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<![CDATA[东海岸]]></title>
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<![CDATA[我在东海岸晃荡的时间不算少了，东海岸有世界上最干净的沙滩，还有阳光。不知道别人会不会觉得安迪很奇怪，工作的时候拖家带狗的。不管怎么说，我和JACK还有FLYNN一起和安迪去了东海岸。这次是一个地主要卖掉一半他的地，安迪去标出边界。这块地大的没边，在我看来。整座小山上就住着一家人，房子坐落在山顶，俯瞰大海。地主CHRIS是个渔民，龙虾渔民。他说他捞的龙虾当天早上进加工厂，速冻处理后装箱去悉尼，第二天就到中国了。安迪的朋友SIMON说，20年前龙虾都飞日本，如今是北京。CHRIS后来送给安迪一个龙虾，至少有一公斤重。<BR><BR><IMG height=336 alt=SNC11057 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/8/4/2/siwants,20080804143303037.jpg" width=395 border=0><BR><BR>一个月前我们在东海岸的一个小咖啡馆里喝咖啡，安迪刚冲完浪。免费地图上有一小块文字说附近的锡矿一百多年前有很多中国工人，如今矿没有了，剩下的有一个中国人陵园。安迪说我们去看看吧。开了一个多小时车我们到了叫WELDBOROUGH的地方，为了简单起见我管这个地方叫WEAR BRA。这是一个挺破败的地方，有点像川藏线上很多街道只有一百米长的小镇。我们进了酒吧向酒保打听中国人陵园的位置，他竟然用中文说了“你好”，还问我是不是从香港来。当年的矿工全部是广东来的，估计很多人的后代后来都在香港落了脚。他说附近最后一个中国人大概10年前没了。我们又开出小镇几公里，在一个小山坡上发现了一片公墓。墓碑立于光绪三十二年，旁边还有一个石头炉子用来烧纸钱。<BR><BR><IMG height=448 alt=PICT2475 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/8/4/2/siwants,20080804145250798.jpg" width=298 border=0><BR>在我刚看完的关于塔斯马尼亚历史的书中提到了这个酒吧，说它继承了塔斯马尼亚酒吧的传统，集三个特色于一体：爱尔兰吧，最差的吧，旅馆。1874年锡在这里被勘探到，当时正值淘金热的尾声，华工于是从维多利亚来到这里，他们的工资很便宜，很快就将欧洲的矿工淘汰出局，高峰期华工人数达到一千五百人。据记载，这些华工在地炉里烤猪肉，喝荷兰金酒，嗜赌，春节的时候放他们自制的土炮。1910年他们大多数都离开了，有些还带回了塔斯马尼亚老婆。安迪说，如果能找到记载这些人后来的经历一定会很有意思，这也是我比较好奇的。<BR><BR><IMG height=298 alt=PICT2524 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/8/4/3/siwants,20080804154104717.jpg" width=448 border=0>]]></description>
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2008-08-04 14:03:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[麻将]]></title>
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<![CDATA[安迪突然头脑发热买了一幅麻将,凭着和我老爸老妈打过几圈的经验,撺掇CAM和DIZA和我们凑一桌。麻将上刻了阿拉伯数字，所以教起他们来比较容易。我们打最简单的推倒和，可惜是哑巴麻将，因为教他们俩说中文太难了。]]></description>
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2008-07-22 16:10:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ipcc也被怀疑了]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<FONT face=TimesNewRoman size=3><FONT face=TimesNewRoman size=3>
<P>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</P>
<P></FONT></FONT>这个联合国下属的研究人类活动对气候变化产生影响的专家组织是去年进入大众视野的，ipcc和戈尔一起得了诺贝尔和平奖。最近有一个澳大利亚的电脑分析师在一篇论文中指出，该组织2007年的全球气候变化报告的44个参与作者中，至少有一半和主作者联名写过论文，进而指出这是一个互相支持的科学精英小圈子，其研究结果的可信性也值得怀疑。论文见<A href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/mclean_ipcc_bias.pdf" target=_blank>这里</A>。</P>]]></description>
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2008-07-18 10:29:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[淘书，看书]]></title>
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<![CDATA[三月份在星期六集市上买了一本二手的the time traveller's wife，一直到上星期才有时间看。上个月底又淘了一本澳大利亚作家的shark net和几乎全新的哈老的THE ROAD TO SERFDOM。<BR><IMG alt="User Image" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa220/bajibajibaji/alwaysgoing2.png" border=0><BR>《时间旅行者的妻子》是一部很聪明的小说，我读这本小说最大的动力是看作者如何处理和操纵结构，从这点上来说她很成功，也正因为这点，这部小说几乎天生就是可以拍成电影的。这是一个苦情故事，主角和其他主要人物都很苦，每个人都在等待什么。和克莱尔的等待相比，其他人又何尝比她幸运。<BR><BR>《鲨网》是澳大利亚作家robert drewe的自传，讲他二十岁以前在西澳柏斯的成长经历，我在山中住了三天一口气看完。和学院派写作的《时间旅行者的妻子》不同，这本书出自一个十八岁开始在报社实习的澳大利亚中产阶级后代之笔，简洁的刻画六十年代中期澳洲中产阶级的生活，还巧妙的穿插了连环命案。这是我读的第二本好看的澳大利亚作者的书。<BR><BR>在书店里还看到了《狼图腾》的英文版，很贵，三十多块，中文原著我都没看过，英文的就算了。还有郭小橹的A Concise Chinese─English Dictionary for Lovers，翻了翻好像挺有意思，不过也挺贵的，还是找时间去二手书店淘吧。<BR><BR>至于《通往奴役之路》，我还是鼓不起勇气看，等等吧，要讲缘分。]]></description>
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2008-07-09 12:48:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[被子展览]]></title>
