格林沃爾德和Poitras安排採訪中聲稱他擁有在國家安全局工作的特工的“全名冊,整個情報社區和在世界各地的秘密資產,我們擁有的各站位置,他們的任務是什麼等等。“


Since Greenwald presumably has access to Snowden’s classified information on U.S. intelligence activities, including the names of agents around the world, King’s concern may be valid. 

由於格林沃爾德大概有管道接觸斯諾登對美國的情報活動的分類信息,包括世界各地特工的名字,King的關注可能是
合理有效的。 

Greenwald promised “significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months,” but denies he had threatened to name U.S. covert agents.
格林沃爾德承諾"在未來的幾個星期和幾個月, 將有尚未聽說過的重大披露", 但否認他曾威脅披露美國秘密特工的名
However, since Greenwald has a history of anti-American rhetoric and is a fixture at international Communist conferences, as documented [22] by Accuracy in Media, disclosures of this classified information to individuals and groups hostile to the United States cannot be ruled out.
然而,因為正如 Accuracy in Media 記錄[22]檔案顯示, 格林沃爾德有反美言論記錄和是一個國際共產會議的fixture  ,不能被排除了他會給敵視美國的個人和團體披露機密分類信息。

Article printed from Accuracy In Media: http://www.aim.org
URL to article: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-u-s-support-apparatus-behind-nsa-traitor-snowden/
URLs in this post:
[1] The Freedom of the Press Foundation: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/
[2] acknowledges: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/about
[3] 2010/2011 annual report: http://assets.motherjones.com/about/MotherJones_AnnualReport_20102011b.pdf
[4] accepted an award: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/soviet-agent-award-for-mother-jones-reporter/
[5] received: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/izzy-award-sends-blogger-into-a-tizzy/
[6] says: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/06/snowden-principle
[7] the group claimed: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2012/12/ten-days-and-almost-120000-breakdown-our-transparency-journalism-beneficiaries
[8] How Disclosed NSA Programs Protect Americans, and Why Disclosure Aids Our Adversaries: http://intelligence.house.gov/hearing/how-disclosed-nsa-programs-protect-americans-and-why-disclosure-aids-our-adversaries
[9] questions: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-penny-pritzker-commerce-20130617,0,4999309.story
[10] board: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/about/staff
[11] described: http://freebeacon.com/radical-activist-filmmaker-laura-poitras-shared-byline-on-wapo-nsa-story/
[12] arranged: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
[13] the front-page NSA story in The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
[14] written: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/08/u_s_filmmaker_repeatedly_detained_at_border/singleton/
[15] interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2l8hx0dn3so#!
[16] reports: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/soldiers-allege-laura-poitras-co-author-nsa-scoop-had-foreknowledge-2004-iraqi-attack-us-troops_735111.html
[17] hailed: http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/04/10/460754/laura-poitras/?mobile=nc
[18] echoed on the right: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/conservative-media-personalities-embrace-traitors-charges/
[19] “Stop Spying on Us” website: http://www.stopspying.us/
[20] Stop Watching Us: https://optin.stopwatching.us/
[21] said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EeH0feovXLs
[22] documented: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/glenn-greenwald-regularly-attends-marxist-leninist-conferences/

Prepping Minds for War Against China 為對中國作戰做好思想准備

Prepping Minds for War Against China 為對中國作戰做好思想准備
Jan 19, 2011 7:43 AM



by Shamus Cooke

為對中國作戰做好思想准備



You'd think the U.S. was already at war with China, given the immense amount of anti-China rhetoric spouting from the government and media. But selling wars takes time. The average American hasn't bought in to this false advertising yet.  So the big lie will be repeated until its roots are deeply sunk into the American psyche: China, says the U.S. government, is a threat that needs to be "dealt with.” 

從政府和傳媒噴出大量的反華言論來看, 你會以為美國已經在對中國開戰, 但是販
賣戰爭需要時間, 普通美國老百姓還沒接受這种虛假的廣告, 因此, 巨大的謊言會一
直在重复直到生根和深深地沉沒在美國人的心理上:  美國政府說中國是一個的必須
"對付"的威脅。

This propaganda assault is multi-faceted, taking aim from all directions. Any China-related issue -- military, economic, and social -- is open for attack. For example, the head of the U.S. Department of Defense, Robert Gates, recently visited Asia and focused much of his trip talking about China as a "military threat.” 

這樣的宣傳襲擊是多面化的, 全方位瞄准, 任何有關中國的事情 : 軍事的, 經濟的
, 和社會的 , 都可以自由攻擊,  例如:  最近訪問亞洲和集中大部分旅程于中國的
美國國防部長羅伯特‧蓋茨就談到中國是個"軍事威脅。"

What is this threat? Gates answers that China has shown a "rapid buildup of military capability,” proven by its production of a "stealth fighter.” The U.S. media had a field day with this news, intending to sow terror in the psyche of the American public. 

這個"軍事威脅"是什么東西?  蓋茨回答說中國可以生產隱形戰机, 顯示出一种"迅
速成長的軍事能力",   為了在美國公眾心理上播种恐怖, 美國媒体拿這個消息大做
文章。

A quick glance at the numbers reveals that Mr. Gates and the unquestioning U.S. media are unabashed hypocrites: China is nowhere near the U.S. when it comes to military expenditures:  the U.S., under Obama, will spend $725 billion in 2011(!), while China will spend $80 billion. 

匆匆一看數字可見蓋茨先生和不質疑的美國傳媒是多么不覺羞恥的偽君子: 中國軍
費跟美國比是沒得比的: 20年奧巴馬領導下的美國軍費是7250億美元, 中國才800億
而已

When it comes to overseas military bases, China has zero; the U.S. has at least 737!
說到海外軍事基地, 中國是零, 美國最少有737個 !

While Gates was traveling throughout Asia on his Chinese provocation tour, Hillary Clinton joined the attack, targeting China's human rights record in a lengthy, inflammatory speech, which included this slight: 

當蓋茨在他的激怒中國人之旅穿梳整個亞洲時,  希大媽 (希拉莉克林頓的簡稱 )
在一場冗長的, 充滿煽動性
的演講針對中國的人權記錄參加了攻擊行動, 其中包括:

"... when China lives up to its obligations of respecting and protecting universal human rights, it will not only benefit more than one billion people, it will also benefit the long-term peace, stability and prosperity of China."

“...當中國名副其實的肩負尊重和保護普遍人權,這不僅將造福十几億人民的義務,
也有利于長期和平,穩定与繁榮的中國。“

Yes, China is a violator of human rights, but in voicing her criticism Mrs. Clinton managed to raise the bar of hypocrisy to new heights.

是的, 中國是違犯人權, 但是希大媽在發出批評聲音的同時, 美國的偽善指數也提
到新高。

Has Clinton forgotten that Guantanamo Bay remains open, filled with tortured people who are charged with no crimes? Has she forgotten that Bagram Air base in Afghanistan continues to deny the International Red Cross access to its "black site" detention center, since they would discover the torture chambers described by ex-detainees? Need we mention Bradley Manning, who remains in solitary confinement without any criminal charges, for allegedly informing the American public about U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and all kinds of secret machinations?