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<![CDATA[今天和安迪的妈妈还有DIZA去看quilt show。缝被子在中国估计已经绝迹了，老妈倒是几年前还给我做过。QUILT不止是做被子那么简单，其中的技术还包括刺绣，拼贴和设计；并且功能也不仅限于被子，可以做壁挂。至少百分之九十的观众都是老太太，有很多被子非常有意思，一看就是费了很多心思和心血的。我老人家也兴致勃勃的参观了一番。<BR><BR>这床被子用了东方的意象，梅兰竹菊，小桥流水，花开富贵，松柏常青什么的，不过人物是日本仕女。这点是我比较不舒服的，很多人分不清中国和日本。安迪的妈妈给这床被子投了一票。<BR><BR><IMG height=336 alt=SNC10888 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/27/1/siwants,20080627135840275.jpg" width=344 border=0><BR><BR>这床被子是指作者用家里人的旧仔裤做的，我觉得很有意思，废物利用也很有意义。安气那把吉他上的刺绣是老子。<BR><BR><IMG alt=SNC10889 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/27/1/siwants,20080627135840397.jpg" border=0><BR><BR>我投了靴子一票，因为这床被子里的靴子都是BLUNDSTONE靴子，是塔斯马尼亚有名的工作靴，结实耐用，这里的人对这个牌子感情很深。这床被子的图案有澳大利亚人特有的幽默感。<BR><BR><IMG alt=SNC10892 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/27/1/siwants,20080627135840488.jpg" border=0><BR><BR>日本的刺绣和手工在这边好像比较有名，我仔细看了看，其实手工是不及中国绣品的，不过颜色、构思和设计很讨人喜欢。这床被子底色部分有线绣的波浪图案，很有浮世绘的意境。<BR><BR><IMG alt=SNC10893 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/27/1/siwants,20080627135858133.jpg" border=0><BR><BR>每一床被子都是可以当传家宝的，安迪老妈给我做了两床，一大一小，小的那个完全是中国特色的，有无锡娃娃大阿福，竟然还有麻将牌的图案。<BR>]]></description>
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2008-06-27 13:40:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[panda 靠边站，kungfu jack black]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<P>星期天请客看功夫熊猫，好看是挺好看的，对网上疯狂的赞扬没什么感觉，尤其是大家赞不绝口的中国元素。其实对中国没什么感觉的西方人基本体会不到那些东西，灯笼啦，鞭炮啦，面条啦，包子啦，功夫啦，都是西方电影里老掉牙的用来衬托中国的道具了。有几个我觉得好笑的地方，比如螳臂当车的镜头，全场其他人都没有笑，还有其他一些小的地方安迪觉得很好笑，比如松鼠被叫作MASTER 师傅。<BR><BR>这个钱我花得还挺不容易，刚开始说请大家看的时候，大家的反应都不强烈，因为主角是JACK BLACK，熊猫的配音者。JB是这样一种演员，记得以前在什么地方看过老外说,这个世界上有两种观众，一种是喜欢JB的，一种是讨厌JB的。JB的电影我看过几部。<BR><BR>The School of Rock: JB是整天做白日梦当摇滚明星的LOSER，阴差阳错当了老师，组织了一个学生摇滚乐队，明知不可为而为之，这些孩子后来赢了摇滚比赛，圆了JB的梦。<BR><BR>Nacho Libre ：JB是墨西哥一个孤儿院里的孤儿，梦想当摔跤冠军，经过重重磨难最后美梦成真。</P>
<P>听起来耳熟吧，功夫熊猫是典型的JB式情节的电影，一个做白日梦的LOSER力排众议，在别人眼里有点自取其辱的意思，但结果是让所有人大跌眼镜。<BR><BR>即时是一部没有典型JB式情节和笑料的《金刚》重拍版，JB的角色也和他擅长的人物有骨子里的相似之处，一个执著的摄影师要拍震撼世界的镜头，他还真的生存下来了。<BR><BR>我觉得JB就是好莱坞专演此类小人物的专业户，一天到晚挺着个大肚子，不自量力，处处遭人羞辱，但结局总是成全他，把seemingly imposible的梦想变成现实。<BR><BR>我真觉得那些看熊猫看得热血沸腾的人可以洗洗睡了，明明就是一个给JB量身定做的动画片。我觉得人梦工厂最给中国人面子的地方就是没让他说蹩脚的中式英语，在美国就有人骂Nacho Libre里JB蹩脚的墨西哥口音英语是搞种族歧视。<BR><BR>IMDB上摇滚学校的打分是7分多，NACHO LIBRE是6分多，功夫熊猫已经8分多了。由此看来，JB不讨人喜欢的地方是他的脸，招人待见的是他的肚子，还有什么比用一只挺着大肚子的熊猫来掩盖他的脸更好的主意呢。<BR><BR>达斯汀霍夫曼那个松鼠应该也不是没有来由的，鉴于他是个演技高超的小个子。</P>]]></description>
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2008-06-25 06:55:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[塑料袋的原罪]]></title>
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<![CDATA[我对禁止使用塑料袋的问题一直比较关注，这几天看天涯很多人抱怨说消费者又买一次单。类似的抱怨前段时间澳大利亚也有，和我们情况不同的是，因为反对的人多，禁止使用薄塑料袋的提案就没有在这里通过。<BR><BR>国外有一种得到科学家证实的说法是塑料袋的罪过被夸大了。怎么说呢? 1987年加拿大纽芬兰有一份报告指出，从1981年到1984年，10万海洋哺乳动物和海鸟被塑料废弃物杀死了。 2002年在一份由澳大利亚政府责成的对塑料袋的环境影响的报告中，塑料废弃物被改写成了塑料袋。2006年虽然这份报告得到更新，塑料袋这个词也换回了塑料废弃物，并指出原始报告里提到的其实是渔网、绳子等等能缠住动物和鸟类的东西，以及对死去的小型海洋生物和鸟类解剖时发现的由大块泡沫塑料分离成的白色小颗粒90（包装家电类产品的泡沫塑料）。然而塑料袋的坏名声已经不可避免的被传开了，国际上禁止使用塑料袋的呼声四起。今年2月布朗提出他要强迫超市对塑料袋收费的时候被嘲讽为缺乏正确的科学依据。有海洋生物学家说，海里的塑料袋对海洋生物和鸟类基本不造成威胁，没有必要禁止使用塑料袋。时代杂志上有一篇<A href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3508263.ece" target=_blank>文章</A>就是写这个事儿的，然而我非常怀疑这篇文章的倾向性。<BR><BR>到底应不应该用塑料袋的争议就这样被演变成了双方互相质疑对方的研究和数据，在到底死了多少动物的问题上扯皮。如果大家都只讲部分事实的话，公众到哪里去寻找真相？<BR><BR>有一些有意思的比较：<BR>在英国的公路上，被运输的纸袋的重量是塑料袋的6倍，如果禁止或征塑料袋税的话，会给公路运输增加很多负担。Dr Gerard McCrum, Oxford, The Daily Telegraph 24 July 2007 （比较客观，但仔细一想也有问题。这个数据是建立在什么基础上的呢？一个塑料袋换一个纸袋？从这个角度来说更明智的做法是鼓励重复使用购物袋。）<BR>对塑料袋征税会造成更多的纸袋被填埋，纸袋的降解会释放温室气体，而填埋塑料袋不会释放二氧化碳和甲烷。Packaging and Films Association 2002 （明显是工业组织倾向性的结论。被填埋的塑料袋难道就不会造成土壤和水质退化吗？）<BR>没有任何购物容器能负担自身2500倍的重量，并且湿的时候还很结实。CBC 2001（貌似客观，关键是就算塑料袋能负担那么多重量，体积呢？普通袋子装东西的体积有限，正常情况下这个2500倍没有意义。布袋子湿了也很结实。）<BR>如今一个普通的塑料袋比二十年前要少用70%的塑料。没有任何行业在原料减少方面有更好的记录。Packaging and Films Association 2003 （我不信他们调查了所有其他的工业得出这个结论）<BR>塑料袋不费石油，他们主要是石油提炼过程中的副产品中来的，这些副产品如乙烯如果不用来生产塑料的话也会被费掉。从这个角度说，塑料袋是很好的废物利用。Plastics Europe 2007 （塑料工业为自己辩护？）<BR><BR><BR>我不怕被人说不懂科学，我相信人类的科学水平是有限的，我知道科学水平不代表道德。你可以选择十片二十片海域去研究死鸟胃里都有些啥，然后只选择其中能为你的观点服务的数据发表。我自己亲耳听藏区的牧民说牦牛吃了被丢弃在草原上的塑料袋无法消化最后死去的事情。都说中国农村脏，脏不是因为有土有泥，脏是因为堆积成山的塑料垃圾。在丹巴的藏族村子里，风景和民居美得让人无话可说，可地上随处可见塑料包装，PHIL是学生态学的，他的解释是村民们的行为模式还是前塑料时代的，当所有的垃圾都是有机物的时候形成的习惯，没有人对他们进行教育，他们不知道塑料是不能降解的。可即使他们明白了，那么多塑料垃圾被收集了当地也没有条件处理，难道要翻山越岭开一天车运到成都去处理吗？成都人乐意吗？还有更偏僻的地区的塑料垃圾怎么办？在青川交界的年宝玉则地区，我们八个人用一个小时的时间捡了至少十六个蛇皮袋子的塑料包装，有糖纸（多到我担心那些人的牙齿问题），各种食品包装袋子、塑料碗，一次性塑料刀叉，农药、粮食袋子，仅仅是我们露营地五六十平方米的一小块地方。我当时痛心疾首的觉得塑料包装（不光是塑料袋）真的要少用。<BR><BR>然而单纯的禁止解决不了问题。爱尔兰的经验是反对禁塑的人常举的案例。2007年有一份报告指出自从对塑料袋征税以后，爱尔兰的塑料袋（包括垃圾袋）的进口额不降反增。不仅如此，英国环境大臣Ben Bradshaw在06年说，爱尔兰用纸袋子的数量也增加很多，这个对环境造成的影响是更大的。教训都在那儿摆着，我们的GOVERNMENT又做了些啥？实施之前那么长的一段时间没有任何对公众指导和帮助的行为，闹得一帮子连搜索引擎都会用的人满大街喊，我以后买菜怎么办啊？上街挎菜篮子吗？难怪人家说我们效率越高越COUNTERPRODUCTIVE，这么多人满网络的为买菜问题找解决方案得少创造多少GDP啊。 <BR><BR>在上海的时候我一般都选有菜市场的地方租房子，去买菜的时候背个BBC的环保袋。卖菜的大妈大叔们给我往塑料袋里装菜的时候我都说，我不用塑料袋，有的时候加一句这样环保，视心情而定。他们都挺理解的，有的时候我自己没加后面那半句，他们会来一句，环保啊。还有的时候他们谢谢我，因为塑料袋的成本是他们自己出的，是几分还是1毛我记不清了。如果我们买菜的每天能让他们少用几十个塑料袋，也许就相当于他们多卖了一斤菜，他们起早贪黑的真的不容易。我们的人民没那么无知，也不比别的人民差，但凡GOVERNMENT给一点适当的帮助和引导，很多事情的效果就会不同。可惜。<BR><BR>完全不用塑料袋当然是不可能的，我想做到的就是尽量少用。<BR><BR>扯远了，我最想念上海的地方就是那些菜市场，菜又便宜又好。在上海四年我没认识一个邻居，菜市场的大妈大叔大姐大哥还有小姑娘们没少打交道。 我通常被称作大姐。<BR>]]></description>
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2008-06-20 10:10:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[<FONT size=3>这两天在看书和想一道考试的题目：ASSESS 某个作家的 APPRENTLY DISMISSIVE POSITION ON OUTCOME-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM。 由结果导向的环境行动主义是西方环境团体的主流做法。假如我是西方人，或者受西方影响很深的人，我会问：如果对结果没有期待的话，行动还有意义吗？我曾经以为自己更容易接受西方的思想，兜了一圈下来，发现根本不是那么回事儿。我自己的思想体系（如果有的话）是完全建立在老庄的无为之上的。所以由我来回答这个问题的话，我和某作家的观点是一致的：只有当我们对结果完全不期待的时候，或者说不那么功利的时候，很多问题才能解决。我就是相信“道法自然”，甚至无心插柳这种对中国人来说完全是CLICHE的说法，从另一个角度来说老生常谈自有人家的道理。很多人很讨厌“和谐”这个说法，我就是喜欢这个词，某些GOVERNMENT的做法和宣传将这个词愚蠢化了，某些比我还玩世不恭的人顺势把这个词丑化了。<BR><BR>在博弈论里，OUTCOME不光是单纯的结果，而是一系列由所有玩家采取的动作和策略，或者说是所有玩家的动作和策略导致的结局。从这个角度来说，OUTCOME不是可以由环境行动分子和他们的支持者们控制的，在这个游戏里，不但有对手（开发商，政府，反对环境组织的普通工人和老百姓），还有一个更大的，比谁都大的玩家：环境。即便只谈科学，我们现在的知识也不足以解释生态系统的很多现象和问题，以（激进的）行动追求预想的环保结果因此十分天真。这就是为什么很多环境组织疲于奔命，拆东墙补西墙。 比如说动物权益组织批评工业化养殖是虐待动物，示威游行要求放养。好吧动物都放养了，他们觉得肉比以前好吃了，动物比以前快乐了，至少是被宰之前。其他的结果呢？放养要求占用更多的土地，动物的行为逐渐导致土壤退化，粪便随处排放也会造成土壤和水质污染。很多“环保行为”正在失去公众的支持因为他们东一榔头西一棒子，占据道德制高点还对另一部份人双重标准。在环保这个议题上，如果有人跳出来指责别人做的不好，通常都会被噎回去。就像澳大利亚人指责日本人吃鲸鱼，日本人根本不鸟他们，只一句话，你们每年杀多少袋鼠，吃多少袋鼠？如果你们有一天不吃牛排了，我们就不吃鲸排了。有的澳大利亚人说人类对动物的屠杀没有任何一种比鲸鱼更残忍，因为鲸鱼的体积巨大，有些情况下会经历很长时间的临死挣扎。前几天看新闻说有一头内蒙牛目睹同伴被屠宰，挣脱绳索，跃过2米高的栅栏，狂奔30公里，可惜最后还是没有逃过一劫。这头牛要是泉下有知会怎么想那些一边大嚼牛排一边说“你们丫吃鲸鱼真残忍”的人？<BR><BR>至于工人阶级为什么反对环保组织，有塔斯马尼亚伐木工人的打油诗为证：<BR><BR>
<P>Here's to a logger&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 致一个伐木工人<BR>Who fills a need&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 他填补需求</P>
<P>From houses to paper&nbsp;&nbsp; 从房子到纸张<BR>From one little seed&nbsp;&nbsp; 从一棵小小的种子</P>
<P>For those of you who&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;对你们那些&nbsp; <BR>Wish to disagree&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 想要非议的人</P>
<P>Try wiping your arse&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;试着擦你的屁股<BR>without felling a tree. 如果没人砍树<BR><BR>翻译的比较糙，但话糙理不糙，谁能不擦屁股呢？还想擦屁股的话就别对我们的职业叽叽歪歪。以塔斯马尼亚为例，环保组织和绿党要求停止砍伐原生林和木浆生产，这些木浆都是出口到日本的，很可能被加工成各种成品后再进口到澳大利亚。这样的话大概一万多个工人要失业，这个州总共才有不到50万人，失业率会提升2个百分点。工人当然不干了，谁养活我们的老婆孩子？环保组织来势汹汹地说，这些原生树都是这个地区独有的，是世界上最老的硬木树种，原生林吸收二氧化碳的能力比次生林强。砍伐会破坏当地的生态系统，对很多物种的生存造成威胁，破坏生物多样性，纸浆生产造成的污染会损害当地居民的健康。支持工人的人说，塔斯马尼亚的林业生产标准是全世界最高的，在这里至少砍伐是有规范的，在监控之下的。如果纸浆厂在这里建不了的话，更多的、更有破坏性的伐木会转移到巴西、印尼这样非法砍伐热带雨林的国家去，这样难道就环保吗?如果从LOCAL的角度看停止砍伐确实是环保了，可是从INTERNATIONAL的角度看又怎么样呢？</P>我觉得这个就是追求结果的环保主义的困境，这些组织为了有效的实现目标，只能对准一个靶子，可是有时候（如果不是大多数）他们会判断错误或者失准，有时候会忘了回火的问题。