希大媽忘記了關塔南摩監獄還沒關閉, 住滿了被折磨的人, 而這些人的罪名都是莫
須有, 都沒得到審判?   她是否忘記了在阿富汗巴格拉姆空軍基地不斷的拒絕國際
紅十字會進入它的"黑點"扣留中心", 害怕他們拿着曾經被拘留的人的描述而找到折
磨密室 ?   要不要我們提到因為被指控向公眾泄漏有關美國在伊拉克和阿富汗的
爭罪行, 陰謀, 和各种秘密武器而沒有得任何刑事指控就被單獨監禁起來。

But before Clinton's speech became yesterday’s news, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner provided anti-China reinforcements, this time blasting China's economy. The Washington Post reports: 

但是在希大媽的演講變成昨天的新聞前, 財長蓋特納為反華言論火上加油提供后援
,  這次是轟中國的經濟, 華盛頓郵報報導:

"China's unwillingness to allow its currency to rise in value is hampering U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace and harming the Chinese economy, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Wednesday... " (January 12, 2011).

“中國不愿意讓人民幣升值妨礙了美國在全球市場上的競爭力,
也損害了中國的經濟,財政部長蓋特納周三表示...“(2011年1月12日)。

Once again, utter hypocrisy.  No single government has caused more damage to the global economy than the United States, whose corporations sparked the global downturn by saturating the world with trillions of dollars in fraudulent housing mortgages sold as top-rated investments. 

再一次, 完全的偽善,  美國的大企業用數万億美元的詐騙性房貸當頂級投資傾銷全
世界走火触發全球經濟衰退, 世界上沒有一個政府比美國政府對全球經濟造成更大
的損害。

This policy was encouraged by the U.S. government, which gave the corporations cheap money with little oversight, a strategy that continues to this day with the Federal Reserve printing dollars non-stop that U.S. corporations are using to speculate on foreign currencies and drive the prices up of oil and other raw materials worldwide.

這個政策受到美國政府鼓勵,  美國政府給這些大企業便宜的資本和最小的監督, 一
种政策沿用到今天,  邦儲局無限印鈔, 美國公司用這些鈔票在外匯市場進行投机活
動, 驅使世界油价和其他原材料价格暴升。

The above-mentioned Obama administration officials have no problem peddling their anti-China bias to the U.S. media, which stumble over themselves to provide assistance whenever possible.

上述种种, 奧巴馬政府官員也沒有問題對美國的傳媒兜售他們的反華偏見,
這些傳媒無論何時也要傾力提供援助。

The New York Times recently published an editorial entitled, The Real Problem With China: 

紐約時報最近發表一篇社論主題為: 跟中國的真正問題。

"For the United States, the No.1 problem with China’s economy is probably intellectual property theft.” (January 12, 2011).

"對美國來說, 跟中國經濟的首要問題好可能是知識產權盜竊" ( 2011年1月12日)

In reality, the real problem that the U.S. government has with China is two-fold: China's growth is pushing aside U.S. influence/power all over the world, which has negative influence on the profits of U.S. corporations, which are losing contracts to Chinese companies. 

現實中, 美國政府跟中國的真正問題一分為二: 中國的增長把美國在全世界的影響
力置于一側, 這對跟中國公司競爭時喪失合約的美國大企業的利潤有負面的影響

In response, the U.S. is provoking China in the media and militarily, encircling China by arming U.S. allies in the region, especially India, Japan and South Korea. Hillary Clinton responded to this allegation by denying it, while the Obama administration immediately contradicted her by its actions. The New York Times published an article addressing the issue while failing to connect the dots:

為回應,美國在傳媒和軍事上對触怒中國, 給美國在地區內的盟國, 特別是印度,
日本, 韓國, 提供軍備以包圍中國, 希大媽對此指控的回應是加以否認, 而奧巴馬
政府立即以行動跟她的否認互相矛盾。針對這個問題紐約時報發表了一篇文章,与
此同時, 無法把這些圓點連接起來:

"The United States is not bent on containing China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday, but the Obama administration is cultivating other allies across Asia to help it manage Beijing’s increasingly bold projection of military and economic power." (January 12, 2011).

"希大媽在星期五表示, 美國不是決心包圍中國, 但是奧巴馬班子卻在培植橫跨亞洲
的其他盟國幫助處理北京大膽的軍事和經濟上日益增長和擴張 "( 2011年1月12日)。

This policy of encirclement and provocation can easily lead to war. As Obama continues to tighten the noose while China struggles to squirm its neck free, the odds grow that military "incidents" may happen, especially as the U.S. throws additional military force in waters just off China's coast in the South China Sea.

這种包圍和煽動的政策很容易引發戰爭, 當奧巴馬繼續拉緊套索, 中國的頸努力在
爭扎蠕動走出套索,  軍事沖突問題出現的可能性越來越大, 特別是美國在中國海岸
不遠的南中國海域增派軍事部隊。

The Obama administration joins the right wing in trying to blame both the recession and the startling U.S. inequality in wealth on China. The real culprits are the corporate friendly politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties, which have both spent decades cutting taxes for the rich and corporations, while encouraging the wealthy to flee the U.S. and its living wage jobs for the third world, where slave wages equal larger profits. 

奧巴馬班子加入右派試圖把經濟衰退和美國的貧富不均問題歸罪于中國,  那真正的
犯人是那些跟大公司友好的兩党政客,  兩党都化了好几十年為富人和大公司減稅,

同時鼓勵富有的帶著作他們的低工資工作逃离美國, 到那些奴隸式的工資相等于巨
大利潤的第三世界國家去。

The best way for working people to deal with this situation is to ignore the anti-China hype and focus their fire on the U.S. government and U.S. corporations. Demanding jobs from the government NOW that are paid for by taxing the rich is the best way to overcome the economic problems of the U.S.  Working people cannot be distracted by fake overseas threats, whether they are alleged terrorists or foreign governments. The real threat continues to be closer to home. 