塔斯马尼亚是世界上第一个绿党的发源地，第一次有绿党被选进了议会。可是又怎么样呢？这里据称只有两类人，绿的和红的（RED NECK），绿的那帮人有多爱环保团体，红的那帮人就有多恨环保团体。这真是环保团体的悲哀，因为恨他们的那些人除了政客和企业主之外，很多都属于弱势群体。有一个罗马尼亚小伙儿拍了一个纪录片叫MINE YOUR OWN BUSINESS，讲环保组织反对在他老家的村子开金矿的故事，尽管这个被严格控制的金矿会给贫困的村民带来很多机会。大多数时候，伐木工人、矿工们的声音都被强势的环保组织淹没了。什么样的人给这些环保主义团体捐款呢？城市里的中产阶级，医生、律师们不用工作的老婆们。环境主义成为另一种追逐权力的工具。<BR><BR>记得上小学的时候在黄薇家看电视，新闻联播里有一系列镜头关于绿色和平组织的船彩虹勇士号在海上袭击捕鲸船，黄钟尤叔叔说了句话：绿色和平组织就是潜在的恐怖组织。非常非常奇怪，我竟然记住了这句话，虽然当时我不知道啥是绿色和平，啥是恐怖组织。彩虹勇士号这个名字是我去年看绿和的其中一个发起人写的回忆录时回想起来的。在有些人眼里绿和可谓是声名狼藉，有人讽刺他们的支持者，你们不是反对国际化企业吗？绿和的运作和国际化企业有什么不同？ 我看了一些评论：<BR><BR>绿和国际公布他们的财政状况，但它独立的公众会计拒绝签字证实报告的准确性。他们的资金来源也不是完全透明的。<BR>加拿大政府取消了绿和加拿大的免税状况，因为加拿大分支是个政治游说组织，而不是真正的慈善机构。 </FONT>]]></description>
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2008-06-19 14:38:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[在地球之南暗恋桃花源]]></title>
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<![CDATA[本来是应该准备下星期一的考试的，可是我看了一天的《读库》。天气很冷，我缩在沙发里看二十年暗恋桃花源，看到林青霞的云之凡剧照，眼泪一下流了出来，像做贼一样，赶紧擦干。然后忽然很想抽烟。<BR>]]></description>
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2008-06-16 20:17:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[融合]]></title>
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<![CDATA[我觉得自己一辈子也融入不了别人的文化，说实在的我也不想。现在的我，就是一个旁观者。看图说话最简单。<BR><BR>安迪和我去了BRUNY ISLAND过周末。我叫这头羊BOB MARLEY，它的毛好像从来没有剪过。<BR><BR><IMG height=273 alt=PICT2349 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/13/1/siwants,20080613130441089.jpg" width=336 border=0><BR><BR>还有美洲驼羊（LAMA），我觉得他们的样子最适合用呆若木鸡（驼？羊？）形容。后面那头牛简直和AVATAR里的牛样子一样，除了颜色。这个岛上有白袋鼠，不过我们连普通袋鼠的毛也没看到。我开了一个很有种族歧视含义的玩笑，为什么动物都是白色的可爱？后来又加了一句，不过人就不一定。晚上在做饭的时候有两只POSSUM（负鼠）来骚扰我们，胆子很大，还上了桌子。不过太黑照相机镜头看不到他们。<BR><BR><IMG alt=PICT2348 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/13/12/siwants,20080613125840676.jpg" border=0><BR>这个灯塔就是我心目中的灯塔，矗立在地球尽头的犄角旮旯里。安迪说可以申请去另一个小岛上当灯塔看管人，每四个小时记录一次仪表上的天气变化，一定要是一对（夫妻），这样可以轮流工作。三个月时间。我说我们去吧。<BR><BR><IMG height=336 alt=PICT2362 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/13/1/siwants,20080613131244531.jpg" width=417 border=0><BR><BR>上个星期女王生日，放假一天，正好和端午节放假凑到一起。端午节是老爸生日，不过我没有粽子吃。我们去遛狗，看到一群海豚在近海滩的地方玩儿，好像是妈妈带着小海豚。可惜还是有点儿远，看不清楚。他们的皮真光啊。<BR><BR><BR><IMG height=276 alt=SNC10842 src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/6/13/1/siwants,20080613132105686.jpg" width=448 border=0><BR>]]></description>
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2008-06-13 12:10:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[LOSER 是我的名字]]></title>
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<![CDATA[<P>不知不觉就一个月了。这个月发生了那么多事情，以至于我不知该说啥。每天在网上看新闻的时间多过学习的时间，其实从开学以来一直如此。这个学到底要不要上下去我还没有想清楚，可能永远也想不清楚。安迪说不喜欢的话就不要上了，有那么复杂吗？我觉得如果我能像他一样会活得更轻松一些。自从认识他三年以来我已经活得轻松了很多，做决定的时候有了一个倾向和砝码。<BR><BR>地震。小时候看照片，奶奶抱着还是婴儿的我在银川。她唯一一次到宁夏来和我们生活，“躲地震”，据说唐山地震后北京要地震的谣言十分盛行，宁夏在千里之外似乎安全。不过宁夏也在地震带上，上小学的时候隔三差五就有要地震的传言，很多人会把啤酒瓶倒着放在桌上，好像是当时非常流行的做法，还有人每天晚上在床下存放一盆水，因为唐山地震有一个幸存者的故事是靠着一盆没有倒掉的洗脚水生存下来的。现在想起来那些谣言很奇怪，不知道是谁开始的，为什么开始的，只是大家都宁愿相信和传播。有一年隔壁楼里的男孩点燃煤气罐自杀，汽浪把电视机掀出窗外落到楼下平房的房顶上砸了一个大坑，八十年代的彩电分量可不轻啊。当时是下午5点多，爸妈还没下班，我在睡懒觉，被晃醒后以为是地震，翻个身继续睡去。 如果是真的地震不知道我这种人生存的几率是多少。爸下班回家后叫醒我问我知不知道发生了什么，我说不是地震了吗？去年五月在河北观鸟，经过唐山港，很难想象几十万生命一瞬间就在那里消失了。 还有宁夏海原的地震，也是二十多万生命的大灾难。安迪对西海固的记忆则和那个叫香水的小镇有关，一个土地干燥到几乎没有任何水分的地方，一个有如此多的地名和水有关的地方。<BR><BR>我和震前的汶川有一夜之缘，然而如果不是看了网上央视的视频，我是不知道这个字其实是发四声的。我十分钟以前还在给DIZA解释汉字和拼音的关系，现在觉得我学了四年中文基本无用，我几乎背不出一首完整的诗词，中文水平也抽巴到初三前后。上次SUSSIE说她参加一个文学小组讨论中国的古典诗歌请我去参加，我说，呵，这个，那个，我不是很行的。<BR><BR>我现在所学，十年后还能剩下多少给我。我这个没有逻辑的人，说话完全IRRELEVANT，实在不适合做学问。<BR></P>]]></description>
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2008-06-13 10:09:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[惊闻汶川地震]]></title>