勞工階級處理這种問題的最好方法是無視這些夸張的反華宣傳, 聚焦于轟美國政府
和大公司,  要求政府透過向富人征稅支付創造工作崗位,  這是克服美國經濟問題
的最好方法, 工人階級不能被一些偽造的海外威脅而分散注意, 那怕他們是被定義
為恐怖分子還是外國政府, 真正的威脅仍然是离家較近的地方。

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January 11, 2011

The Real Problem With China

By DAVID LEONHARDT
WASHINGTON
When China’s president, Hu Jintao, visits here next week, the exchange rate between Chinese and American currency will inevitably become a big topic of conversation.
China has been holding down the value of its currency, the renminbi, for years, making Chinese exports to the United States cheaper and American exports to China more expensive. The renminbi’s recent rise has been too modest to change the situation, and Mr. Hu’s state visit is sure to highlight the real tensions between the countries.
Yet the focus on the currency has nonetheless become excessive. The truth is that the exchange rate is not the main problem for American companies hoping to sell more products in China and, in the process, create more jobs in this country. The exchange rate does not need to be the focus of next week’s meetings.
For the United States, the No. 1 problem with China’s economy is probably intellectual property theft. Technology companies, for example, continue to notice Chinese government agencies downloading software updates for programs they have never bought, at least not legally.
No wonder China has become the world’s second-largest market for computer hardware sales — but is only the eighth-largest for software sales.
Next on the list, say people who work in China or do business there, is the myriad protectionist barriers China has put up. These barriers make this country’s recent efforts at “buy American” protectionism look minor league. In some cases, Beijing has insisted that products sold in China must not only be made there but be conceived and designed there. The policy goes by the name “indigenous innovation.”
The renminbi certainly matters, too. It affects the price of every American product sold there and every Chinese product sold here. But discussion of the renminbi typically ends up exaggerating the problem somewhat by relying on an imperfect measure.
The most relevant comparison of two currencies is one that is adjusted for inflation in the two countries. When inflation is higher in one country, as in China today, it means that country’s products are becoming more expensive — and imports into the country become relatively cheaper. In effect, the real price of Chinese-made goods is rising faster than the exchange rate suggests.
Without taking inflation into account, the renminbi has risen 3 percent against the dollar since last summer, when China began letting it rise. Once inflation is accounted for, the real increase has been about 5 percent. At that pace, the renminbi could erase its artificial undervaluation — as some economists estimate it — in less than two years.
Of course, one reason for the rise is the political pressure from the United States and other countries. As much as China’s Communist Party leaders may claim otherwise, they really do respond to international lobbying sometimes.
The obvious question now is how the Obama administration can apply similar pressure on intellectual property theft and trade barriers. Arthur Kroeber, a Beijing-based consultant and editor of the China Economic Quarterly, goes so far as to call the currency discussion a distraction. “What exactly there is to be gained by quibbling over a point or two in the annual appreciation rate,” Mr. Kroeber says, “is beyond me.”
The best hope for getting another country’s leaders to do anything is to persuade them that it’s in their interest. That task is not so easy with trade barriers, because every time an American company is kept from making a sale in China, a Chinese company presumably benefits. It makes the sale instead or, in the case of piracy, it saves money that it would have spent on the authentic product.
Still, China’s leaders have reason to be nervous about all the barriers they have built. China’s elite, in government and business, are deeply concerned that their companies remain unable to create truly innovative products. The obsession with the fact that no Chinese citizen has won a scientific Nobel Prize stems partly from this worry.
Opening up your economy to more competition may bring some short-term pain, but it also forces companies to become stronger and more creative — or to wither. Competition breeds innovation.
This self-interest argument is the one that Mr. Obama and his advisers are most comfortable making. They worry that outright pressure on China will put it on the defensive and ultimately backfire. Sometimes, they may worry too much. Pressure clearly can work, as the last few months have demonstrated.
The United States should be able to round up some allies on these issues, just as it has with recent military matters relating to China. BASF and Siemens, two big German companies, have already complained about Chinese protectionism, as have some European leaders. Other countries also have reason to be frustrated with the exchange rate: relative to many currencies other than the dollar, the renminbi has actually lost value in recent months.
But even by itself, the United States is big enough — and important enough to Chinese companies — to exert some pressure. That is why the recent “buy American” provisions in a couple of bills, small as they may be, are useful. The same goes for continued discussion of Congressional bills that would penalize China.
If anything, the Republican takeover of the House offers a new chance to hold hearings on those bills. Representative Dave Camp, the Michigan Republican who will become chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has been a vocal critic of China’s protectionism.
Finally, both Republicans and Democrats can use Mr. Hu’s coming visit to emphasize — to him and to the many Chinese citizens who will be following — just how frustrated many Americans are with the economy’s woes. As the scholar Zhang Guoqing wrote in a Chinese newspaper recently, “A high unemployment rate and the trouble in stimulating the economy” are helping to create “enormous hidden dangers” in the United States.
One of those dangers is the possibility that American politicians will eventually decide that tough talk isn’t enough to satisfy voters’ anger. If that day comes, the United States and China could end up in a trade war that only worsens the situation for both countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/ 01/12/business/economy/ 12leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp

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Geithner: China must speed currency reform, address intellectual property issues
By Brady Dennis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2011; 11:11 PM
China's unwillingness to allow its currency to rise in value is hampering U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace and harming the Chinese economy, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Wednesday, ahead of next week's highly anticipated visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Beijing's currency policies remain the most contentious economic issue between China and Washington. By keeping the value of its currency low, China gives its exporters an advantage by making their goods cheaper on the international market.
The undervaluation of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, "is not a tenable policy for China or for the world economy," Geithner said in a morning speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Although China has allowed the yuan to appreciate slightly against the dollar over the past year, Geithner urged Chinese leaders to accelerate that process. Failure to do so could cause a jump in inflation for China and a damaging rise in asset prices, "both of which will threaten future growth," he said.
"We believe it is in China's interest to allow the currency to appreciate more rapidly in response to market forces. And we believe China will do so because the alternative will be too costly - both for China and for China's relations with the rest of the world."
In addition to more aggressively raising the value of their currency, the Chinese should take action to curb intellectual property theft, Geithner said.
"We are willing to make progress on these issues, but our ability to do so will depend, of course, on how much progress we see from China," he said.
Despite the firm words on China's currency policies, Geithner offered a largely diplomatic assessment of economic relations between the two countries. He mentioned the debate that is unfolding within China about the pace of economic reforms, and he said that despite American concerns over currency issues, China's explosive economy creates enormous opportunities for the United States.
The economic relationship between China and the United States offers "tremendous benefits" to both countries, he said, adding that "our economic strengths are largely complementary. . . . We have a great deal invested in each other's success."
President Obama and Hu will have plenty of topics to wrestle with next week, including military tension on the Korean Peninsula, human rights and international trade. But the economic divisions between the two nations will figure prominently on their agenda.
The currency issue prompted the U.S. House to pass a special tax last year to offset what congressional leaders deemed China's "currency manipulation," though the Senate did not take a similar vote.
Geithner said that Hu's state visit comes "at a time of important transition for the world economy," noting that while many major national economies are still reeling from the financial crisis, emerging ones such as China are in the early stages of "a long period of very rapid economic growth."
The United States, he said, lies at the crossroads of those divergent paths: Its economy is likely to grow at only half the rate of major emerging economies, but twice as rapidly as Japan's and Europe's.
"These growth dynamics will fundamentally change the balance in the world economy, forcing changes in the architecture of the trade and financial systems," Geithner said.
Although China will play a significant role in that changing architecture, and although its economic policies undoubtedly will affect the fortunes of the United States, Geithner said, America's economic fate ultimately rests largely in its own hands.
"The prosperity of Americans depends overwhelmingly on the economic policies we pursue to strengthen American competitiveness," he said. "We need to understand that our strength as a nation will depend not on choices made by China's leaders, but on choices we make here at home."
A key part of that challenge will be restoring fiscal responsibility, Geithner said, foreshadowing a policy debate that is certain to take center stage in Washington in coming months. He said the government must find ways to spend less, and in time must devise a simpler, more equitable tax system.
Geithner said those key challenges, as well as others such as investing in research and development, educational reforms, and public infrastructure, are fundamental to the country's success.
"They are not just an economic imperative, they are a national security imperative," Geithner said. "Our strength as a nation depends on the ability of our political system to move quickly enough to put in place solutions to our long-term problems."
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January 14, 2011

U.S. Is Not Trying to Contain China, Clinton Says

By MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — The United States is not bent on containing China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday, but the Obama administration is cultivating other allies across Asia to help it manage Beijing’s increasingly bold projection of military and economic power.
In a closely watched address delivered four days before President Hu Jintao’s scheduled state visit to Washington, Mrs. Clinton sought to balance tensions over China’s military buildup and disagreements over North Korea with the administration’s desire to work with Beijing on issues like climate change.
“Distrust lingers on both sides,” she said in her speech at the State Department.
Mrs. Clinton said that while the United States-China relationship was critically important, “there is no such thing as a G-2,” the phrase popularized by analysts who argue that Washington and Beijing, widely seen as the economic superpowers of today and tomorrow, should steer the world.
She also delivered a polite criticism of China’s human rights record that was more detailed than she had previously offered as secretary of state, citing the persecution of the pro-democracy group Charter 08 and the imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo, the political activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but whose family was blocked from attending the prize ceremony in Norway last month.
“The longer China represses freedoms,” she said, “the longer that Nobel Prize winners’ empty chairs in Oslo will remain a symbol of a great nation’s unrealized potential and unfulfilled promise.”
Mrs. Clinton’s speech — on the heels of an economic address by Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and a visit to Beijing by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates — sets the stage for what some analysts say is the most important visit by a Chinese leader to the United States in years.
While Mr. Geithner and Mr. Gates tackled two clear irritants in the relationship — China’s undervalued currency and the increasingly defiant People’s Liberation Army — Mrs. Clinton confronted a broader set of strategic tensions, including China’s testy relations with its neighbors and its reluctance to bear down on a belligerent North Korea.
“Some in the region and some here at home see China’s growth as a threat that will lead either to cold war-style conflict or American decline,” she said. “And some in China worry that the United States is bent on containing their rise and constraining their growth — a view that is stoking a new streak of assertive Chinese nationalism. We reject those views.”
Nevertheless, Mrs. Clinton spoke at length about the administration’s work to reinforce ties with cold war allies like Japan and South Korea, to restore long-neglected relationships with countries in Southeast Asia and to court emerging powers like India.
Last July, Mrs. Clinton infuriated Chinese officials when she thrust the United States into a long-running dispute between China and its neighbors over control of some small, strategically important islands in the South China Sea. The United States, analysts said, put a spotlight on China’s bullying behavior.
“We are working to firmly embed our relationship with China within a broader regional framework, because it is inseparable from the Asia-Pacific’s web of security alliances,” she said.
To experts on China in the audience, the message was unmistakable.
“She’s saying, ‘We’re still trying to have a reciprocal relationship, but if it doesn’t work, we’re hedging our bets,’ ” said Orville Schell, who heads the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.
Mrs. Clinton said that China had cooperated in imposing international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. And she said China was finally starting to help the United States try to restrain North Korea’s behavior after the torpedoing of a South Korean warship and a deadly artillery raid.
“We fear, and have discussed this in depth with our Chinese friends, that failure to respond clearly to the sinking of a South Korea military vessel would embolden North Korea to continue on a dangerous course,” she said.
Mrs. Clinton also reinforced points made by Mr. Geithner and Mr. Gates. She said that China needed to let its currency rise more rapidly to ease the trade imbalance with the United States. And she contended that the Chinese military should be open to more extensive ties with the Pentagon to ease American concerns about its motives.
For all that, Mrs. Clinton was clearly not trying to provoke China. She spoke of global challenges, like climate change and development, in which Beijing and Washington should work together.
Mrs. Clinton’s speech inaugurated a lecture series dedicated to Richard C. Holbrooke, the hard-charging diplomat who died last month. Early in his career, he served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, the youngest holder of that post to date.
Noting that Mr. Holbrooke had played a role in the normalization of diplomatic relations with China in 1979, Mrs. Clinton said that the relationship between the two nations had “arrived at a critical juncture.”
“It is clear that we cannot paper over the difference between our countries; nor should we try to do so,” she said. “But the future of our relationship can be strong if we each meet our responsibilities as great nations.”

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偽恐怖主義: 通往獨裁之路

偽恐怖主義: 通往獨裁之路
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Fake Terrorism: The Road to Dictatorship

偽恐怖主義: 通往獨裁之路

Michael Rivero邁克爾里韋羅


It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.
打造你所需要的敵人是聖經上最古老的把戲, 可以追溯到羅馬時代。
In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licineus Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade. But in Crassus' version, his fire-fighting slaves would race to the scene of a burning building whereupon Crassus would offer to buy it on the spot for a tiny fraction of it's worth. If the owner sold, Crassus' slaves would put out the fire. If the owner refused to sell, Crassus allowed the building to burn to the ground. By means of this device, Crassus eventually came to be the largest single private landholder in Rome, and used some of his wealth to help back Julius Caesar against Cicero.
公 元前70年, 馬庫斯 李錫尼 克拉蘇, 一個小小的但是極之富有的政客,  想要統治羅馬帝國, 給你一個概念,  告訴你克拉蘇是什麼樣的人吧, 他是因為發明了消防隊而受到稱頌的, 但是對他來說, 他的救火奴隸會不顧一切跑到一座在燃燒的建築物, 克拉蘇會提出以該建築物的一小部分價值來收購, 如果成交, 他的救火奴隸會滅火, 如果不同意, 克拉蘇就會讓這座建築物繼續燃燒, 藉著這種工具, 克拉蘇最後變成羅馬帝國最大的個體戶地產商和運用他的部分財富幫助凱撒大帝對抗西塞羅。