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<![CDATA[我对汶川的印象，典型的中国小城市。记得在汶川看到一辆LANDCRUISER，贴着大大的抵制日货BUMPER STICKER，还有各个日本品牌的商标，车牌不记得是哪的了，可能是成都。我解释给安迪的弟弟为什么不买日本东西，他觉得挺正常的。有一个妇女挑着两筐桃子在我们前面走，她后面一个人顺手拿了一个，若无其事的吃起来，我惊呆了。汶川宾馆外面有人打架很凶，我们过马路回宾馆的时候看到有个人躺在马路上，旁边一大摊血，安迪爸爸问我我们应该给警察打电话吗，我说我也不知道。车离开汶川一小时后我才想起来把新买的一件软壳落在宾馆旁边的咖啡馆里了，打114查到他们的电话，服务员答应说给我留着，等一个月以后安迪去帮我取回来。我本来是不报希望的，一个月以后安迪从阿坝回来竟然真的带回了我的衣服。希望大家平安无事。<br>]]></description>
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2008-05-12 19:25:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[美国大兵进城]]></title>
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<![CDATA[昨天，一艘美国海军的两栖攻击舰Tarawa号在本市德文特港公主码头登陆了，3000水兵上岸休整3天，估计能给本地经济带来六百万的收入。两栖攻击舰是美国海军中吨位仅次于航空母舰的第二大战舰，可以运载海军陆战队的一个加强营；垂直登陆和平面登陆能力极强。这艘于1973年越战时期服役的军舰不久前为孟加拉运送了进行飓风救灾的人道主义物资，在波斯湾执行了常规的海上安全任务，为非洲的吉布提提供了医疗援助。<br><br>据坊间的小道消息说，全国一半的女性性工作者都飞赴这里来迎接大兵们了。(人家用的词是PROSTITUTES，没用提及性别，我自己猜测男性没有来的必要？绝对没有歧视部分水兵的性取向，也没有歧视男性性工作者的意思。他们要来的话自然有他们的职业诉求，谁也不会拦着)。这一来一回的，要产生多少温室气体呀，飙高多少油价呀。六百万对这个节奏缓慢的偏远岛屿来说是个不小的刺激，难怪列农州长讲话对大兵们的到来致以暖洋洋的欢迎，并代表全州人民。我还以为爱代表是我们中国特色呢。昨天和今天的天气也给州长争气，晴空万里，非常温暖。<br><br>接受采访的上校说大兵们会维持良好的操守，不会惹是生非。除了满足基本需要以外，大兵们还会参观本地旅游景点，购物，参与多种户外运动，娱乐休闲两不误。据说这次航行有可能是Tarawa号的最后一次服役，美国海军自1989年以来已经逐渐用黄蜂级两栖攻击舰取代了旧型号的Tarawa级。<br><br>美国大兵们星期二就启程回加州的圣迭戈港了，SO LONG。祝他们一路走好，继续底，深入底、广泛底为全世界人民播撒美国的福祉。<br><br>PS，我们的海军现在还没有两栖攻击舰，因为我们没有合适的舰载直升机，舰载攻击机方面也基本是空白。<br><br>PPS，下午我们带JACK和FLYNN出去散步，路上看到三五成群的水兵。怎么知道是他们？平头，HOODIES，BAGGY JANES，YANKEE口音，抽烟。在码头可以清晰地看到军舰。回家之前我们吃了FISH AND CHIPS。回家路上穿过一个公园，有两个大兵在抽烟谈心，看到狗狗很激动，我们就停下来让他们亲近一下，其中的一个用夹着烟的手摸着FLYNN说，you guys have no worries,you guys have your life。听起来挺伤心底。<br><br><br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/5/11/4/siwants,20080511161738491.jpg" alt="20080511(010)" border="0" height="291" width="640"><br><br><br>]]></description>
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2008-05-11 07:40:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[作业]]></title>
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<![CDATA[今天我拿回了ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT的作业，这个小作业是下一个作业的TABLE OF CONTENTS，没想到我得了HD.这个作业是熬了一晚上查资料然后写的，没想到写完以后OFFICE处问题什么都没保存，急得我都哭了，后来千方百计灵机一动找到了一个破文件用TXT打开终于找回来了。<br>Electronic Waste： Problems and Management in Australia<br>摘要<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"><br>Electronic
Waste is not just household waste; it is a type of hazardous waste. It contains
large amounts of hazardous substances that can leach into soil and contaminate
groundwater. This report gives a brief introduction of the increased E-Waste
phenomenon in a global context.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The
report lists the disposal options, and also studies how E-Waste is being managed
in Australia under relevant laws and regulations. Beyond that, what is the electronic
industry’s reaction, environmental groups’ action and public attitude and
behavior towards this issue.<o:p></o:p></span>



<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>Furthermore,
from a global perspective, the report suggests that as a multilateral effort
The Basel Convention which tries to control the international trade of
Hazardous Waste including E-Waste has failed in practice. This failure reflects
the reality that ethical values are not as appealing as they sound when decision-makers
of developed countries refuse to face responsibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>





<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>In relation
to the trans-boundary trade of E-Waste, this report discusses the E-Waste issue
in China. The fact that 70% of world’s E-waste ends up in China makes China not
only the biggest factory but also the biggest rubbish tip in the world.