In 70 BC Rome was still a Republic, which placed very strict limits on what Rulers could do, and more importantly NOT do. But Crassus had no intentions of enduring such limits to his personal power, and contrived a plan.
在公元前70年, 羅馬還是一個把十分嚴格的規限加於君主之上的共和國, 什麼可以做的, 更重要的, 是什麼不可以做, 但是克拉蘇沒有打算在他的權力範圍內去忍受這些規限, 他設計了一個方案。
Crassus seized upon the slave revolt led by Sparticus in order to strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Sparticus had already defeated in battle. But Sparticus had no intention of marching on Rome itself, a move he knew to be suicidal. Sparticus and his band wanted nothing to do with the Roman empire and had planned from the start merely to loot enough money from their former owners in the Italian countryside to hire a mercenary fleet in which to sail to freedom.
為 了把恐怖注入羅馬的心臟, 克拉蘇抓住了斯巴達克斯領導的奴隸起義, 羅馬的兵團已經被斯巴達克斯於戰役中打敗, 但是斯巴達克斯再沒有在羅馬操兵的意願, 他知道這樣做猶如是自殺之舉, 斯巴達克斯和他的部隊不想再跟羅馬帝國有任何交割, 他們一開始也只是計畫著以他們在意大利郊外的前奴隸主掠奪足夠的金錢再僱用一商艦隊幫他們向自由啟航。
Sailing away was the last thing Crassus wanted Sparticus to do. He needed a convenient enemy with which to terrorize Rome itself for his personal political gain. So Crassus bribed the mercenary fleet to sail without Sparticus, then positioned two Roman legions in such a way that Sparticus had no choice but to march on Rome.
航行遠去是克拉蘇最後一件想斯巴達克斯做的事情, 他需要一個便利的假想敵以給羅馬投以恐怖的感覺, 因此, 克拉蘇賄賂了重商艦隊, 在沒有斯巴達克斯在場之下啟航而去, 然後, 部署兩個羅馬軍團迫到斯巴達克斯在沒有選擇之下, 只好向羅馬前進。
Terrified of the impending arrival of the much-feared army of gladiators, Rome declared Crassus Praetor. Crassus then crushed Sparticus' army and even though Pompeii took the credit, Crassus was elected Consul of Rome the following year.
由於懼怕一隊更為可怕的戰士即將來臨, 羅馬宣佈克拉蘇為執政官, 後來, 克拉蘇打敗了斯巴達克斯的軍隊, 雖然龐貝領了這次戰功, 克拉蘇在跟著一年被選為羅馬羅馬執政官。
With this maneuver, the Romans surrendered their Republican form of government. Soon would follow the first Triumvirate, consisting of Crassus, Pompeii, and Julius Caesar, followed by the reign of the god-like Emperors of Rome.
通過這次龐大我的軍事演習, 羅馬人交出了他們的共和體製政府, 隨即跟著的是第一次的"三巨頭" - 包括克拉蘇, 龐貝和凱撒大帝, 迎來神權式的羅馬帝皇君主統治
The Romans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Emperors.
羅馬人被愚弄以致放棄他們的共和國和接受帝皇的統治

Julius Caesar's political opponent, Cicero, for all his literary accomplishments, played the same games in his campaign against Julius Caesar, claiming that Rome was falling victim to an internal "vast right wing" conspiracy in which any expressed desire for legislative limits on government was treated as suspicious behavior. Cicero, in order to demonstrate to the Romans just how unsafe Rome has become hired thugs to cause as much disturbance as possible, and campaigned on a promise to end the internal strife if elected and granted extraordinary powers.
凱 撒大帝的政治對頭人西塞羅, 依仗他的文學成就, 也在對付凱撒的宣傳活動中, 聲稱羅馬成為一個內部的廣泛的右翼陰謀論的受害者, 任何表示以立法來限制政府的意願都會被認為是可疑的行為, 西塞羅為了展示給羅馬人看看羅馬是多麼的不安全, 他開始僱用一些暴徒來大規模製造擾亂和宣傳如果被選中了和予以額外的權力就承諾結束內部的沖突

What Cicero only dreamed of, Adolph Hitler succeeded in doing. Elected Chancellor of Germany, Hitler, like Crassus, had no intention of living with the strict limits to his power imposed by German law. Unlike Cicero, Hitler's thugs were easy to recognize; they all wore the same brown shirts. But their actions were no different than those of their Roman predecessors. They staged beatings, set fires, caused as much trouble as they could, while Hitler made speeches promising that he could end the crime wave of subversives and terrorism if he was granted extraordinary powers.
西 塞羅所夢想的東西, 希特勒成功實踐了, 德國的民選總理希特勒, 跟克拉蘇一樣, 無意在嚴格的限制其權力的德國法律下生活; 跟西塞羅不一樣, 希特勒的暴徒是很容易被識別出的, 他們全部穿上一樣的棕色襯衣, 但是他們的行動跟他們的羅馬前輩是沒區別的,  他們上演毆打, 放火, 盡他們能力製造極多的麻煩和事端,  當希特勒演講許諾如果被賦予更多的權力, 他能結束顛覆和恐怖主義的浪潮

The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Der Fuhrer. The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat appeared to leave no other choice.
德 國人被騙交出他們的共和政體, 接受領袖大元帥的統治, 那些國家資助的學校永遠不會告訴你這種事情, 但是政府常規地依賴欺騙手段來向如果不是這樣就會不顧意接受的群眾來推銷他們的議程,  羅馬人接受帝皇和德國人接受希特勒, 不是因為他們想要這樣, 而是因為那精心砲製的錯覺給他們留下別無其他選擇

Our government too uses hoaxes to create the illusion that We The People have no choice but the direction the government wishes us to go in.

我們的政府一樣利用欺騙手段製造一種我們人民別無其他選擇只能跟從政府想我們走邁進的方向的錯覺

In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be, Hearst is reported to have replied, “You take the photographs, and I will provide the war”. Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published stories of great atrocities being committed against the Cuban people, most of which turned out to be complete fabrications.

1898 年, 約瑟夫普利策的紐約世界, 和威廉倫道夫赫斯特的紐約日報在爭論美國應否介入干預古巴, 赫斯特被報導, 派駐古巴的攝影記者為即將來臨的跟西班牙作戰, 當攝影記者問得到那將會是怎樣的戰爭時, 據說赫斯特是這樣回答的: "你拍照, 我將會提供戰爭"  赫斯特所說的全都是真的, 當他的報紙刊登對付古巴人民的大規模屠殺的故事時, 大部分都是完全虛構的

On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the explosion. For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for "refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was “completely at defiance of the laws of probability.”
1898 年2月15日晚上, 躺在夏灣拿港上以示美國決心保護其利益的美艦緬因號劇烈的爆炸了, 船長西格斯比, 緬因號的總司令, 催促在沒有全面調查爆炸起因前不妄下假設說是敵人的攻擊, 為此, 船長西格斯比被報紙苛責為"拒絕面對明顯一面的大西洋月刊全力地宣稱假定爆炸不是任何東西而是西班牙的一項深思熟慮的行動, 是完全蔑視概率定律的所為

Under the slogan “Remember the Maine”, Americans went to war with Spain, eventually winning the Phillipines (and annexing Hawaii along the way).
在"記住緬因號"的口號下, 美國人跟西班牙打起來, 最後贏得菲律賓 (和同時吞併了夏威夷)

In 1975, an investigation led by Admiral Hyman Rickover examined the data recovered from a 1911 examination of the wreck and concluded that there had been no evidence of an external explosion. The most likely cause of the sinking was a coal dust explosion in a coal bunker imprudently located next to the ship's magazines. Captain Sigsbee's caution had been well founded.
1975年, 海曼里科弗上將檢視一個1911年沉船而還原的數據資料, 結論為: 那裡沒有証據顯示發生過外部的爆炸, 最可能引發沉船的原因是在一個位於船的彈艙旁邊的煤艙內發生煤管爆炸, 船長西格斯比的警告是有充份基礎的

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed a war. He needed the fever of a major war to mask the symptoms of a still deathly ill economy struggling back from the Great Depression (and mutating towards Socialism at the same time). Roosevelt wanted a war with Germany to stop Hitler, but despite several provocations in the Atlantic, the American people, still struggling with that troublesome economy, were opposed to any wars. Roosevelt violated neutrality with lend lease, and even ordered the sinking of several German ships in the Atlantic, but Hitler refused to be provoked.
羅斯福總統需要一場戰爭, 他需要一場重大戰爭的狂熱來罩著一個從大蕭條爭紮求存的, 仍然病入膏盲的死亡經濟症狀, (與此同時, 轉變邁向社會主義) 羅斯福想要跟德國交戰, 但是希特勒拒絕被挑釁

Roosevelt needed an enemy, and if America would not willingly attack that enemy, then one would have to be maneuvered into attacking America, much as Marcus Licinius Crassus has maneuvered Sparticus into attacking Rome.
羅斯福需要敵人, 如果美國人不顧意攻擊敵人, 那麼需要有一個敵人被巧計引來大規模軍事攻擊美國, 跟克拉蘇引斯巴達克斯攻擊羅馬一樣

The way open to war was created when Japan signed the tripartite agreement with Italy and Germany, with all parties pledging mutual defense to each other. Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand.
當日本跟意, 德 簽訂了各方都宣誓互相保衛對方的三邊協議時,  通往戰爭之路被確立了, 無論怎樣挑釁, 希特勒永遠都不會向美國宣戰, 所以, 迫日本向美國宣戰的方法正在形成

The first step was to place oil and steel embargoes on Japan, using Japan's wars on the Asian mainland as a reason. This forced Japan to consider seizing the oil and mineral rich regions in Indonesia. With the European powers militarily exhausted by the war in Europe, the United States was the only power in the Pacific able to stop Japan from invading the Dutch East Indies, and by moving the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Roosevelt made a pre-emptive strike on that fleet the mandatory first step in any Japanese plan to extend it's empire into the “southern resource area.”
第 一步, 以日本在亞洲大陸發動戰爭為由, 給日本的石油和鋼鐵實施製裁,  迫使日本佔領石油和礦藏豐富的印度尼西亞, 當歐洲國家在歐洲戰場上因歐戰而弄得軍事上筋皮力盡時, 美國成為太平洋上唯一能製止日本侵略荷屬東印度群眾島, 藉著從聖地牙哥派遣太平洋艦隊到夏威夷的珍珠港, 羅斯福對那艦隊作出先發制人的攻擊, 那是日本要在南方資源區擴展其帝國的任何計畫的第一步
Roosevelt boxed in Japan just as completely as Crassus had boxed in Sparticus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to get it, and to do that they first had to remove the threat of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. There never really was any other course open to them.
一如克拉蘇圍堵了引斯巴達克斯, 羅斯福也圍堵了日本, 日本需要石油, 他們需要侵略印尼以取得其所需, 要侵略印尼, 他們首先需要移走美國在珍珠港部署的威脅, 他們再也沒有別的方向可走了

To enrage the American people as much as possible, Roosevelt needed the first overt attack by Japan to be as bloody as possible, appearing as a sneak attack much as the Japanese had done to the Russians. From that moment up until the attack on Pearl Harbor itself, Roosevelt and his associates made sure that the commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, were kept in the dark as much as possible about the location of the Japanese fleet and it's intentions, then later scapegoated for the attack. (Congress recently exonerated both Short and Kimmel, posthumously restoring them to their former ranks).
為 了盡力使美國人憤怒, 羅斯福需要日本的首次公開攻擊越血腥越好, 最理想是顯示出跟日俄戰爭一樣的襲擊, 由那時開始直到襲擊珍珠港, 羅斯福和他在夏威夷的司令官們,  梭柯將軍和金梅爾海軍上將在日本海軍的位置和意向問題上都一無所知, 然後, 遲一會便為侵襲找代罪羔羊 (國會最近免除了梭柯和金梅爾的責, 死後追封恢復了他們之前的職階)

But as the Army board had concluded at the time, and subsequent de-classified documents confirmed, Washington knew the attack was coming, knew exactly where the Japanese fleet was, and where it was headed.
但是正如陸軍領導層當時已經總結過隨著的文件解密也確認了, 華盛頓是知道攻擊即將來臨的, 也知道日本軍艦是什麼東西, 和它們向何處進發

On November 29th, Secretary of State Hull showed United Press reporter Joe Leib a message with the time and place of the attack, and the New York Times in it's special 12/8/41 Pearl Harbor edition, on page 13, reported that the time and place of the attack had been known in advance!
11月29日, 國務卿候爾給聯合報記者喬萊布展示一個附上襲擊時間和地點的信息紐約時報一它的12/08/1941 珍珠港特刊13頁裡報導過襲擊的時間和地點全都是預先知道的

The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence on it's way to Hawaii was a lie. Among other intercepts still held in the Archives of the NSA is the UNCODED message sent by the Japanese tanker Shirya stating, “proceeding to a position 30.00 N, 154.20 E. Expect to arrive at that point on 3 December.” (near HI)
那多次重複的聲稱日本艦隊在駛向夏威夷途中電台都保持沉默, 這是流言, 仍在國家安全局檔案保存著的其他截取的信息中包括由日本油輪Shirya發出的, "向北緯30.00東經154.20的位置進發, 預期在12月3日抵達" (在夏威夷附近)

President Lyndon Johnson wanted a war in Vietnam. He wanted it to help his friends who owned defense companies to do a little business. He needed it to get the Pentagon and CIA to quit trying to invade Cuba. And most of all, he needed a provocation to convince the American people that there was really “no other choice”.
總統約翰遜要在越南打仗, 想以此來幫他的軍火商朋友找點生意, 他需要這場戰爭來使五角大樓和中央情報局不再試圖侵略古巴, 最重要一點, 他需要激怒美國人使他們感到他們真的是別無其他選擇

On August 5, 1964, newspapers across America reported “renewed attacks” against American destroyers operating in Vietnamese waters, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an “unprovoked attack” on the USS Maddox while it was on “routine patrol.”
1964年8月5日, 全美各大小報紙在報導在越南水域塘沽灣發生針對美艦的新攻擊, 官方說法是美國的馬多克斯號在例行巡邏時被北越的魚雷艇發動了"非挑釁性"的襲擊

The truth is that USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam. The truth is also that there was no attack by torpedo boats against the USS Maddox. Captain John J. Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC that the report was the result of an "over-eager" sonarman who had picked up the sounds of his own ship's screws and panicked. But even with this knowledge that the report was false, Lyndon Johnson went on national TV that night to announce the commencement of air strikes against North Vietnam, “retaliation” for an attack that had never occurred.
事實上, 馬多克斯號當時是涉及了收集情報以配合南越和老撾空軍對北越的攻擊, 根本沒有什麼魚雷艇攻擊馬多克斯號, 船長約翰 赫里克, 波斯灣工作隊司令官給華盛頓首府拍電報說報告正是一個過于急切的聲納兵聽到自己的船螺絲釘的聲音就大失所措了即使是這項報導的內容也是不實的, 總統約翰遜當晚上了全國電視廣播宣稱對北越的一場新的空襲開始, 為一場從沒發生的襲擊作出"報復"