Unregulated recycling of E-Waste had caused severe pollution and harmed
people’s health in some coastal areas of China. The critical situation is about
to change since China has implemented “Prevention of E-Waste Pollution Act” in
February 2008. However, there will still be hundreds of thousands IPODs finishing
their life where they started before this Act can be reinforced effectively.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">A comparison
of different management of E-Waste in two different jurisdictions of Australia
and China suggests that they can learn from each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

不过对另外一个作业我一点信心都没有。<br>]]></description>
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2008-04-28 15:30:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[伤，心]]></title>
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<![CDATA[昨天安迪带我去大树自然保护区。这棵树像魔戒里的TREE BEARD<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/27/7/siwants,20080427075129608.jpg" alt="SNC10743" border="0" height="448" width="336"><br><br>森林里有很多稀奇古怪的蘑菇真菌类的东西，我走走停停拍了十几张照片。安迪说我是蘑菇狂。这个红色的估计是有毒的。<br><br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/27/7/siwants,20080427075129983.jpg" alt="SNC10763" border="0"><br>这几个蘑菇白花花的我大老远就看到了，每个都有吃牛肉拉面的大碗的碗口那么大。<br><br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/27/7/siwants,20080427075150673.jpg" alt="SNC10770" border="0"><br>这里，STYX河谷是塔州著名的TREE HUGGER战斗过的大本营。他们曾经在大树上搭起平台支架，住在上面据守长达几个月，阻止伐木公司对这片雨林的砍伐。这里的许多巨树最终幸免于难。不过森林里被砍伐过的景象还是让我很难过。这棵树的底部周长至少有10米，被砍倒了，又被遗弃了，横在杂草和灌木中。人那么渺小却破坏力惊人。地图上有一棵叫CHRISTMAS TREE的据JUSTIN 说最终还是被砍了，活动者们曾经在那棵树上挂起灯泡照亮森林。安迪说壮年的树都被砍了，只留下这些老树有什么用呢，他们再过几十年就要死了。到时候森林也要死了。<br><br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/27/7/siwants,20080427075150859.jpg" alt="SNC10774" border="0"><br><br>晚上回家以后我们看电影GALLIPOI来纪念前一天的“澳新军团日”，是年轻的梅尔吉布森演的，电影很好，结尾让人难过。我比安迪还要义愤填膺，一个劲的说英国人真是帝国主义者，让澳大利亚人去替他们送死。有点挑拨离间的意思，卑鄙，卑鄙，自己鄙视自己一下。<br><br>安迪说，I'm sorry, I took you to a nice place but in fact it's sad. I showed you a nice movie, but it ends sadly. <br><br>我想起前几天看的CRIMINAL MINDS。FBI的特工执意要替三个父母被谋杀的孩子讨回公道，缉拿凶手，即使20年过去了他们想忘记那件事情。是不是很多人都是这样的伸张正义狂？是什么让一个人觉得自己伸张的就一定是正义？<br><br>唉，我总和自己较劲，在原地打转。<br>]]></description>
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2008-04-27 07:41:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[火炬在澳大利亚]]></title>
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<![CDATA[今天早上的AUSTRALIAN上的文章标题是：Chinese Students Bully Torch Crowds。<br>文章第一句是：Gangs of chinese students......<br><br>可能这个世界上沟通真的是一件不可能的事情。<br>]]></description>
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2008-04-25 08:19:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[狗生一世]]></title>
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<![CDATA[有些狗的生活就是幸福。如果把我的头放在jack脖子上是嘛效果。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415223740764.jpg" alt="SNC10709" border="0" height="336" width="448"><br><br>跨越了肤色（毛色）、性别、性取向的友好。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415223741297.jpg" alt="SNC10722" border="0"><br><br>里面的和外面的。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415223741065.jpg" alt="SNC10721" border="0"><br><br>面朝大海，秋意渐浓。从明天起，做一条好狗。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415223127011.jpg" alt="SNC10730" border="0"><br><br>干干净净做狗。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415223127177.jpg" alt="SNC10737" border="0"><br><br>老老实实吃饭。<br><br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415224410293.jpg" alt="SNC10729" border="0"><br><br>认认真真睡觉。<br>狗活着，不能委屈自己。<br><img src="http://images.blogcn.com/2008/4/15/10/siwants,20080415224738447.jpg" alt="SNC10738" border="0" height="320" width="448"><br>]]></description>
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2008-04-15 22:35:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[it gets worse and interesting]]></title>
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<![CDATA[我的口语表达越来越差了。今天安迪问我，你喝咖啡吗？我说，Ｉ喝ed some already.<br><br>刚读了有意思的东西：<br>Place here functions as a closed terrain of social control that becomes extremely hard to break (or break out of) once it achieves its particular permanence.<br><br>Community solidarities promoted by that class (same ethnically disinct capitalist class), strongly supported by ideologies of ethnic and religious solidarity, are an assured vehicle for capital accumulation founded on some of the worst forms of exploitation.<br>]]></description>
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2008-04-09 09:42:00.0</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[第一次转贴别人的文章，因为有一句话可以作为很好的材料to build an argument.<br><br>Protests in Tibet and Separatism: the Olympics and Beyond<br>Barry Sautman<br><br>Recent
protests in Lhasa and other Tibetan areas were organized to embarrass
the Chinese government ahead of the Olympics. The Tibetan Youth
Congress (TYC), the major Tibetan exile organization that advocates
independence for Tibet and has endorsed using violent methods to
achieve it, has said as much. Its head, Tsewang Rigzin, stated in a
March 15 interview with the Chicago Tribune that since it is likely
that Chinese authorities would suppress protests in Tibet, “With the
spotlight on them with the Olympics, we want to test them. We want them
to show their true colors. That’s why we’re pushing this.” At the June,
2007 Conference for an Independent Tibet organized in India by “Friends
of Tibet,” speakers pointed out that the Olympics present a unique
opportunity for protests in Tibet. In January, 2008, exiles in India
launched a “Tibetan People’s Uprising Movement” to “act in the spirit”
of the violent 1959 uprising against Chinese government authority and
focus on the Olympics.<br><br>Several groups of Tibetans were likely
involved in the protests in Lhasa, including in the burning and looting
of non-Tibetan businesses and attacks against Han and Hui (Muslim
Chinese) migrants to Tibet. The large monasteries have long been
centers of separatism, a stance cultivated by the TYC and other exile
entities, many of which are financed by the US State Department or the
US Congress’ National Endowment for Democracy. Monks are self-selected
to be especially devoted to the Dalai Lama. However much he may
characterize his own position as seeking only greater autonomy for
Tibet, monks know he is unwilling to declare that Tibet is an
inalienable part of China, an act China demands of him as a
precondition to formal negotiations. Because the exile regime eschews a
separation of politics and religion, many monks deem adherence to the
Dalai Lama’s stance of non-recognition of the Chinese government’s
legitimacy in Tibet to be a religious obligation.<br><br>Reports on the
violence have underscored that Tibetan merchants competing with Han and
Hui are especially antagonistic to the presence of non-Tibetans.