President George Bush wanted a war in Iraq. Like Crassus, George Bush is motivated by money. Specifically oil money. But with the OPEC alliance failing to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of the oil reserves of the entire region. George wanted a war to stop that flow of oil, to keep prices (and profits) from falling any further than they already had. But like Roosevelt, he needed the “other side” to make the first move.
老 喬治布希總統也需要一場跟伊拉克的戰爭, 一如克拉蘇, 老喬治布希也是被金錢引發作戰的動機, 特別是石油帶來的金錢, 但是石油輸出國組織未能保持對中東產油的限制, 市場上從伊拉克地下泵進來的石油供過於求,  伊拉克坐擁整個中東地區的1/3 石油存量, 老喬治布希想發動一場戰爭以停止石油的流量, 使價格和利潤不要再往已經下調的價位再低的價格調整, 但是跟羅斯福一樣, 他也需要對方先行出手

Iraq had long been trying to acquire greater access to the Persian Gulf, and felt limited, confined to a narrow strip of land along Kuwait's northern border, which placed Iraqi interests in close proximity with hostile Iran. George Bush, who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word via April Glaspie (1) that the United States would not intervene if Saddam Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait. Saddam fell for the bait and invaded.
伊 拉克曾經嘗試取得進入波斯灣的更大通道, 它感到自己被限制在科威特北部邊界的一條狹窄的地帶上, 那令伊拉克的利益太接近敵對的伊朗了, 老喬治布希在兩伊戰爭曾經公開地武裝伊拉克, 透過格拉斯皮傳話:  如果薩達姆胡辛搶走科威特的一大部分, 美國是不會介入的, 薩達姆中計了, 並展開侵略

Of course, Americans were not about to send their sons and daughters to risk their lives for petroleum products. So George Bush arranged a hoax, using public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which has grown rich on taxpayer money by being most industrious and creative liars! Hill & Knowlton concocted a monumental fraud in which the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, went on TV pretending to be a nurse, and related a horror story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital, leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die. The media, part of the swindle from the start, never bothered asking why the “nurse” didn't just pick the babies up and wrap them in blankets or something.
當 然, 美國人不會為了石油產品而送他們的子女去冒生命危險, 所以, 老喬治布希運用了以勤勞和有創造性的謊言借納稅人的金錢致富的公關公司希爾-諾爾頓, 巧插了一幕詐騙的演出, 希爾-諾爾頓公司編造出一場歷史性的詐騙案, 當中駐美國的科威特大使的女兒在電視上偽裝為一名護士, 還敘述了一個有關伊拉克軍隊在科威特醫院的早產嬰兒保育箱進行搶掠, 迺掉早產嬰兒在冰冷的地板上冷死, 傳媒, 一開始就是那幫騙子的一部分夥伴, 從來沒有問過為什麼那護士沒有抱起嬰兒抓個毛毯或別的包裹嬰兒起來

Enraged by the incubator story, Americans supported operation Desert Storm, which never removed Saddam Hussein from power but which did take Kuwait's oil off of the market for almost 2 years and limited Iraq's oil exports to this very day. That our sons and daughters came home with serious and lingering medical illnesses was apparently not too great a price to pay for increased oil profits.
受 到早產嬰兒保育箱的影響, 美國人憤怒了, 支持了"沙漠風暴"行動, 此軍事行動不但沒有拿走薩達姆的權, 還把科威特的石油從市場上拿走兩年, 也限制了伊拉克的石油出口, 一直到現在, 我們的孩子們帶著嚴重重傷和疾病回家, 用這個來交換增長的石油利益, 明顯是太大的代價


Following the victory in Iraq, yet another war appeared to be in the offing in the mineral rich regions of Bosnia. Yet again, a hoax was used to create support for military action.

隨著在伊拉克的勝利, 另一場戰爭出現在礦資源豐富的波斯尼亞, 然而, 再一次用詐騙來製造對軍事行動的支持


The photo of Fikret Alic, a Muslim, staring through a barbed wire fence, was used to "prove" that the Bosnians were running modern day “Concentration Camps”. As the headline of “Belsen 92” indicates, all possible associations with the Nazi horrors were made to sell the necessity of sending yet more American troops into someone else's nation.
一幅一名穆斯林菲克雷特阿勒奇透過一個鐵絲欄凝視著(外面世界)的照片, 被用來證明波斯尼亞在營運著現代的"集中營",  正如"貝爾森92"頭條顯示一切跟納粹恐怖的可能聯係都被用來推銷一個論調, 就是調派更多美軍到別人的國家的需要

But when German Journalists went to Trnopolje, the site of the supposed Bosnian Concentration Camp. to film a documentary, they discovered that the photo was a fake! The camp at Trnopolje was not a concentration camp but a refugee center. Nor was it surrounded by barbed wire. Careful examination of the original photo revealed that the photographer had shot the photo through a broken section of fence surrounding a tool shed. It was the photographer who was on the inside, shooting out at the refugees.
但 是當西德記者去到特爾諾波爾耶, 那應該是所謂的波斯尼亞集中營的地方拍記錄片時, 他們發現照片是假的, 特爾諾波爾耶的營不是集中營而是難民中心, 它也沒有被鐵網圍起來, 小心觀察原圖, 顯示出攝影師是從圍住一個脫落的工具柵欄的一個破爛的部份拍攝的,  是記者從難民營內攝出來的

Once again, Americans had been hoaxed into support of actions they might otherwise not have agreed with (2). While several American Presidents have willingly started wars for personal purposes, perhaps no President has ever carried it to the extreme that Bill Clinton has.
再一次, 美國人被騙去支持如果沒有受愚弄, 他們是可能不會支持的行動, 幾任美國總統們都顧意為私人目的而發動戰爭, 但是沒有人做到克林頓所做到的極端程度
Coincident with the expected public statement of Monica Lewinsky following her testimony, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan and Afghanistan, claiming to have had irrefutable proof that bogeyman extraordinaire (and former Afghani ally) Osama Bin Ladin was creating terrorist chemical weapons there.
正好是陸文斯基聽証後需要發表公開聲明的時候, 克林頓命令發射巡航導彈攻擊蘇丹和阿富汗, 聲稱有無容置疑的証據証實,  非凡的魔怪(和前阿富汗盟友)拉登在製造恐怖的化學武器