Alongside monks, Tibetan merchants were the mainstay of protests in
Lhasa in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This time around, many Han and
Hui-owned shops were torched. Many of those involved in arson, looting,
and ethnic-based beatings are also likely to have been unemployed young
men. Towns have experienced much rural-to-urban migration of Tibetans
with few skills <br>needed for urban employment. Videos from Lhasa showed the vast majority of rioters were males in their teens or twenties.<br><br>The
recent actions in Tibetan areas differ from the broad-based
demonstrations of “people power” movements in several parts of the
world in the last few decades. They hardly show the overwhelming
Tibetan anti-Chinese consensus portrayed in the international media.
The highest media estimate of Tibetans who participated in protests is
20,000 — by Steve Chao<br>, the Beijing Bureau Chief of Canadian
Television News, i.e. one of every 300 Tibetans. Compare that to the
1986 protests against the Marcos dictatorship by about three million —
one out of every 19 Filipinos.<br><br>Tibetans have legitimate
grievances about not being sufficiently helped to compete for jobs and
in business with migrants to Tibet. There is also job discrimination by
Han migrants in favor of family members and people from their native
places. The gaps in education and living standards between Tibetans and
Han are substantial and too slow in narrowing. The grievances have long
existed, but protests and rioting took place this year because the<br>Olympics
make it opportune for separatists to advance their agenda. Indeed,
there was a radical disconnect between Tibetan socio-economic
grievances and the slogans raised in the protests, such as “Complete
Independence for Tibet” and “May the exiles and Tibetans inside Tibet
be reunited,” slogans that not coincidentally replicate those raised by
pro-independence Tibetan exiles.<br><br>While separatists will not
succeed in detaching Tibet from China by rioting, they believe that
China will eventually collapse, like the former Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia, and they seek to establish their claim to rule before that
happens. Alternatively, they think that the United States may
intervene, as it has elsewhere, to foster the breakaway of regions in
countries to <br>which the US is antagonistic, e.g. Kosovo and
southern Sudan. The Chinese government also fears such eventualities,
however unlikely they are to come to pass. It accordingly acts to
suppress separatism, an action that comports with its rights under
international law.<br><br>Separatists know they can count on the
automatic sympathy of Western politicians and media, who view China as
a strategic economic and political competitor. Western elites have thus
widely condemned China for suppressing riots that these elites would
never allow to go unsuppressed in their own countries. They demand that
China be restrained in its response; yet, during the Los Angeles
uprising or riots of 1992 — which spread to a score of&nbsp; <br>other
major cities — President George H.W. Bush stated when he sent in
thousands of soldiers, that “There can be no excuse for the murder,
arson, theft or vandalism that have terrorized the people of Los
Angeles . . . Let me assure you that I will use whatever force is
necessary to restore order.” Neither Western politicians nor mainstream
media attacked him on this score, while neither Western leaders nor the
Dalai Lama have criticized those Tibetans who recently engaged in
ethnic-based attacks and arson.<br><br>Western elites give the Chinese
government no recognition for significant improvements in the lives of
Tibetans as a result of subsidies from the China’s central government
and provinces, improvements that the Dalai Lama has himself admitted.
Western politicians and media also consistently credit the Dalai Lama’s
charge that “cultural genocide” is underway in Tibet, <br>even though
the exiles and their supporters offer no credible evidence of the
evisceration of Tibetan language use, religious practice or art. In
fact, more than 90% of Tibetans speak Tibetan as their mother tongue.
Tibet has about 150,000 monks and nuns, the highest concentration of
full-time “clergy” in the Buddhist world. Western scholars of Tibetan
literature and art forms have attested that it is flourishing.<br><br>Ethnic
contradictions in Tibet arise from the demography, economy and politics
of the Tibetan areas. Separatists and their supporters claim that Han
Chinese have been “flooding” into Tibet, “swamping” Tibetans
demographically. In fact, between the national censuses of 1990 and
2000 (which count everyone who has lived in an area for six months or
more), the <br>percentage of Tibetans in the Tibetan areas as a whole
increased somewhat and Han were about one-fifth of the population. A
preliminary analysis of the 2005 mini-census shows that from 2000-2005
there was a small increase in the proportion of Han in the
central-western parts of Tibet (the Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR) and
little change in eastern Tibet. Pro-<br>independence forces want the
Tibetan areas cleansed of Han (as happened in 1912 and 1949); the Dalai
Lama has said he will accept a three-to-one Tibetan to non-Tibet
population ratio, but he consistently misrepresents the present
situation as one of a Han majority. Given his status as not merely the
top Tibetan Buddhist religious leader, but as an emanation of Buddha,
most Tibetans credit whatever he says on this or other topics.<br><br>The
Tibetan countryside, where three-fourths of the population lives, has
very few non-Tibetans. The vast majority of Han migrants to Tibetan
towns are poor or near-poor. They are not personally subsidized by the
state; although like urban Tibetans, they are indirectly subsidized by
infrastructure development that favors the towns. Some 85% of Han who <br>migrate
to Tibet to establish businesses fail; they generally leave within two
to three years. Those who survive economically offer competition to
local Tibetan business people, but a comprehensive study in Lhasa has
shown that non-Tibetans have pioneered small and medium enterprise
sectors that some Tibetans have later entered and made use of their
local knowledge to prosper.<br><br>Tibetans are not simply an
underclass; there is a substantial Tibetan middle class, based in
government service, tourism, commerce, and small-scale manufacturing/
transportation. There are also many unemployed or under-employed
Tibetans, but almost no unemployed or underemployed Han because those
who cannot find work leave. Many Han migrants have racist attitudes
toward Tibetans, mostly notions that Tibetans are lazy, dirty, and
obsessed <br>with religion. Many Tibetans reciprocate with
representations of Han as rich, money-obsessed and conspiring to
exploit Tibetans. Long-resident urban Tibetans absorb aspects of Han
culture in much the same way that ethnic minorities do with ethnic
majority cultures the world over. Tibetans are not however being
forcibly “Sincized.” Most Tibetans speak little or no Chinese. They
begin to learn it in the higher primary grades and, in many Tibetan
areas, must study in it if they go on to secondary education. Chinese,
however, is one of the two most important languages in the world and
considerable advantages accrue to those who learn it, just as they do
to non-native English speakers.<br><br>The Tibetan exiles argue that
religious practice is sharply restricted in Tibetan areas. The Chinese
government has the right under international law to regulate religious
institutions to prevent them from being used as vehicles for separatism
and the control of religion is in fact mostly a function of the state’s
(overly-developed) concern about separatism and secondarily about how
the hyper-development of religious institutions counteracts
“development” among ethnic Tibetans. Certain state policies do infringe
on freedom of religion; for example, the forbidding, in the TAR (Tibet
Autonomous Region), of state employees and university students to
participate in religious rites. The lesser degree of control over
religion in the eastern Tibetan areas beyond the TAR– at least before
the events of March, 2008 — indicate however that the Chinese
government calibrates its control according to the perceived degree of
separatist sentiment in the monasteries.<br><br>The Dalai Lama’s regime
was of course itself a theocracy that closely regulated the
monasteries, including the politics, hierarchy and number of monks. The
exile authorities today circumscribe by fiat those religious practices
they oppose, such as the propitiation of a “deity” known as Dorje
Shugden. The cult of the Dalai Lama, which is even stronger among monks
than it is among Hollywood stars, nevertheless mandates acceptance of
his claim that restrictions on religious management and practice in
Tibet arise solely from the Chinese state’s supposed anti-religious
animus. Similarly, the cult requires the conviction that the Dalai Lama
is a pacifist, even though he has explicitly or implicitly endorsed all
wars waged by the US.<br><br>The Dalai Lama is a Tibetan ethnic
nationalist whose worldview is — in US terms — both liberal and
conservative. He and many of his foreign supporters have a pronounced
affinity for conservative politicians, such as Bush, Thatcher, Lee
Teng-hui and Ishihara Shintaro, but they can get along well with
liberals like US Speaker Nancy Pelosi, because they are virulently
anti-communist and anti-China.<br><br>The Dalai Lama is far from being
a supporter of oppressed peoples. For example, in 2002, when he visited
Australia, the Dalai Lama, upon arriving in Melbourne, noted “he had
flown over ‘a large empty area’ of Australia that could house millions
of people from other densely populated continents.” The area is, of
course, not wholly empty, as it contains Aborigines. To them, the Dalai
Lama proffered the advice that <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">“black people ‘should appreciate what
white people have brought to this country, its development.’” (R.