Examination of the photos of the debris revealed none of the expected structures one would find in a laboratory that handled lethal weapons-grade materials. Assurances from the CIA that they had a positive soil test for biological weapons fell on their face when it was revealed that there had been no open soil anywhere near the pre-bombed facility. Sudan requested that international observers come test the remains of the factory for any signs of the nerve gas Clinton had insisted was there. None was found. The Sudanese plant was a harmless aspirin factory, and the owner has sued for damages. Later examination of the site hit in Afghanistan revealed it to be a mosque.
檢 視碎片的圖片, 顯示出沒有找到在實驗室處理毒氣武器材料的期待找到的結構物料, 當顯示出在受轟炸的設施附近沒有露天的泥土時, 中央情報局說他們作了一個為生物武器的泥土測試為陽性的保証教他們丟臉了! 蘇丹要求國際觀察家來測試被炸的工廠的殘餘部分, 看看有沒有克林頓堅稱的那裡有的神經毒氣蘇丹的廠房只是一所無害的阿斯匹靈止痛丸藥廠, 廠主也為損失提出起訴;  後來的調查也發現阿富汗被襲我位置現場是一所清真寺


Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, stories about genocide and atrocities were flooding the media (in time to distract from the Sudanese embarrassments), just as lurid and sensational and as it turns out often just as fictional as most of William Randolph Hearst's stories of atrocities against the Cubans.
與此同時, 在科索沃, 一如威廉倫道夫赫斯特針對古巴暴行故事一樣是虛構的, 悚人聽聞的和感性的關於種族滅絕大屠殺和暴行的故事在傳媒中氾濫起來 (及時轉移了人們對蘇丹醜聞的關注)


Again, the government and the media were hoaxing Americans. The above photo was shown on all the American networks, claiming to be one of Slobodan Milosovic's Migs, shot down while attacking civilians. Closer examination shows it to be stenciled in English!
再一次, 政府和傳媒又在愚弄美國人了, 上面的照片在所有的美國電視台出現, 聲稱是米洛舍維奇的一個主要行業組別, 在攻擊平民時射落的, 但是近一點檢視, 可以看見它是用英文印著描出來的

Like Germany under Chancellor Hitler, there have been events in our nation which strike fear into the hearts of the citizens, such as the New York World Trade Tower bombing, the OK City Federal Building, and the Olympic Park bomb (nicely timed to divert the media from witnesses to the TWA 800 shoot down). The media has been very quick to blame such events on “radicals”, “subversives”, “vast right wing conspiracies”, and other “enemies in our midst”, no different than the lies used by Cicero and Hitler.
正 如在元首希特勒之下的德國, 在我們的國家內也有一些把恐懼注入平民心裡的事件,  例如紐約的世貿中心大樓爆炸案, 俄克拉荷馬市的聯邦政府大樓, 奧運公園炸彈案, (及時趕上轉移媒體對TWA800被打落的目擊證人的關注) 很快, 媒體就譴責這種事為"極端的激進分子",  "顛覆的", "廣泛的右翼陰謀", 跟西塞羅和希特勒所用的謊言沒有什麼不同

But on closer examination, such “domestic terrorist” events do not appear to be what they are made out to be. The FBI had an informant inside the World Trade Tower bombers, Emad Salam, who offered to sabotage the bomb. The FBI told him “no”. The so-called “hot bed” of white separatism at Elohim City, occasional home to Tim McVeigh in the weeks prior to the OK City bombing, was founded and is being run by an FBI informant!
但 是在近距離檢視下, 這樣的"國內恐怖份子"事件, 結果跟初衷並不吻合, 聯邦調查局在世貿爆炸者中有一個線人, 伊馬德薩拉姆, 他顧意去破壞炸彈, 但是聯邦調查局的人說: "不", 在所謂白人分離主義的"溫床" - 耶洛因市 - 偶然會是麥克維(俄克拉荷馬市的聯邦政府大樓爆炸人) 在犯案前幾星期偶然居住的地方, 後來也被發現原來是聯邦調查局一個線人在主持的
And nobody has ever really explained what this second Ryder truck was doing in a secret camp half way from Elohim City to Oklahoma City two weeks before the bombing.
沒有人真的解釋得到在爆炸前兩周,這第二輛萊德卡車 一個從耶洛因市到俄克拉荷馬市半路上的一個秘密的營房干過什么。

So, here we are today. Like the Romans of Crassus' and Cicero's time, or the Germans under a newly elected Hitler, we are being warned that a dangerous enemy threatens us, implacable, invisible, omnipresent, and invulnerable as long as our government is hamstrung by that silly old Bill of Rights.

那今天我們一如羅馬帝國時代的克拉蘇和西塞羅時代, 或是在新選出希特勒時的德國, 我們都被警告, 一個危險的敵人威脅著我們, 在我們的政府一天在玩弄那愚蠢陳舊的人權宣言, 這個敵人一天全都是不能安撫的, 不能看見的, 無所不在的和不易受傷害的

Already there have appeared articles debating whether or not “extraordinary measures” (i.e. torture) are not fully justified under certain circumstances such as those we are purported to face.  As was the case in Rome and Germany, the government continues to plead with the public for an expansion of its power and authority, to “deal with the crisis”.
已經出現一些文章辯論著是否應該用極端手段(例如酷刑)在一些情況下並不完全合理, 例如一些我們故意面對的, 一如羅馬和德國的例子, 政府繼續對公眾要求擴展他的權力以"應付任何危機"

However, as Casio watch timers are paraded before the cameras, to the stentorian tones of the talking heads' constant dire warnings, it is legitimate to question just how real the crises is, and how much is the result of political machinations by our own leaders.
然而,由卡西歐手表計時器列隊在鏡頭前,到那個會說話的首長的不斷嚴重警告宏亮音調,它的合法的問題是危机有多真實,又有多少是我們自己的領導人的政治陰謀的結果。
Are the terrorists really a threat, or just hired actors with bombs and Casio watches, paid for by Cicero and given brown shirts to wear by Hitler?

恐怖分子是否真的一個威脅, 還是只是帶著炸彈和卡西歐手表計時器的表演者? 西塞羅支付的和希特勒派發的棕色襯衣制服?

Is terrorism inside the United States really from outside, or is it a stage managed production, designed to cause Americans to believe they have no choice but to surrender the Republic and accept the totalitarian rule of a new emperor, or a new Fuhrer?
恐怖主義在美國是否真的來自外部或者是一項被管理了和策畫了的製作, 設計來使美國人相信他們沒有其他選擇, 只可交出他們的共和國和接受新皇帝或新領導的極權統治?
Once lost, the Romans never got their Republic back. Once lost, the Germans never got their Republic back. In both cases, the nation had to totally collapse before freedom was restored to the people.
一次弄掉之後, 羅馬人再沒有重新得回他們的共和國, 一次弄掉之後, 德國人再也得不回他們的共和國, 在兩種情況下,  這個國家都要在徹底崩潰後, 自由才可以從新在人民心中恢復過來


Remember that when Crassus tells you that Sparticus approaches.

記住克拉蘇什麼時候告訴你斯巴達克斯的到來;
Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly designed to provoke the public fear.
記住什麼時候暴徒在街上作出明顯是為了挑釁公眾恐懼的行為;
Remember that when the Reichstagg burns down.
記住什麼時候國會大廈被燒掉了!

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