Callick, “Dalai Lama Treads Fine Line,” Australian Financial Review,
May 22, 2002).</span><br><br>The development of the “market economy” has had
much the same effect in Tibetan areas as in the rest of China, i.e.
increased exploitation, exacerbated income and wealth differentials,
and rampant corruption. The degree to which this involves an “ethnic
division of labor” that <br>disadvantages Tibetans is however
exaggerated by separatists in order to foster ethnic antagonism. For
example, Tibet is not the poorest area of China, as is often claimed.
It is better off than several other ethnic minority areas and even than
some Han areas, in large measure due to heavy government subsidies.
Rural Tibetans as well receive more state subsidies than other
minorities. The exile leaders employ hyperbole not only in terms <br>of
the degree of empirical difference, but also concerning the more
fundamental ethnic relationship in Tibet: in contrast to, say,
Israel/Palestine, Tibetans have the same rights as Han, they enjoy
certain preferential economic and social policies, and about half the
top party leaders in the TAR have been ethnic Tibetans.<br><br>Tibet
has none of the indicia of a colony or occupied territory and thus has
no relationship to self-determination, a concept that in recent decades
has often been misused, especially by the US, to foster the breakup of
states and consequent emiseration of their populations. A settlement
between the Chinese government and Tibetan exile elites is a
pre-condition for the <br>mitigation of Tibetan grievances because
absent a settlement, ethnic politics will continue to subsume every
issue in Tibet, as it does for example, in Taiwan and Kosovo, where
ethnic binaries are constructed by “ethnic political entrepreneurs,”
who seek to outbid each other for support.<br><br>The protests in Tibet
had no progressive aspect. Many who participated in the ethnic murders,
beatings and arsons in Lhasa were poor rural migrants to the city, but
the slogans there and elsewhere in Tibet almost all concerned
independence or the Dalai Lama. There have been many movements the
world over in which marginalized people have taken a reactionary and
often racist road, for example, al-Qaeda or much of the base of the
Nazis. The riots in Tibet also have done nothing to advance discussions
of a political settlement between the Chinese government and exiles,
yet a settlement is necessary for the substantial mitigation of Tibetan
grievances. For Tibetan pro-independence forces, a setback to such
efforts may have been their very purpose in fostering the riots.
Tibetan pro-independence forces, like separatists everywhere, seek to
counter any view of the world that is not <br>ethnic-based and to
thwart all efforts to resolve ethnic contradictions, in order to boost
the mobilization needed to sustain their ethnic nationalist projects.
They have claimed that China will soon collapse and the US will
thereafter increase its patronage of a Tibetan state elite, to the
benefit of ordinary Tibetans. One only has to look round the world at
the many <br>humanitarian catastrophes that have resulted from such
thinking to project what consequences are likely to follow for ordinary
Tibetans if the separatist fantasy were fulfilled.<br>]]></description>
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<![CDATA[我很少在学校食堂吃饭，今天因为两个讲座之间有2小时的时间，加上没吃早饭就去了食堂。斜风细雨中买了一份绿党左派的报纸。我观察了一下，很多同学就吃一份薯条，或大或小。我要了FISH &amp; CHIPS，再加一瓶装的冰咖啡，将近70块。<br><br>报纸既左又绿，环境、人权、拉美革命、社会主义、伊战、政府批判、锡臧。绿党也是党，左也左不过托洛茨基。吃完东西去学校的餐厅，太阳竟然出来了。要了一杯咖啡大概24块，接着看报纸。<br><br>下午的讲座，DR.点名表扬杜邦公司在减排方面的成效，等到下课了，我走到讲台告诉她杜邦在中国有非常不负责任的项目，大公司言行不一，转移阵地。她说对对对，你可以在你的报告里写这个问题。我一贯的观点都是，大公司是没有良心的，当大公司开始做有良心的事情时，保不齐是流另外的坏水了。<br><br>晚上做饭打开冰箱有一股味儿，星期天买的绿豆芽烂了。鉴于这点儿东西值10块钱，我不甘心，倒在碗里，想挑点儿好的出来，豆芽粘糊糊的，只好放弃。早都应该吃了，中国人吃了一辈子豆芽咋连这点道理都不懂呢？我凭啥以为外国的豆芽就比中国的豆芽经放呢？豆芽光荣牺牲，进了后院的沤肥箱。昨天做饭的时候也毫不犹豫的把有点发黄的油菜下锅里了，搁以前早扔了。上星期买菜的时候我算了一下，一斤大蒜要100左右，搁国内能买小一麻袋了，这就是我现在买东西都论个买的原因。如果中国的农产品价格啥时候赶上人家的三分之一了，中国农民的腰杆就能真正挺直了。<br><br>谜面：“a jackal wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and animal’s heart.”<br>打一人名。<br>这都啥年代了，我们的政治人物说话就这水平，岂不跟我一样没水平，不懂政治斗争的艺术。这个阶段了，就算心里不尊重人家，也要考虑广大受众的感情呀，更何况是国际层面的受众。<br><br>想好了REPORT写啥，写杜邦东营项目和厦门PX项目，将揭批封资修的伟大光荣传统发扬光大。<br><br>PS. 刚刚看到，Economist的评论说上述那个句子的翻译”For pity's sake!"<br>]]></description>
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